Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-01-14
General News Notes.

The boy member of the Ohio legislature
Is Hon. John II. Fimple, aged &c.
Excepting Dakota, the snow storm WAS
general throughout the Northwest.
Colorado has 10 500 square miles OF
timber-eae, Gith the area oithe state.
Augustus Burnley Of Paris, Mich, drank
himself to death the night before Christ
mas.
John Taylor, the Dcadwood murderer,
goes TO the Sioux Falls p9netentiary for
Pierre Lorillard viii abandon his dog
kennels at Jobstown, n. j., on which he
has expanded $50, 600
Herman Weber & CO., dealers in jewelry
| and watehmakers' materials, Boston, have
Jailed. Liabilities, S27, 900.
Twenty thousand tons Of celery were
shipped from the Kalamazoo, Mich, gar
dens from July ] to Christmas.
Fire losses In the United States and
Canada last year were $94, 200, 600, about
the same as the year previous.
The vigilance committee at Pendleton,
Ore, numbers 5000 members, and they
are Kidding the country OF horse and cattle
thieves.
Three thousand cars lie alon, the Michi-
gan Central railroad filed With grain, and
cars with wheat block the side tracks in
Detroit.
Gov. Mellotte and the gentlemen elected
at Huron have zone to Washington forti-
fed with credentials bearing the great seal
oiDakota.
1t appears that the Northern Pacific has
not paid the cost u surveys upon It's grant
in the town OF Mandan. This will make
trouble in the collection 81 municipal taxes.
John Fields, a colored barber Of MaSsil-
lion, Ohio refused to cut the hair OF Albert
Grant, also colored, and Grant will p o.
coed against him under the civil rights
law,
An effort Is to be made by DIR. Scott and
the republican leaders of the state OF Ohio
TO have the Scott law again brought before
the supreme court, with the hope that il
may be declared constitutional.
ID. q. Mills, the California millionaire,
and other eapitalist are having a route
for n ship railway around the Dalles on the
Washington side surveyed. and it is under
stood that they mean business.
Surrogate Rollins OF New York ended a
famous contest over the $4,000. 600 lett
by Louis c.. Hammersly by admitting his
will TO probate, thas cutting off the wife
from anything hut an income from the
property.
Gov. Robinson was recently inaugurated.
In his message he recommeRds more FIRE.
quent payments TO employees by employers
and the Use ot a system OF voluntary arbi
t~ration In industrial disagreements, with a
special tribunal in each case.
Just as Rev. Mr.. Browncll OF West Middle.
sex, Pa, was about to unite in marriage John
Ainsworth and Maggie WATSON. the m.
nouncement was made that the groom had
a wife and several children. There was q
general scnttling and the yiands we're left
untouched.
Rev. H. C.. Jardine, pastor OF one OF the
Episcopal churches IN Kansas City, was
tried in that city some weeks ago by 4
church court and convicted OF certain
charges. lie appealed To Bishop Robert
son Of st. Louis for q now trial. Bishop
Robertson has denied the application.
Sentence is reserved.
The latest, though not entirely unexpect-
ed chapter in the famous Hill sharon di.
vorce ease was contaminated in the
marriage OF the fair plaintiff, Sarah
Athea Hill, - one OF her counsel.
Judge David ID. Terry OF stockton,
famous in California as having killc4 Sena-
tor Bro5erick in n duel some years ago.
the marriage has GRATED much comment
and gossip.
One OF tho ssaaes. d.. ,s.sS- .. 80
past ear was that OF Miss Florence Ruger.
OF Chicago, n lovely, g~uilcless girl OF seven.
teen years, who on Wednesday evening.
o., Z, stepped out OF the back door OF
her fathers house and has never been
seen since. The p~rofoundest ingenuity OF
skilled detectives has iailed to trace her
three feet from the door out Of which she
stepped intothe night,