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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
WIDE WORLD NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF VITAL, IN
TEREST.
"A orie1 summary OF Events in Which
feopie are becpsy Interested-short
sentences Conveying n World Of In
tornatlon to Our leaders
Tuesday. ,Ipnp o..

>'N June go
Inc Kentucky democratic state con-
Fcntlon is sill deadlocked.
Mrs. f. D. y. Southworth. the we'll
known novelist, is i'll at her residence
in Chicago.
Colorados contribution to the Paris
exposition will be Il solid gold statue
OF anup-to-datc girl.
Three negroS are dead and one is
not expected to live as the result of
the race war at Birmingham. Ala.
DR.. VIM. K. Harper. president of the
Nhlcago university. has ended his long
connection with the Chautauqua work.
Citizens in many Spanish towns are
rlotouS. Dissatisfaction with the GOV
ernments financial is the
cause.
1t IS rulnored that II. C.. Payne OF
Wisconsin will succeed Mark Hanna as
chairman of the national republican
executive committee.
The attempts Saturday to float the
American line steamer Paris were un,
successful. The vessel is more bouy-
ant. but is still fast. Five divers arc
1T work.
'Si-'oN toSiNtdlll StilcIdl pas
senger agent of the Chicago. Rock
island q Pacific road. was yesterday
elected chairman of the western pas,
scnger association.
Pana. Ill.,. fears more riots will come
on account of the mining situation.
The troops have been withdrawn and
Mayor Gorman has placed 100 special
policemen on duty.
Whites and blacks near Birming.
ham, Ala, are arming and d race wal
is feared. The whites are officers after
a negro. John Shepherd, who assaulted
Mrs. Monroe Jones.
Miss Mimic Murray. who was the
"womanin white" at the '9G democratic
convention. and led the cheering for
Boies. was yesterday married to II. S,
Sternberger of Cripple Creek.
Sir Thomas Lipton's cup challenger
the Shamrock vas launched Yesterday.
AS the Shamrock reached mid stream
from the slips a barge collidcd with il
making a dent in the bow above the
water line. but the damage is Slight.
Private Wesley Kirby of company
II. 9th Infantry. located at San Fran.
cisco. was shot through the leg by
Private Frank Wigfall of the same
company. The leg may have to be
amputated. 1t was a deliberate at
tempt at murder.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
Monster Lake Of Beer,

The beer which is cc-~ed
throughout the world in a single year
would make a lake 6 feet deep, 81
miles long, a mile wide, or 2,319 acres
in area. In this vast lake OF beer we
could easily drown all the English
speaking people, to the number Of
I20, 000, 900, throughout the entire
world; or we could give a beer bath
to every man, oma and child at the
same time in the entire continent OF
America, while all the people Of Eng
land, Scotland, Ireland and France
could find standing room on its bed.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

Our farmer friends are being deiuged
with all kinds OF statistics regarding
farm mortgages fled and released, the
republicans citing that more are re-
leased than fled, and claiming it as an
evidence Of prosperity brought about
b. Mark 4 mex and their gold stand
ard.
While we ';now that in many local
tiles the relic, SIS outnumber the mort
cages fled. and also that the farmers
nave been in better shape the past few
several years. yet we arc not willing
TO put the credit any other place
than where ii actually belongs.
The gold standard did not go out in
The farmers field and plant and tend
and harvest his crops; the republican
party did not do it either. The farm
er is able to testify that he did all the
hard work himself with the aid of his
faiihful beasts.
The gold standard did not cause the
rain to fall when and where it was
needed. ucithcr did it make the sun to
%hcI it warming rays over the fields,
Quickcning into life the farmers n
fully planted seed. and ripening the
! grain for the sickle; neither did the
republican party do either of these. A
just and loving God controlled these
necessary features ot q good crop sea-
son.
The Lord sent the rain and the sun
shine and the farmer did the work.
The republican party and its gold
standard did it not.
On the contrary the republican sys-
tenn Of finance is directly responsible
for the fact that the farmer was not
able to do more than pay off the mort
gage on his farm. The gold standard
allowed European countries to pur-
chase or co millions of silver at half
its value and use it at its full value to
buy products Of s~ilver-using countries
in competition with American farmers,
thus robbing our farmers of the chance
to sell their products Mt bigger prices,
as they could have done under a BIZ
metallic standard, in which case they
would have had IA little left over aft
or paying off their mortgage.
The farmers of this country saved
the nation last year. The exports OF
farm products was by far the largest
part OF cur exports, and created a
handsome balance in our favor. but ii
was q balance that was less than hall
what it would have been under u dou-
bic standard.
Farmers! Study the money question
and study it now. 1t is II most simple
lesson to learn, and your interests de-
mand that you learn it quickly.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
S2 turlay. July !

A S a. IN. today Captain Drcyfus had
not arrived ut Renncs.
The Toledo. O.. lodge of Elks will
erect "a handsome Elk temple.
Mrs. +. ID. y. Southworth. he move.
list. dice last night at her residence in
Washington.
Near Calvert, Tex, the bodies of
three negaocs have been recovered
from the flood.
At Tcrre IIaute. Ind. John Sage
shot and killed William Garvey for
striking a Young woman.
The recicvcrship Of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad has ended and the ROAD
has been turned ovcr to the stockholm
ciS.
The American Writing Paper com
pany has been incorporated under the
laws of New Jersey with a capital OF
So. OO0. OGO.
The Chicago Packing and Provision
company has shut down. deciding not
to operate its plant until the strike is
settled.
Tod Sloan. the American Jockey who
assaulted a waiter at Il London restau-
rant, settled the trouble by paying the
waiter 81 ZOO.
Charles NJ. Murphy a New York
wheelman. made Il mile on a bicycle in
tifty-seven and four-fifths seconds. be-
ing paced by a locomotive.
White mountain grasshoppers have
appeared in the country about
Minneapolis. Mimi. and threaten to do
damage. Drastic measures may be
taken to kill them off.
Becker. the Chicago wife murderer.
must stand trial. the judge holding he
cannot escape on the technicality that
the name of the wife was wrongfnlly
given in the Indictment.
Fifteen of the twenty-one COWS which
supply the milk to the Illinois soldiers
and orphans home at Normal, have
been killed, being affected with tnber.
| culoSiS.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
Friday. June 30.

Friday. June 80.
Failure TO agree on the wage shedule
Will shut up the tin plate mills.
The de~compoScd body of Adolph Weis
was found III Il corn field near Staun.
ton. III.
Lazard ~l'rcrcs. of New York. viii
tomorrow ship $4,000, 900 in gold tc
Europe.
A case is up before the Colorado SUI
preme court to test the legality Of the
eigh-hour law.
OF Lorain. O. the steamer Marga-
ret Olwall foundcred and nine of tn,
crew were drowned.
Jas. :. liallingcr. Self-confesscd muir.
dercr of his wife, was hanged in the
Dauphin county. Pennsylvania, Jail
yard.
VIM. Woodrum. Il prominent dry
goods man Of Jefferson City. Mo-. was
drowned while swimming in the Mis-.
souri, river.
General Robert NcCulloch of Cook
county. Mo. wants to succeed the late
Richard y. Bland as congressman from
the Eighth district.
Louis Bush of New York is in Jail.
charged with smuggling 100000 worth
of diamonds. They were found wrap
ped around his ankles.
At New York. the coroner's Jury de
clarcd Mrs. Harry J. Ramsey was in.
sane when She cut the throat of ncl
husband because he snorcd.
Mayor Balbirnie of Muskegon, Mich.
was asSassinat"d by j. w. Tayer. Il dis.
appointed otiiceSocker. layer then
swallowed carbolic acid. shot himself.
and died an hour or two later.
At Wenthcrford. Okla, Alderman c.
II. Gritiiths. Il prominent citizen. was
murdered by Dan Ashby. Ashby was
on a bender" and determined to mur,
der somebody. Gritiths was the frs,
man he met.
At New London. Harvard won the
three boat races from Yale. the uni,
versitv eight. the freshman eight. and
the substitute four defeating Yale in
succession. 1t has been eight years
since Harvard has defeated Yale.
August Becker. the Caicago butcher
who murdered. dismembered and boileG
his wife that he could marry "A CIR
with whom he was infatuated. may eS.
cape punishment because the indict
mcnt named Mrs. Becker as Elizabeth
when 1t should have been Thercse.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
Government OMnCrSkiD.

Mr.. o. p. Austin. the chief of the
bureau of statistics al Washington, i'll
an article in the May Forum on The
Colonies of the World and How They
Are Governed" says: In the British
colonies most of the railways and tele-
graphs, and even in some cases the
tramways and street railways, are
owned by the colonial government.
Thus, while the debts of the British
colonies aggregate a large sum, the
colonies are themselves solely respon-
sible for their payment. while the debts
are in most cases represented by
equivalents in actual property. much OF
which has, in the case of railways and
telegraphs, greatly increased IN value
and is nov worth far more than the
debt which it represents. Meantime.
the population has benefited by the
extremely small commercial rates
which have been made by the railway
and telegraph lines, the prices of
freights and transportation upon the
railroads belonging to the colonies be-
ing very low. In some cases the chill
drcn attending public schools are car
ricd upon the railways absolutely free
Of charge"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

From the Minneapolis Tribune: II
the United States senate does decide
that Quay is entitled to his seat by
gubernatorial appointment, it will tend
to hasten the day of the election Of SEN
ators by direct vote. Otherwise legisla-
tive deadlocks at the instance of q
state machine will be the rule instead
Of the exception.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

Municipal ownership may not at first
sight appear to be a question OF great
Importance to the farmer, hut that it
is important for the agricultural voter
to know the drift in that direction is
more easily realized when one thinks
Of the duty devolving upon him to
cheek the ~viciousness shown in the CITY
vote, says the Farmers Advocate. II
municipal ownership means, as it sure
ly does with proper civil service, a
great %lessening Of the corruption and
bossism in city government, there will
come out Of it a consequent lessening
Of the responsibility upon the rural
voter. The vote from the country Is
the trial of the politician on election
night, for he knows that il tests the
honesty and efficiency Of his particular
ticket. 1t is h country vote that is
the honest vote, despite the frequent
sneers of Eastern city politicians about
the bad politics of Kansas and Ne
braska. No doubt the farmers Of The
West make mistakes when they vote,
but an investigation of their ballots
will never stir up the unmistakable
stencil that marks those cast in our
big cities.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
KANSAS WAR ON PROFESSORS.

III the Kansas Agricultural College
the Populist board Of regents Of two
years ago elected as president Profess
sor Will, and as professor of economics
DR.. Edward W. Bemis, and as professor
of political science Frank Parsons of
Boston. These men are noted for their
fearless speech against uncontrolled
private ~monopolies and in favor O..
equal rights and government by the
people. The first thing that the Re-
pu'olicans did on coming back into
pc wer in Kansas was to file trivial
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
High Speed.

Records for high speed in express
train service have been made on
French rail ads lately, showing an
average Of $40 miles per hour, includ-
ing stops. Special compound locomo-
tives of the four cylinder type, de-
signed for this service, are employed
exclusively on these trains.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
OTHER PAPERS, IDEAS
Promise and Performance.
II. WM. SMITH,

Dubuque Herald.
Workingmen We're told that a tariff
for protection diversified industries
and scattered them over the entire ex-
tent Of the country, and brought fac
tories and mills close to the farm, Gre
ating a better demand for food prod
ucts and consequently higher prices
for them. thus beneiting the farmer
and securing to labor constant en-
ploymcnt. A rosy picture of prosper
ity was drawn as the result Of the
enactment Of a high protective tariff.
Now it turns ont in less than two
years after it became operative it has
born a lrood of trusts hat has forced
Thousands of wage out of the
means Of providing a living, and at
the snnae time increased the prices of
commodities of every day use. And
republic" organs tell us that trusts
are simply the development of our in
dustries. The thousands of men who
made to suffer with their families on
account of abnormal commercial con-
ditions. due to protection, will not
fancy that sort of development.
And lie knows.
New York World.
DIR. McQueston. late of General Otis's
staff. and health officer at Manila,
says that the western volunteers are
.'the finest soldiers in the world" but
they all van to return home" And
the reason he gives is this: THE men
enlisted TO fight for their country and
they are not the kind of men who want
to stay and fight an insurrection for
money Or the fun Of fighting" No
body knows better than the volunteers
that they are not lighting for their
country or to liberate an oppressed
people, but are engaged in a conflict
to correct McKinley's colossal blunder.
No Politics in E'und, You Know.
York Democrat.
There IRE some fellows the republi-
can party would BE- better off without.
for the present at least, but it emit
lose them. They are the members of
the Legislature who refused to vote a
hospital fund for the First Nebraska
but would nave blown in eight or nine
hundred dollars of the states money
in sending a string of meaningless res
olutions to the regiment, the cable
company being just that much ahead
il profit.
The only correct. logical and practi-
! cable ratio is 16 to l.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
IL W. Hut CnnII

If we could thrash our own trusts as
easily as we did Spain. and If we could
slaughter our ~monopolies as we do
Filipinos, we would prove ourselves a
power" worth Dragging about!-Farm.
Stock and Home.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
Not Worth It.

Tommy" said his mother, "if I get
you a new suit of clothes you must
promise not to climb trees or play
marbles until they are worn out"
Then" answered Tommy, after a
moment or two OF reflection, Il don't
want Them"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

It is unpleasant to realize the pos
sibility of an American administration
getting into the predicament in which
ours is found today. but there is some
compensation in the assurance it fur
nishes that the people are yet superior
to any administration. 1t emphasizes
the wisdom of the fathers in making
the tenure of Office of short duration,
thus causing a return of all power
back into the hands of the people at
ter a brief period, the duration OF
" aich is not sufficiently long to en-
ale an administration to successfully
pervert the objects and purposes OF
government.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
Mutual

II there is anything in this world
more anxious than the l * on the,
face of a bachelor who has been be-.
suiled into holding a baby it is the
,ook on the face of the baby's mother
Eagerly watching him while he does it
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
Royal Encouragement

my QUEEN exclaimed her adorer,
.lmidly, may I kiss the royal hand?"
MY faithful subject" replied the
'oung woman, with an air Of one gen
fly Gliding him, what is the matter
9th the royal lips?"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
mabel Knew

Her Mother-Mabel, dear, are YOU
sure Mr.. We -.y loves you for vo,,r-
fe'f alone? Mabel-Yes, I'm sure he
loes. mamma. He is always SO rest
ess when yon are in the room.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
Philippine war to an end Immediately
and dispense with the further need Of
soldiers.

Such action on the part Of the ad-
minlstration would comport with the
dignity Of the United States. accord
with its traditions and meet a hearty
response from all of our people except
the privileged classes who have out
OF a popular form of government and
can only see in militarism the means
Of perpetuating their reign OF plumber.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

The howl that goes up from rcpubli-
can Threats that the beef inquiry has
ruined h sales of American packed
goods in European markets is a sample
of the republican code of morals''
They would have us keep still in order
n a American packers can palm off
any old thing on other nations! Has
1t come to pass that we must stultify
the manhood and honesty of the ma
ton and make it subservient to com
mercial greed? 1t would seem so.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

charges against two of the Populist
regents of the Agricultural College, de-
posing them and putting into their
places two men who are the tools OF
the monopclists. This new beard have
discharged the professors who were
educating ;he students and the people
that the distribution of wealth is as
essential to their welfare as is the pro
ducticn of wealth. In every priva,c
university. Cor example, Yale, Co,um-
bia and Princeton, no professor is re-
tanned by the board CT directors if he
talks against private monopoly and in
favor Of public ownership, but in The
state universities there is more free
dom OF thought for the professors IN
the science of wealth, although moth
ing like absolute freedom.
In Kansas. the reason openly rs
signed for the discharge of the profess
sors in economics and political science
n the president Of the college, was
that their teachings did not agree with
what they-the Observation-Disclosures
to be the policy of the state. They
admitted that the teachings in the edu-
cational Institutions are OF vital i'm
portance and that they are bound to
control.
But Professor Bemis and the others
were judicial in their method OF in
struction, giving both sides and leav-
ing the scholars to form their own
opinion. Where one side, however,
vii! not zeal the light, as in the case
Of private monopoly whereby the poo
pie are taxed for private purposes, the
only way for the m~onopolists to con-
tinUe in power and thereby retain their
special privileges is to continue to
hCodwink the people. This they are
trying to do by ousting every profess
sor and college president who exposes
he evils Of private monopoly. The
men whom they put into their places
are termed sound" and safe" men.
These were the terms applied to tie
professors who were put into Galiieo's
place and VINO told the students that
the world was Nat-they were sound
and safe" men. The muZZles wOrn by
the professors in Galileo's time have
been handed down for use in the
economic departments Of our univer-
sites ard colleges, and have beer
used evcr since the establishment OF
our government. But in recent years
however, there are several professor:
who have slipped their muZzles, and il
has awakened our people to the con,
Gition of things. ard as they have The
ballot they will soon change the law
SO hat only those institutions car
grant degrees of learning hat have il
their statutes Il provision whereby
both sides Of each class question will
be presented to the students. The war
fare of theology against scientific trutt
resulted in a triumph for truth, and sc
in the warfare of monopoly agains'
truth the victory will again be will
the side of truth.
GEORGE H. SHELLEY.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

The tariff is the mother of trusts
and she has got an awfully big brood
CT them.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

The European money bags are gath
ering in their gold. Big shipments
lately. Look out for Mr.. Bond Issue!
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

Illinois farmers have entered pro-
tests against Tie killing of cattle al
legged to be affected with tuberculosis
They claim the killing is u~nwarranted.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

When the number of mcn striking
for higher wages is larger than the
number of men whose wages have been
increased, prosperity is not here.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

Down the trusts or the trusts will
down you.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

The republicans of Nebraska arc
worrying themselves into early graves
over the woes of the disappointed pie
hunters.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

While n republican writes to the
republican country papers telling the
people that the dcmo-pops did up the
state in the purchase of IA home for Ne
braska's chief executive. the journal
declare s the purchasing board secured
a bargain.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07

Mckinley and his mp~erialistic CO.
horts will find that this country is not
yet ready to cut the hawser hat will
separate the ship of state from it's an
chors, the Constitution and Declara-
ton. and set it adrift upon the uncer-
ton sea of expansion.
Mesa free press., 1899-12-08
Wolf. the victim dying almost in
ctoOt1u
M'COY'S BAD FORM.

NEW YORK-"Kid Mccoy acknowl-
edges that he has broken down physi-
cally, but claims he will soon be able
to resume training and fighting. In a
telegram to a local newspaper from
White Plains today he said: II have
broken down in training, but will be
all right shortly, I think"
1t is now regarded as certain he will
be unable to keep his contract to fight
Maher December II, and it is thought
possible he may be unable to again en-
ter the ring. The default to Maher will
cost Mccoy the $1,000 which he posted.
Mccoy is said to have asked his man
ager, Brady, to arrange for a postpone
ment, but as Maher has already agreed
to one postponement, it is improbable
that he will consent to another.