Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-04-22


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The Mormon lobby at Washington has
| been reinforced by two robust women, one
| of them the fifth widow OF the late Brig.
! ham Young.
The Cock, famous tavern in LondoT
| two hundred years old, has just been closed
prior TO its demolition. It's mantels and
benches are to be presery ed for exhibitions
The editor OF the Pail Mall Gazette has
| Just been fined 81 500 for charging a circus
proprietor with cruelty to his Juvenile
acrobats.
Robert Z. Sproule, under entence o.
death in British Columbia for M urdcr
has been reprieved until May 8.
Two deputy sherifis were beaten to un
consciousness while guarding the Van dalia
yards in East st. Louis. Their assaisants
escaped. Several shots were fired fran
houses near the Cairo Short Line and
Pfttsburg yards Gen. Reece, commaiading
the military forces at East st. Louis, has
issued an order that hereafter, if shots are
fired from any building in East st. Louis.
the guards shall surround such houses, raid
them, and arrest all guilty or suspected
persons found in the building.
General Committeeman Barry, of the
Knights Of Labor. in a speech at Kansas
City said the Knights proposed to put
forth every energy within their power to
bring Jay Gould to termS-even to the III
terruption OF the commerce OF the country
| if necessary. II the strike in the Sou tn.
west did not suffice, strikes would be or
ganized in the East at central points.
The Peoria 1l) city co uncil has adopt,
cd the eight-hour system for street work.
The late Mrs. Annie Jane Mercer of Phil
adelphia left $500, 900 for a. home Tor dis.
abled cIergymen OF the Presb .yterian church.
! Those who use tobatCo win NOT be eligible
for admission.
In the case of Isaac Rogers, the former
cashier of the First National Bank of CheS,
| ter, Pa, who was arrested on a charge oil
embezzlement, Col. +. b. Einlen, an ex.
pert accountant, testified that Rogers had
committed 400 different thefts and made
lo5 entries, to the extent OF $2S, 52S.
Mrs. Virginia C. Thompson was u ominated
postmistress OF Louisville.
A conflict is threatened between the house
committee on education and that on labor,
on the educational bill which is likely to be
transferred to the floor OF the house.
The American Historical association will
meet in Washington April 27.
Hon. J. B. GilflIan was selected as the
| Minnesota representative on the congress
sional committee.
Congressman White has introduced a bill
to place on the pension rolls the name OF
| Mrs. Eliza Collins, widow OF William II.
| Collins, Sixth Minnesota; also granting a
| pension to Gideon c. Lake, Eleventh Min.
! nesota volunteers.
! Gov Wakefield of Minnesota has con,
| firmed the report that he was not candi-
| date for denomination. When my presen /
/ term expires" he said, 81 shan retire from
| politics forever in this world"
| Through the efferts of DIR. Mary Walker,
| DIR. w. II. Hale of Washington, who was
| held at Pittsburg on a charge OF censpiring
| to defraud creditors, was released.
Rev. John Clinton, missionary to the Sac
| and Fox agency, Idaho, has been suspend.
| ed for seducing his step daughter, who re.
! Gently died in childbirth.
| The National educational association
/ win meet in Topeka, k&l., July ID to 16.
! The Philadelphia firemen are about to
| join the knights OF Labor.
! A verbatim report OF a conierencein New
! York between Messrs. Gould Hopkins,
| Someryille. Powderly, Hayes, Mcdowell,
| Bailey and Turner, on the Both ult., was
sent out from New York. 1t adds nothing
material to the present stock OF public in.
formation on thesubiect. At the conference,
beside the pending strike, the general sub,
| ject of arbitration and a national arbitra.
ton bill to be PASSED by congress, were
| discussed.
| The American Medical association will
meet in st. Louis on May 4.
! The president has been invited to attend
| the annual reception OF the G.. A. r. at
Grand Island, Neb., Aug 30, and may ac.
J cept.
The Central Labor Union OF New York
| sends the Knights OF Labor at st. Louis
| So, 800.
The death OF the late Judge Barter was
caused by an indiscreet use OF bot baths.
! Mr.. Wakefield has introduced bill to
| increase the pension of Lufus g. Ammons,
| late private, Kentucky volunteers. now oil
] Minnesota, TO $50 month. Mr.. Straight
| has introduced bill TO give pension to
| Franz Ross Rucker, Fifth Wisconsin vol.
/ unteers, now OF Minnesota.
Mr.. Wakefield has introduced bill to
increase the pension OF Thomas H. Weble,
private, One Hundred and Fourteenth
| New York regiment, now "A resident Of
| Minnesota, to $24 month.
1 Mr.. Eoxie, in dispatch to Mr.. Gould,
says that among the persons killed at East
st. Louis was the ringeader OF the late
| strike at the Springfield tIll.) iron works
| and the leader of the riots in which three
ofthe iron works men were killed
The members OF the sNitchmens' union
working for the Michigan Southern railway
in Chicago, are greatly dissatisfied with the
retention by that company OF eight men
who were taken on during the strike Of
4 1881. a
7. V. Powderly has written to Secretars
Turner, Of the knights of Labor, Saving
that spirited circular should 20 out at
once to the order, asking them to turn in
every dollar they can raise into the hands
OF the southwestern men in support OF the
fight against the Gould system.