The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-08
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Fire at Georgetown o., caused $780, 900
damage to- retail stores.
The historic old South Congregational
church at Salem, Mass. burned.
The French ministry of Justice recon-
mendsa revision of the Dreyfus case.
The Ohio river has a. midwinter freshet
which threatens much damage to prop
serty.
General Henry Douglas, chef of staff
to .'Stnnewall" Jackson, died ri Mayors
town: Md.
Frederick r. coudert Of New York, one
sof the great lawyers of the country, Is
dead,naged IL
killed his wife and himself, leaving a s.
week-old babe.
: F,resin an old words fair hotel in Chi
cago caused a bad panic. but nobody was
seriously hurt.
allegations Of boodling and other trou-
bles; make another revolution In Santo
Domingo Imminent;
r. Augustus Heinze and. two lieutenants
have been held guilty Of contempt Of the
Alexander Hall, suspended tsuperintend-
sent Of foreign mails in New York. await
ing trial for .robbing them, hanged him-,
self
The cruiser Modjid.a. built by Cramps
for Turkey, reached a trial speed of 22.2S
knots. She will sail for Turkey Febru-
airy 1.
Three more deaths from. typhoid oc-
Cured at Butler Pa, In one day, making
the total 60. General conditions there are,
improving.
A Russian revolutionist in Paris fired
two shots at Max Nordau, one grazing
the intended victim, the second striking
another man. \, al
All officials of the Republic Iron and,
Steel company have had their wages cut
and the working men will get like treat-|
ment at once.
The German ernneror bna icc,,ad ctrynfi
orders fer suppressing social ~immoralities,
in his army, which have caused a number
of high officers to resign.
The fearfully mutilated body Of q wom-,
in lower New York. She had been killed
in the fashion of Jack the Ripper"
Mr.. Bryan spent Friday with Count Toll,
lunched with Ambassador Mccormick.
London is quite excited because the
kaiser. toasting some German regiments.
the English from destruction at Water
loo"
The Big Four road will give $4,000 to,
build a memorial hall at Purdue, Ind.
university in memory of the victims OF
the great wreck on that road at Indian
apolis.
international commissioners who
ere trying to reach a solution of the cur
rency question for silver countries have
! proposed that the ratio of 80 to 1 be
adopted for China and other countries. >"
At u political meeting In Arkansas, Cow
ernor Jeff Davis and Judge Carroll D..
Wood, rival candidates for the nominal
ton for governor, got into q personal en-
counter and the governor smashed the
supreme judge on the jaw.
Mrs. Honoretta Marshall Of Webster,
| Mass, died in an insane asylum, aged los
! years. She had distributed a great for
tune IN charities, and, when a century OLD
'tated her confinement in an asylum.
Senator Hanna was too i'll with a4cold
New York. Oscar Strauss pad him the
tribute Of saying that he knew Hanna
would rather be head of the civic fedora
ton. tandfbring about adjustment of diff
DO, president.
Secretary of War Roots letter Of COM
mendation for General Wood, Just made
public, strongly urges that Wood has
and more fairly earned advancement than
any other man now ranking as a br.ga-
der. He insists that the higher officers
and not alone on a Seniority basis !.
The president transmitted to the house
!! the last Of the official papers in the Pan
anna revolution affair. The official history
Is Sim 1a}ter ahe nGs nre aea ! SHOW I9 he te daye1dms
ment Of affairs at Bogota and at Colon,
as viewed by the American agents, and
The Instructions given them from Wash
err believed the United States seriously
thought Of taking the Nicaragua route,
and were simply determined to make the
States and the French company, believing
they could hold up both. The situation
on the isthmus is delicate and the Colom-
bans show disposition to press matters
| Washington government is determined to
ct Colombia commit the first overt act.