The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-22
BRIEF 1tltGRAMs.

cleveland to preclude much activity in
politics this fall.
Admiral Howell will probably sue
coed Admiral Farquhar as command
ant of the Norfolk navy yard.
A crowd Of whites near Columbia
City, S. c.. fired into a negro church.
Fire was returned. Two casualties,
no arrests.
1t is said that Sir George Stewart
White, V. c., former quartermaster
general, has been selected to command
the British forces in Natal.
Mass meetings at Kansas City,
Washington, New York. Boston and
other cities declared in favor of q boy
colt of the Paris exposition.
Colonel Frost of the First South Da-
kota regiment received apologies from
his under officers and they were re-
leased from Jail at the Preside.
Cuba, a leading newspaper of Man.
tanzas, which advocated harmony
among the Cubans and Spaniards, has
suspended, owing to lack of support.
A hospital in which consumptives
alone will be treated is soon to be
erected at Chicago by a number of
philanthropic citizens at a cost Of $685..
900.
DR.. Fuchs, president OF the Austrian
chamber, has invited the leaders of the
different parties to a conference with
the view of terminating the parliament
>ary crisis.
A new cabinet has been formed in
Peru with Senior Dalvez as premier
and minister OF foreign affairs, and
Memoir Ra1ollnnn DC r,iristo~ re G-,,a,
Ind commerce.
Secretary Root has signed an order
modifying the duty on coffee exported
rom Porto Rico to Cuba. This is one
II the relief measures, and will go into
effect October 8.
The great Siberian railway is to be
rebuilt even before 1t is completed,
owing to the enormous increase in bust
ness, according to a report received
at the state department.
Members of the Peoria Bar associa-
ton, of which he was q member, paid
brilliant tribute to the of
Col. Robert G.. 1ngersoll at the openin.
~ the September term of the circuit
court.
Numerous applications are coming
in from persons desiring to be ap-
pointed receivers Of the Atchlson Ma
tional bank, but the comptroller stated
that no appointment will be made for
some time.
The navy department has decided to
assign Rear Admiral Farquhar to COM
mand the North Atlantic station in
place Of Rear Admiral Sampson, who
will assume command Of tho Boston
navy yard.
At the meeting Of the Methodists
Preachers association OF New York, a
resolution was unanimously passed de-
ploring "the shameful miscarriage of
justice in the recent condemnation of
Captain Dreyfus."
The old Gamble lead mine, concern
ing which there have been traditions
among the people Of Southern Mis-
souri, and Northern Kansas, has been
discovered in Fulton county. Arkan-
sas, 1t is claimed.
A swine epidemic OF 4 violent type
has appeared in the central portion of
Woodbury. county, Iowa, and hogs are
dying by the hundred. Two seasons
ago this section was badly scourged
with the same disease.
Chief Justice Charles B. Roberts, of
the Fifth Maryland judicial district,
Is dead at hts home in Westminster,
aged fifty-seven years. He vas q deIr-
ocratic member Of the forty-fourth
and forty-ifth congress.
So far $3.50 men have been obtained
for the ten volunteer regiments last
authorized, of which number $50 were
enlisted on the 18th. The full quota
of the ten regiments is 1890 men.
The regiment most successful is the
one at Fort Crook, Neb.
A manufacturing firm OK Hamilton,
o., shipped to lokohoma for the Japa-
nese government equipment for one
of the finest paper mills in the world.
Japan has decided to make her own
paper. as many of her state papers
have disintegrated with age.
A consignment OF $1,000, 900 worth OF
Klondike gold for the United States
assay Office arrived at Seattle on the
steamer Cleveland from st. Michael.
The consigners were the Union Bank
Of Commerce, $780, 900, and the Bank
of British North America $4OU. 900.
A program for the reunion Of the
Society OF the Army of the Cumber-
land in Detroit September 1921 was
adopted by the chairmen OF committees
having charge of the event. Brigadier
General Henry M. Dufleld is the gen.
eral chairman, ana Mayor Maybury
has charge Of the reception to the vet
ran
The annual session Of the German
Methodist western conference adjourn
edtat Enterprise, Kan, with the read
ing of appointments for the coming
year. Among them are the following:
G. ]. Kolb, Lawrence, Kan; G. j. Jai-
ser, Topeka, Kan; J.. j.. Hassett, Wich-
ita, Kan; John Demand, Lincoln,
Neb.; ]. H. Fielder, Sedalia, Mo-; John
Kohler, Denver, Colo. The next session
will be held at Clatonia, Neb.
kilograms from the principal capt.
tails of Europe report growing agita-
ton in favor Of %boycotting the Paris
fair.
The army commissary department
will ship 1000 tons of supplies to Porto
Rico, whether or not contributions
leach that amount.
The Brazilian government has pro-
tested against the sale of the lands
of the Duke Of SAKE to the German
Sovernment.
Neither the state department nor the
Var department has had any further
Advices from any official source regard
ing the impending revolution in Ven
ezuela.
Henry Waterson says Goebel wiA
not withdraw from the Kentucky gu
bernatorial race.