Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-03-04
MISCELLANEOUS Items.

Old Col. Dan Rice is occurring in Texas at
$500 n week.
Boston has raised $500 for the Mrs.
Gen. Hancock fund.
Claims for over hall a million dollars for
damages by rioters have been filed by the
Chinese.
Marquis de Mores is working up a scheme
90 do away with middlemen in the dressed
meat industry.
Mayor Pillsbury OF Minneapolis says
under no circumstance will he uccept an
other nomination.
Young Maurice Resented OF Chicago has
Just paid $50, 900 for q seat on the New
York stock exchange.
The immense plant of Brown. Bonnell &
CO., at Youngstown, Ohio, win he sold and
the receivership discharged.
Minneapolis Prohibitionists have nomi-
mated a full municipal ticket. w. NJ. Law
fsaromiH asAfSst 4 ~ ma aselt \ st-,rrtn--ry.
peal to horsemen to sustain the North
western Horse Breeders association.
Tennessee has marketed a 3 per cent
loan and Kentucky has just placed a
$500, 900 4 per cent loan above par.
The Grant fund in New York has only
reached a little over $1I5, 900. 1t will
take over ten years to raise the l,000,-
900 at hat rate.
Bishop Welles OF Milwaukee, confirmed
the rumor that DIR. Nicholson OF Philadel-
phia has declined to accept the presidency
OF Nashotah seminary.
The WIehe breach OF promise suit in Chi
cage was decided in favor of Miss Moran
by n verdict of $3.50. The suit was for
S25, 600. Miss Moran is 26 and Wiehe 90.
The First National bank OF Helena has
accepted plans and specifications from Min
neapolis parties, and will at once COM
menee the erection OF q model banking
hous to cost about $500, 600.
At Lakota, OAK, A. Holman was closed
by an attachment from a Milwaukee cloth
ing house; also one from Nelson county to
secure county funds. which are found to be
short several Thousand dollars.
Philip Hastings, son of a wealthy farmer,
OF Silver City, Iowa, was found sitting up
right in his chair at his fathers house, with
n bullet hole through his head. A 3S.eal-
iber revolver lay at his side on the floor.
The Hancock memorial committee OF
Norristown, Pa, has decided to erect an
equestrian statutein bronze ofthe superb;
Hancock similar to that of Gen. Reynolds
at the north end of the Philadelphia city
hall. 1t viii cost S25. 900.
Harry NJ. Snydee, u young man OF s
Louis, insplted Miss Ella 6arwin, daughter
of an ex-councilman, in front of her resi-
denee. She gave him "A Tremendous horse.
whipping while her twelve Did brother
held Snyder's arms behind him.
1t is said that the ex-governor of Texas,
who is nov minister to Japan, asked free
passage for himself aud family-seven per.
sons in alI-and free freight for his house.
hold goods IRON San Francisco to Yoke
hama, on the Pacific Mail steamer.
Nancy Sears, Luman Loveland, David
Blyth and Oliver Blyth, operatives in Irvine
and ne factories in Moodus, Conn.,, have
been informed that they are heirs to the
late Thomas II. Blyth, who died in 1883 in
California, leaving an estate Of Sc, ooo, 600.
The strike at NJ. NJ. Scores Northw estern
trunk factory at Racine, Wis., wherein 125
men demanded an advance of 20 per cent.
to replace n recent cut OF 80 per cent, eul.
minated in the Knights OF Labor declaring
a boycott against all goods manufactured
at this establishment,
The following patents we're issued to eiti.
zens OF Minnesota: c. A. Mcclellan and NJ.
Fonde2, cocEel separator; G. L. Travis,
Minneapolis, insulator: C. Esp6n, Mime.
apolis, nose guard for saw neGl head blocks;
NJ. Hair, Aitkin, grab hook tor chains; j.
+. Parker, st. Cloud, saw.
With the object OF obtaining better pay
and shorter working hours for employees,
the knights of Labor in st. Louis are pre-
pairing to boycott the street car compa.
MES. One road is to be boycotted at a time
and brought to terms, if the boycott is
successful. The employees failed last De-
tober to obtain their ends by striking
New York special: Gov. Hauser - Mon.
tana, said to a reporter in regard 30 the
admission OF Montana as a state: Mr..
Clark who is chairman OF our com.
mittee, has been in Washington several
weeks. He told me that he believed that |
Washington, Dakota and Montana would
all be admitted together, making three
states. 1t win be a sort OF political com
promise.
An important ruling was made a few /
days ago in the federal court of Utah by
Chief Justice Zane. Heheld THAR the
Utah statutes, which compels a wife to tes-
tify to injuries inflicted upon her by her
husband, the wife must testify against her
husband in unlawful c~ohabitation cases. .
That crime, the Judge decided, is one of the |
most serious injuries which a man can in.
hict on his wife.
Weather Prophet Kellogg, of st. Paul, is
in early with his predictions for March, |
which, he says, will be a warm and stormy |
month, the storms being from the Sd to
the 9Th, 9TH to l4th, 18th to 21st, Gath |
and 29th to the 31st. There will be, he |
says, al eclipse OF the sun on the 9th, and |
the perilelion of the astronomical mercury |
on the 18th win precede an ambitious and
aspiring tendency on the part OF the Their
mometrie mercury |
Rev. Father Belts. the st. Louis clergy.
man who recently played the role of Mare
Antony over the dead body OF the Rev.
Mr.. Jardine OF Kansas City, aud cha rged
the bishop OF Missouri with being aecesso.
nv to the murder" of the lead priest. has
been denied the regular official services O.
the bishop until he retrscts. Father Bets
declines to retraet, and while in open re.
hellion has secured a parish in a neishhor
ing diocese.