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


Gov. Hugh Thompson OF South Carolina
issued o proclamation resgning his Office
as governor OF the state, and his eonstitu-
tional successor, Lieut. GOV. j. G. Shep-
pard, was sworn into Office By Chief Justice
Simpson. Gov. Sheppard is thirt four
years OF ace. and. next to ex-Goy. Moses,
will be the youngest governor South Caro-
lima has ever had. At the conclusion OF
the ceremony detachment OF artillery
fired a salute of loo guns. Ex-Goy.
Thompson left for Washington, and will
begin the duties OF his Office as assistant
secretary OF the treasury.
great hail storm lately destroyed over
one thousand ACRES of grain within three
miles Of Clark, OAK The hail fell four
inches deep, not leaving single twig.
The recent hailstorm was much greater
about Big Stone Lake in extent than at
first supposed The stricken district is
about ten miles wide and twenty miles long,
In all this area only about 25 per cent. OF
all kinds Of crops remain.
Alexander Brown, Jr., second lieutenant
of Company D., has disappeared from Jack
son, with funds &ecruing from the celebra-
ton OF July 3. His relatives hint at foul
play.
Annie Geheing of Parma, o., sent as an
| insane patient to the Cleveland inSrnary
at So per week, cannot be produced now,
and as there is no record al her flight or
death an inquiry will be instituted.
At GAINESVILLE, Wis, f. W. Lowell, a hard.
ware merchant, was bound over on
charge ofadultery with Mrs. VIC. Stephens,
who testified against the accused. Mr..
Lowell alleges that it is a matchmaking
scheme.
VIM. Z. Owen, superintendent OF Sa-
tanah, Ga, rice mill, has absconded with
| $4,000.
Rev. J. w. Davis recently resigned rs the
pastor Of the Huron, Dak., Baptist church.
He wrote the trustees OF the church that ho
had changed his views aud embraced thu
doctrine OF the Congregational church.
The Missouri Valley mill, owned and
operated by NJ. Shelley Il Son, and situat-
ed near Townsend, Mon. has burned.
Loss, $50. 900; insurance, $1s,0o0 in thir-
teen different companies.
Judge Brewer, ofthe United States court
at Des Moines, rendered an important de-
cision TO the effect that the government.
when dealing in commercial paper is gov
erned by the same rules and subject to the
same obligations as the individual
Sam Brown, while being arrested at
Powder River, Mont, for horse stealing,
shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Ed Lloyd.
At Bozeman. Mon, T. Burnette and
Douglass Ferguson got into q quarrel over
water right, and Barnette drew his re-
volyer and fired at Ferguson, inficting q
slight flesh wound. Thinking Ferguson
was shot fatally, he placed the pistol to
his own head and fired, killing himself in
stantly.
A Malone correspondent says that Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland win visit Upper
Saranac lake early in August.
young woman appeared before grand
jury in Boston and swore that Rev. w. w.
Downs, who figured prominently in re-
cent divorce case, is the father of her illegi-
innate child. The Grand Jury returned an
indictment against Mr.. Downs. and war
rant has been issued for his arrest.
Senator Morrill, has been in congress thir-
ty years, and is twenty years older than
Edmunds.
The president yesterday vetoed bill for
public building at Asheyille, n. c.
Fully half the heads Of the United States
senators are bald or silvered.
Henry X. Brown, the sculptor, died at
Newbury, n. Y, aged seyenty-two years.
He modelled the first bronze statue ever
cast in this country. Among his works are
the bronze statue OF Dewitt Clinton, the
Washington equestrian statue in Union
Square New York. the Lincoln statues in
New York and Brooklyn, and the equestrian
statue of Gen. Scott in Washington. In
IT arble his best known works are Hope
The Pleiades." THE Four Seasons and
the Statue OF Gen. Nathaniel Green" at
Washington
Capt. b. Page, trusted Harlem, n. Y,
citizen, disappears, leaving $4,000 I'M
paid.
Tucker, OF Virginia, all hope, win succeed
Solicitor General Goode.
A senator says congress cannot adjourn
for a month.
According to the government crop re-
port, winter wheat has declined from 1921
to 91.2 and spring wheat from 1856 to SO.
dispatch from Yokoham d announces
the sailing of second tea laden ship,
whose cargo is to be transferred to the
Canadian Pacific railroad for conveyance
across the continent.
Bismarck has submitted to the bundles
rath a scheme for the cottage OF pieces of
the value of two piennigs, to be composed
OF $50 parts of nickel and $50 parts OF
copper, and the total coinage to be 5000
900 marks.
The president transmitted to congress
the report Of the board selected to view the
sites offered by the Commercial Club OF
Chicago for the purposes OIL military post
and recommends such legislation as might
be required for its acceptance. The report
OF the officers recommends the acceptance
of what is known as the "Highwood tract,"
in Lake county, ILL.,. twenty five miles north
of Chicago, and containing 59Sh acres,
which, it says, is especially fitted for the
purpose.
The German government has decided to
restore the Strasburg municipal council,
with an administrative autonomy which
was suspended in 1872. The German com
mission at Strasburg has been abolished.
Among the nominations by the president
we're the following Receivers of public
moneys: David w. Hutchinson of Penn
sylvania at Bismarck, OAK; Sterling S.
Smith at Devils Lake, Oak; L. Foster
Spencer of New York agent for Indians Of
Rosebud agency, Oak.
A Washington special states that tho
president has signed the bill legalizing all
insurance companies chartered under terri
torial law in Dakota. There had been
some doubt whether the territory had the
right to issue charters to insurance compa-
MES and this will confirm the legality of
such organizations.
Hatti's full name is now Adela Juana
Maria Guilla Patti-Nicolini.
Ernest David, a well known Franco
Jewish writer is dead.
King George OF Greece has saved enough
money to give him a life income OF SIPS
600 year. and is now waiting for good
excuse to abdicate.
The Chicago & Northwestern depot at