Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-01-15

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his pcssaession, has rendered his resignation
Shfoh the president accepted
In the executive session OF the ssusss The
cosemittsc on foIeiSr relations with the recon
mendstien thAt 1t be ratified
AT williamsport, Pa, Miss Belle Kentnei
sues ex-sherin Zanger for $4,000 damages
for breach Of promise. The breachy sherif 10
eighty years OF age, while Miss RontDsrH is
tweRty-thxee
Maj RcdniA Nttl, the nidgit, was married
IN Ebston 70 Miss Clara Garfield, aged eighteen,
and eighteen inches taller than the groom
Mutt Is forty four years old andwas new er bs-
fore married
During a drunken spree Of soldiers at Fort
Yates, John Andersen, restaurant keeper q
Winona, was shot by Sergeant Murphy, OF
Company u, Seventeenth infantry. Anderson
is now tx the hospital His wound is not fatal
George B. Armstrong, register Of the Huron
Oak land Office, has obtained q divorce from
his wife on the ground OF desertion. Judge
Seward Smith awarded the decree. The court
gave the child. a boy Of six years, to the faith
or.
The Vatican, through The British minister 81
Pekin, will open negotiations With China foi
permission 10 send an envoy TO deal directly
With questions affecting Catholic missions II
China The pope desires % erhancipate priests
from French protection.
Benjamin & Ashley and George NJ Watson,
bankers and stock brokers of Auburn, n. Y.
were arrested recently on = charge Of grand
larceny in ~wrongfully converting 70 the use OF
other than the rightful owner, sl3,b0O deposit
cd by Mrs Amarillo \. ~sartwell, = widow.
Henry NJ. Guild, late teller Of the FRS,
National bank, Cincinnati committed suicid.
at the residence OF G. II, Tudor. his brother-in
law, cashier Of the Union National bank o,
East Walnut hills He resigned his position
at the bank last May, and has not since found
employment
The sth inst being the occasion Of the TWEEN
N-hrst birthday 81 Prince Albert Victor, old
est son OF the prince Of Wales, it was made the
occasion Of rejoicings throughout the country
In London the day opened with tho ringing o
bulls, hosting Of flags and music at st johns
palace. The University OF Cambridge sent ar
address OF congratulation to the young prince
William Vaughan shot and killed his wife q
Grafton, w. Aa, to whom he had been married
four weeks. Vaughan used a shotgun, firing
through q window. The shot took effect in thu
woiDan's temple and produced instan. death,
A younger sister of the dead woman was on
her lap at the time Of the shooting Jealousy
was the cause. The parties we're prominently
connected.
According TO the Railroad Gazette, there
was, during November, a total OF 90 railroad
accidents. IN which ~ persons were killed anG
100 hurt The eleven months 81 the current
year, 10 tho end OF November, show q total OF
l,US6 accidents, $50 killed and 1851 injured;
. monthly average OF 80 accidents, IS killed
and $50 hunt; and e daily average OF 3.4 acct
dents, LIS killed and SO injured lsft
Another sharp shock of earthquake was fell
In the south of Spain It's greatest force was
experienced . LEILA, whore 800 houses were
damaged Seven persons were injured
Most OF the inhabitants had left or were sleep
ing in tents. King Alfonzo has started for the
scenes OF disaster. Three hundred Thousand
dollars have already been subscribed Kins
Alfonzo has taken with him 100000, which he
will IN person distribute for the relief of suf.
ferers.
Ger. Sherman, In answer TO q question as 10
the effect of Gen Grants declination to receive
OF course, that will put . stop TO the whole
thing, and nothing now will be done about it
j presume, though, that ito local defense
which was secured for him will be retained
Gen. Grans hiss friends who will look out for
his i~nterests, outside of those who were in
t~eresting themselves in his behalf in this par.
ticular Instance.
Nine government bonds stolen from the bank
Of H O. Mead at Maurice, Wis, at the time of
his murder in October, 1882, have been found
by a relative of the murdered banker Ia the
treasury department at Washington, where
they had been received through Chicago An6
New York banks. They had passed through
seven banks in all since stolen. The murder.
or OF Mead has never been indentiicl and en-
deayors will be made TO obtain a clue through
the discovered honda
Parnell addressed a meeting at Iipperaryr re
Gently. -Four years ago, he said, men OF Tip
perary helped him unfurl the banner OF tn
there. The movement became historic
and had proved Of great service TO the irish
A similar point in the history OF Ire
land had now been reached What agitation
had already gained was infimtesimal as coin
pared with the full reward to be secured by il
believed the great power of franchise re-
conferred would be judieously used
Postofices discontinued: Minnesota-Cerrt
Gordoi mail TO Dawson Postmasters com
missioned-Adolph Miller, Richardton, Oak
Richard II. Copeland, Willard, Oak. James
Niles, Hector, Minn Frank u. Blakefield
Fish Creek, Wis f. s Foster, Audubon, 10
ID. Donnan, Independence, Iowa; G. r.
Franklin, Rockford, Iowa; G. q Owen, San
born, Iowa. 9. zlevigs Wllmar, Mimi William
Durbin, Oak ,. NJ sokol, Baldwin, Iowa; A
Goode, Mark, Iowa
The marriage OF Lieut. James Defrees Mann,
Of the United States army, and Miss Katie
Ray, daughter Of A. Ross Ray, one Of Wash.
weslthiest citizens, took place in st
Johns church recently The groomsmen
Lieutenants Angur, Brown, Allen and
Davenport, u the cavalry crops; the brides.
maids Miss Myer, Miss Miles, Kiss Thorn and
Miss Greer. A reception was held in the after
noon at Mr.. Hay residence, and Lieut. Mann
and his bride went 70 New York, whence they
direct to Fort Leayenworth, his post
The Posts dispatch from Berlin says the act
witty Of the Congo conference Of the American
delegates, Kason and Sanford, seems to indi-
a wish 10 make II clear that America will
IN the future be more concerned in European
nteIes than heretofore. Tho active partici.
patton of America IN the conferences is favored
BY Bismarck, and the fact excites the suspicion
II other powers There is curiosity 10 know il
ierman-American CO. operation theatans Brit
sh Ptnsessions ia America as well as in Africa
ne sso1ect isa very prominent topic OF con
T~ersation IN diplomatic circles.
The secretary OF the Protestant Educational
institute has written Earl Granville, secretary
II state for foreign Affairs, asking whether Err.
the unofficial British representative Al
he Vatican, is authorized 70 negotiate with the
1ati san, In reference TO Catholic missions in
ndia- such action, the writer says, would be
unconstitutional and prove injurious to the
.ause A dispatch from Rome TO the Exchange
Telegraph company says; Signor Maeenni,
,apal under secretary OF state, denies that Err.
ington is accredited TO the Vatican either OH
tally or unoficially.
About q year ago Frank q. Martin, assistant
AZ Pierre. Oak, left that town leav-
ng the Office 81 500 short He had taken adj
antage Of the postmaster's absence aud drawn
money orders on various points OF tho country,
ent tho ads.ces, and at his leisure proceeded
0 collect them Martin managed to cover his
racks wei, and was not caught He was
nan OF good address, and the son Of Iiey, John i
ia-tin, OF st Helena, Nah. About six weeks
go has body wasfound between two hay stacks
ust outside OF Kansas City, and il was supposed I
man had committed suicide.
The Indian lease investigation has thus far {
eveloped no very startling frauds, but there
revails a lively expectation OF something tc
Capt solomon TntsIe and J. W. Ham
ton, both OF Kansas, members OF the Chcrokss
ands held by that association, were examines I
Z the senate committee CO India. affairs To-
emily. 1t WAS fonnd that ..sse association held
hout q QNO GO acres rented from tha obar 4