Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-11-11


The fight at Boston with three-ounce
gloves between Jack McAuliifs and Billy
Frazier, for 81, 900 and the lightweight
champion belt. was the hardest, gamest
and the most even glove fight ever seen in
this country. McAuliiie won.
There was frost in Mississippi on tho
29th ult.
The liabilities Of Dustin, the Lincoln.
ILL.,, banker. Continue to grow, and now
amount te over $500, 900; assets, $67, 900.
George Gardner, prosperous and well.
TODD farmer living near Gilmore City,
Iowa, committed suicide. Religion trou.
bled him.
Edward Blake, saioonkeeper in East
st. Louis, shot and instantly killed VIII
lam c. Marlborough an engineer on the In.
dianapolis q st. Louis railroads
The proceedings OF the court martial
convened In Washington Tor the trial OF
Capt. William johnson, U. s. A., retired,
have been made public. Capt johnson
was tried upon charges OF duplicating his
pay accounts, and the court martial re-
turned "A verdict OF not guilty. Gen. Sheri-
dan, who reviewed the proceedings, set
aside this verdict, however.
There were ZIG failures In the United
States reported to Bradstreet's during the
last week OF October, against lbs ID the
preceding week, and 10, 2o5 i95 and
1877 in the corresponding weeks Of 1885,
1884, 1883 and 1882, respectively. Among
those reported embarrassed wel.e: Bar
tholomew & Co., bankers, Hartford. Conn;
Doe, Kimball & Co. wholesale lumber,
San Francisco; Glen Rock Manufacturing
company, car builders, Glen Rock, Pa;
A. A. Mother. wholesale and retail drugs,
St. Louis; w. L. Davis & Co., hardware
and grain, Chelsea, MISS; Walker a. Hatch
Lumber and Manufacturing company,
Burlington, Vt; William Dustin & Co.,
bankers, Lincoln, H.; Myers, Thieman s.
Co., wholesale notions Cincinnati.
Secretary Lamar admits that he is going
to be married.
Sam l.. Payton was discharged from the
prison at jackson, Mich, his sentence OF
FIVE years having expired. He is a grand
ing his Incarceration TO have been left for.
tune OF $780, 900.
The Indian Bureau tells why z. H. Beau
lieu was expelled from the White Earth res.
eryation. He was expelled once before in
1885. The secretary OF the interior again
on April 16, 1856, granted authority for
his removal from the reservation. The
agent having reported that Beaulieu was
interfering with and trying to defeat
the labors OF the commission now in the
field. negotiating with the various bands
OF Chippewas under the recent act OF con-
gress. Geographic instructions were issued
from the Indian Office directing the agent
not to permit Beaulieu to come upon tho
reservation under any circumstances.
Samuel Ludden, the Oldest resident OF
Norfolk county, died recently, aged nine
ty-nine years. Mr.. ,Ludden had never
he first saw the light ofday. At the time the
signal OF war sounded in 1912, Mr.. Ind
den was sitting in church. He went home,
got his old gun, went to the Cohasset and
helped to keep back the British until the
arrival OF the soldiers.
Des Arc, Ark, was visited by a fire which
destroyed property to the value OF $780,
600, about one-third covered by insur-
anee.
The engagement was announced in New
YORK OF Mas Ellen Sprague Stager, young
est daughter Of the late Gen. Arson Stager,
to Lord James Arthur Wellington Foley
Butler, a brother and presumptive heir to
the Marquis Of 0rmond in the peeFage OF
Ireland, and Baron 0rmond in the peer.
age OF the United Kingdom.
The medical fraternity OF Wisconsin are
deeply interested in the case OF stockman
who fell from a car at Baraboo AMI broke
his neck. Two days after he was removed
to his home in Evansville. Although par
alyzed from his neck down, the sufferer is
able to converse with visitors.
A fire in Chicago recently was very de.
structiye. The building was occupied bya
number of large firms. The Goodyear Rub
Der company's stock was valued at $780,
600; insured for $50, 900. The company
ts.cu -. l.
for the Goodyear Manufacturing company,
Boston Betting company, Gossamer Rub
Der Clothing company and James Davis &
Co., had the basement and first floor Of
100. Their $50, 900 stock is damaged
$50, GOO; knight & Leonard, printers, in
the upper floors. lose about $50, 900; in-
surance. sac, 1000. William Wilson & Co.,
book binders and publishers, lost $40, 900,
G. NJ. McGill's printing establishment is
by Judge L. G. =. Freer, whose loss is about
s35, 900, believed to be fully insured.
The fire at the Standard mines, near
Mount Pleasant, Pa, is still raging and is
hourly gaining Roadway. Flame and smoke.
driven by strong current OF air, leap from
the mouth Of the shalt to the height OF one
hundred feet above the ground. All efforts
to check the FIRE have been OF no avail. A
fire engine from Pittsburg arrived, and the
work Of flooding the mine will be begun at
once. This viii require several months.
A slight tremor was felt in Charleston,
recently, but caused no damage. 1t was
not felt by a majority OF people. Shortly
after the shock a spring OF clear, pure wa
ter appeared in the custom house yard,
running at the rate OF a gallon minute.
The water is said to have been hot when
the flow began.
Eight persons we're burned to death in
the residence OF William Poe, in Knox
county, Ky.
At ST. Charles, Mimi, Richard Dit
bernes, aged 16, accidentally shot and killed
Elmer Shredder.
Henry Ward Beecher was passenger on
the Etruria, which arrived recently. Mr..
Beecher is in good health.
San Antonio, Tex, is making the expert
ment of skipping refrigerated meat to Eu-
rope.
The opinion OF the attorney general to
the effect tuat called bonds cannot be re-
tanned by the banks as security for circuia-
ton, aud that erest-bearing securities
oil the United States can alone be used for
sueh purposes. was expected by those who
had given the law serious attention. This
decision win prevent the banks from hav-
ing recourse to an expedient which was
practfced to some extent under former adj
ministrations-to permit their called
bonds to remain on deposit in the United
States treasury as security for circulation,
either until they could determine what 70
do in the matter OF circulation or until
fluctuations in the price OF securities
enabled them to purchase at better rates.
Now, however, the banks have no alter.
mn iva In choS tl,a A
at high premium or to abandon their cir.
culation.
Mr.. Powderly has a conference with Car.
dinal Gibbons on the X. Of l..
c. H. Wells, the freight brakeman who is
charged with being responsible for the ter
rible railway accident at Rio has turned
up. He came toMilwaukee, and Wis.
tied the general offices of the st. Paul
railway con6any and drew his salary.
Wells Is twenty-four years old and
unmarried. He declares that Hankey,
the freight train conductor. is wholly re.
sponsible for the accident.
A revolution in Bulgaria is momentarily
expected on the pretext OF Russian oc-
cupation, which Karaveloff's organ at So.
fla announces is imminent.
A iavorite nephew OF Mrs. Stewart is
Lieut.. Charles n. Oineh, of the Twenty
fourth U. s. A. II current rumor is to be
credited this young officer will soon be
the wealthiest man on the active list OF
the army.
st. Johns military academy at Hatton-
field, n. j., was totally destroyed by fire.
All the $50 pupils escaped. Loss, S25,.
900.
sensation has been caused in Hanover
by the sudden fight Of an esteemed sole
itor. DR.. Won Cartmann. who left many
debts behind and who embezzled money
and securities 10 the amount OF 100000
marks. lie has gone to America.
In the election for lord rector OF Edin-