Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-07-22

increased, to the list OF money order offices,
Congressman Ira Davenport of New
York has paired and gone to Europe.
Senator STANFORD ofCaliiornia, it is said,
will soon resign his seat in the senate.
He is tired OF public life.
A dispatch from Minnedosa, 100 miles
northwest Of Winnepeg says that recently
a number OF Fins employed on the railway
at Shoal Lake became intoxicated and dis
orderly, and were put out OF hotel, upon
which they drew their knives and rushed
on the crowd. Ayoung man named Cooper
| was standing near by aHd was attacked by
Fin, who plunged his knife to the handle
into Coopers breast and then escaped TO
his tent, a short distance out OF town
Cooner was carried into the hotel in dy.
| ing condition.
Nine ladies and gentlemen, expiorina
Mammoth cave, strayed from the guides
| and got lost. The ladies swooned and the
gentlemen narrowly escaped falling into a
| chasm before they were rescued.
Salt Lake City exported about 100000
pounds OF bullion, recently.
At the last moment before reporting the
sundry civil bill to the senate, the commit
tee on appropriations struck out the Sl0,-
600 which had been provided at the request
OF Senator Sabin for u government display
at the Minneapolis exposition. The rea-
son for it was that a dozen other exposi-
tions in different parts OF theeountry, find
ing that such provision was made for Min
neapolis, entered demand for similar
sum, and the committee decided to refuse
them all.
The Kansas state Prohibition conven.
ton nominated the following ticket: Gov
ernor, c. III. Branscombe; lieutenant gov
ernor, L. NJ. Huston; secre tary OF state, \.
1 b. klaine; auditor, c. II. Lanston (coior-
ed); attorney general; w. n. Waite; treas
urer, William Crosby; superintendent Ui
public schools, Mrs. DIR. Snlbut; associate
| justice, Il. w. Peyton. At the New Hamp-
! shire Prohibition state convention Col.
Joseph A. Wentworth was dominated for
governor.
/ At MERGED, Cal, twelve thousand tons
| of wheat and Eve wheat-laden cars at Hoff-
mans warehouse were burned. Loss,
! $500
Senator Sewell, from the committee on
! military affairs, reported favorably Sena-
tor Teller's bin to appropriate S2s0,ooo
/ for the establishment and erection oil a
military post near Denver, Col.
There is an understanding in the senate
| that when the river and harbor bill shall
| have been perfected, item by item, a me.
ton win be offered to make a horizontal
reduction, bringing the aggregate appropri-
alton to a point somewhat below that oil
the house bin. This will have the effect OF
putting every item into conference. The
| proposed reduction viii be fixed at the rate
of 20 or 80 per cent.
| Senator Teller submitted q proposed
amendment to the sundry civil bill to APP
propriate So, 800 for the purchase OF the
school and farm at the Carlisle Indian
/ school.
| The following Northwestern patents have
been issued: Charles NJ. Brown, Melbourne,
Iowa, submerged pump; Mary f. Cole,
| Let's, Iowa, sash fastener; Edwin s. Davis,
! Winona, Mimi, wagon body; Charles X.
! Dow, Manchester, OAK, separator shoe
for threshing machine; John H. Edwards,
| st. Paul, Mimi, drive chain; Charles C.
Gilman, Eldora, Iowa, ireproof floor arch:
Riley Hornbeck, Des Moines, Iowa. brick
machine; Riley 5. Knapp, Platteville. Wis,
| pump; Charles f. Phifer Jessup, Iowa,
animal poke; John f. Taylor, Walia Walla,
| Wash, a steam generator; Solomon Van
from, Candy, MINI, spinning attachment
| for sewing machine; Joseph Wolf, Milwau-
kee, Wis, box fastener; Charles l.. Wood,
| Oshkosh, Wis, dust removing apparatus.
The president has pardoned R. Porter
Lee, now confined in the Buffalo peniten-
tiary for embezzlement. He was sentenced
in November, 1882, to ten years for EN-
bezzling the funds OF the First National
Bank OF Buffalo while he was president
| thereof. The president thinks that the
ends OF justice have been attained in his
case.
Representative Jerry Murphy OF Iowa in
PRODUCED a bill to remove the charge OF de
sertion from the military record OF Viii
Ian Names, of Company F, Twenty sixth
Iowa volunteers.
Turkey has Just succeeded ia scraping up
few thousand roubles for Russia on the
war indemnity account That war iudem-
| nifty as originally agreed upon amounted
| to ]. 40c, 600, 600 roubles, OF which /, 100,
| 900, 600 roubles was to be paid in terrific
rial cessions. This latter business was
| very greatly minimized by the Berlin pleni-
| potentiaries in 1878; but Russia has since
4 danged the 800, 900, 900 cash indemnity
over the sultan's head, and he has had
| desperately hard time making few small
| payments upon it.
Negotiations between Lord Harrington
and Lord Salisbury are in progress. 1t is
reported that Harrington has pledged him
self to support Salisbury's local govern
! ment bill, and to reject all approaches Of
| Mr.. Gladstone. Ii Mr.. Gladstone remains
] in Office the first move OF the Gnionists will
I be vote want OF confidence. In a speech
| foreshadowing the Conservative policy Sir
Michael Hicks Beach said that the first
move would be to suppress the Irish Ma
tional league, and to suspend Irish OBJ
| struetionists.
The latest advice in the Yellowstone Park
| trouble is that Ellwood E. Thorne of New
| York purchased the park property for S23,.
| 600, which he was to turn over to the
| Northern Pacific.
Drinca.z pauIina Of RauSv duabaSS "a
| Wurtemberg, is dead.
Parnell and his chief followers are to en-.
| ter upon a political crusade to instruct
| English workingmen on the Irish question.
Orion and Henry counties are greatly ex-
cited over revelations made by an inyesti-
! CATION of the accounts OF Charles w Nc
Govern, who has decamped for parts I'M
known. McGovern has been thriving law
yer and real estate dealer at Orion for six
| years, having lived there fifteen years.
In spite OF denials il is positively assert.
ed that the draft OF an extradition treaty
between Great Britain and the United
States has been signed by Lord Rosebery
and Minister Phelps and is now in Wash
ington. The prospect OF a really effective
extradition treaty causes intense gratifi,
cation. veteran detective remarked
that If the treaty should be ratified, sever.
al well known faces in New York and Lon.
don would soon be missing.
When the FIRE department sped to q
blaze at Milwaukee, the horse OF George
Foster, a lumber dealer. took fright from
an engine and dashed into the crowd on
the sidewalk. Henry J. Frank was injured
fatally. and John Win, Emile Guns and
Rosina Reiehert less dangerously.
At Bloomer, Wis, fire was discovered in
l. l. IN
Smith, groceries; and Calling Il Co., dry
goods. The block and stocks were dam
aged by fire and water about So, 900; COW
cred one-third by insurance.
South Africa exports annually SO, 500.
600 worth OF ostrich feathers.
Albert alias Martin Klein, a travelling
man IRON Chicago. died at the county hos.
pital in Milwaukee. Two days ago he
reached the latter city in search o: employ.
ment, and not succeeding swallowed a
dose Of morphine.
George S. Lyon, proprietor of a plumb
ing establishment in Milwaukee, has as
signei. Nominal assets, $4,000; liabili-
ties, the same.
lewiston (Idaho) special to the Helena
independent says: Two Indian prisoners
escaped from the guard house and fed to
Mount Idaho. The sheriff and posse FOL.
IoNeus Dub cittzens, rearing troUDle with the
Indians, refused to allow the officers to
take the prisoners. There was much ex-
element Agent Monteith threatens the
citizens with prosecution for interference
with the processes of law. There is danger
OF a serious conflict OF authority.
At Milwaukee, Fred schlieske, forty.five
years OF age, was arrested on a charge of IL
legitimate parentagc preferred by Anna
Teschner. his fitcen-year-old adopted
daughter.
The congressional elections in Mexico
have resulted in a large majority for the
government.
The London Times praises President
Cieyeland's earnest endeovors to secure
political purity"