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

band and the full costs OF Der ueien7S
/ against her husbands suit. lie also
\ granted full costs to the duke 81 MariDo5,
i ough. Chief Shaw and DR.. Bird, correspond
| ents in Lord Campbell's suit against ms
aife. Gen. Butler, another correspondent
did not apply for costs.
| Mauroseni Bey, first secretary OF the
| Turkish legation al Madrid, has been APP
pointed Turkish minister to Washington.
Fourth-class postmasters appointed:
| Dakota--Flandreau, Matte H. Cosiey'
| Iowa-Lockridge ID. Dunlap; Shellroek ).
! Terolman; Taylor,S. Mathew; West BEND,
| A. b. McCarty.
| Agent John F. Kinney, OF the Yankton
| Indian agency, has bad a conference WIN
| Gen. Atkins, OF the Indian office, upon
| the needs OF the Indians under his
| charge. He asks for permission TO purchase
| for the Indians 100 brood mares ana lum-
| Der for finishing 100 houses in process oil
! construction on the reservation. bis re-
] quest will be granted. Agent Kinney reports
| that the acreage under cultivation TINS
| year is largely increased over last year,
| and that the corn, oat and wheat crops
! are fully sc per cent better than last year.
Charleston's earthquake relief commit
| tee report SSl5, 600 received Tor the sui
| ferers. or this the smallest amount, ~.
came from Holland, and the largest from
New York, $3.50, $685.
Lieut.. John Finley, q. S. A., makes all
| the weather forecasts sent from this coun-
| try to Europe. His charts are in high re-
| pute in Europe.
The sudden decline in the value OF stocks
| in New York quite naturally caught large
number of the Chicago operators.
| At Pittsburg the card rate on window
| glass has been advanced 10 per cent, to
| take effect at once. This is an increase OF
| 30 per cent over last years prices. Inc
advance is as agreeable to the workmen
on a sliding scale.
The London Post in an inspired article
| warns Turkey from further counting with
| Russia The British government, it says
| has undergone great sacrifices to uphold
the integrity OF Turkey, even against the
| opinion of large portion OF the English
people, Any hesitation on the part oil
| Turkey will now compel England to adopt
a course to counteract Russia by measures
| that will speedily impress the porte with
! the fact that it's present doubtful policy Is
the worst for it's own interest.
At Crookston, Judge r. Reynolds SEN
| fenced the following prisoners: Joseph
| Laundry, assault with intent to kill, eight
| years and six months; Charles Kennedy,
| grand larceny, two years; David Hutchin-
son, horse stealing, two years.
The writing telegraph system has just
| been introduced into Pittsburg and West
| ern Pennsylvania. The operator simply
| writes with a pen upon strip OF moving
| paper and the characters he makes are re-
corded at the other end OF the wirein lac
J simile. There is no noise. The system Is
! the invention of Edward Cooper OF Eng
land. and il is likely to play the mischief
with the telephone.
! ips NJ
ceedings in BE- stGh to test the validity OF
the patent granted the Bell Telephone
! company. Solicitor General jerks has
prepared the draft of bill against the
| company. Action will be deferred until
special government counsel have expressed
their views in regard to the proposed bill.
A travelling man named Byrne, repre-
| senting a Chicago grocery house, who had
been on a spreeseveral days, dropped dead
on the street at Omaha.
Judge Manning, United States minister
| to Mexico in a long letter to Percy Roberts
| OF New Orleans, denies the story that at a
banquet given in his honor he got drunk
and afterward had delirium tTemens. He
says that the so-called banquet" was
| merely a breakfast party consisting of on
ly two gentlemen besides his host and him
| self, and that wine was drank, but only in
moderation.
William A. Walker has been nominat-
ed for attorney for tae Eastern district oil
Wisconsin in place OF Delaney, resigned.
Walker is resident OF Manitowoc, where
he has been county superintendent OF
schools for several years. He is nearly
forty years OF age, and beyond the posi-
ton mentioned has never held office.
George Ticknor Curtis, counselor for
the Mormons before the United States
| supreme court, speaking of the Mormon
bin in the honse. says: The hope of the
Mormons is in delay. II there shall be no
more legislation the question OF polygamy
viii settle ITSELF Polygamy will die out II
| the Mormo ns are not prosecuted by addi-
tional legisla ton.
The Land League in Ireland are taking
| precautions to prevent another comp like
that at Loughrea In some Instances they
are secretly appointing fresh trustees.
The report that Count Herbert Bismarck
has advised the Bulgarian delegates to ac-
| cept Prince Nicholas OF Mingrela, as ruler
of Bulgaria, has caused great disappoint-
meut in Sofia.
Mr.. Healy will represent Messrs. Dillon,
Redmond. Chilly, Harris and Sheehy at
their trial, when they viii be called upon
to answer on the charge OF conspiracy in
receiving a tenants trustees reduced rents
which had been refused by landlords.
Mr.. Gladstone, in a letter to Professor
| Stewart, NJ. F., says he thinks that home
rule measures are conservative in the tru-
est sense of the term. He adds that if he
can help in any measure to settle the af-
fairs oil Ireland he will confer upon Great
Britain a service greater than any he has
| yet been able to do. ~
The steamship Laneny, sailing from Liv-
erpool, has houndered at Hollyhead.
Twelve persons were drowned.
The London newspapers, in their com
ments on the Campbell trial, express the
opinion that although the verdict is uusat-
isfactory, the jury could have come to no
other conclusion. and that The case shows
the necessity of an alteration of divorce
proceedings in the direction Of the Gamer
on trial.
| p. 4. Chance, nationalist member of par
lament for South Kilkenny, writing to O
PROMINENT nationalist concerning the ar
rest and seizures at Loughrea, charges the
executive with cons piracy, false imprison-
men., assault and battery, .trespass and
robbery.
In the hearing OF Inspectors Milling
summons against Messrs. Tanner and
0'Conner, the magistra tes were unable to
reach an agreement.
The Bulgarian delegates started for
Paris, and will go to London in a short
time.
Mr. Powderly has ordered the master
workmen OF district assemblies "a and 81
of Chicago not to allow any money to be col
| lected for the condemned anarchists and
instructs that il any funds have heretofore
been collected that such moneys be return
ed to the assemblies and persons who con-
tributed. The general master workman s
orders are said to be imperative. Powder
| la's action If ia cnDtcpIpI satflaa
; the question OF the relation OF the knights
Of Labor and the condemned anarchists
Mr.. Nelson OF Minnesota will introduce
the following bill: That ell persons who
have heretofore, in good faith, purchased,
, or contracted to purchase, OF any railroad
company any of it's so-called indemnity
lands, and shall have made as owner per.
manent and valuable improvements on
such lands, which lands shall for any
cause be restored to the public domain,
shall, in case they cannot enter such lands
under the homestead, presumption, or tim
Der culture laws of the United States, be
PERMITTED to make private entry within
one year after such restoration of not to
exceed 16o acres by legal subdivision oil
such land so purchased or contracted 10
be purchased as Aforesaid at q price %
S1.25 per acre, and to receive patents in
due form upon such entry.
George Kades, an old man, has been sen
fenced in Cleveland, Ohio to the peniten.
tiary for thirteen years, for killing his step
daughter, because she would not arise in
the morning when called.
The nomination of James G.. Matthews
colored to be recorder OF deeds for the Dis
trict of Columbia was sent to the senate II
is said to have been accompanied by a
message from the president. giving his rea
4 sons for sending in a second time the Mans