Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03

Acting Secretary Fairchild received a re-
port from Collector Anderson at Portland
in regSrd to the detention Of the British
schooner Sisters. in which he states that
the statements made by CAPT. Ellis are in
the main correct, and that he had not dis
covered any attempt on the part OF Capt.
Ellis to defraud the revenue The sch1oner
the navigation laws and customs regula-
tious, and the case is referred to the treas
ury department for decision.
The president has vetoed bills for the
relief of Rebecca Eldridge and Eleanor C..
Baugham, widows of soldiers, and bills
granting pensions to Mrs. Anna Cowen,
Simon W. Harden and J. d. Haworth.
Approval is withheld on the ground that
the disability for which relief or pension
is asked, had it's origin in causes existing
prior to the enlistment OF the persons for
whose services the claims are made. In
the case OF Mrs. Eldridge the president
says: 1T is not a pleasant thing to in
teriere, but We are dealing with pensions
and not with gratuities.'
Antonio Nardello was hanged in the dis
triet jail. near Washington, for the murder
OF Carmine Rotunno. He made a speech
on the scaifold, and protested hisinnocence.
Rotunno was laborer, who had accumu-
lated $500 or $500. To obtain this
money, Nardello, on July %, 1856, killed
his fellow countryman by cutting his
throat.
The board of managers of the American
Baptist Missionary union, in its report at
Albany Park. \. j. stated that deficiency
of nearly $3.50, 600 was found in the ac-
counts OF John H. Dean OF New York city,
who for a number Of years acted as coun-
sci for the board.
Rev. DR.. Abbott E. Kittredge, we'll
known pastor OF Chicago, has accepted a
call from New York congregation at a
salary of $4,000.
Col. II. H. Fischer, an extensive cast iron
pipe manufacturer ofAllentown, Pa, failed.
Judgments for S57, 900 were entered. His
Indebtedness exceeds 100000
c. p. Huntington's suit for 500, 600
against the Rockaway Improvement com
paDy for money loaned, was concluded in
New York with verdict for S99,o63.
Miss Mamie Giddings, aged twenty-five.
and Horace Madden, aged twenty-six
teachers in the schools, were drowned in
the st. Joseph river at Bristol, Ind.
Among the combinations announced
were the following: Hugh East, register,
Iankton, OAK; ID. C. Fulton, United States
marshal, district of Wisconsin; J. L. Car
land, United States attorney for Dakota;
=. I. II.
tiers, respectively, at Ottumwa and Stuart,
Iowa.
Otis T. Caswell Was appointed post
master of Chester, Mimi, vice jonathan
Shaw, resigned.
w. H. Cleveland is nominated appraiser
OF customs at Detroit, Mich, and A. Lipp-
msn commissioner for Alaska.
Senator Conger presented in the senate
+l,a g he
the Eads ship railway bill.
The nomination of d. J. Lancaster, to
be surveyor OF the port of st. Louis, was
confirmed without call OF the ayes and
nays, and it was a triumph for Senator
Vest over the opposing faction of the Dem
oeratic party in Missouri.
Bradstreet's reports 10 failures in the
United States the past week, against 152
the week previous.
The counsel of Mannix, late assignee of
the Purcell estate in Cincinnati, aver that
the suit against his securities is without
basis, the figures of ManniN's arrearages
having been compiled with legal authority,
The Tacoma Southern Railroad com
pany is organized to build from Tacoma,
Wash, to the coal fields in the foothills OF
the Cascades.
The prize for the best individual average
at the Minneapolis gun club tournament is
awarded to c. W. Budd OF Des Moines,
Iowa.
IL is now reported that Miss Murfree,
Charles Egbert Craddock) will be married
in June to DIR. Henry G. Hanchett, prac-
tieing physician in New York.
The Washington fund collected for the
purpose of buying Mrs. Hancock house
now reaches $4,000.
John F. Smith, Philadelphia type
founder, has given $4,000 each to eight
hospitals in that city.
Ex-United States Treasurer Spinner is
seriously il! with pneumonia.
The over loaded floors of the Valley City
mills at Grand Rapids, Mich, gave way
The damage is $50. 900 to 100000
The Salvation army defied the mayor
and ordinances OF Beloit, Wis, was mobbed
and Dispersed and several ssrests made.
The senate committee on territories will
undoubtedly reportfavorably the nomina-
tion OF A. p. Swineford as governor Of
Alaska.