Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-04-29
pensions for Northwestern soldiers.

| First Wisconsin: S. J. Brown, inspector
scouts; widow of T. II. Knill, Second Wis
consin; j. W. Robson, Sixth Wisconsin; II.
| Monahan, Twenty-third Wisconsin; j. l..
| Hunter, First Minnesota rangers; G. Wells,
/ One Hundred and Ninth New York vol
unteers, now residing in Wisconsin; s.
| James, Thirteenth Michigan; mother OF Il.
| Douglas; G. Rogers, captain Fifth Wiscon-
sin; mother OF II. B, Livell, First Wisconsin;
L. w. Putney, Second Minnesota cavalry;
| T. Fagn, Seventh Iowa.
Bills for pensions to the following which
have not passed the house, have been re-
ported favorably by Mr.. Sawyer:
NJ. Romaler, Thirty Iowa; A.
Denny, captain and quartermaster, Sec
ond Wisconsin; b. Fisher, increase; /.
Hudson, Third Missouri widow of V. X.
Rider, Third Iowa; X. Farnum, Thirteenth
Iowa; j. B. Skaggs, quartermaster; j. ;.
Maxey, Fourth artillery; widow of II.
Banker OF Indian war, 1912; ii. Il. Duke,
Seventh Iowa; mother of Lieut.. Ii. I.
| French.
| The senate has passed bin to grant "a
pension OF 500 a month to Gen. B. +.
Kelley OF West Virginia, late major general,
| United States army. Gen. Kelley raised
| the first regiment OF loyal troops south OF
Mason & Dixon's line during the late war,
| and was commissioned colonel of the First
regiment OF Virginia volunteers on May %,
1861 Gen. Mcclellan directed him to as
sumo command of all the local troops ia
West Virginia, and on June /, 1861, he
fought the first battle OF the war; near
| Grafton, w. Va, with "a Confederate force
under Col. Porterfield. The enemy was
routed, there being a large number killed
and captured, He was twice wounded, and
| is seventy-nihe years old.
Senator Mcmillan introduced bill tC
| pension Archibald Money, formerly u cor.
| poral of the eighth Minnesota regiment.
Postmasters commissioned:-Mon
Albrite, A. +. Simpson. New Office estab.
lished: Iowa-Shady Grove, o. NJ. Kenney;
| Reedsboro, Alger county, A. Gibbs.
Capt. E. L. Dougherty, who was in com,
mand OF the party that captured John
Wilkes Booth, was licensed as trader at
the cheyenne Indian agency, Oak.
Among the nominations confirmed were
those OF Indian Agents W. II. Black, Sac
and Fox agency, Iowa, and James Ne
Laughlin, Standing Rock, Oak. The nOmi-
nation of A. b. Keith, postmaster at Deni.
son, Iowa, has been rejected.
Senators Edmunds and Hoar publish a
card TO the effect that they have never de-
nounced the G. A. r., or objected to the
statute giving preference 20 soldiers.
The charges filed against the nomina,
ton OF G. Wise, postmaster of Hamburg,
Iowa. which caused an adverse report and
re e:tion by the senate, are quite numer.
Gus.
The house committee on the Judiciary
laid on the table number OF bills to pre-
vent the adulteration or imitation OF food
products. This action was taken for the
reason that the committee believes the
bills to be unconstitutional
Among the combinations announced
were those OF L. G. Ross governor of New
Mexico; w. S. Rosecrans, register OF the
treasury, and II. L. Withers consul to
Hong Kong.
The house of Charles B. Kimbell in Chica,
go was burned recently, nearly causing the
death of his wife AID son. Loss 1000. 1t
| is now believed that the fire was caused by
| the throwing OF bomb. Mr.. Kjmbell is
the treasurer of the Singer Il Salcott com
pany, which firm had considerable trouble
with its quarrymen at Lemont a year ago.
kimbell has all along refused to discharge
his non-union men.
The switchmen on railroads at Chicago
| are on d strike. There is good deal OF
| excitement but thus lar no violence.
The government will compel the Sierra
Lumber company of California to pay no
| 81, 21S, 900 for stolen timber.
+. ID. Commann, in the Mitchell, Oak,
Jail for obtaining money under false pre-.
| lenses, gets out on straw bail and disap.
pears.
A shower visited Fargo. Oak, the first
| since last fall. Tho ground was very dry
but no damage had been done by the
drought.
Peter b. Nissan died at the village of
| Marshall, Wis, where lie went a few days
ago to recdperate. Death was FASTENED
by dropsy. He was about sixty years OF
age, and thirty years ago came to Madison
and became member of the powerful law
| firm of Collins, Smith & Nissan.
Edward T. Shaw, who for twelve years
has carried tine mail between the local post
office and the railway station at Beverly,
Mass. was arrested. He confessed to hav-
| ing robbed the mails for several years, tax.
| ing between 5000 and 1000 letters and
| obtaining upwards of 81 500.
The jury at Louisville in the case OF Mel
vim Butler returned verdict OF murder and
! fixed life sentence. Butler is charged with
numbering John b. Macoy, n well-known
gambler.
Father Abram }. Ryan, 1.-The Poet Prizes,
of the South" died at Louisville, after a
briefilness, from brain fever. Father Ryan
was a true poet. He was thoroughly i'll
sympathy with the south during the war,
| and he then wrote many OF his best poems.
| lie resided in Mobile Tor some tine and
was extremely popular all over the south
| He was an eloquent preacher and lecturer,
I and a faithful son OF the church.
An elevator, filed with people, fell six
stories in the Chicago board OF trade build
ing, but no one was injured.
The lunacy committee OF PENNSYLVANIA
hlE HlSanNnrnI n tNh /,
farmer has eight imbecile children. They
are capable OF Improvement, but the law
| cannot be invoked in their behalf The
| man and wife were blood cousins.
Levi d. Jarrard, New Jerseys ex-politi-
cal leader and boss, is dying in the stats
| prison, where he is serving term for
embezzlement.
Washington county, one OF the largest
| ia Georgia, has voted the Prohibition
ticket by majority OF 242.
| Rock river, Wis, rises to the highest
| point since the food of 81, and much
| property is menaced.
Two Chicago Crooks, Blake and Riley,
| are arrested in Milwaukee charged with
| running a bogus lottery and swindIing peo-
pie.
At Nora Springs, iowa, LueITa ]. LOOMS.
| aged fourteen years, attempted suicide by
CdIbolC dttu. IHNbltfSnS saved
the girl. 4 few weeks ago Charles r. Scher.
merh I'm, IA widower of % years, was held
in bonds to appear in the district court to
answer to the charge Of ravishing Luela
| Since the arrest the girl has been despond-
ent. hence her effort to commit suicide.
The administration asks for an appro-
priation OF $1,000, 900 to cover urgent
deficiencies.
The solicitor OF the treasury has in
| strueted the United States district attor.
ney at San Francisco to bring suit against
the Sierra Lumber company to rec o .er
about $2,21S,0 900 damages arising from
the conversion OF timber and lumber taken
from the public laads.
| Capt. Quinn, the officer in charge OF the
| improvements on the Yellowstone and
| Missouri rivers, has finished his inspection
| of the frst-named river as regards the work
done last year. The captain is outspoken
in favoring the building OF dredge and tow
boat for use on the river, saying that they
are necessity.
| Congressman Wakefield writes that he
/ has secured the insertion in the river and
harbor bill OF an appropriation for a sur
vey OF the Minnesota river, with a view oI
making it navigable. This news is very
encouraging to the promoters of this move,
/ ment
An Iowa scientist calls attention to the