Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-04-03

Tower City has got the North Dakots
Baptist university.

blsnte q curiosity at Fargo during the
session of the district court,
Ihe citizens of Devils Lake voted ON
the question of incorporation as a VII
ia3e. This was the.third election held
fDr that purpose Incorporation was
carried by eighty nine votes.
Al strong pressure will be broubht to
bear In favor of the appointment Of
Gen. A. j. Edgerton, at present chief
justice OF Dakota, as Coy. Ordway's
successor,
Recently the house on Stark avenue,
Mandan, belonging-to Bridget Croghan
was burned. The inmates mare IN ha.a
and had just time to save one trunk.
Loss 5000; insured iii Phonix.
John Ketrewski. proprietor of the
Redfield roller nall, dropped dead from
heart disease at that city on the both.
Deceased was sixty years old. and leaves
property to, the amount of $25, 900.
a daughter OF Mr.. Long of Barns
town was frozen 10 meath in the severe
storm recently, She was visiting q
neighbor's house about fcrty rods dis
rant from home, and ~endeayoring to re-
tarn was lost and persisted.
George w. Stevens Of Marion, who
borrowed money on property already
mortgaged, has been arrested at Jack
~sonville, Fla. and will be brought back
to- Dakota.
While some CT the reports that have
come in concerning heavy losses Of cat
tie have been exaggerated, at the same
time though cattle are generally in poor
condition, and in some lunches the
losses hare been considerable.
Bishop Walker preached his first ser
mon in Dakota in Gethsemane church,
Fargo, on the morning Of the oath, to
a large audience. On the night of the
10Th he wa given a reception az the
residence Of Aid. Kecney.
John Kutnewsky, owner of the Red
field roller mills, died suddenly the 9th
er day while talking with some friends
in "A. w. Greenman's store. He was
sixty-five years old and leaves a wife and
several children living at Groyeland,
Ill.
The farmers of the Russian colony in
Dakota have sent information that they
and their families arc in avery destitute
condition, suffering for want offood and
clothing.
In the United States court at Fargo,
w. Il. Finch, ex-postmaster of Ellen
dale, Oak, pleaded guilty 10 charges
against him, and was sentenced to two
and one-half years in ~penitentiary.
The body of Fred Wilson, frozen
near SanboEn, was found about five
miles from home, to which point he
had evidently wandered in his efforts
to find his house. The two little girls
Who were with their father at the hay
slack when the storm burst upon them,
have not yet been found.
Ella Andrews, living with her mother
neal Rapid City, fred three shots at
James Council, cnfiicting a serious
wound. Cornell alleges that the girl
and her mother desired his death to
secure his property
The jury at Fargo in the ase Of
Charlen III. Taylor, charged with tam
pering with the mails, returned, after
an absence OF t~wenty-four hours, and
announced that they could reach no
agreement and we're discharged. The
offence charged is extracting a check
from O letter and converting the pro-
duce to his own use.
The body-snatching sensation at Val
ley City has been under legal inyesti-
CATION for several days, and seems to be
turning out q colossal hoax. The
~s'stiffs7 which were referred to by q
taxidermist turn out to be the heads of
animals.
The bonus of SIS, 900 has been dona-
ted, and the North Dakota Baptist uni
versity has been located at Tower City.
Ground has been secured for water
works in Bismarck, and orders will be
given Immediately for 500 tons of pipe.
M. p. Hudnall was found dead in a
stable near Sterling.
The jury in she case of Biglin, on
trial in Deadwood, brought in a verdict
Of m~anslaughtcr in the first degree.
Neil Mclaughlin died in Deadwood
from injuries received in the Homestake
mine several days before.
BY orders from headquarters depart
ment Of Dakota First Lieutenant X. b.
Banham, assistant surgeon, United
| States army, is relieved from duty at
| Fort A. Lincoln, ID. T., and will proceed
to Fort Sisseton, ID. T.. and report to the