Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-08-19


! commissioner Squire and Maurice b
Flynn are arrested ii New York on indiet
ments brought BY the grand Jury
Eoar conViets try to escape from thk
penstentiary At Anamosa, lows. One 4
killed, another badly wounded, and but
one gets away.
An unpublished letter of Gen. Meade L
nslde pubiie eriticislng Gen. siekles' con-
duet at Gettysburg
An exploding thresher engine at Lake
Mills, Wis. kills i've persons.
The resolution offered at the grand en-
eampment Of the q. A. r. at San Francisco
favoring the passage by congress OF an act
giving every surviving soldi { and sailor o
the war a pension Was defeated By yots
OF 327 to So.
A settlement has been reached in eonnee-
ton with the large Newberry estate al
Chicago by which the heirs viii divide be-
tween themselves 81 400, 600 and the re-
mainder. equal to about the same sssount,
ment Of a public library.
The appointment OF Daniel Magone q,
collector OF customs at New York, vics
Williami.- Hedd,n. resigned was an.
nouneed at the White House. and created
tJurt4ttdUte t4CttttNcHt- Rtf. eArk01tr -
described by treasury officials from New
York to be NODDED civil service reformer
an extraordinary keen lawyer, modest
politician and n model business man.
The president has lately received advice.
which win give him renewed hopes that Sec
rotary Ganning may he able. after al, u
reconsider his discrimination to retire from
public life.
Al ~. -
noble, Winona County Wisconsin
| Burke, Dane county. Postmasters Com
missionetl: Dakota-Loy,lsberg j.. Muir
ray; Riehland, NJ. Clark. Iowa Adair, NJ
Lynch; Jolley, +. c. Mallory. Wisconsin
Boyd, r. Patton.
Susan b. Anthony has started ths
''Women's National association" for TIN
| advancement OF women in the District O
Columbia.
Acting Indian Commissioner Upshaw
| denies that the Leeeh Lake Indians arr
suffering Tor food.
| Mrs. Luella May Payey, widow OF thu
late Detrave Payey, naturalist and sur
geon OF the Greedy arctic expedition, has
donated to the national museam the relics
collected by her husband on his trip to tn,
arctic regions. Mrs. Payey recently re
ceived the last instaliment other husband
pay for his services in the Greedy expedi.
| ton. thus showing that the government
recognizes her as his lawful widow.
Commissioner Sparks has shown his ap
probation OF the fact that congress is mol
in session by demanding the resignation o
Maj. Clark. the recorder OF the genera
land Office. Maj. Clark has been in the OF
fee for twenty years.
1t was stated Mt the general land ofIiceiI
reply tn question concerning the dis
charge OF a clerk at Mitchell, OAK, land
| Office, that the action was due to failur,
on the part OF congress to make the neees
sary appropriations for the clerical worl
OF the department.
The wheat crops OF France is estimated
at 100000, 900 heetolitres against no,
600, 900 in 1885.
John Ruskin's illness has decreased. His
condition is now pronounced TO be that o
conyaseseenee-
The Canadian Paeifie's gross earnings 10,
June we're SS95, 933; working expenses
$5i9,t7:S net profits, 1916, $50. The mel
profits from Jan. l TO June 80 were s. ],
293.0s5.
The returns issued by the British board
OF trade shows that the imports for thc
month Of July decreased t2, 150, 900 III
compared with the sai.le month last year,
and that the exports decreased 5000, 600
Franchise Antonio Maxine Lallanne, the
French designer and engraver. is dead.
Sir Samuel Ferguson, O. G., LII. D., and
president Of the Royal Irish academy, i:
dead, aged seyentysix years.
The London Standard says; When thu
discussions on the estims ties are over parlia
ulent viii be V 60 = -sat ofiourneti
distanc,