Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-07-01

The Vienna Tagsblatt declares that Ger
many and France were really on the brink
Of war a lew weeks ago.
| The Puritan wins race.
| ID. N. Cbappsaddle. an attorney at HUI
ron, asked his wife to bring him a glass OF
water. She arose TO do 50. but before she
could get ont of bed he was dead.
Mr. Henley introduced the following reso-
/ luton in the house Whereas, IL APP
pears from the published reports OF the
/ Union Pacific railroad company, that the
| said corporation without the consent OF
congress, die issue in 1883 about 5000
600 OF collateral trust bonds also Sc, 000,-
1 600 6 per cent. collateral trust bonds. did
| pay dividends in 1883 and 1884, notwith-
/ standing the existence of gross floating
| debt OF $13, DOC, 900, and in 1883 and
| 1885 did guarantee interest on $l4. 931 :
900 Oregon Short Line bonds in defiance
! OF the provisions OF tEa law of 1878: there
/ fore, Resolved That the attorney general
be, and he is hereby directed to prosecute
all officers OF said corporation, c;yiliy and
cIiminally, against whom there is sufficient
evidence To warrant Judgment or conviction.
| The president has not, yet signified his
approval of the general bill establishing
! hiesaving stations. and it will probably
| become a law without his signature. The
I
| we're provided for in the SO, 900 appro-
priated for new stations ir the sundry
civil bill, and whether they will be erected
/ or not this year depends upon the super
intendent ofthe service, in whose discretion
| it lies to erect at any time the stations
/ authorized.
/ The Missouri supreme court has dismiss
ed the case of S. {. schaefer, sentenced to
eight years in the penitentiary fordeiraud-
| ing John i. Blair, the New Jersey million
1 aire.
There are said to be only $50 900 He
| brews in the United States.
Bradstreet's reports moderate activity
in general trade, with fair business in ST.
| Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth.
The Goodnow saw mill at Minneapolis
was buried. Loss $42,00o.
| The Yailep-D De Groot Company OF ~.
| Paul. dealer in tailors trimmings etc,
4 assign-liabilities $50, 900; assets, S45, 600.
The Office OF inspector OF hulls is estab-
| lished at Dull nth.
The twenty eighth Minnesota state Sun
day school convention will be held at Man
kato June 30, 80 and July /.
Christopher Casey, military convict at
| Fort Smelling, is shot and killed by Private
| Brown, sentinel.
The Milwaukee road announces SO net
rate from Rock Island, Davenport, and
| Cedar Rapids to st. Paul.
Dr. H. H. Kimball OF Minneapolis is
! elected president of the Minnesota State
| Medical society.
Inspector General King reports orably
! upon his inspection OF the Minnesota mill
/ tia.
| Capt. Gaines Lawson, Twenty fifth in
/ 20 Los a fI.lI ,. ~
E! Of war to make the regular annual inspec-
| ton OF the First and Second brigades OF
the Illinois National guard during the
| period OF their eneampment near Spring.
| field, I'll. The First brigade will be in
camp IRON the 18th to the 23d OF July,
and the Second brigade between Aug. 1.
and Sept l,
Senator Jones. who few years ago was
worth $6,00O,o0o, is now worth 500, 600.
A gentleman who is in a position to know,
said that it was positive fact that Miss
Grant had broken the engagement with
Earl Cairns. and that there was no posi-
bility of a renewal of the engagement.
The wife OF Senator Hearst gives away
$50, 900 a year in charities.
Gov. Stoneman OF California is about
TO abolish the system of letting con-
tracts for convict labor. This action is
due to pressure from the several trades.
sfrs. Jerusha Johnson and her daughter
Nellie. were arrested in New York on the
strength of dispatch from the Chicago
chief OF police. He telegraphed that the ac-
cused were wanted there to testify against
certain parties who had robbed them of
$50, 900 and then had returned part OF
the proceeds on condition that they should
not be prosecuted. The prisoners were re
manded.
At New York, Mrs. Clara Richardson was
taken from the Fifth Avenue hotel and plae.
Ell in the insane pavilion at Bellevue hos
pital. She woke up quite sane, but in
very bad humor. She roundly abused
every one who had anything to do with
placing her in the hospital DIR. Wildman,
who has charge nf the insane people at Bell.
vne, said that Mrs. Richardson was not
insane and never had been. Heattributed
her trouble 70 hysteria, brought on by
too free use Of stimulants. Mrs. Richard
son is the vile of j. Fl. Richardson, one OF
the best known cotton brokers OF Mem.
phis. Tenn.
c. L. Bradley, colored gambler, was
shot and probably fatally wounded By
Thomas Shotwell at 0ctavia Reeves no
torious dive, five miles from Crawford, Ne
braska.
Some weeks ago the president was advis-
ed to withdraw the nomination of III. +.
Beecher, collector of customs at Puget
sound. becauses of the charges pending
against him, Mr.. Beecher's friends fearing
the result of an investigation. Henry
Ward Beeeher, his father, visited the presi,
dent to urge him to stand by the young
man and insist upon his confirmation.
The nomination was not Withdrawn, and
an investigation OF the charges was COM
menced by the committee on commerce.
Beecher is accused, among other things, of
dishonesty while purser OF a steamboat
ON the Pacific coast.
A Montreal dispatch says: 1t is stated
that the English-speaking knights OF
Labor have determined to ignore complete
ly the pastoral denouncing the order. The
French Canadian Knights viii cut adriit
from the order as they all fear the author
ity of the church, while the Irish and En-.
glish Catholics think the bishops have over
stepped their authority.
Numerous British papers once published
a statement that Mr.. Coolidge, while
British consul at Kertich. in the Crimea,
was interested IN an organization that
stranded and then salved ships. Coolidge
sued the papers. lie was awarded So, 900
damages against the London Globe, and
has accepted $500 in settlement from each
of fifteen provincial papers.
Henry Labouchere and Charles Bradlaugh
have issued a joint election address to the
electors OF Northampton, their parlia-
mentry constituency. They declare: There
is no middle course in the present cam
paign. The choice is between coercion and
conciliatiou. The Tories are Boosting
that they will obtain majority in the
next parliament. We think the people do
not believe in aristocratic or plutocratic
government. The people must decide
whether Mr.. Gladstone or Lord Salisbury
shall govern them.
The 25Oth anniversary of the university
at Utrecht is being celebrated there.
At Montreal the large naval store OF
Wilson Patterson & Co. was burned. Loss
500, 900; insurance $4,000.
In the debate on the prince expulsion
bill in the French senate Premier De Frey
cinet said that the government would not
tolerate another government in France
and W 'uld take the full responsibility for
the expulsion of the princes. A secret bal
lot was taken, and the bin as it came from
the chamber Of deputies was adopted-l41
to LOT.
Gov. Wolf OF the Chickasaw nation, has
issued proclamation ordering the imme-
date removal of all cattle from the nation,
and imposing 81 per head for grass con,
sumed by said cattle. Many of these cat
tie have been purchased by Chiekasaw cit
liens, but this proclamation utilities the
purchase.
The Able List. re ported dying at Wei,
mar, is said to be improving
The Boston parliamentary innd commit
tee transmitted $4,000 to Treasurer
OReilly OF Detroit to send immediately to
Mr.. Parnell. The following cable dispatch
was sent To the Irish capital, addressed to
o. Brien and Sexton, and signed by Con-
gresham Collins and John b. O'Reily:
Receive Henry Ward Beecher with hos.
pitable affection as "a gifted and warm
hearted friend OF Ireland in the appeal for
constitutional rights
Samuel l.. Gibson OF Pennsylvania was
nominated Indian agent at Fort Peck,