Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-04-08

murdered Mrs. Agnes kledzeiek last August,
was hanged in the county jail yard in Chi
eago recently.
Ex-Congressman Gibson II. Atherton OF
Newark. Ohio, has been stricken with par
alysis, and his condition is critical.
technical deficit of 81, roo is found in
the late Indian Agent Meacham' 5 accounts.
Congressman Hiseoek received ITO votes
in beauty contest at Washington pho
tograph gallery. against 100 for Daniel OF
Virginia, and IS for MeCouas Of Mary
land.
The senate committee has fayorably re-
ported the nomination OF Gen. Howard to
be major general
It is believed in Washington that Cen
Crook win be placed in command OF the
department OF Dakota
The interior department has granted the
Methodist Episcopal church permission TO
establish mission on the Grow reservation
Montana.
What is known as Charles Summers tree
in the erpitol grounds isdying and will have
to be taken away.
Gov. Perry OF Florida says that Senator
Jones absence from his seat does not make
vacancy in constitutional sense, and
consequently he has no power to make an
appointment 10 i'll a vacancy which does
not exist.
Adj. Gen. Drum says that no instrue-
lions have been sent from Washington for
United States troops to aid in the protec-
ton OF property at St. Louis, and that u
any troops are now on their way to that
city it is only the natural movement OF
recruits on their way to Join regiments 70
which they have been assigned.
The damage done TO property by the
etriking miners in Charleroi, Belgium,
alone ALREADY amounts to So, 500, 900
The strikers have threatened to destroy
the gas works which supply the city with
light. Strong achievements OF troops
have been sent TO help protect the city.
Lieut.. Gen. Baron Won der SmisSen has
been sent to Charleroi to take command
OF the troops being assembled there to
quell the rioting. Property OF immense
value has been destroyed by the strikers in
and around l'harleroi. Country estates are
being pillaged and burned. At Jumeta,
three miles from Charleroi the Sadien,
Dedortead, Deyilles, Sonet and Londron
glass works have been looted and de-
stroyed, involving a loss OF s 900, 900
and throwing thousands OF persons out of
employment. At Roux, two miles from
Chartered, in conflict between the troops
and the rioters, twenty of the latter were
shot dead. The strikers are armed with
blndgeons and axes where they cannot OBJ
tain firearms.
The storms in Lower California last
month were OF such severity that the old
reservoir at San Miguel mission, built $50
years ago, sueeumbed to the rush OF waters.
At Battle Greek, John b. Steward stood
talking TO group of friends when it occur
red to him that he might furnish them a
little innocent amusement stsmall expense
and trifing Inconvenience. He therefore
calmly said, Boys. would you like to see
me commit suieide2" One or two OF the
crowd replied in the affirmative aud Stew
ard calmly pressed the muxzle OF a revolver
against his temple and sent a bullet through
his brain.
The receivers Of the Wabash road pc
titioned Judge Treat. OF the United States
district court. for protection of their prop
erty aud assistance IN running their trains
on the west side of the Mississippi river.
The petition was granted, and the court
ordered the United States marshal to FUR
nish the necessary protection.
C. GuBderson, alias John Z. Booge, ar
rested for forging a signature to draft Of
1852 and among whose effects subsequent
" we're found over SCI worth OF checks
AMI drafts stolen from the mails at Sioux
City. was sentenced to ten years in the pen
itentiary on four indictments for forgery.
Five years ago the New York Tribune
called William Healing crazy counter
feiter, and il now sued by the latter for
Slo0, 900 damages.
TIE Philadelphia conference OF the NJ. Z.
church has boycotted the Sunday papers.
At the flower show in New York there are
on exhibition So. 900 roses, 90, 900 bui
bous plants and 10000 shrubs.
The residence OF the manager of the Mad.
enesley colliery in Durham, England, was
wrecked by dynamite The work is alleged
to have been the work OF union miners on a
strike
Charles Brown, the discharged soldier
who threw a paper Of grievances into Queen
Victoria carriage, has been released as it
turns out he is a harmless crank
A Boston man has gone 70 prison for
three years for inhuman treatment OF bis
three-y ear-old baby. He beat is with a
ropes end. rubbed salt into the cuts and
then crowded potato into its mouth to
keep it from crying.
Prof. j. NJ. Fish, Of Little Rock, Ark,
formerly superintendent of public instruc-
tion of that place, has been arrested for
obtaining money under false pretenses on
eetain stationery supplies.
Cen Thomas Francis Meagher's widow
has presented the Young Ireland society Of
Waterford, Ireland, with dress and pre-
sentation sword belonging to her husband.
The little girl suffering from hydrophobia
at jackson, Mich, b to be sent to Pasteur
a : Paris for treatment
The wife of x.Seeretary Hamilton Fish
has donated $50 to the Confederate home
at Charleston, ;. c.
There is excitement in Panama over the
suspension Of the American newspaper, the
Star aud Herald.
First Controller Durham has disallowed
tws items in the accounts of the depart
ment of Justice for the purchase OF the por-
traits OF ex-Attorney Generals MeYeagh
and Devens, which decorate the office of
the attorney general.
The postmaster general appointed John
W. Barber postmaster at Prairie juno
tion, MINI.
A Few provincial Liberal papers advise
Mr. Gladstone to dro,, the land purchase
part OF his scheme but this would cost him
Lord Speneer's adhesion. The majority
remind their readers that it is to MIR. Glad
stone. not to Mr.. Chamberlain. that the
party looks for the settlement OF the ques.
ton.
Prince Bismarck regards Pope Leo XIII.
as one Of the sharpest-sighted and most
intelligent statemen of the age.
II is thought in London that eighty Lib
erals will go back on Gladstone on the
Irish scheme
Lady Dixie has finally sueeumbeC. TO the
worry and nervous excitement caused by
the divorce proceedings which involved her
husband, aud Is seriously III.
The Due q 'Aumale is negotiating to
purchase the late Dom Fernando $ Moorish
castle at Lisbon, to be n home for himself
and the Comte de Paris in case OF their ex,
pulsiou from France.
The Connecticut legislature refused to
consider bin imposing fine on employ
ers who dismiss workmen who belong to
In bDr ,iniors