Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-05-09
WEEKS NEWS BRIEFS
Important Happenings of the Week at
Home and Abroad-Boiled Down
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rife fire on the U. S. position.
Sunday news from Mexico was to tn
effect that President Huerta was mo
mentarily expected to resign.
According to the verdict of the coro
ner's jury the fire in the tent colony a
Ludlow, Colo, which caused the deatf
Of thirteen women and children, thu
night of April 10th, was started by mil
itia or mine guards or both.
The Duke of Argyle son-in-law Of tn,
late Queen Victoria and former Govern
or-General of Canada, died May 2, a
Cowes, Isle of Wight.
John Burgess, charged with killing
Sheriff William Moses, will be tried il
Miles City, Montana, May 18th. The
case has attracted much attention among
South Dakota people.
Reports to the U. S. navy department
are to the effect that revolutionists in
the Dominican republic are attacking
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Bordas government is imminent.
Secretary of War Garrison has an.
nounced that the civil government es-
tablished at Vera Cruz by the naval
authorities will be replaced by militia.
ry government under General Funston,
and that all civil officers now exercising
authority at Vera Cruz will be removed
According to provisional plans under
consideration by the executive com.
mittee of the bull moose party of South
Dakota the nominating convention,
as authorized at the recent Mitchell
meeting. probabably will be held at
Huron on June 10th.
An American brig, seized by Mexican
federal officers at Manzanillo, who
claimed that war had been declared,
was Immediately released with apollo.
gies when the U. S. cruiser Raleigh
turned her guns on the city.
Under authority of the president, Sec.
retary of War Garrison has issued a
proclamation calling on the people in
the Colorado strike district to surrender
all arms and ammunition to the United
States army officers now in charge OF
the various trouble points.
Russia is carrying on a well organized
campaign of spying in Sweden as is
proven by the frequent arrest of suspect,
ed persons. Among those recently i'm
prisoned is a young Swedish student
named Malmberg He Is accused selling
valuable information to Russian agents,
as an accomplice of non.com. officer oil
the Swedish army and a government
clerk lately sentenced for years at
hard labor.
Refugees arriving at Galveston, Texas,
from Mexico brought fresh stories ol
sudden flight, of priyation, and of insult
to the American flag. Many of the
refugees were nearly destitute, with
children in their arms.
A grave situation exists at Tampicc
on account of the accumulation of oi
from the flowing wells, which constitut.
es menace to the town, and the inter.
ference with neutral commerce, as ex
hibited by the firing on the steamer
Antilla, has prompted an effort on the
part of the British am bassador and state
department officials to create neutra
zone of the oil fields. Carranza refuses
to establish the neutral zone.
At Eccles, w. Va. thirteen bodies O
miners killed in the accident of April g
were rescued. Search was continued
for the balance of the 200 miners, all O
whom are now believed to have perish
ed in the explosion which dislodged
great masses of rock and earth.
A party of Mexican railroad official.
and construction engineers and large
force of men left Piedras Negras the
6rst of the week to begin work of re
pairing the National Railway of Mexico
Word has been brought to Vera Cru,
that Mrs. Clara Beckman, a German
woman, at Mexico City; was mistaken
by Mexican mob for an American wo
man; regarding the wearing of a small
silk German flag upon her collar as &
desire on her part to disguise her ma
tionality, and are reported to have drag
ged her through the streets until she
died.
On account of the refusal of Carranzs
to declare an armistice with Huerta the
constitutionalsts have been eliminated
from the mediators plans for settlement
of differences between the United States
and Mexico.
A cyclone May swept through Maud
Texas, killing people and injuring 81
others.
1t is reported that Gen. Mas has helt
John Gilliman, acting U. s. consul a
San Luis Potosi, prisoner for severa
days and threatened to shoot him.
A tornado caused SIS, 900 damage neal
Marshalltown, Iowa, Sunday.
May was the 10th anniversary o
the date when the United States tool
over the Panama canal zone.
How about Decoration Day. Isn't