Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-05-27

the calendar as rapidly as possible, anS
viii make clean thing OF it within a few
weeks.
The navy department has sent Lieut.. S
e. Lemley from Washington to Yokohama
Japan, to act as Judge advocate OF couri
martial convened for the trial oil Paymastei
George r. Wilkins.
The announcement OF the appointment
OF Capt. George +. Towle, Nineteenth in
iantry, and Lieut.. A. B. Johnson Seventh
infantry, as aids on the staff OF Gen. Terry
has been made in orders from division
headquarters. Lieut.. johnson has beer
confined to his quarters by illness FOR thu
past three weeks, but is now convaleseent
and left recently for Chicago to report fol
duty.
At Omaha the body of murdered maj
was found lying near the Union Pacific
track, on the outskirts of the city neal
the residence OF John Millner For seyera
feet around the ground was soaked in blood
Around the house was a trail OF blood
The man evidently had been murdered.
Postmasters commissioned: Iowa, Bed
ford, j. ID. Smith; Corning, p. b. Gavin
Perry, ID. G. West; Bowen, s. X. Flint
Dakota, Barrabee, II. B. Smith. Mime
sofa, Odessa, II. j. Hill. Wisconsin, Peeb
les, j. j. Talmage. New offices Dakota
! Hazlebrook, Hidden county; Minnesota,
st. Anthony Park, Ramsey county, f. A.
| Pickard. Mr.. Pickard is agent OF st. Al
thony Park Town Site company. The
president nominated Anton Klaus post.
| master at jamestown, Oak.
The German government has presented q
report to the reiehstag in justification o'
| the decree forbidding the holding OF public
meetings in Berlin, Potsdam and environs
without permission from the police, OBJ
! tai f.af -, oil nh IN salx hr
report takes The ground that meetings oil
workmen are utilized to disseminate So
| cialist propaganda, and fatal results to
the public may follow.
The officers OF twenty national trades
unions met at Philadelphia with closed doors
| to take united action to resist the en-
| croachments being made upon open unions
| by the Knights OF Labor. The thirty-two as
sociations represented by delegates or let
tiers were claimed to have total member
| shipoi 367, 1856. The representative ofeaci
! organization presented its grievance.
set OF terms was drafted with the object Of
securing harmonious relations with the
Knights OF Labor. They will be presented
as treaty for the consideration OF the
knights.
The senate Indian affairs committe has
decided to report adversely upon the nom.
| nation of Morris Thomas to lie inspector
OF Indian affairs and Mr.. Ingalls,, who has
| the nomination in charge, will make the re-
port. The opposition to Thomas is based
| upon the charges against him by the Civil
Service Association OF Baltimore, and they
| are the same that were made to the secre-
tary OF the interior at the time he was ap.
| pointed and investigated by assistant Sec;
rotary jerks.
After fortnight's struggle the strike oil
1 tta ala e.,
| eight hours work at ten hours pay has
ended. The men formally asked to be taken
back at the old terms, stipulating only that
their wages be paid weekly. This was agreed
/ to.
At the Republican county convention
| John Dalzell was nominated for congress
| from the Twenty second district, and Hon.
| Thomas NJ. Bayne from the Twenty third
| district.
| Maxwell confesses that he killed Preller
in st. Louis, accidentally, while treating
| him as his doctor
Murat Halstead has a son in each of the
| four classes OF Princeton college.
Archbishop Gibbons, OF Baltimore, has
received an official communica tion from
Cardinal Jaeobini papal secretary of state,
| informing him OF his elevation to the car
| dinalate by Pope Leo XIII. The above
| announcement, coming as it does from the
Vatican, with the ''fsherman's seal" is
the consummation OF what has been re-
garded as a fixed fact ever since the fall OF
1888. 1t has been the intention OF the
pope to have conferred the dignity on Arch.
bishop Gibbons in March last, but the con-
sistory usually held in that month was
postponed, and the official notification
was withheld until May 6, the date of Car.
dinal Jacobinis letter.
n
While some classes OF men there are re-
turning to work, others hold out and Others
are coming out.
The Bank OF Montreal last year made q
profit OF l2h per cent on capital OF $12,-
0G0,O00 The stock has been sold at
2164.
Plymouth White alias Frank Parke,
alias plum" White, the notorious con
fidence man, has just died at his brothers
residence at Reading, Pa, from a car
buncie on his neck at the base of the brain.
White was in the front rank OF confidence
men, and had succeeded in the last twenty
two years in fleeing business men, grangers,
and continuing women out OF more than
81 ,500,0 900.
The prince of Wales, who is overwhelmed
with debts, is yet able to sell his royal
mother land which she wants to add to her
pays Wales $125, 900.
News was received at TENT Tsin April Z,
that one of the imperial palaces about
forty miles from Pekin, on the imperial
road, had been destroyed by fire. The
palace was built in 1850. Loss, over So
900, 900.
Postmasters commissioned: Minnesota
-Hagan, G. Graham; Lake Wilson, Ora
Engebretson. New offices established
Bloomfield, Hennepin county, Mimi, A.
Scholze.
Representative Payson has prepared a
long report on the bill to prevent aliens
from acquiring real estate.
IL is reported the president and bride
will spend the honeymoon at the soldiers
home, near Washington.
Senator Blair introduced a bill to restore
to officers of the army and their widows
and minor children the rate of pensions
they received prior to July 20, 1866, at
which date certain classes of pensions were
reduced.
At the meeting held in New York, the di-
rectors decided that immediate steps should
be taken to enable the company to do its
own express business.
Col. T. w Pierce, who died at Topsfield,
Mass, not long ago, left an estate worth
81, 900. 900.
During April over Ii, 900 cases OF small
pox occurred in Japan, and more than
three thousand resulted fatally.
Representative Payson has prepared a
report on the bill to prevent aliens from &C.
curing real estate in the territories of the
United States. The report says: The bill
has for its basis the proposition that
American soil shall be owned by Americans,
so FAR as congress can controiit. The COM
mittee is thoroughly committed to the
policy OF so administering our public land
system that the agricultural lands OF the
nation shall be parted with without cost,
to he held in small tracts by actual settlers
only, for the purpose OF cult walton by the
owner, securing thereby the thrift OF the
citizens and economy in his management
which ownership always stimulates This
policy should become the national one.
To succeed Prof. Dwight in the chair OF
sacred literature, Rev. George b. Stevens,
Yale new pastor CT the First Presbyterian
in WATERFOWL, y. y, was chosen The
corporation voted 10 create new probes
sorship Of the Semitic Languages, and chose
Prof.. William X. Harper, OF the Morgan
Park Theological seminary, of Chicago, to
ill the chair.
Louis Lingg. arrested in Chicago for
throwing the bomb at the Haymarket
meeting, is only twenty-five years old, but
believed to be one of the most trusted
agents OF the anarchists in this country.
He came from Zurich, Switzerland, in Au.
gust, 1885. with the purpose OF expressing
anarchist doctrines and expresses himself
willing to die for the principle he advo-
Gates.
Maine is solid in its denunciation OF
Secretary Bayard for his want of action in
the fishery matter.
Chief Justice Waite hopes to be able to
pass his summer vacation in Alaska-the
coolest corner of the country.
Senator Henderson from the committee
on ailitary affairs, reported favorably the