Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-07-15

Senator Stanford received from San
Francisco to be delivered to the president
an Invitation from the q. A. X. of Califnr.
niit To attend the national encampment to
be held there during next month. The in
vita ion Is no doubt the most elaborate
and beautiful device of this kind ever seen
in this country. The message is engraved
on plate of solid gold, decorated with a
q. A. X. badge and other patriotic en-
blems. IL is superbly wrought, and Ia a
handsome satin-liued case.
The house committee on public lands
has pushed the Northern Pacific forfeiture
bill SO far forward that it is expected to
come up Immediately after the considera-
ton oil the general deficiency bill.
President Cleveland sent to the building
Inspectors Office an application signed hy
himself Tor permit TO remodel and build
an addition to his cottage. The inspector
issued the permit. The plans show that
the cottage will be one of the most
picturesque in this vicinity when completed.
The cost of the improvement is estimated
at SO, 900.
Friends OF the river and harbor bill sx-
hibit some alarm as to the ultimate sue
cess of that measure. The senate has
made many important changes in the bill
since 1t left the house, involving largely
Increased expenditures. The addition OF
the Hennepiu canal alone will ultimately
require an expenditure Of 1000. 600 al.
though the item provides for an immediate
appropriation OF but $500, 900. The opin.
ION prevails, and there is strong founda-
ton Tor il, that the president will return
the bill to the house without his approval
upon the ground that no public necessity
requires the expenditures Of the large sums
oil money voted for certain points.
The following patents were granted to
citizens Of Minnesota: i. NJ. Deane, st.
Paul, sled; NJ. ID. Bertrang, Arlington, sleigh;
G. Esplin, Minneapolis saw mill set works;
T.. {. Weber. Owatonna, washer A. Wullf
St. Paul, blind.
Senator Sabin's amendment to the gene
raj deficiency BILL adding $4,000 to es-
tablish a fish hatchery at Duluth, was re-
ported ,avorably.
Mr.. Gilfllan of Minnesota was successful
in securing the adoption OF an amendment
for the general deficiency bill to reimburse
Gen. c. G. Andrews for money expended for
clerk hire while consul general at Rio ia
Micro.
Senator Mcmillan has received notices
that a pension has been granted John Nc.
Mahon of saltwater.
Col. George w. Davis, Fourteenth in.
fantry, who was or duty for several
years as working engineer in the construc-
tion OF the Washington monument, has
been detailed with n party OF men from his
regiment to duty with Capt. Clarence +.
button, ordnance corps, to assist in max
ing n survey OF Crater lake, Or, which is
an extinrt volcano OF the Cascade range.
Col. Davis will make a report OF the feat.
urcs and resources of the country ex.
plored
Secretary Seamans OF the Millers' Ma
tional association at Milwaukee has re.
ceivcd cablesram announcing that the
milling patent cases ia the English courts
have just been decided in favor of the Eng
fish millers. The owners of the Downton
patents, who were defeated by the millers
IN this country two or three years ago,
have been awaiting the results OF the Eng
fish suits with the intention of rcopenins
their cases if it should prove fatal to the
patentees. The decision being adverse,
they will probably let the matter rect
where il is.
British Consul Sadler, now at Panama,
has been gazetted as consul at Chicago.
FIX Marshal Bazaine, 1.-THE Man OF Metz"
is nov seyenty-fiye years old, bloated and
deerepit
The total number OF persons who emf.
grated from Germany from January to
May, both inclusive, is 33, 9T7-a large de-
crease from 1885.
Women are employed as guards at the
crossings OF Prussiap state railways. They
are paid 2 to 10 cents per day.
There were fully 10000 people at Mime
tonka Beach on the 4th. The Manitoba
ran trains from st. Paul every hour, and
carried out fully 5000 people. The rest
reached the the Beach by boat. All the
Manitoba trains were run on time, except
ing the last special OF twenty-five coaches,
which arrived twenty minutes late. Re
turning to Minneapolis and st. Paul it re-
quired l0I coaches to accommodate the
crowd. These were all gotten away from
the Beach in one hour and forty minutes
from the time the first coach was loaded.
President Harris, ofthe Northern Paci-
iic, in an interview with Helena indie
pendent reporter who ca He'd his attention
to an item from the Omaha Herald that
the projected last passenger trains would
be put on the Union Pacific next month,
said the Northern Pacific would meet any
time the Union Pacific would make from
common points between Chicago and 0ma-
lila.
The Butte Mon, Miner, has been sued
Tor $50, 900 damages by two female lodg-
rus hPAot httlftIrs VIM WtNc Nilu
keeping houses OF i'll fame.
The president vetoed the bill providing
for the erection OF public building at
Duluth. The bill is vetoed, the president
says, because he is entirely satisfied that
the building provided for is not immediate
ly necessary, and he adds: Not little
legislation has lately been perfected, and
very likely more will be necessary, to in.
crease miscaleulated appropriations for
and correct biunders in the construction
OF many of the public buildings now in pro-
CESS OF erection.
Russia has informed the powers that
Batoum is no longer a free port. The
Berlin press concurs in the belief that the
announcement is tho first step in the cars
OF the treaty OF Berlin. Fiji.
teen Thousand Russian troops have nassed
through Odessa, and are massing in Bes.
saralia.
The first through train ON the Canadian
Pacific reached Vancouver, the Pacific
ocean terminus OF the road Sunday at
noon the sth inst. making the distance
from Montreal in ia hours or two hours
iaster than expected. Fifteen hundred OK
from Victoria, Nanaimo, New
aud other places in British
Columbia accorded the train joyous well
come. A handsome bouquet was handed
TO the first lady passenger.
The Western Newspaper onion, Eyenin
Herald and other newspapers at Dallas.
Tex, were burned out, with $4,000 loss.
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