Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-02-21

Personal Points.
Anna Dickinson viii resume lecturing, giving
Boston her first date.
Congressman John Hancock OF Texas is at
his home in that state, an invalid.
Miss Sill. for forty years principal Of Rock
ford, Ill, seminary, has resigned
Ex-President Hayes gives 5000 to new
Methodist church in Fremont, Ohio.
The parents OF Mrs. Fred Douglass are heart
broken over their daughters marriage.
Susan B. Anthony, not dismayed by defeat in
the house, transfers her trust TO the senate.
John Manning, a '49er, died alone of starva-
ton at Shasta, Cal, with $4,000 to his credit
Mrs. Gen Trevino, the daughter of the late
late Gen Ord, died recently at Fortress Monroe.
George G. Min, the actor and ex-preacher,
began life as q printer on the Brooklyn Union
Bolton Hall, son OF DIR. John Hall, was mar
ried recently, in New York, to Miss Susan
Scott
Ex-President Willard Of the Northern Pacific
is still suffering from nervous prostration and
insomnia.
Although United States Minister Hunt is Sc
riously iii atSt Petersburg, his condition is not
thought dangerous.
III. III. Warner of Rochester, n. Y, offers q
5000 prize for discovery Of a new comet made
during 1884 in the United States or Canada.
Mr.. Hunt. United States minister at St
Petersburg, is quite ILL Mrs. Hunt has re-
ceived a telegadm Of sympathy from Presidens
Arthur.
Richard Charnley, o young English emigrant
in New York, received a letter from a london
lawyer two days ago informjnghim that, blythe
death of a relative he had fallen heir to q for
tune of $l50,00e He sailed for England.
When William b. Astor died he had TO
houses on his ~rent-roll in New York city. The
present number Of Aston houses exceeds / 200,
the whole estate being valued ct ~$50,0O0,G0e,
producing an income of $3,WO,OG a year.
Arnold Henry Guyot, Ph. D., II. D.. Blair
professor of physical geography and geology
in the college Of New Jersey at Princeton, and
senior professor of the faculty, died ut his
home.in that town Friday, the Sth, after a lin
gering illness.
Rev. Simeon North, d. ID. Ill d., ex-presi-
dent Of Hamilton college, N. Y, and uncle of
Edward Nortn professor of Greek, died recent
ly Of pneEF 1iia at his residence near the coll
lege. Tho smaiEs viii be- inferred in the coli
7FfF
Bridget Mgsn. the young woman who was
shotin Milwaukee, Sunday, the 10th in il by her
lover, asea - he ==esas.:,s ward at the central
police station the same hight. The coroner
viii hold an request on the body Of St Arnold,
who shot the girl and then himself, and on thai
of his victim.
The steamer Brittanic from Liverpool
brought the body OF Richard Campbell, who
1to1 - 4h1 5000 49, ---l-
Of the paper firm Of Campbell & Smith. Two
years ago he was married to the only daughter
of the late Charles A. Coles, who bequeathed
her a fcrtuns estimated at s3,oOO,000.
The late Judge Packer, president of the LIE.
high Valley railroad, exercised the power Of
appointment under the viii Of his father
which IS valued at from $1,000, 600 to $1,000.
600. After certain private requests he gave
his widow the whole of his property durinl
her life. On her decease twenty twenty-thirdl
OF 1T goes 10 Leigh university, and the othei
three twenty-thirds to st Luke's hospital.
Miss Clara Barton, ~presidcntof the American
National association of Red Cross, accompanied
by DR.. HubbeIl, special field agent OF the asso
citation, start the 18th for the scenes of y
wasfayn s3Sa=s Siic goes first TO Pittsburg, ant
viii follow the Ohio river down, visiting sucl
places as have suffered Miss Barton request
that lied Cross societies of the North will, un
til further notice, forward supplies To Cincin
matt as the central point Of distribution.
Susan b. Anthony is not dismayed at tn
backset az to tho cause Of woman suffrage i
the house by the defeat of the proposition i
restore the select committee on that subject
Topped Off by Speaker Carlisle in making a
his list at the opening nf The session. Sine say
sias the car OF reform would move RICH
on just the same. The people of this counfr
were rapidly being educated up TO the point q
equal civil and political rights for women. an
the day Was not far distant when the politics
parties would be scrambling to Guido eaah 9th
er in her behalf
Hon Thomas Kinsella, editor Of the Brock
lyn Eagle, died Monday, the 18th, after lively
weeks sickness. Mr.. Kinsella was born in Ire
land in 1882. He anne to this country whe
sixteen years old, found employment az a print
er IN q small weekly in Northern New Yorl
and was soon writing for the paper as well q
setting its type. His first piece of work wa
an editorial on the death of Henry Clay. hi
Kinsella want to Brooklyn when a6ou.e:.lsttec
years old, and was engaged on the Eagle as
composition. He then became a reporter. an
worked himself mp until he succeeded Henr
McCloskey as editor Of the paper in 1869 II
bad been a power IN local and state politics 70
fifteen years.
Record Of Casualties.