Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Gen Grants history has been completed up
to the assassination OF President Lncoln-
The managers OF tho Pittsburg May Musical
festival admit that they lost $4,000 BY the
affair
The liabilities of James r. osgood& Co., the
suspended Boston publishers, are $1,000 and
assets $4,000 They will discontinue BUSH
mesa
Tulare lake In California, has within eight
years shrunk from q by y miles In size 10 Is
by IL miles. Not one fifth of the original lake
is left
Rev, j.. r. Reasoner, pastor OF the First
Presbyterian church, Collinsyille, IN, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself through the
head with revolver. Temporary insanity.
The second auditor of Virginia has just re-
ported that the total OF bonds outstanding is
SO. 2ls, 522 ST. and the aggregate OF interest IN
arrears 70 and including Jan I, 1855, Is 81, l40,.
G5l1a
The citizens OF San Francisco presented
Archbishop Alemanya purse Of slQ, 600 prior to
his departure from that city for Rome The
clergy Of she diocese also presented him with
$1,000.
The Illinois house recently voted down 8
resolution giving the nse of the legislative
chamber to ex Gov. St John to deliver tenn
perance lecture, the Republicans voting almost
solidly against it,
The rebel lose in the Batoche fighting will
reach I10 killed Tho half breeds are all
coming In, and all but the leaders are at once
released Dumont is hidden in the bushes
with twenty or thirty men.
L j. Miles, Indian agent at the Usage agen-
CIV, has resigned The following named re-
ceivers OF public moneys have also resigned:
Hiram l. Childs, Bodie, Cal Jerome Knox,
Lakeview, Or. John Ulrich, La Crosse. Wis
In the National Commercial convention at
Atlanta, Ca, q resolution was offered by Mr.
Hanley 81 Colorado TO the effect that tho inter-
ests Of the country required q continuation OF
the coinage of silver IL was defe ated by an
overwhelming majority.
The report OF resistance by Mormons in
Paris, Idaba, 70 deputy marshals making ar
rests for polygamy was an entire fabrication.
The deputies visited the place. and were even
permitted 10 enter the place OF public worship
during divine service to make arrests. without
the slghest opposition 10 their authority as
government officers being made.
A strange disease, defeating the skill Of the
physicians, broke out in PARIS Roads, on the
Panhandle railroad, eighteen miles from
Pittsburg, few days ago Inone family alone
there had been Ave deaths, and the mother -
insane Eight more are sick The local pby-
sicians refused to attend the patients, and Stu
benyille. Ohio, physicians are there.
Brig Gen Hazen has brought suit for tel
in the -1f.c.-.- court Of New York sgainst
George Jones, Of the Times He lays his
claim for damages at $4,000 Tho complaint
has been served 1t is based on two articles
which appeared in the Times on Nov q, 1884,
and April IS, 1854 The first was an editorial
concerning Gen Hazen's Official report, in which
he Is accused Of false statements, OF incapacity
Of responsibility for the failure OF Lieut. Gar
lngton's relief expedition, Of attempting 10
eysde proper and honest investigation Of bis
Official condnct aud OF Lobbying" The sec
ond editorial reiteratos these allegations, and
alleges IN addition that Cen Hazen stroye to
shift the responsibility for his own conduci
upon some other mar q shoulders, and tnst be
Is nota sensitive and honorable soldier Gen.
Hazen viii endeayor to push the case to rial