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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
A COMBINATION IRRBsIsTIBLE.
How Matinee Girls Revel In Maude
Adams, Hackett aud EaYersham.

New York Evening Sun: Who says
that women don't know how to throws? J
Certainly no one who has attended a
Maude Adams Romeo and Juliet"
matinee and seen the sweet young
things that make up those unique au-
diences pitch their flowers upon the
stage straight from the shoulder, and
hitting the bull's-eye every time. Most
of the flowers have evidently not been
brought with the idea of staging"
them. They range all the way from
breast knots of violets and fistfuls OF
carnations to full-1edged corsage
bouquets Of roses and lilacs. Their
being flung to the footlights is just
the result of sheer enthusiasm. The
actors are kept busy picking the flow
ers up. A curtain call at the Empire
of an afternoon just now means harv-
esting upon your Bonded knees a per-
feet floral shower. 1t would be unfeel-
ing to say that some of the flowers
aren't worth STOPPING for, but it would
be the truth. New York never knew
just such matinee audiences as Maude
Adams is responsible for just now.
Two adored matinee idols and an ac-
tress who has an unusual attraction
for young girls make a well nigh ir-
resistible combination. That the play
is Shakespeare lends an intellectual
glamor over the whole, highly approx
ed by parents and teachers. Whole
sections of the theater are taken up
by delegations from the fashionable
boarding schools, carefully shepherd
ed, of course, by some elderly teacher.
But these teachers are about the only
elderly women in the house. The mat
inees are made up of ardent young
things to whom the opportunity of
seeing n "new" Juliet is nothing be-
side the chance Of comparing Hackett
and Faversham side by side III the
same play. All! what it is to be
young and enthusiastic and to know
or care so little about Shakespeare
that when the girl mex you, between
caramels, says, you know Hackett's
killed in this next act" you reply:
ooh, dear; / don't want him to be
killed one bit. Why can't they kill
Faversham off instead. / shouldn't
mind his dying one bit" When Ro-
meo leaned over Juliet's bier, just
prior to poisoning himself, yesterday
afternoon, the prettiest girl in the au-
dience whispered: "Oh, if she'd just
wake up now. ! don't see why she
couldn't, I'm sure. 1t would make it
ever so much nicer There is a good
bit Of rivalry at these matinees among
the admirers of Mr.. Hackett and Of
Mr.. Faversham. The actors them
selves seem to realize this. In the
course of the inevitable curtain call
after Mercutio's death, the two appear
first together and then separately,
turn about, for three or four times,
after which they make a double entry
again. The wild applause greeting
each is easily located as coming direct
from the two camps into which the
house is divided. The Lyceum at its
liveliest never knew anything like the
Empire this fortnight. What makes
a NOR noisy audience than a matinee
idol? Two matinee idols. .
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
TaIIest Men OF Our Army and Navy

laiiesC wen or Our Army ana Navy
New York Herald: Captain James.
M. Forsyth and Surgeon j. E. Gardner
are the tallest officers in the United
States navy, and both of them closely
approach the six foot five inch mark.
Captain Forsyth comes of q tall fam
lily. father was six feet five inches, one
of his brothers was six feet seven
inches, another six feet five inches,
and his WI son, who is 20 years old
and a non-commissioned officer in the
Pennsylvania boys brigade, is six
feet six inches. A fine specimen of an
army officer is Colonel Helm, First cav
airy, who Is commandant of cadets at
West Point, and who is six feet two
and a half inches. Colonel Dan"
Appleton, of the Seventh New York
regiment, needs no mention beyond
the fact that he belongs to a family
of tall men. The colonel is six feet
two inches and his father, the late
John A. Appleton, was the same
height. Another tall officer is General
Lawton, his height being six feet four
inches. Richard Wand Green Yelling
is decidedly n long name, but it fits
the tall gentleman who carries it, for
he is six feet three and n half inches
without his boots. The United States
volunteers have also some tall and
distinguished officers. John Jacob
Astor, who was among the earliest to
answer the presidents first appeal for
men and money, is over six feet three
and a half inches. The rough rid
ers," celebrated in many other ways,
had also a very tall man among them,
in the person of William Taylor de
Zychlinski, who is n trife over six
feet three inches.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
SOLDIERS.
Dishonest Practices i'm Which a
Western senator Figures.

Dishonest Practices i'm Which q
Western Senator Figures.
Washington letter: There are evil
dences that some one has been de-
frauding the private soldiers who are
anxious to return to their homes, OBJ
tanning money from them by promis-
ing to secure their discharges. 1t can
not be learned who is the guilty per-
son, but it is believed instances of this
kind are numerous. A western sena-
tor received a letter from a soldier in
the regular army, who asserted that
some n in the army had promised to
secure his discharge for $3.50. This
money was paid over, but before many
days $500 was demanded, and the de-
mand came in such a way as to lead
the soldier to believe the United States
senator was a party to the scheme.
The matter has been brought to the
attention of the war department, and
If it is found any n connected with
the army has been guilty of such dis
honest practices a court-martial will
be ordered. The soldier i'm question
gave all the money he had, $3.50, think
ing he would soon be able to return
home to his parents, who were ill.
When the additional $500 was demand
ed he wrote to the senator. 1t is an
easy matter for a soldier to purchase
his discharge. He must make appli-
cation through his commanding Off
Ger, but must have enough money to
his credit to pay for it. After serving
one year a discharge can be purchased
for $3.50, which is reduced So for every
month served more than a year.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
A Critical Little Model.

New York Times: He was a small
newsboy who had served as a model
for no less a person than the president
of the National Academy of Design.
The picture was about done and the
little model was taking 1t in with crit
zeal eyes.
WAS me shirt as white as that?' he
asked finally after examining the pic
ture from all points of view, pointing
to one sleeve which presented a
snowy appearance quite suggestive of
a laundry, where there Is no part of a
newsboy's wardrobe usually which
has any tendency to make cold white
spots on the landscape.
"The boy had found q blemish in
the picture" says the artist, as he tells
the story. That sleeve was too white,
and l hadn't noticed it, and perhaps
shouldn't. l gave it a more natural
shade, and it was greatly improved"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
Around the World I'm "a Nav

This globe of ours is a pretty good.
sized sphere, but we are told the Deering
Harvester Company OF Chicago can pro.
duce in a single day enough Binder
Irvine TO e~ncircle IL, with $500 miles TO
spare-3O,oO0 miles Of Irvine Is a fair
days output! A reliable publication re.
Gently proved by correspondence with.
dealers in all parts OF America that 80
per cent. of the Irvine used in 1893 was
Deering Irvine.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
To Sell a Railroad.

Cincinnati, o., May 27.-Judge
Thompson, of the federal court, has
ordered the sale of the Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern railroad. The de-
cree is by the consent of all parties in
interest, The upset price is $500, 900.
1t probably will be bought by the Bal.
timore and Ohio.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Burris A.. Jenkins, a professor in
Butler college, indianapolis, has been
chosen as the first president of the
University of indianapolis, which has
been constituted by a union of Butler
college, the Medical College of Indi-
ana, the Indiana Law school and the
Indiana Dental college. Mr.. Jenkins
was educated at Yale and Harvard.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
RAIN CAUSES A WRECK.
Landslide Throws Part OF n Train
Off the Track.

Wabasha, Mimi, May 30.-A severe
wind and rain storm passed over this
place early today. The heavy rain caused
a landslide near Kings coule. obstruCting
the track The Milwaukee passenger
train due here at 5:33 and ran into the
landslide and the engine, tender and bag
gage car was thrown from the track
John Anderson, night man here at the
coal shed, vas badly injured, and it is
thought he cannot live. The engineer re-
ceived some bruises, but was not danger
ously hurt. The wreck caused a block
ade and some trains went over the Bur-
lington from Trevine.
Dallas, Tex, May 2L-Advices received
here say that a train on the Pecos VAL
ley road was wrecked last night near
Canon City, Tex, by a waterspout under
mining a culvert. one brakeman and one
passenger were drowned. The entire
train was destroyed,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
Shake Into YOur Shoes

Aliens Foot Ease. a powder for the feet.
1t cures painful, swollen, smarting, nervous
feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns
and bunions. It's the greatest comfort dis
covery Of the age. Aliens Foot Ease makes
tight-iitting or new shoes feel easy. 1t is a
tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sod 10y all
druggists and shoe stores. BY mail for 25c,
In stamps. Trial package FREE. Address,
Allen 5. OlmSted, lie 10Y, n. Y.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
ONLY COIN CAN BE USED.
Paper Money Food for Ants i'm tho
Philippines.

Washington. May 3O.-Paper money can
not be used in the Philippines. for there
is a variety Of ants in the islands which
eat almost everything and are particu-
larly fond of paper.
In a recent shipment of money for the
troops was Sl,000,000 in paper money of
small denominations, and preparations
We're making to send more paper in the
next Shipment, when a warning was
given that hereafter nothing except gold
and silver coin must be sent to the ISL
ands. II was stated that ants got iVto
the boxes and attacked the packages Of
bills, which were saved from destruction
only by the greatest care, So far as OFF,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
Sixty Miles an Hour.

A steam motor car, for use on the
railroads, recently made a trial trip,
going at the rate of sixty miles an
hour. This probably be as much of a
record beaten as Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters. 1t cures indigestion, consti-
patton, nervousness, liver and kidney
trouble.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Chris Magee, the we'll known Pitts
burg politician, recently narrowly es-
capped death in a railroad wreck. The
sleeper in which nc was riding was
telcscoped, and n hole had to be
chopped in the car before Mr.. Magee
could be rescued.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Ex-Governor Spraguc of Rhode Is
land, when recently in Washington,
met his two daughters for the first
time in eighteen years, during which
time they have lived abroad and in the
west.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
Passenger Train on the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids and Northern
Wrecked Near Waterloo.
NINE KILLED AND THIRTY INJURED
Some of the Latter Are Badly Hurt
and Will Probably Die of
Their Injuries.
HORROR CAUSED BY A WASHOUT
The Whole Train Ditched and Sew
eral of the Coaches Are Tele-
scoped---List OF Dead
and Injured.

Waterloo, Ia, May 30.-The worst
wreck in the history of this section of
Iowa occurred about 1870 o'clock Sun
day morning on the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids and Northern railway, about
four miles southeast of Waterloo. The
result is the death of nine persons, and
the injury of thirty others. The alarm
reached Waterloo about an hour after
the wreck occurred, brought by S. f..
Bentley, who escaped from the demol-
ished ears in which he was a passen-
ger.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

The popular rating Of the war he
roes, as shown In the naming of new
p~ostoties, now stands as follows:
Dewey, Is; Schley, 5; Shafter and
Sigsbee, 4 each, and Sampson, 3.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

The marquis of Anglesey occasion
ally parades around London with a
scented poodle dog, around whose
neck it a golden collar studded with
emeralds and diamonds.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

In the suit of the Carson, New, band
against Senator w. NJ. Stewart for BAY
ment for electioneering services a YER
dict of $40 and costs in favor Of the
plaintiff was rendered,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

General Arthur Macarthur was one
of the boy heroes of the civil war, was
decorated with a medal at Is and a
year later was in command of a fight
ing regiment.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Gals here know, none of the money was
actually destroyed. The damage done
was probably not more serious than the
eating away of the edge of notes, or, per-
haps, making holes through some Of
them
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
SUE B0ARDMAN HEIRS.
County Supervisors Scek
to Recover $145,OOO i'm Taxes.

Marshalltown, Ia, May W.-The board
# supervisors Of Marshall county has
brought suit against the heirs Of II. j.
,oardman, the millionaire lawyer, to re-
1over $45 600 taxes on property withheld
from the assessor for the past five years.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
ResCuing the Injured.

'tNoNAatS Nv ''I'h'''
A relief train loaded with workers
and physicians hurried to the scene.
The work Of rescuing the injured
was facilitated by groans from within
the splintered cars.
The Inflated train was No. 3, sched-
uled to arrive at Waterloo at 1920 Sun
day morning. 1t was a little behind
time, but running at the usual rate of
speed.
At the throttle was engineer William
Durlin, of Cedar Rapids; the fireman
was j. NJ. Gibney, of the same place.
Their escape seems miraculous. The
locomotive lies at least thirty feet
from the track, partly buried in the
soft earth. Beneath the train ties and
rails are so torn up that to locate the
roadbed is an impossibility.
The cause of the disaster was a
cloudburst a mile south of the track.
The wreck occurred near Sink creek,
where there is a railroad culvert built
of massive blocks of stone. This was
undisturbed by the force of the wa
ter, but not so with the looser mate
rial with which the track is ballasted
on either side. Sand and gravel were
washed out from under the track.
leaving it unsupported for stretches
of from two to twenty feet. The rails
held stoutly together and there was
little to indicate to the engineer the
condition of the road before him.
On, in the darkness, the train
plunged over the wet rails, which glis-
tened in the glare Of the headlight and
seemed to show a clear track ahead.
All at once a lurch of the engine
warned the engineer of impending dis
aster. He and the fireman lcaped from
the cab and miraculously escaped
with slight injuries. Freed from the
track, the engine plowed its way deep
into the earth alongside of the track
until the momentum could carry it no
further. and stopped lying on its side
in the ditch. Behind it the cars of the
train are piled up in a confused heap.
The mail car was tipped about half
way over toward the right and par
tally ~telescoped by the baggage car
behind, which penetrated it three or
four feet. The rear end of the bag
gage car telescoped the smoker to the
depth Of fifteen feet. The rear half
OF the smoker was raised up. resting
upon the roof of the passenger coach.
Behind this were the two cars which
suffered most severely. The roof Of
the sleeper plowed its way through
the coach within ten feet of the front
end, while the lower half of the day
coach penetrated as far into the
sleeper.
In this part Of the train occurred the
greatest loss Of life. Many who es-
capped have thrilling stories to relate
n there were also several tragedies
reported. F. S. Carpenter. the Pull
man conductor who was killed. was on
the train for one run only, taking the
place of the regular conductor. who
was in the i'll fated Pullman which was
telescoped, with Train Conductor
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Senator-elect McCumber, of North
Dakota, is IN of the bitterest fighters
in the state. Personally he is regard
ed as Chilly" but he is a ready de-
batter and an eloquent speaker.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

/ know that my life was saved by
Piso's Cure for Consumption.-John
A. Miller, Au Sable, Mich, April 81,
1895.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Manuel Garcia, who at "a claims to
be the oldest singing master in the
world, is a cousin of the Cuban gem
eral
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Verdi wear a long, loose, double
breasted sack coat and baggy trousers,
so that at first sight it seems as if the
great maestro were clad in paiamas.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

OF bad health that RIP'A'N.s will
NOT Dnneilt. Send 5 cents TO Ripans CHEMICAL Co
New york. for losamples and Loo testimonials.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

hdence reposed In her has never been
violated. Over a million women have
been helped by her advice and medicine.
Mrs. Pinkham in attending to her vast
correspondence is assisted by women
only. If you are i'll, don't delay. Her
reply will cost you nothing and it will be a
practical help as it was to MISS ELLA E.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

T<HERE are women everywhere who suffer almost con.
stantly because they cannot bring themselves to tell
all about their ills to a physician.
Such women can surely explain their symptoms and their
suffering by letter to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass, for the con-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
Killed and Injured.

The list of dead is as follows:
+. l.. ARNOLD, lumberman, Mime
apolis, MINI.
W.. a. MLAUGHLlN, Muskegon,
Mich.
r. II. SCTIWEPPE, Alton, Ill.
DAVID HALO, Minneapolis.
f. S. CARPENTER, st. Louis.
- HAWKINS, Pullman conductor.
WILL SCHOLLIAMS.
GEORGE WAINWRIGHT, train o II
ductor.
ONE UNKNOWN PERSON.
Among those injured were:
S. +. Bentley, Waterloo.
Ruben Odell, Waterloo.
Herman Klein Dcnet, Waterloo.
S. III. Bashor, Waterloo.
Miss Anna IL. Moss, from Norway,
immigrant, right leg badly bruised.
Miss Ostranda Noredy, Norwegian,
hand and face badly bruised.
Ornon Norcdy, Norwegian, serious
injury to chest.
John f. Johnson, Norwegian, seri-
Gus injury to head and face.
Jeremiah Murphey, of Castlcton-
boro, Ireland, going to Butte City,
Mont, head injured, serious.
Mrs. n. f. Myers, Prentiss, Wis,
head injured, not serious.
c. w. Matthews, Cedar Rapids, brake
man, bruised, not serious.
f. ID. Skang, Van Buren,, Ark, leg
injured, not serious; j. L. Ncel, Mime
apolis, knee fractured.
r.. l.. Colvin. st. Louis, Pullman por-
ter, slightly injured.
w. j. Burke, Cedar Falls, Ia.
Corinne Neil, Minneapolis, MINI.
ID. w. Fleming, Albert Lea, MINI.
Mrs. Morganstern, st. Paul, MINI.
Anna Berba. Tower, MINI.
George P%etrociz, Tower, MINI.
Arun1 ASlakSpn Norway. In.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is a constitutional cure. Price rs cents.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03

Mrs. Win.iow.. eoorHrSs srrur for children
ailAys pain, cures wiAd colo. 2sc O bottle,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-03
a WOMAN
HELPS
WOMEN

BRENNER, East Rochester, Ohio, who says: al shrunk from
the ordeal of examination by our physician. yet l knew l must
have treatment. Ny troubles were backache. nervous tired
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SIOUX CITY P'TG CO., 775-22, 1899
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-10

worlds centers, Mr.. Roberts replied: There
is not India cannot draw any more than
she can pay for. and she is not rich enough,
or likely to develop exports fast enough, to
make her demands serious. She has taken
nine or ten million dollars worth of Aus
traiian gold this year. She can't possibly
take a sum that will exceed the increase of
this years gold production over last
Does the final adoption of the gold
standard by India have any bearing upon
our foreign trade?' he was asked, and said
in reply: ut puts the wheat producers of
the two countries on d common monetary
level, and disposes of the old argument
that the Indian farmer has an advantage
over the American farmer because he re-
ceived his pay in falling currency. Wha.-
ever intricacieS there once were in the sub
ject have been cleared up, for the Indian
farmer, like the American farmer, is now
paid by the gold standard. The alleged adj
vantage was an iliusory one, for he only
held it while the currency continued to fan,
and then only as he could work it off on
some uninformed or helpless fellow coun-
tryuan at former value Furthermore in
the nature of things a currency must stop
falling some time when it becomes worth
less if not sooner.
This committee agrees with the Indian
government that the interests of that coun~
try as a whole demanded that the deprecIa-
ton of its money should cease, and that its
financial system should be linked to that
of the other important nations of the
world