The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-09-29
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convention.
There have been no new cases of
yellow fever at Cabanas garrison,
Cuba, since the 9th.
Editors had the call at the Ohio dem,
ocratic convention. An editor was
nominated for governor.
Nine men were suffocated as tho
result of an explosion which occurred
in a coal mine at Redan, Prussia.
Lawrence Gardner, democratic ma
tional committeeman for the District
of Columbia, died from dropsy and
heart trouble.
The appraisal of the property of the
late r. p. Flower of Waterfowl, N. Y,
puts its value at $4,000, 500, on the
basis of what stocks were worth May
~ last.
The fund for the return of the sol
diers of Dakota has passed $4,000, and
mex weeks remittances will certainly
carry it to the point where the amount
will be sufficient to bring the boys
home.
Assistant District Attorney James
Grady, a brother of Senator Thomas
F. Grady, dropped dead in the office of
former Police Judge Joseph Koch in
New York. Death was caused by heart
disease.
Lieutenant William A, Cavanaugh,
Twentieth infantry, on sick leave at
Topeka, has been ordered to Colum-
bus barracks, o.. to accompany re
cruits to San Francisco. en- route to
Manila.
The Forty-cighth Highlanders, of
Toronto, have accepted the invitation
to take part in the Dewey land parade
In New York. They will march in full
uniform, carrying their arms and &C
c~outrements.
The First National bank of Penn
Yam, N. Y, was not opened for bust
ness the other morning, but instead
this notice was posted in a front
window: Bank closed pending the ar
rival Of an examiner"
Owing to the impossibility OF obtain
ing material 1t is possible that two OF
the transports, the Logan and Meads.
will not be repaired in time to take
the troops destined for Manila so as to
land them there before Christmas.
Roads running out Of Chicago have
become involved in the rate war on
packing house products, cut rates on
which have been in effect for some
time from Omaha and Kansas City,
and decided reductions are announced.
A car on the Southern railroad at
Telford's Station, Tenn, left the track
and wrecked fifteen cars. Charles
Perry of Elizabethtown, Tenn, was
Hi11ol nt1frfuLf apH ~ 10 ho1iouoI .hnt
two other men are dead under the
debris.
The Danube is still rising. A dis
patch to the Neu Frcie Presse from
Gmunden, on the River Traum, upper
Austria, says hat an iron bridge over
the Traum collapsed while twenty men
were engaged in endeavoring tc
strengthen it.
Bartlett Trip. United States Samoan
commissioner, has arrived in Washing
ton. 1t Is understood that he is to con
suit the president respecting the nego-
tiations about to begin between the
three governments party to the treaty
of Berlin.
Plans for the hospital for insane In
dams, to be constructed at Canton, s.
D., have been received at the Indian
ONCE from Architect John Charles Of
Wisconsin. The plans have been sub
mitted to the secretary Of the interior
for approval.
Private advlces from Sonora show
that Chief Tetabiate Of the Yaquis,
who remained loyal to the Mexican
government. was seized by the rebels
and cruelty tortured, being stripped,
slashed with knives and his body
shockingly mutilated.
The supreme court of Panama has
granted leave of absence to all subal-
tern employees belonging to the judicial
administration, their salaries now be-
ing over eighteen months in arrears
This step seems calculated to force
the government to liquidate.
The Official Army Gazette announces
the removal from the ,Austro-Hun-
garian military attacheship in Paris
and Brussels Of Colonel F. Schneider,
whose alleged letter discriminating
Captain Dreyfus, though distinctly e
pudiatcd by him as a forgery, was
inc of the principal weapons Of the
prosecution during the Rennes trial.
Twenty-Five Mexican cowboys were
attacked in Sonora by mounted va
quis, who opened fire upon them and
drove the horses and cattle guarded
bv the Mexicans away. Seeing them
selves outnumbered, the Mexicans put
spurs to their horses and ran away,
but n vaquero, a young man Of in
domitable courage, remained and
fought the whole body Of the Yaquis.
AS yet final action has not been
taken by the cabinet of Cuban money
orders, the rate of which It is under
stood, will be raised from 80 cents for
800 to the United States to so cents.
Under the old rate q very large per-
CT! ge Of the money transactions
with the United States was In postal
money orders. but 1t has never been
the purpose Of the government to enter
r. -r.,o+'t,or with the banks except
In the transmission of small sums.
,ovard and e. M. Jenkins, his
Eon-in-law, OF West Superior, Wis,
were held up by tramps on a North
western train near Sasselton. Howard
was pushed OF the top Of a box car
md laid near the track until morning
In q heavy rain. He died from his IN
iuries.
Fifty thousand copies, covering the
full report Of the proceedings OF the
trust conference at Chicago, Will De
printed for distribution.
Fred q. Harvey, correspondence
clerk OF the Preston National bank OF
Detroit, has been arrested, charged
ks's ere,,r,z'ing about $1,000 OF the
jank's funds.
Judge Fred Wellhouse. the. Kansas
annie king" saws he will not have