Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-05-06

Nyckl AT u Dalt at darrlSJOn StallOtsy
Tenn The shooting was the result OF an
quarrel. The murderer escaped.
Mr.. Rindskopi of Appleton, Wis, is ar
rested in Madison, charged with procuring
$4,000 worth OF cigars under false pre-
lenses.
Grant county. Wis, tramps and horse
thieves plumber the farmers right and lett.
The master plasterers OF st. Louis have
| agreed to put the eight-hours system into
effect ON May and to pay their men $3.75
per day. The old rate was $500 for ten
| hours work. The new rate is really an ad
vance Of 10 cents per day. The journey
men are expected TO accept the plan and
ne trouble is apprehended.
A sisteen-year-old maiden named Clara
| Davidson form Sherwood, Iowa, was ar
rested at Chicago on the strength OF a tele-
| gram from her father stating chat she was
insane. The girl said that she was all right
in her head, and had left home on account
| Of the persecution she was subjected to by
her stepmother.
At Omaha. George Davis, notorions
tough, was shot twice by William Carlin,
the wounds being pronounced fatal.
Kate Foote, who is Mrs. Clemmer Hud-
sons successor as Washington correspond
emit OF the Independent. is the Hartford
| Kate Foote, sister-in-law OF Senator
| Hawley.
The heaviest personal tax paid in New
| York is by the trustees of the Moses Tay-
lor estate, whopay $4,000 on apersonal-
| ty of 81, 600, 900.
Gov. Larrabee OF Iowa has reappointed
Mrs. Maxwell state librarian, position
she has held with distinguished credit for
over ten years. ]. ii. Pickett OF Anes has
been appointed member of the pharmacy
commission, succeeding Mr.. Crawford, term
expired.
Vice President Uoxie, OF the Missouri
Pacific, has written letter to the Elmira
| division OF the Order OF Railway Con-
ductors, thanking them for their recent
| resolutions condemning strikes and ap,
| proving the course of the conductors upon
the lines OF the Missouri Pacific system in
connection with the recent labor troubles.
A few weeks ago the body OF a murdered
man was found In Golden Gate park, San
Francisco. The man proved to be William
| High. lately from Pennsylvania. Sunday
| the 20, the body OF a man, supposed to be
4. w. Hirsch. was found within a short
distance from where Highs body was
found. The Indications are that Hirsch
was also murdered.
Freight train No. 30S on the Missouri
Pacific road was ditched east OF Wyan
dotte, Kan, just across the river from Kan
sas City, by spikes being pulled out OF the
ties and the fish-plates taken off the rails.
Fireman Ben Horton and brakeman George
Carlisle were instantly killed, and Engineer
j. ii. Fowler seriously injured. Mr.. Hoxie
has offered 50, 500 reward for the parties
who caused the wreck.
The residence OF Morris Susmau, OF Bill
| lings, Montana, was burned with it's con-
~ hp-i I'M 100
in the Agricultural of Watertown and the
American OF Philadelphia.
A British outpost at Suakim was sur
prised and fifteen Indian soldiers were cap
tured by the enemy.
Winnipeg Special: The great Northern
Cree chief, Big Bear, and three OF his head
men, all OF whom have been pining under
the restraints of penitentiary life at Stony
Mountain, this province, for nearly year,
Tor their acts in connection with the RIel
rebellion have been set at liberty and or
dered back 20 their reserve. An attempt
was made to interview Big Bear, but the
crestfallen old Indian refused to talk. He
looks very much reduced, and shows the
results of his Imprisonment so clearly that
all who have seen him consider that his
health is irreeoyerably broken.
The Northern Pacific company is taking
out fifty tons OF coal from the Bull mount
ain coal fields, forty miles north OF Billings,
Mont. The coal is to be tested at Brainerd
asto its steam king power.
Anne Green Phillips, widow Of the late
Wendell Phillips, died in Boston after grad
ually failing Tor a long period.
Mrs. Alva Walker, mother OF DR.. Mary
Walker, died at Oswego, n. Y, aged So.
Some person placed croton oil in n pitch
er oil water used by Rev. Benjamin Deering,
who was holding revival services at Benton,
Mo. Several persons drank OF the water
including the minister, and are in a rreca-
rious condition. Two saloon keepers have
been arrested on suspicion.
A circular has been issued by c. o. Col
Inns, secretary OF the National Barb Wire
manufacturers association, reducing the
price OF barbed wire 20 cents per hundred.
This action is said to be the result OF a
secret meeting held by that portion OF the
association known as the Washburn fac
ton.
Geronimo's band attacked some ranches
near Imuris, completely destroying all the
buildings at Casita, a small way station
near Imuris, en- the Sonora railroad, and
killing fifteen persons, all Mexicans. A
company OF soldiers were sent after them.
Two soldiers were killed.
Three carriage shop proprietors in New
Haven have notified their striking body.
makers to return to work at once or remove
their tools. Other shops have also agreed
to do the same. The Carriage Workmen's
union has retalIated by ordering out all
painters. blacksmiths and trimmers. The
proprietors say they will close down entire
ly, as this years trade is already ruined.
The men are prepared for fight.
At GAINESVILLE, No, George f. Weber OF
Smithville, n. j., won the fifty-mile bicycle
race in 3 hours, z min. AZ 1-6 sec., lower
ing the worlds record by nearly half
hour. The second and third men, c. L.
King, Smithville, and Percy Stone OF St.
Louis, beat the record.
The delay in the confirmation of Mr..
Kimball as director OF the mint has been
oecasioned by Senator Beck. Mr.. Kimball
Is n strong opponent OF silver coinage Mr.
Beck takes the ground that the president
has no right to appoint man to execute
the coinage law that is not in sympathy
with it, and some members OF the commit
tee agree with him.
The following officers have been recon-
mended for retirement on account OF in
capacity for active service, and have been
placed on the retiredlist OF the army: Cap.
tains-C. Bendire, First ca v airy; J. II. Swee.
ny, Fourth cavalry j. 8. Payne, Fifth caval-
ry; c. L. Foot, Sixth cavalry; William
Mitchell Third infantry; T. j. Whitney,
Eleventh infantry; NJ. Jackson, Eleventh
infantry.
Postmasters commissioned: Dakota
Lake Preston, A. Freeman; Worthing, +.
Gerber. New officials-Minnesota Ash.
ford, Redwood county, r. II. McKittrick.
The house committee has agreed to report
bill extending the bonded debt OF the
Pacific roads seventy years. The bill, as
unanimously agreed upon by the commit
tee, makes provision for the payment oil
tie indebtedness OF the Pacific railroads
to the government.
Charles Constantine, chief OF the govern
ment OF police Of Winnipeg, arrived at
Halifax, y. Y, having in charge d. II.
Scott, who is alleged to have forged paper
to the amount OF $4,000 on the der.
chants bank at Winnipeg Scott was
traced to Mexico, and although no extra.
dition treaty exists between that country
and Canada, the Mexican authorities
would not recognize two writs OF habeas
corpus taken out in his case and ordered
his return.
The New York chamber of commerce
adopted resolutions to the following effect;
Minor differences between employers and
employees should be settled by mutual con.
cessions. Important differences affecting
the public interest or convenience ought to
be settled by arbitration. Questions as to
rates OF wages, hours OF labor, ETC., are
proper subjects OF arbitration. Any cru
ploye leaving his business and going on
strike yacates his place absolutely. Any
man resorting to violence to prevent an.
other man working should be visited with
the full penalty Of the law, and every asso-
citation guilty OF intimidation deserves the
scverest censure OF every American citizen.
The Republican senators have surrend.
cred the point at issue between them and
the president in regard to the judges oil
territories. 1t was originally held that
these officers came within the statute which
prohibits the president from removing any
Judge OF the United States courts during
the recess of the senate; but several prece
dents have been discovered in which they
have been removed by Republican admin.