Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-12-04
General News Items.

C1eyeland's plurality in Indiana was 6,5la
A part oftLe original fandby which Williams
college was founded came from a lottery.
ofeeon's Official vote: Blaine, 26.s52; Clsye,
land, 24,5aS; Butler, 723i St. John, 4SS
Lloyd Breezec, Of the Detroit Journal, hs,
Just purchased the Times OF that city, and viii
change IL into an evening paper
George R Calhoun 4 Co, jewellers Of Nash.
vile, Tenn, have made an assignment LA
biiities, $4,000; assets, 2,V0
Charles Stewart 4 Co, Cincinnati, pori
packers, have assigned 10 George S, Gray Az
sets, $4,000; liabilities, $4,000
II is thought that Archbishop Feehan c;
Chicago will succeed Cardinal McCleskey,
whose early death Is expected
The Official announcement OF the vote for
Massachusetts, "a. Blaine, lag, IA; Cleveland,
i22,352; Butler, 24,3S2; st John, 9,9Sj
Blaine's plurality, &3f2
Mrs. John Mnliken, a wealthy resident Of
Boston, sold peanuts at booth OF the common
for twelve hours, Tuesday, on an election bet
and realized 500 for charity.
Further reductions OF wages and annouoe-
ments OF intentions 10 shut down are reported
from industrial establishments in Pennsylvania
and other Eastern states
Texas has now 6,6i7,52i cattle, according tG
assessors returns. valued az over ssl, 000,OO0
The increase IN number this year has been or
or half : million, worth sa,5O9,OUA
The bones Of John q Calhoun have just
been removed to a new stone s~aFeophas-S if
ST. Philip churchyard, Charleston, s c. This
=. a. AleAN - .H.T - -.
have beer removed since they W re first laid 70
terr IN the soil Of the state hs love - vel.
Dec / he wages Of all employees Of the
Plttsbmg, Cincinnati 4 81 Louis, the Par
Handle route, will be reduced 10 per cont
Between pittsburg and Columbus the savinl
by the proposed cut viii amountt to S35,0O0 per
ennum.
Prof l.itchie OF Bridgeport, Conn, has in
vented a poisonous air bomb which, when ex.
ploded, disseminatos a gas that lies close to the
ground, and quickly proves fatal 10 everybody
IN range who doesn't run away from IL lie
claims tito be a step in theinterests Of human.
ity
The body OF a well-dre ssed man was found
in Gawanuss canal, New York. The body was
recognized As that OF Hugh Campbell, a broth.
or Of Chief Of Police Campbell OF Brooklyn,
and also OF Congressman Felix Campbell The
deceased was o partner OF Felix in the steam
fitting business IN New York city, and was mar
ried and liyedin Brooklyn,
Davenport lows, special--A mysterious
disease has appeared among the horses in the
upper end Of this county, and has been attend.
cd so far with alarming fatality. The first in
dication Of the disease is a loss OF appetite on
the part Of the animal attacked From this
the horse grows weak and finally dies. There
Is no apparent suffering until death occurs.
Tho state veterinary surgeon has been notified
will investigate the disease
There we're 237 failures in the United States
reported 10 Bradstreet's during last week,
against Isl In the preceding week and 232 and
l5O and t3s IN the corresponding weeks in 1883
1882 aud 1881, respectively, Abont - per
cent were those Of small traders whose capital
less than $1,000 Among those reported
embarrassed were Dix a Co, importers Of
drugs, and rembach Bros, manufacturing Jew
New York city; MiddletowG NauoRal
bank Snowden &semmler, carpets, Cincinnati;
aud George X Calhoun & Co, jewellers, Nash
yillo, Tenn.
Joliet, H., Special Edward A. Kesler, for
prominent local politician OF Southern
Minnesota and Grand Foreman Of tho A o U.
w OF thal STATE mas DeSn released from prison
He was sent 70 Joliet ia October, 1881 for thu
alleged CRIME OF .ampeFiHg with the nlsils q
his chatge, he being a postal clerh on the Chi.
cago, Milwaukee q 1t Paul road His friends
have veiemently claimed that he was innocent
Of the charge and that the evidence on which
he was arrested was Of a very thin sort and
wholly circumstantiRl and that prejudice,
with rank perjury, secured the yer.
against him; and now all this appears TO
be confirmed beyond tile shadow OF d doubt
A prominent detective met Mr. Keeicr AT Joliet
viii abundant proof Of lds entire innocence -
proofs which were not known 10 exist BY the
defense until the last ninety days Mr.. Reeler
i a well educated man, q bright and entertain
Ing newspaper writer and entitled 20 sympathy,
as that seems 20 be all he can get He left foi
Minnesota whore his fanii now lives.