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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
witt OF c. P. HUNTINGTON.
Bulk OF His Estate Goes TO His
Widow for Life.

Widow for Life.
New York, Aug. 27.-The will of c.
p. Huntington was made public today.
1t gives 81, 100000 in trust for Princess
Hatzfeldt during her life, the prin-
cipal to go to her issue at death; $780,
600 in trust Is given for the benefit of
Mrs. Huntington, his widow, for life;
afterwards for the benefit of Archer
M. Huntington for life; two-thirds OF
his Southern Pacific stock to be given
to Mrs. Huntington, and one-third to
Edward Huntington on condition that
no part thereof shall be sold during
the lifetime of either, except with the
consent of both. The Fifty-seventh
street and Fifth avenue residence in
this city, together with all articles
therein, are given to Mrs. Huntington
for life, after which they are to be
given to Archer NJ. Huntington. The
sum Of $4,000 is given in trust for
the benefit of Harriet 8. Huntington,
Elizabeth Purdy, Susan Porter and
Allen Gates, in portions of $4,000
each; $4,000 for the benefit of c. II.
Sammis; $4,000 each for the benefit
of Eleanora Loveland and Frank Par
dee. Various other specific requests
are made. Mrs. Huntington. Charles
III. Tweed and Isaac n. Gates, Hunt
ington's brother-in-law, are made ex-
ecutors. All of Huntington's pictures
ore given to Mrs. Huntington for life,
afterwards to Archer NJ. Huntington
for life, and at his death to the Metro
politan Museum of Art, New York
city. absolutely.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
MANY At G. A. r. MEETING.
Ovrr $4,000 Visitors to the En-
canipment Arrive iu Chicngo.

OVER $4,000 Visitors to the En-
caniprneDt Arrive in Chicngo.
Chicago, Aug. 2s.-In spite OF
drenching raint the grand patriotic and
sacred song service at the Coliseum
last night was attended by a throng
I which taxed the capacity OF the Inn
mense building 10 the utmost. 1t Is
estimated that fully 10000 people were
packed into the hall, and thousands
more were unable to gain admission.
Bishop Samuel Fallows, of Chicago,
presided. On the platform with him
we're Mayor Harrison, Commander in
Chief Shaw, of the g. A. r.; Thomas
c. Tiff, of Salt Lake City, Utah; Cen
eral Daniel +. Sickles, Rev. Il. q.
Hir:ch, Of Chicago, and a host OF de-
partment commanders of the q. "A. TX.
Rev. Frank Gunsaulus, OF Chicago,
led in prayer, and then Bishop Fallows
extended a warm and eloquent well
come to the visiting veterans.
Commander in Chief Shaw spoke
upon TRUE Patriotism" He dwelt
upon the service which had been rem
dered to this nation in particular and
TO the world at large by the members
of the Grand Army, and pointed out
the need of training the coming gener-
atoms in the duties which patriotism
demands of the nations citizens.
Rev. T.. G.. Hirsch delivered n patri.
otto address, and Rev. ID. Il. Wallace
pronounced the benediction. Between
addresses musical numbers were Civ
en- by the band OF 100 pieces.
During the afternoon a service for
children was given at the Coliseum,
which was attended by fully 10000
people.
Railroad officials estimated that
fully $4,000 people arrived during the
day, OF which number $4,000 were
members of the q. A. II. Forty-hve
thousand strangers had arrived pre-
yiously, over II 900 Of whom were vet
Grams, Il total of 10000 already in the
city, and reports from the railroads
and from G.. A. X. headquarters indi-
cate that today's arrivals will swell
the number to n record breaking to-
tai.
Miss Clara Barton, head Of the Red
Cross society of the United States, ar
rived to attend the cncampment. She
was accompanied by Mrs. Allen S.
Mussey, OF Washington, vice president
Of the American Red Cross, and by
other officials OF the organization.
Unless the unexpected happens, it
is probable that Major Leo Raisseur,
Of st. Louis, will be elected command
err in chief OF the G.. A. II. for the com
ing year at the business session on
Wednesday.
General John c. Black, Of Illinois,
has declined to be a candidate.
The program for today includes the
dedication Of the naval arch in Michi-
gan avenue at 0 n. m. the parade OF
the naval veterans, parade of govern
ment vessels and private yachts on
Lake Michigan, the course being from
opposite the lake front park to off
the center of Lincoln park, n distance
by water of about three miles, u ma
val battle off Lincoln park and in the
evening the meeting OF the Society of
Prisoners of Wan will be held in the
Coliseum.
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thing well-if you can. A good many
of us can't do even that"
They Chnnged.

Superior Telegram: At a dinner
party the other day a well known and
deseryedly popular dramatist took a
lady down to dinner, neither know
ing who the other was. As a subject
the theater was started, as it is so
often under similar circumstances.
: II can't think why they have re-
vived that piece at the Kings" the
lady said. ~ never liked it, and it's
so worn that l should have done bet
ter than that"
Eyes" the dramatist replied, "per-
haps so. 1t was one of my first pieces,
however, and / had not had much ex-
p~erience when / wrote 1t. Let's
change the subject"
The lady was quite ready to do so
and wished, no doubt. that she had
known who her neighbor was. He
presently said:
"Are you interested in the Fenton
case?" speaking of a celebre
that was in progress.
eyes. I've read all the evidence"
was the reply.
He'll lose it, Of course" the drama
fist went on. "He never could have
had the faintest chance from the first.
It's n marvel to me how any lawyer
could have been idiot enough to allow
such a ease to go into COURT"
"Well,'' answered the lady quietly,
"my husband was the idiot. Let's
change the subject"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
FRITZ
lie Could Do Many Hard Things
We'll.

u Nouhu Do many IiuEu Att'S'
Well.
"Are we so soon forgotten?" is a
question that might, with great pro-
prlety, be borrowed from rip Van
Wrinkle" by a middie-aged man whom
everybody in the wool and wooden
goods trade hereabouts knew and met
often up to two years ago, says the
New York Commercial. He was a
good deal of a meteor" in the wool
armament all the time during the
eighteen years or more that he bought
practically all the wool that went. in
to the Worumbo fabrics. Often he
bought or sold wool by the cargo
afioat just for n turn, and he fitted
from Boston to Troy, from Troy to
ST. Louis, and from st. Louis to New
York so frequently that youngsters
ION the road used to wonder If he
ever slept or ate outside of a Pullman
car. And he hasn't been wholly for
gotten, either. In n group OF clothing
manufacturers the other day some
body asked, where is Twitchell
now?" Only n man was present
who could answer, and yet it was less
than two years ago that Fritz III.
Twichell cut n big lot of ice in the
wool trade. He was a member of the
Lotos club, the Wool and the Hard
ware clubs, besides other clubs in half
q dozen cities, made lots of money and
spent it like n prince, got to plunging
In electric light and street railway
properties in various cities, in New
York and New England and finally
went all to pieces in August, 1898.
1T is extremely DOUBTFUL" said w.
Ely Creighton, of st. Louis, IF any
man not an expert or professional in
any one particular line ever did so
many things as we'll as Fritz Twitch-
ell did. / have known him to load up
with Australian, South American and
domestic woods when prices were
dragging on the bottom, and then, in
| side of u month, sell some of it out by
the cargo while still afloat, because
there was more money in hat DISPOSE
ton of it than to await the slower
+, process of making ii up into cloths.
Baseball he knew from Alpha to
Omega and almost any minute of the
t~wenty-four hours during the season
was~prepared to make bets on any or
I'll points of the pending games. He
could play cribbage or backgammon
or whist or eucher, or poker or
hearts, or casino or pitch better than
almost any man whom you could pick
out of n given hundred thousands; he
was a way-up RATHER at billiards and
pool; could sail a boat superbly, drive
q horse, cast u fly, follow the dogs and
swim a mile or two in a heavy surf
without losing a cubic inch of wind;
he had a magnificent tenor voice, fine
ly trained, and could play his w ac-
: compartments; he was twice mayor of
his W city, twice appointed to the
governors council in his native state,
and he was a waltzer whom dancing
women went crazy over.
"He excelled in everything he es-
sayed to do, and Was a man of re-
markably diversified talents and abil-
tiles. Now, while yet considerably
under so, he is broken financially,
ply sically and mentally. Fritz did too
many things well. I'm inclined to
think that it's best to do only one
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01

est and racial affinities, with vast mil
itary and other resources, and en-
bracing quite two-6fths of the human
family. In view of the fact that the
attacking parties against such a com
bination would have to transport
their armies and supplies from 5000
TO 10000 miles by sea, Russia in the
meantime, by mean of her rail
roads, quickly throwing the military
strength Of her empire into China,
and at the same time organizing and
equipping the vast military resources
of that countryTis 1t not obvious what
issue such an attack would bring.
When You consider further nder the
established rules of modern warfare
the attacking party must outnumber
the defenders something in proper
ton of five to one, whileSthe worlds
nayies, representing millions OF
pounds, would stand impotent to pre-
vent the transportation of a single
Russian trooper over III trans
Siberian or trans-Caspian railroads,
can you wonder that European cabi-
nets believe they are today face to
face with the greatest problem of the
rcenturyP"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
GLASGOW'S STREET WAYS.
Progress Under Municlp,, owner

Progress Under Municipal Owner
ship---To Change 90 Electricity.
Glasgow, Aug. 27.-The report from
the street ear system owned by the
municipal government for the year
ending May 81, 1900, shows that the
gross capital expenditures for the
system since 1894, independent of the
operating expenses, have been s. ,l64,-
075, and that the present indebted
ness is $4,061, SOC. The capital invest
ed is 1850, SOP. OF the forty-one
miles of double track, five miles have
electric traction, the rest being oper-
ated by horses. The total receipts of
the system during the year were
1886, $50. The working expenses
were $t,676,412, leaving a balance Of
S610,438, of which there was eXpend-
ed some $S4 1000 for interest on capi-
tai, $57,501 for a sinking fund, $780,
096 for depreciation and written off
capital.
One item of 100000 consists of pay
ments made to the general revenue
fund of the city, which is in lieu of
the amount which the city would re-
ceive in taxes, it is presumed, were
the system operated by a private com
pany. The balance goes into the re-
serve fund.
There are 3.4OO persons employed,
including 100 clerks. The general
manager receives Sc, 800; the chief en-
gineer, $2,400; the electrical engineer,
S $4,000, and the mechanical engineer,
who has charge of the power station,
$1,216. Point boys receive % cents per
day; trace boys, from 40 TO 81 cents
per day; a cleaners, from So cents
to 81 per day; drivers, conductors and
motormen, from 81 TO S1.12 per day.
These rates apply to Sundays and
week days alike.
The rolling stock consists of 3si
horse cars, 1872 electric cars, forty-sev-
en- of which only are now running,
seventeen omnibuses and numerous
carts, wagons and vans. There are
All horses.
Work Is now progressing, with the
object of changing the entire system
to electric traction, which it is hoped
to have completed within the next
eighteen months. No underground
conduits will be used. according to
the present plans.
Fares range from l cent for the first
! mile to 2 cents for n mile; the long
est ride of six miles, costing 6 cents.
No transfers are issued, and tickets
are not used.
The city of Glasgow has a popula-
ton of about $4,000 and spreads over
an area of nearly $4,000 acres.
There are no electric or other tram
ways extending out of Glasgow to
other towns or cities. Within the city
is an underground cable road which
makes n circuit of about five miles
and is owned and operated by a pri-
vate company. The rate of fares on
| this road is about the same as that
prevailing on the surface roads.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
Won kETTELER's REMAINS.
German M%inisier's Body ktported
Found In Chinese Graveyard.

German Mtutater's BODY he pOrteu
Found In Chinese Graveyard.
Berlin, Aug. estate China news is
very contradictory, and the govern
ment does not know what to believe.
Official information continues to be
extremely meager.
The Lokal Anzeiger, in a special
from Chefoo, the finding OF
the body of Baron yon K%etteler, the
murdered German minister, in a Chi
nese graveyard in Picking. A solemn
burial service, with Christian rites,
will be held.
DIR. Bachmann, of Shanghai, asserts
in the G~egenwart that Emperor
Kwang Tsu suffers from cancer of the
throat and that he is unable TO reign.
The same position is taken by DIR.
Arthe, a French physician, and by DR..
Sheng Lang Feng, both of whom have
examined the emperor.
A number of papers publish letters
from German soldiers now in China.
One of these epistles appearing in an
Elberfeld journal says that the Ger
man troops during the fights at Tien
Tsin killed all the Chinese prisoners,
but that Russians murdered every
body, the women and children being
~bayoneted. The Crefeld Zeitung has IA
letter saying that the Russians and
japanese assassinated all Chinese
whom they encountered. All the let
tiers agree that the Chinese horribly
murder and mutilate all the wounded
and captured allied troops.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
CUBANS IN PHILADELPHIA.
Visiting Teachers Sec the Quaker
City Sights.


Philadelphia, Aug. 27.-TlIe trans
ports Sedgwick, Crook, Rawlins and
Mcpherson, with the Cuban teachers,
numbering over 1000, who are visit
ing this country, reached this city
yesterday. The ships were anchored
off Chestnut street wharf and shortly
after noon the visitors debarked and
began their sightseeing tour.
The official welcome of the city was
extended to the tourists long before
the troop ships arrived here, the mem
bers Of the general committee and the
city officials meeting the party down
the river. As the teachers stepped
from the boats to the pier they found
awaiting them a delegation of Span
~ish-speaking guides, and the entire
party proceeded on street cars, auto
mobiles and on foot to Independence
hall, where a welcome was extended
by Mayor Ashbridge.
The orator of the occasion was
United States Senator Boise Penrose.
After the speechmaking the visitors
were escorted through the various
rooms Of the building and listened to
a lecture on the historical associations
of the "Cradle of Liberty"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
INTERMITTENT STREET FIGHTS.
Allies Havo Numerous Collisions
Wuh Mobs of Chinese.

London, Aug. 2s.--Street fighting
breaks ont intermittently in Peking,
according to dispatches from Shang.
hal, the allies not having sufficient
forces to police the vast city. AS small
parties OF the allied troops penetrate
into new districts they have to en-
gage half armed mobs.
a Shanghai dispatch repeats the re-
port that Japanese troops pursued
the dowager empress and court eighty
miles southwest OF Peking. Viceroy
She Shuem is reported at Shanghai
to be sending troops to the Tonquin
frontier and to be intending to fight
the French at Mong Use.
The bulk of the German feet, re-
Gently at Shanghai, has gone to Taku
as an escort to the new German min
lister, DIR. Mumm Won Schwarsenstein,
who is bound for Peking.
In an engagement at Tien Tsin,
1000 Americans, British and japanese
routed 5000 Chinese and killed 800 OF
them.
Foreign residents Of Shanghai are
alarmed at the arrival of the extra.
ordinary number Of warships and
are fearful Of European complications,
but they have been assured by some
of the naval commanders that the
gathering is accidental.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
JAPANESE LINER WRECKED.

Runs Aground and Breaks In Two
on MiudanaO Island.
Manila, Aug. 2S.-The japanese
liner Futami Maru, Captain Thorn,
bound from Australia to Manila, with
a cargo OF stores for the American
government, went aground and broke
i'm twain on the island of Mindanao.
The passengers and crew camped
for six days OF the island. They are
now being brought TO Manila by the
British steamer Australian, Captain
Kock, the officer of the luckless liner
remaining behind. There were no
casualties, but the cargo, baggage and
vessel will probably prove a total loss.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01

All the English diplomats are well
paid. Sir f. j. Monson, ambassador
at Paris, is the most highly paid of
aIl. He gets $4,000 a year. After him
comes Sir II. Rumbold at Vienna, with
$4o,000; Sir F.. c.. Lascelles at Berlin,
with the same yearly sum, and Sir
Charles Stewart Scott at ST. Peters
burg, with $4,000. Here is a list OF
some others, giving the places at
which. they reside and their income:
Washington, 1872, 500; Rome, $4,000;
Turkey, $4,000; Toxic, $4,000; Te-
heran, $1,000.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
CAR HUNG ON TREE TOPS.

Peculiar Accident in Pennsylvania
several Badly Hurt
Beaver Falls, Pa, Aug. 2s.-A closed
.~lectric car on the Rivcrview line
jumped the track On u steep grade last
night, overturned and plunged into
two trees, where it hung suspended
high above the Fort Wayne. railroad
tracks.
The car contained about fifty pas
fengers, many Of whom were injured.
Vincent Bury, aged 81, of Beaver
Tails, may die. Jennie Lee, aged 90,
Of Beaver Falls, was also seriously in
iured. Tie others will recover.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01

Jose Andrea. father of one of tho
Cuban teachers at Cambridge, writes
Of this educational pilgrimage as fol-
lows in the Havana Diario cubanos OF
July Is: 1T fills our hearts with Joy
to see m young people laying aside
frivolities and Interesting themselves
I'm methods Of instruction, as the ba-
sis of the well being of nations. They
are made to see the necessity of hy-
giene in the city and i'm the home.
They see American ladies doing their
marketing; they see that the dali
ly paper is looked over before break
fast, rs well as all the signs which
point to the value of an education in
a civilized country at the present day.
We see, therefore. that the journey of
the Cubans 20 Cambridge will be Of
incalculable benefit to them. They
will bring back with them ideas OF
comfort, order. economy, health and
socialbility wholly unknown in our
country; In a word, an idea of all that
a new, modern nation needs in order
TO begin 90 live"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
HOW DEATH CAME TO REILLY.
Struck by a Bullet i'm the Mout
While STANDING on the Wnn.

Struck by n Bullet i'm the Mouth
While Standing on the Wall.
Picking, Aug. IS; via Chefoo, Aug. %.
-Captain Henry j. Reilly was Killed
while standing on the east wall di-
recting the movements of his battery.
A bullet struck him in the mouth. lie
fell and died a few moments later.
The Americans preached three gates
before the imperial palace and occu-
pied the approaches to the east wall
when the attack on the city was
made. The work on the gates was
done by the battery of which Captain
Reilly was then-in command.
In the meantime the infantry
cleared the walls where the Chinese
had cover. When the gates fell the
American troops swarmed through.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
KILLED BY HORNETS STlNGS.

Farmer PIoughs Up Yes and Re.
ceiv,s Fatal Injuries.
Davenport, Ia, Aug. 2S.-.Peter Har-
mar, aged As, a farmer nea Walcott,
lied as a result of n terrible singing
by u swarm of hornets. He uprooted
the nest while blowing. He lived in
agony for three days.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01

Rider Haggard, the author, in a re-
cent public address delivered in Lon
don, said that athletic training is a
most desirable preparation IN the life
of a missionary, because nothing in a
missionary impresses the savage so
much as to find himself equaled or
surpassed in strength and agility by
the stranger.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
NEW ORLEANS AND ST. LOUIS.
Former Gains 1892 Per Cent, Int
ter IT .33 In POI uintiop.

ter 81 .33 In POI uintiop.
Washington, Aug. 2S.-The popula-
ton OF New Orleans is 2S7, l04, against
242,030 in 1890, an increase of 1862
per cent.
The population of the city of st.
Louis, announced from the official re-
turns of the twelfth census, is as fol-
lows: st. Louis City, 1929 in 1900,
against 451, RIO in 1890. These figures
show, for the city as a whole, an in.
crease in population OF 123,46S, or
27.33 per cent, from 1890 to 1900. The
population i'm 1880 was 81 ,51S, show
ing an increase of 101 ,252, or $3.50 per
cent from 1880 to 1890.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01

Beresford, s. ID, Aug. 2s.-E. p.
Hazen. u farmer residing thirteen
miles from here, was killed. He had
gone out before breakfast TO shoot a
~jackrabbit. His failure to return
caused some anxiety, and upon inves-
tigating his body was found near an
old well in the pasture where he had
apparently sat down to remove some
thing from his shoe, as one of his
shoes vas off when found. The charge
had entered the side of his head, prob
ably killing him instantly.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01
FEARS TERRIBLE UPRISING.
Hoyou Says Allies Ought to
Ieaye Pekinp.

Consul Hoyou Says Allies Ought TO
Leave Picking.
Oakland, Cal, Aug. 2S.-In a lee.
lure on China delivered here Consul
Hoyou said:
Recent advices inform me that the
United States will keep troops in Chi.
ma. l hope it will not he so. There
will be great danger in such a course
/ fear when it is known that the Chi.
nese capital is in the hands of foreign
ers there will be a terrible uprising
all over China. The Chinese will rise
in a body, and it will take much
money and many lives ultimately to
suppress them. Would your Christ
wish you to advance religion at the
sacrifice of millions of lives?"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01

A Chinese company has built a tenn
ple i'm San Francisco, and il will soon
be dedicated with much pomp and
ceremony. The new temple is OF
brick cost $4,000, and is one of the
handsomest in the city. The god OF
war is the principal image in 1t. This
god, which stands about three feet
high, Ia made Of wood and deliberately
garnishcd with gold.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01

When the August grand jury was
sworn In In New York the other day,
one of the names of the jurors called
was that of William G.. Rockefeller, of
the Standard Oil company. Mr.. Rookie
Teller accepted the situation as II
satisfied with IL, and, notwithstanding
the hot weather, took hold with the
air of a man who knew his duties as
n citizen and intended TO perform
them ~zealously and impartially.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-01

More than 100. 900, 900 people in Chi
ma are engaged in the tea industry.
Some of them are very wealthy,
though they know little beyond the
cultivation. marketing and sale OF
teas. 1t is also a fact that many
of these tea raisers and tea merchants
are members of the secret societies in
the empire that are responsible for
much of the present trouble among
the nations of the universe.