Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-03-11
Miscellaneous Items.

Boston has raised SO, 500 for the benefit
OF Mrs. Hancock.
The Hancock memorial fund at New York
| aggregates S31, 740.
Surgeon General Hamilton thinks cholera
viii get no foothold in America this year.
The Ohio supreme court sustains Gov.
Foraker in busting the Cincinnati police
commission.
Des Moines figures out that prohibition
has cost her S120, 900 during the last nine
teen months.
In an interview at Bismarck, Gov. Pierce
denies the rumor that he ever thought OF
starting a newspaper in Minneapolis.
Ex-Rev. Downs OF Boston sues Rev.
Franklin Johnston Tor $40, 600 for Islander
growing out OF the recent scandal case.
Pittsburg is excited over "A sudden failure
in the supply Of natural gas. A scientific
inquiry will be made to discover its cause.
Both elevators at Flandrau, Oak, have
been attached by William Deering, for pur-
chasing grain covered by a ehattel mort
gage.
The New York aqueduct commission dis
charges Construction Engineer Craven for
making charges against Chief Engineer
Church.
Mccormick OF Chicago believes that his
Il idDOT lEOuDits ~ tlutu, Dub IL - sdlu
that he socialists and outsiders don'tgive
up the fight.
Fred Foote charged with the murder of An
drew J. Brink, a saloon keeper at Fentou,
Mich, on the morning OF Dec. 20 last, was
convicted at Flint OF murder in the first
degree.
Long Island sound March ID was
frozen over. The United States cutter
Grant and n schooner are frozen in and
iced up. A strong gale is blowing in this
region, and the temperature is falling. A
general blockadeis anticipated.
Rev. DIR. Samuel Ramsay Wilson, aged
~sixty-eight, died in Louisville. He was one
OF the most conspicuous figures of the
Presbyterian church, being the leader oil
the split which caused the establishment o.
the Southern branch OF that church.
The Rhode Island Prohihitory state con.
~vention nominated the following ticket:
Governor, George III. Slade, Providence;
lieutenant governor, Jason p. Hazard; at.
torney general, Edwin Metcalf; treasurer,
William Bodfsh; secretary OF state, H.. ID
| Scott.
The snow storm which commenced at
| Dubuque on Che 27th developed into the
worst OF the season. 1t has fallen to a
| depth OF fifteen inches, and has drifted I'M
| til the banks are five TO eight feet high. All
passenger trains are either abandoned or
are last in the snow.
It Is reported in Washington that the
| senate has deferred action in the appoint
ment of w. NJ. Campbell, recently appoint
ed United States marshal for Minnesota,
on account of charges made against him
by certain parties who have recently come
to Washington to prevent his conirma-
ton.
+. s. Hulburd Of Chicago, who went to
J Duluth some months ago to live with his
daughter, Mrs. Il. c. Mitchell, died very
suddenly of apoplexy. He was seventy
three years old. He was in poor health,
INC went Their, to try a change of climate,
and was so quickly benefited that he pro-
posed to return TO Chicago in ten days.
The Northern Pacific made a new through
rate on agricultural implements and farm
wagons in ear load lots from Chicago to
Portland. TIL tariff rate was $1.40 per
100 pounds, and the new rate is IS cents
per o pounds. The reduction is not
made to interior points, but only to Port
land.
: A six days tspe-setting contest at Bos
ton, one u n twenty minutes a day,
between female compositors, closed the
27th. The final score was; Miss Kenni,
| "a, $50 ems: Miss Davis, "a, $50 ems; Miss
Francis. 24,475 ems; Miss Hammond, 49,
| S25 ems. Thu prizes were "a gold watch
to Miss Kenni, a silver witch and chain TO
Miss Davis, pearl-mounted opera glasses
TO Miss Francis and $50 in cash to Miss
Hammond.