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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28
Bill Arp in a Strange Tayr

Where do all the people coma
and what are they after? The ca
full of them and hotels are q,,
wherever | go. They come and
go. They seem as restless
troubled sea. As sit among thes
this large lounging room / CANNED
wondering what is their bushes
what they are thinking, and how n
are happy and how many have J
secret sorrow, and / wish was y
reader and could follow them IN \
thoughts of home and family-d
children or mother away off somsy,
How much we are all alike il We
knew il. Sometimes / venture n
mark TO stranger who sits near q.
the stove. When / draw them ".
home and distant kindred il Ssa
welcome subject, and as we get !
familiar, they warm up, and viii
ture TO tell me of their families
their business. Strangers ina su
land are YER quick TO apprs
oivility. A n may be oflish and
communicate, when at home but,
he gets away off he looks lOag
around for a friends SOMEBODY
knows somebody that he know
times have felt awfully lonesos
my wanderings, and / would hss
joiced with unfeigned gladness u
seen my little dog Fido. | could
almost cried over tie affections
Of his little tail. This eyer.col
mingling Of the people from i
States is obliged TO do good. v
all assimilating; we are rubbing q
each other more and more ever
and we understand each other an
that we are all inst human an
sailing in the same big boat upo
sea of life. The North and the
the East and the West are bein
drawn together, and not even u
iticians can much longer keep Us
Atlanta Constitution.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28
Real Bravery.

i have among my acquaintance Sn'|
very fierce young men. They have 2
soul Of a desperate, though forced !
toll af the ledger or the newspals
desk for the vulgar and prosaic ueess
ties of existence. While not douo'ns
their courage, / am often skspuo.
about their thirst for danger. 0he
them, commercial traveller. VS.
last gratifed with an adventure. =
was riding on the top Of an 0resH
stage. This is the story: !.
well, sir, when we came 10 tns y
OF the hill we saw two highwaymen =
ing through the pockets OF some r.
devil they had captured on the road
How many OF you were there z /
six outside and four inside, ana Z
armed TO the teeth. Now for II, pOl,.
said the stage driver, whipping W !
horses, and I tell you we dashed a0''
ON that gang in fine style, every y
keeping his hand on his pistol. "a,
.'And Of course you captursd :
highwaymen?" q.
No, stree; we drove by them nr
flash, Why, man, We were dosI
and l.y them before they knew y. !,
was coming, Now. that is whas : =
real presence of mind. A.,
How? In rescuing the man y"
the robbers?" !,
Rescue be hanged; that was no's 4
our business. No, slree; in sav'ps :
stage" San Francisco Post.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28

TIE increase Of the criminal class
In England has by no means kept pace
with that OF The general population,
IN the fifreen years from 1869 TO 1874
the population OF England and Wales
was augmented by nearly 5000, 900
souls. but the prison population had
actually fallen BY more than 1900. n
England had gone on producing Grim
iuais nj the rate az which she was
turning them ost in 1869. she would
have had prison population in 1884
OF something like 1900, instead OF
oue below 10000.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has made
good use OF The past three months ef
his mission in London by preparing n
biography of Nathaniel hawthorne,
probably one Of the best and most just
yet written, ara promised for publica-
tion simultaneously in London aud this
country early in April
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28

OsE Of the latest and probably trn-
est historians Of the battle of Shiloh
Is RobertJ. Bardette, who in relating
his personal experiences in that en-
gsgemeni selemny declares that the
severst charge he encountered was
made hY snfler.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28

Oscar Wilde now favors the aboli-
ton Of the coat and the waistcoat, and
Il i shall be the means, as probably IL
would, OF keeping him altogether IN
the house, dispensing with the trous-
ers would also be desirable.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28

= QUEEN olga. Of Grecse, Is said 10
be the most beautiful woman now on
throne. Bully for the Ol'galst''
shouts the enthusiastic editor Of the
ST. Paul Hsrata.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28

DEsrrrE the vow attributed 10 hei
on hearing the tragic end of her NOR
ganatic husband, the Emperor Alex.
ander. the Princess Dolgorouki Is about
to marry again. only mysterious hints
are thrown out as to the identity on
her future husband. but IL Is under-
stood that he is Russian prince. not
far removed in blood from the Car
himself aud powerful enemy OF his
regime. The Intelligence has caused
a great sensation, seeing that the con.
tinued mourning and extremely re-
tired life of the Princess led the world
to believe that they had at last among
them an inconsolable widow. In her
fall she retained few friends. and in
Paris she was seldom seen abroad ex-
cept for morning walk In the Bots
with her children. OF mediocre intel.
ligence and simple tastes. she occu-
pied herself little with political intri.
CUES, but nevertheless her unassumine
little court in Paris has been the cen
tire OF many.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28

FLoREScE NIGHTINGALE, although
sixty-sve years Did. Is still actively
engaged in looking after the wounded
soldiers 81 the Soudan.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28

SHor signs were introduced into
England from France in the reign of
Edward Ill. and they became so gem
eral that nearly every shop-kecper in
London had oov displayed outside his
shop. Great ingenuity was shown in
the invcrtion of signs calculated to
prove most attractive to the passer
BY, and large sums Of money were ex-
pended 10 this species OF advertising.
These signs were not affixed to the
houses, but were placed ON posts. or
thereon on hinges, atthe edge OF the
footpath. So largely did these in
crease that they absolutely obstruct
cd the free circulation Of air, and arc
supposed to be among the causes OF
tho frequent epidemical disorders OF
London. They also naturally aided
the spread Of conflagrations. and on
these grounds were afterward forbid.
den to be displayed,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28


SEVERAL weeks before Christmas the
yacht Iolapthe, having three men on
board. sailed out OF Port Philip Bay.
Victoria, and was never seen sgain.
On the 10th Of December a huge w.-.te
shark was caught at Frankfort, q
small village near Melbourne, Some
II the loungers on the beach face
hously suggested that relics OF the
missing crew might be looked for in
tide the fish. The shark. therefore,
vas cut open, and in Its stomach was
actually found a human hand, mass
OF sodden rags, broken wooden pipe
and gold watch and chain. The
watch was Immediately recognized as
having belonged TO one Of the yacht
uien who had been on board the
Iolapthe.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28


ALTHOUGH the smallest cf the great
er Antilles, the island II Porto Rico Is
the most denscly populated, and at
the same time the most beautiful, fer.
fale and prosperous of the West Indies
II is about one-tenth the area OF Cuba,
but has thrse-fourths as many inAab.
itests, and there Is very little land, ex-
rept the mountain peaks, which IS not
only susceptible Of the highest degree
OF cultivation, but produces two crops
every year. The staples are sugar
and coffee, aud most Of the product IA
shipped TO Europe. The coffee Is of
superior quality, and commands the
highest price paid IN England and
and France.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28
rr,sh,tui burning Calamity at o.noinp.t,.

Seventeen lives were lost at fire in Sulli-
vans printing establishment, on West Sixth
street An alarm brought the engines almost
instantly, and tho fromen could reach the
building from the front and rear. II was not
fifteen minutes before the fire was so much
under control that Chief Engineer Wisely was
enabled to reach the fifth or sixth floor
But he was too late to save the girls employed,
and he found ten bodies lying with hands to
their faces blackened and distorted In death.
The chief says:
The house is not burned out; in fact the
fire was chiefly in the fifth story In
the smoke l counted ten girls lying
upon boxes, tables and other things
was not burned, but tho skin on the back OF
the hands was scorched II was the worst sight
l ever saw in my experience Inc girls lay
where they had fallen in their Wild and help
less dc spair
The fire started from can of bsnzine on
the second floor, near the elevator shaft A
boy on that floor says be heard q report and
nstantly the fire leaped 10 the elevator shaft
and up it, The shaft reached TO the top OF
the building, and from the second TO the fifth
twas encircled by 4 wooden stairway which
was the only means OF access to thUse 1oora.
The elevator shaft, 10 add to its combustibility,
was encesed with q thin wooden lattice work.
The second floors where the fire started, vas
the press room, the third the composing room.
the fourth, storage and waste room and the
fifth was the folding room. As well az
can be aseertained there we're abopi
fifty occupants Of the building, Of whom
twenty or twenty-five wee .nls in the
fifth story. The boys were on ,he second and
third floors, and this accounts for their escape.
f. All agree that the speed OF the flames was al.
most instantaneous There was an avenue OF
escape which the panic-strieken girls did MOI
think Of 1t was an opening in the roof which
they could easily have reached from bench
standing beside tho wall, and once on the root
they could have reached other buildings with
ease, The lack Of ready access to this place
| lost all these lives
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28

A delegation representing the Grand Army
OF the Republic of the department of.Pennsyl :
yania ami the Veterans Rights union, called
on the president Secretary Manning, and
Gen. Black, commissioner of pensions. They
asked that the law giving the prefer
ence in appointments to ex-union sol
diers shall be enforced wherever re-
movals are made, and that whenever reduc-
tons Of force are made, the reasons may be
given The president assured the delegation
that he desired 10 do all that could loo ,isne for
the old soldiers; that as president il was his
duty 10 ses that all the laws OF the United
States are enforced, and that be recognized
the claims of the old soldiers upon the gov
eminent But he said il was impossible
for him to give his attention TO
Individual cases Tho delegates then
asked that he allow them the privilege of lay
ing before him the violations OF the Avs in
question which should CONS under their no.
tce, and they asked, further, that when such
cases are brought to his attention, he gave
them immediate attention. The president cor
daily assented TO these requests, and said that
he wonld be glad Of any time to receive any
communication from them, and would give all
their communications proper attention
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-28

Leopold Won Ranke is considers !.
Europe the most astonishing au'no :
his time, in resps-.-of the pressr'af Z
Of his mental powers. There Is no.
other living example Of man occa ",
with historical work in his sV'n ~ ~,
He believes he will be able 70 cen' y
his studies and writing till %
reached hundred.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09
CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Twelve Chicago Firemen Engulfed in Fall
ing Debris-Two of the Number Crushec
to Death-Brave Rescue OF their Remains.

Twelve Chicago Firemen Engulfed in Fall
ing Debris-Two OF the Number Crushed
to Death-Brave Rescue OF tn cir Remains.
CHICAGO, ILL, May AT 1l:1G
O'Clock last night flames were seen issu-
ing from the rear windows of the third
story of No. 161 South Water street, and
an alarm was turned in. The fire had s0-
cured good start before it was discov-
cred, and was breaking from the roof and
windows before an engine appeared. The
buildings Nos. 16l, 162 and 1853 is four
story brick of rather inferior construction
and good food for flames. Itwas occupied
by commission houses solely. The fire
originated from some unknown cause In
large quantity of bale hay in one OF
the houses. The smoke was intense,
and the flames travelled quickly. A good
fight in the alley drove the fire to the
front, where it was met by half dozen
steamers sent there by second alarm,
which was turned in five minutes
after the first. The further
progress of the flames was prevented
by the fremen gaining an entrance
through the windows, and the adjoining
buildings were saved. Early in the night
ten or twelve fremen took up position
on the third floor of No. 16l to cxtin-
gush the embers that dropped. The
heavy weight on the fourth floor, in
creased by the deluge of water from the
pipes, overtaxed the floor, which
gave away directly over the
heads of the fremen, who found them
selves engulfed in mass OF debris.
When all the engine men were supposed
to have been extricated, it was suddenly
discovered that two of them were miss
ing. Fifty men lost no time in Chamber
ing I'D the ladders, and with hooks and
picks dragged away the debris until their
two comrades were found. Both were
dead. The weight which had suddenly
borne them down had crushed their lives
out.
AS soon as possible they were carried
down the weak stairway and taken 10
drug store, where a physician left no
doubt as to the futility of hopes for their
recovery. Both men were knocked sense
less and then-.asphy by the dense
smoke.
The losses on the buildings will reach
s32. 800; insurance, 800, 900.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

CLARK ALLISON, a citizen of Somerset,
Mass, has been discovered in q loathsome
prison in Spain.
SHOCKS of earthquake were felt on the
I'd in several districts Of the Abs and also
in Vienna Several houses were damaged
and number Of women killed at Kinnberg,
in Styria.
JAS. LEFFEL fell from the top Of the Bur-
nett House in Cincinnati on Saturday ana
was instantly killed.
MISSISSIPPI has been awarded tho grand
sweepstakes premium Of 500 and a gold
medal for the best collection Of varieties OF
fruits in lots Of 100 or more jars at the COM
petitive display at the New Orleans Expo
sition which was open to the world.
On the I'd near Langston, Ala, farmer
named Hilleair was knocked down by
man named Ward, who crushed Hilleair's
head with stone.
THE question of the annexation OF Cuba
has again been revived in Washington.
TIE fire loss for April in the United
States and Canada was $S, ,OOO,OO0.
NINE persons were killed and thirteen IN
iured by the burning of tenement mouse
in New York on the 4th.
A BLOODY conflict occurred at Lamont,
ILL.,. on tho 4th, between tho militia and
striking quarrymen. Two men were killed
and a number on both sides wounded.
A HAILsToRH passed over Petersburg,
Va. on the 4th. All the cotton, corn and
vegetables were destroyed and the farmers
win be compelled to plant again. Hall fell
to the depth Of twelve inches.
A BUILDING in Brooklyn, New York, flled
with hundreds Of men and women, col
lapsed on the 9th. Thirty or forty persons
were killed.
AT Newark, N. j., on the 9Th, Mrs. John
Gilchrist, while insane from drink, SO zed
her six-months-old boy, and, placing 1t on
a block, chopped its head off with an Ak.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN has called con-
vention of representatives of the different
agricultural colleges and allied State insti
tutions.
GEO. J. VEST, son Of Senator Vest, has
been detailed by Secretary Bayard as con-
sular clerk at Liverpool.
MAXWELL, the murderer of Preller at st.
Louis, was captured at Auckland, New
Zealand. on the 9Th. He will be brought
back to this country.
EDWARD WOOD, of Eau Claire, Mich,
was instantly killed by lightning on the
morning of the 9Th while at breakfast. His
wife and babe, who sat opposite at the
table, were uninjured. There were no
other marks of lightning except a few
bricks out of the chimney and the dishes
on the table, which were demolished. The
lightning left a small dark spot on the
haby's head,
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09
AT GETTYSBURG.

President Cleveland and Party On the HIS
toric Battle Ground-The Exercises Of
the Day and Tour of Interesting Points
of the Memorable Conflict
GETTYsBURGH, Pa, May 5.-The train
from Washington, bearing President
Cleveland, Vice-President Hendricks,
Secretaries Endicott and Lamar, Post
master-General Villas, and about two
hundred veterans of the army OF the
Potomac on their visit to the battle field
OF Gettysburg, arrived here at noon yes
terday. There were but few incidents
worthy of mention on the trip.
At Baltimore large crowd had con.
gregated, but the President, who was the
center OF observation, sat in his car read
ing paper, seemingly oblivious OF the
fact that large crowd was gazing at him.
At other points along the road crowds
had assembled, but they only caught
glimpse of the President.
At Hanover, Pa, there was short de-
lay, caused by the breaking of the driv-
ing spring of the engine. Another en-
gine was obtained and the train pro-
ceeded without further incident to Get
tysburg, where it seemed that the entire
population of the town and surrounding
country had assembled to meet it. AS
the train drew into the depot National
salute was fred. Governor Pattison
of Pennsylvania and Congressman Swope
boarded the car, and after few remarks
by Ex-Governor Curtin the crowd ma de
an opening, and the President and party
proceeded to carriages in waiting. The
party were then driven to the National
Cemetery, where Governor Pattison, in
behalf of the State of Pennsylvania, made
an address of welcome. Hon. Martin
McGinniss, on behalf of the First Army
Corps, responded.
Ex-Governor Curtin then addressed
the crowd, and reviewed the history of
his connection with the war and the part
Pennsylvania troops took in it, particu-
Iarly in the battle of Gettysburg.
After the exercises were over here, the
President and party spent the rest OF the
afternoon in driving over the battlefield,
visiting the points of interest, where the
positions of the contending forces were.
At SIX O'Clock the President, Vice-Pres-
ident Hendricks and the remainder OF the
Presidential party, started for Washing
ton, evidently pretty well tagged out by
their journey over the battlefield.
Most of the visiting veterans will re-
main here until tonight.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09
HUNTSVILLE ALA, SATURDAY, MAY 8. 1885,

NAnAL 0hANT Spenb bne Gay on the
4th working on his book.
PREPARATIONS for war on large scale
still continue in India
The people at Calcutta are dissatifi ed
with England's concessions to Russia.
The funeral of the late Commodore Gar.
rison took place at New York on the 4th.
The Princelof Wales opened the Interna-
tional Inventors Exposition at London on
the 4th.
CHAs. E. FULLER, business man OF
Cincinnati, O., shot himself dead at Lin
wood, on the 4th.
FIVE hundred shop hands Of the Denver
& Rio Grande Railway are out on strike.
AYoUB KHAN, the former Ameer of Af-
ghanistan, is closely guarded in Persia.
The Lackawanna IRON mill at Scranton,
Pa, was destroyed by fire on the 4th,
Loss, $25O,O00.
PRINCE ALEXANDER KARAGEoRGEwITz,
claimant to the throne of Servia, is dead.
THE peace news from London on the 4th
caused q serious break in prices on the
Chicag Board of Trade.
The aggregate loss by fire during the
month of April in tho United States and
Canada was ST, 100000.
The Deutsche Ze itung says that Russian
diplomacy is not as yet anywhere near
the end of its artifices and tricks.
TWELVE jurors were secured on the 4th
for the trial of Richard Short at New
York, for stabbing Captain Phelan, and
the trial began on the 9TH.
THE news that England has not annexed
Port Hamilton, in the Japan Sea, creates
feeling of relief at st. Petersburg.
A GAINESVILLE (Tex.) dispatch Of the
4th said that q special posse had sur
rounded the cattle thieves who murdered
Rolf and others in the Indian Territory.
DR.. TANNER, the we'll known physician
of Cork, Ireland, has been expelled from
the Cork County Club because he hissed
the Prince Of Wales.
On the Arizona and Mexican border a
child Of a wealthylman was recently kid
naped. The ransom was not paid because
of failure to receive the demand. Theskid-
napers killed the child and threw it in the
yard. A sister of the boy dropped dead
on seeing the mutilated body and the
father is raving maniac.
MICHEL, the Anarchist at Paris, refuses
a pardon unless as a part of a general am
nesty to all political prisoners.
The President and party went to Gettys-
burg, Pa, on the 4th, to take part in the
veterans meeting there.
AN attempt was made on the 4th to
burn the Children's Home at Cincinnati,
o. The fire was, fortunately, extinguish-
ed.
THE East Indian banks have given no.
tice that they will not advance money
against shipments unless the vessels are
insured at war risks.
The militia had conflict with the
stone quarry strikers at Lemont, Ill, on
the 4th. Two of the strikers were killed,
and number received bayonet thrusts.
The troops were badly stoned by the
strikers. Two of the wounded have since
died.
EARL GRANVILLE stated in the British
House of Lords on the 4th that England
and Russia had agreed to renew negotia-
tions in reference to the Afghan frontier,
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09
A TERRIBLE FATE.

Father, Mother and Child Burned to Death
In their Dwelling-Another Child Fatally
Ipiured-Two Others Escape Unhurt.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, May 4.-By the burn
ing of the dwelling of John A. Logan, at
Waterloo, early yesterday morning, Mr..
Logan, his wife and son lost their lives,
and other members of the family were
probably fatally burned. tits supposed
that all we're asleep. Mrs. Logan and
Youngest son were upstairs and were
oyertaken BY smoke before they could get
out. Three daughters, who slept down
stairs, escaped. Before the fire depart
ment arrived the house was nearly oe-
stroyed. The body of Mrs. Logan was
found lying partly out OF the second
story window burned to crisp. In the
second story was found the dead body OF
Mr.. Logan, with his youngest child ID
his arms. The eldest daughter was SO
hadly burned that sDall hopes OF her re-
gpvery are entertained. The cause 0' sus
lie II unkpowp,
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09

rur New York telegraph operators arc
-oioicing because the Western Union mas
ood to nav for extra work.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09

TRAIN on the Louisville, New Albany
d Chicago Railroad, in Indiana, was
entered by robbsr on the 30th, and the
express company's safe robbed of consid-
trable money, and two train men fatally
beaten and shot.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09

SEVENTY Sisters Of Charity have been
ordered to join General Komaroff's army
TO aid In caring for the wounded. OF this
number thirty will so from st. Peters,
from Odessa,
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09

rur cuarina, whose influence Is nearly
.b.olute over tho Gear, is actively assiS'-
|,.r in peace negotiations.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09

TIE st. Petersburg papers discuss a'
,,nrtb the differences between the reports
=, caneral KomaroR and Sir Peter Lums-
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09

.crsM CANNON, brother OF the Con-
crs..ional Delegate from o'an' nus 0''A
. ooonvicted Of polygamy.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09

.rcHEs from Shanghai state that
49, al d;snrta betwsen China and Russia re-
a.S;ng '- the front isr Of Manchooria has
become acute.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-09

WHEN the Presidential train was re-
'urning to Washington from Gettysburg
.A 'As evening of the 4th, some one fired
l,ee .h pistol shots. 1t was not believed.
da~. sl' mat they were fired at the Presi-
br pu' merely as mark of enthusiasm