Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-07-25
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| Monday Killed nve workmen, f0ur OF
them white, and severely injured seven
teen negroes.
The capture of San Cristobal and
Vena, suburbs of Santo Domingo City.
by Dominican revolutionists, was re-.
ported to Washington by Commander
Carter of the cruiser Tennessee.
A cargo of several thousand rifles
conveyed by an American yacht for the
Irish nationalist volunteers has been
seized by British cruiser which inter-
cepted the yacht off the Irish coast.
Josh Billings in the darkest days of
the civil war rendered the services of
his wife's relatives in behalf of the union
cause. The deeper the nations gloom
the more intense grew Josh's patriotism.
General Pascual Orozco, supported by
the first men with him in the revolu-
tion against Madero in 1912, will lead
the first organized rebellion against the
new Mexican government, according to
advices received at Mexico City.
Mediation of the trouble between the
western railroads and their employees,
which threatened to bring on one of the
biggest and most disastrous. strikes eyer
called unless adjusted, was begun Mon.
day by the federal board of arbitrators.
President Wilson, through Secretary
Bryan, has notified the senate foreign
relations committee that he wishes to
press for ratification, before the ad-
ljournment of congress, the new peace
treaties, signed with twenty foreign
powers.
Aberdeen: Police here now have the
labor situation well in hand. Sunday a
force of men were driving the unem-
ployed out of the city and into the coun-
try where they are needed. Meanwhile
the |. w. w. agitators were kept in Jail
and kept from holding street meetings.
Rebels who are close to Villa assert
| that Huerta and others who are flee
ing from Mexico will not be permitted
to escape responsibility for their crimes.
That wherever they 90 they will he ex-
tradited and brought back to stand trial
for the murder of Madero and Suarez.
This will be one of the first acts of the
new government.
When Huerta left Mexico City he
took all the cash in sight. With the
treasury stripped of funds, Carbajal has
nothing to pay the salaries of the gov
ernment employees, which are past due.
1t is feared that failure to pay them will
cause trouble and lead to rioting. Huer-
ia has wired Carbajal expressing the
hope that his government will survive
and offered his services if needed to
sustain it. He also wired various nations
urging that they recognize the Carbajal
government
Kentucky is experiencing one of the
worst droughts in the history of that
state. There has been no rain of conse-
quence for three months. Crops of all
kinds are greatly damaged and forest
fires are raging in the mountains. 1t is
almost impossible to secure water for
stock. The preachers in many of
the towns have called union prayer
meetings at which prayers were sent up
asking for rain. 1t is SAID that a SIM
liar condition exists in several of the
southern states.
The United States has demanded
that Carranza grant amnesty to his
foes. Those guilty of crimes against
the nation may be punished without
interference, but there must be no
wholesale campaign of murder because
the rebel cause has triumphed. Consul
Silliman has explained the United
States attitude, but Csrranza refuses to
make any promise. He told Silliman
he had no intention of furnishing the
rank and file, but would not include the
officers in the amnesty.
Approximately 2,260,OO0,0OO native
field birds excepting sparrows inhabit
the United States east of the great
plains states according to partial re-
turns of the first bird census in the his
tory of the department of agriculture.
Apparently the robin is more numerous
of which there are l00000,000 east of
the Mississippi river. Most extensive
census of birds is in forest land and
mountains with an average of one pair
to three acres. The arid lands of the
southwest have the smallest bird popu-
lation.
Although there has been no formal
agreement yet between the opposing
factions in Mexico, armistice practically
in effect throughout the republic. Carba
jail, Huerta's successor, has decided to
have the federal troops evacuate all
points where rebel forces are concen-
trating to avoid further fighting. Car
ranza's forces are moving southwark
merely to be in position to maintain
order in the territory surrounding the
capital. Until the commission appoint
ed by Carbajal shall reach Carranza, no
definite developments are looked for
Reports from Vera Cruz that Zapatas
forces are close enough to Mexico City
to occupy the city are confirmed by of
fetal advices. No move is expected by
Zapata without the order Of Carranza.