Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-06-06

ltdueTS 10 Dell6Ve vote VIII De take
on the canal tolls exemption repeal bi
today.
'fAbout $500 Knights Templar of Mic
igan gathered at Lansing Tuesday fc
the 5Sth annual conclave of the gran
commandery.
cyclone struck Milwaukee Sunda
and blew down a score of buildings ant
delayed traffic. Loss, S50O,0OO. N
deaths reported.
The strike at the sulphur mines nea
Palermo, Sicily, developed into seriou
riot Monday when mob at Porto EN-
pedocle destroyed half the town.
| The seyerest earthquake since th,
volcano of Katmai scattered ashes owe
half the area of Alaska was felt May 29tl
accompanied by a rumbling of th
earth.
a strike by $4,000 engineers and fire
men on SO railways west of Chicago will
be taken as result ofthe breaking of
of negotiations last Monday for increas
ed wages.
The north Atlantic is reported danger.
Gus for steamers at present being cover.
ed with huge fields of floating ice. Sew
eral liners have been damaged and de.
layed by the ice.
Five sticks of dynamite with burn
ing fuse attached were found Tuesday
under the Office of Secretary Houston a
Washington. The fuse was extinguished
before any damage was done.
Luis Terrazas, jr., recently the sub
ject of representations from the U. S
state department. will be placed agair
in the penitentiary at Chihuahua City
say Carranza's agents at Ell Paso.
The severest earthquake shocks ever
recorded by Australian government Sc
ismographs were reported from River
view, n S. w. The waves lasted fol
three hours. from II NJ. and indica
tions are that the earthquake was in the
vicinity of the Friendly Islands, in the
southern Pacific.
Nearly one thousand lives were lost
Friday when the Canadian Pacific liner
Empress of Ireland sank before dawn
in the st. Lawrence river, rammed and
ripped open from amidships to stern
by the Danish collier Storstad. Only q
handful of first class passengers were
saved. The big liner sank like lead.
Commander Tweedie of H. NJ. S. Es
sex which has been aiding in the search
for the bodies of victims of the ill.fated
ship Empress of Ireland, believes thai
it will be impossible to salvage the yes
sci. 1t is believed the hull will have tt
be blown up with dynamite to prevent
it becoming menace to navigation.
The steam whaler Karluk, flagship o
the Canadian governments Arctic ex
ploring expedition, under command o
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, was crushed il
the ice and sunk January 16 near Her
aid island northeast of Siberia. The en-
tire white crew, except Capt. Robert A
Bartlett, is now at Wrangell island will
plenty of food and wood.
Mount Lassen in the Sierra Nevada
between Plumas and Shastas counties
California, is in violent eruption. New
craters have been opened inside tn
mountain. Ashes cover the ground t.
distance of three miles and enormou
rocks have been hurled in all direction
from the crater. Dense clouds of smok
and steam hang over the mountain.
The Mexican mediation proceeding
at Niagara Falls are in tangle over OF
jections raised by the Carranza faction
A statement by Carranza declares tina
the constitutionalists are the conqueror
in an almost completed revolution an
says they wonder how they will b
forced if they decline to obey the com
mission and points out the work alread
done in settling land disputes.
State Commissioner of Immigratio
McCaffree reports that there are larg
number of people coming to the stat
this spring to make their home in Sout
Dakota. This is especially true he say
of the country west of the river. Man
who for various reasons left the stat
several years ago are returning. Their
has been over two hundred and fit
car loads of cows and heifers passe
through Pierre for Stanley and Lyma
counties this spring. 1t would be hard t
estimate the value that this will be t
the state, as the dairy industry is bein
developed SO rapidly and is proving s