Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-30

Funeral services were held at Yankton
over the remains OF Gen. Thomas s. Free
ex-adjutant General of the Dakota m ilitia
and prominent in Grand Army OF the Re-
public circles who died at the insane asy.
lum there.
Adispa ten from Howell, Mich. says Mrs.
Jaeub Eldridge, the old colored woman
who has been gradually turning white for
several years. died here reeeAtly. The
greater part OF her body is now healthy
lily white. Her husband, who was a
pioneer of this county, died a few days
ago. Mrs. Eldridge's grandfather was a
Guiana man, and her ancestors are full
blooded negroes.
Judge Barrett, OF the supreme court, of
New York granted an order for the arrest
Of Jacob Ottenheimer OF Crab Orchard.
Lincoln county, KY, for an alleged def.
cheney in his accounts with the Lincoln
Land company. He was arrested and
held in $4,000 bail
Near Newton, Conu., William Werner
shot and killed Mrs. Mary Lynch with
whom he had been intimate and then shot
himself through the heart.
In Brook yn, n. Y, eleven street car lines
we're tied up by strike for one day when
the owners conceded to the demands oi
the men.
Capt. William Walker Moore died in
Washington, aged eighty-four. He went
from Baltimore to Washington in 1925,
where he engaged in the printing business.
For over twenty six yea RS he was connected
| with the management 81 the National In
telligencer, and in 1850 was grand sire OF
the order of Ode Fellows.
Rear Admiral Wardman has been placed
| on the retired list OF the navy with the
| highest pay OF the grade.
First Controller Durham has disallowed
the claim OF John $. Mosby for So. Ol3 col
lected as fees while United States consul al
Hong Kong.
The heirs OF Roger Merritt OF Port Chester
| New York are preparing evidence in sup
| port Of n claim that the entire village be-
longs to them. The amount involved is
between fifteen and twenty million dollars.
| They declare that the village site, which
originally belonged to Capt. Roger Merritt,
an officer of the Continental army, who
| died there in 1910, was leased by him to
| various persons.
Robert o. Morehead of Pennsylvania
| convicted of n violation of the postal laws
| and sentenced to two years imprisonment,
has been pardoned by the president, to
| take effect Feb. 30, 1887, by which date
/ he win have served one-half of his term.
| The president has declined to interfere in
| the case OF James o. Z. Burnside, charged
| with defrauding the government while dis
| bursting clerk OF the postofBce department.
| Before his trial Burnside was adjudged in
| sane, and has since been confined in the
! government asylum for the insane. His
| friends ask his discharge from the asylum.
| and promise to take care OF him. The
president refused their petition on the
ground that il Burnside is still insane he is
| better off where he is. and il he is not in.
| sane he would better be remanded to Jail
| for trial.
The pope, receiving Christmas congratu-
| lations from the college of cardinals, spoke
at some length OF the position OF the
church in Italy. He protested against the
| anti-clerica al movement which is being car
| ried on in the country, and said: The holy
| see was now despoiled OF the la st remnants
OF it's patrimony. The only liberty left to
him was that Held by the Roman pontiffs
| in the earliest ages. The Italian govern
ment had assisted the laity in unduly in
| teriering with the administration of the
| church, had expelled religious bodies and
tolerated an organized hostility against
the Vatican. As the head of the church he
must continue to protest against the posi-
| ton in which he is placed.
Tho anthropological congress sill open
! at Nuremberg on Aug. z.
The following pensions have been allow
1 cd TO people III hlulltSoLa. uerY \. 1eT-
| kins, Cokato; Andrew Erickson, Scandal;
| Peter Coyde. Maple Glen; Ira Trowbr:dge,
| Gresham; L. Jurgenson, New York Mills
| Frank Mendland, Brownton; Xavice
| Homer, ST. Cloud; Gertrude, mother OF G.
| NJ. Lokke, Grand Meadow.
| Pensions Inereased-L. w. Simons,
| Etna; b. b. Mosher, Maine; Henry Laws,
| Wells; Charles Regan, New York Mills; II.
| A. Hober, Wells; j. w Pendergrass, Fill
more; d. F. Anderson, Ash; c. w. Preston,
| Garden City; II. d. Worden, Lake Benton;
| j. w Meyer, Shakopee; Aaron Douglas,
Delavan; W. ]. seymour Waverly; A. j.
Shepardson, Wrightstown.
]. Capt. George Ii. Rea, one OF the oldest
! steamboatmen in the West, and for several
! years president and large owner OF the Mis-
! sissippi Valley Transportation company,
died at his residence in st. Louis, aged
| seventy.
Senator Fairs seat in the senate cost
him $3.50, 600 six years ago.
Austin Corbin, president OF the Reading
railroad. is worth $50, 600, 900.
The New York Sun figures up the beer
bin OF that city mt $50, 100000 ayear.
Mazzantini the Spanish bull. fighter,
| took in $4,000 the first day he opened
his bloody show in Havana.
At Cleveland Dudley Marshal OF Zealski
was fatally shot by Charles Anderson.
| The trouble arose over girl in a saloon.
| At Chieago, Mrs. Eredericka Stanton was
| divorced from d. Cady Stanton, a capital
list at Missouri Valley, Iowa, who desert
ed her in Iowa several years ago.
negro man and woman, Brown and
\ Robinson, living near Montezuma, Iowa,
| were arrested for torturing to death
/ Browns six-year-old grandson.
At Tuscambia, Ala, a freight train on
| the Memphis & Charleston road was ditched.
Engineer Mahoney and his fireman were
| killed and conductor aud assertion boss
| wounded.
Sarah Victor. the life prisoner in the Ohio
| penitintiary. who has served nearly TWEEN
/ ty years OF her sentence WAS hardened by