Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-07-18
WEEKS NEWS BRIEFS
Important Happenings of the Week at
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The strike in the Westinghouse plant
in East Pittsburgh has ended and 5000
men have returned to work.
A tornado struck Shenandoah, Iowa,
Sunday night doing considerable dam.
age. The day was the warmest known
in years.
Seven hundred marines have been
ordered to assemle at Guantanamo Cuba,
to be ready for service in Haiti and
Santo Domingo.
A new worlds record was established
Tuesday in an aeroplane by Heinrich
Oelrichs German aviator, who attain
ed height of "a, ,6O6 feet.
Sir Edward Carson has offered the
British government the alternatives of
giving Ulster clean.c cut home rule or
coming to fight the Ulster men.
Citizens residing east of the Cheyenne
river have filed petition with the
county auditor at Rapid City praying
for division of Pennington county.
U. s. marines are being rushed south
as first move in q demonstration to
warn Haiti and San Domingo that they
must put their governments in order.
Mexican news of the fore part of the
week stated that Huerta was momentar
lily expected to resign in favor of his
minister of foreign affairs Francisco Car
bajal.
The question of criminal indictments
against the directors of the New Haven
railroad probably will not be taken up
by the department of justice until the
conclusion of negotiations for a peace
tul dissolution of the system.
The anniversary of the fall of the
Bastile was celebrated Tuesday through
out France. About 400 military aero
planes were in the air at once and Pres
ident Poincare reviewed 10000 troops
and fleet of twenty monopanes.
The United States gunboat Princeton
reached the naval station at Tutuila
Samoa, Tuesday, in sinking condition.
She struck an uncharted rock and was
beached to prevent her sinking. She
carries crew of $50 officers and men.
A Spanish company has secured con-
cessions from the Niagara Falls power
commission to construct an aerial tram
way and operate the same across the
Whirlpool Rapids of Niagara Falls. The
span across the gorge will be l., ,lS0 feet.
John Hays who has been held in Jail
at Ft. Pierre for several months, since
being brought back from Vancouver, B.
G. on charge of bankwrecking, has
finally secured bond for appearance in
court and has been released from GUS
tody.
A strike ultimatum was delivered
Tuesday to the managers of 9S railroads
west of Chicago by the representatives
of the unions of $4,000 employees of
these lines that unless the demands for
wage increase are met a general strike
will be called.
President Huerta's family, many of
hisofficials and personal friends have fed
from Mexico City for Vera Cruz to seek
the protection of the U. S. forces under
Gen. Funston. Huerta was reported
still in the capital Wednesday noon but
expected to start for Vera Cruz at any
moment.
President Huerta resigned the pres
idency of Mexico at p. m. Wednesday.
The resignation was Immediately ac-
cepted by the Mexican senate by vote
of l21 to II. Francisco Carbajal later
took the oath of office of provisional
president.
In the report of the interstate com.
merce commission to the senate regard
ing the New Haven railroad investiga
ton they estimate that the stockholders
lost between $65, 900, 900 and 800, ,Oo(
through mal-administration of the af
fairs of the road little of which they
may recover.
Thousands of national banks have re
piled TO Secretary of the Treasury Nc
Adoo's letter, which asked the opinion
of the bankers throughout the country
as to the advisabiity of loaning govern
ment funds to the banks, to move th'
crops. Many of the bankers urged the
loaning of government funds
just as was done last year
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