Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-07-08


er Intoxicating liquors were to be sold
within its boundaries. In all the cities
the measure was defeated by vote oil , to
3. In the small towns the measure was
carried by the same proportion IN vote.
From the terms thus far received it is be-
Iieved that local option has majority in
the territory.
Mrs Grant has been paid another $3.50,
600 instalhnent of profits from her hus-
bands book.
At the New Hampshire Democratic Con
vention, Thomas Cogswell OF Gilmanton
was nominated for governor on the first
ballot. A resolution was adopted Indoors
ing the efforts OF President Cleveland and
Congressmen Morrison and Carlisle and
their Democratic colleagues to revise the
tariff laws.
The obseauies Of David Davis occurred
at Springfield, H. The services were ar.
ranged by the family in accord with the
quiet modest tastes OF the deceased. Nev-
ertheless, 80 general was the mourning that
the funeral assumed imposing proportions
Freight rates between Chicago, st. Paul
and Minneapolis are in a very demoralized
condition, and an open rupture is almost
expected at any time. The Burlington &
Quincy has withdrawn from the st. Paul
agreement, because IT did not care to have
its land tied in Northwestern business
while its competitors were engaged in de-
moralizing rates to the upper Missouri.
Assistant Secretary Smith, OF the treas
ury department, to the surprise OF every
one, as all thought he was fixture at
least as long as the present administration
is in power, resigned his Office and left for
st. Paul to take position as solicitor
for the manitoba road which be accepted
some time ago. Mr.. Smith, in explanation
OF this change, says that he has come to
the conclusion that man OF his age
without any money has no business
in politics. and that while he has
enjoyed his position in the treasury de-
partment, he could not afford to decline SO
tempting an opportunity to go west and
grow up with the country. The salary he
is to have is more than double what he re-
ceives from the government, and the OPP
portunity for advancement is nothing here.
Mr.. Smith is n very young man TO occupy
the position he has been holding, as he is
only little more than 3oyears OF age; but
he has had considerable experience, and
had developed an executive ability which
caused him to be chosen by Mr.. Manning
as the executive officer of the treasury.
Since he has been here he has made himself
popular and respected, and although he has
endeavored to override the restrictions OF
the civil service reform law, that was what
he was selected for. He is n tall, fine-look-
ing man, with sand hair and moustache,
and looks ten years older than he really is.
1t is understood that Smith NJ. Weed OF
New York is responsible for the appoint
ment. Mr.. Smith is a native Of Clinton
county Y. ", and is a nephew and law
partr smith NJ. Weed. Hewas educat-
ed at yette college, Pa, and studied
law via lis uncle ami praetieed at Pitts
burg. In 1882 he was elected to the New
York legislature, and became the leader of
the Young Democracy in that body. Dur
ing the presidential campaign OF 1884 he
was chairman oil the New York state Demo-
cratic committee.
Helena, Mont, Special Telegram, June 80.
The contract for the construction of the
Helena & Red Mountain railway was let to-
day TO Donald Grant OF Faribault, Mimi,
and forty teams will begin work tomorrow
morning; trains to be running in ninety
days to the mines Of the st. Paul syndicate.
According To the railroad gazette there
was a total OF 03 train accidents during
May, in which % persons we're killed and
ITO hurt. As compared with May, 1885,
there was an increase OF 81 accidents, OF
10 killed and Of los injured. The five
| months Of the current year to the end of
May, show a total of 432 accidents, l57
killed and 653 hurt; an average per month
OF sc accidents, 81 killed and 1871 injured.
The earnings at Sing Sing prisonfor June
are $19,912, and the expenditures S13,-
SIS, leaving a profit for the month of Sc.
024
At Dover, n H., George W. Varney, one
OF the pallbearers at the funeral Of Mrs.
Baker, sank down as he was helping to
carry out the casket, and died instantly OF
heart disease.
rs
Tim Campbell o: New York are the wittiest
Irishmen in congress.
The president has nominal ed Hugh Smith
Thompson OF South Carolina assistant sec
rotary OF the treasury, vice William +
Smith, resigned.
Congressman Randall, in the house, fierce,
Is denounced Chief Signal Officer Hazen for
attempting to have q certain amendment
smuggled into the sundfy civil bill.
In the deficiency bill reported in the house
the widow OF the late congressman Rankin
Of Wisconsin gets $4,5S0, her husband
salary.
Thepresident has paid his dog tax and reg.
| istercd Mrs. Cleveland as the owner OF one
| French poodle named Hector
DR.. John S. Billings, curator OF the army
medical museum and au thor OF several
| standard works, sailed for Europe to de-
| liver the annual address before the British
| Medical association. This is the first time
an American has ever been invited to adj
dress the association.
| Among other items in the deficiency bin
are the following To pay L. A. Grant,
| late postmaster at Fargo, OAK, for clerk
/ hire during 1879 to 1882, inclusive, S..
900; Henry Frink, late United States mar.
shall, Wisconsin, amount OF Judgment for
| costs recovered OF him in Che case of the
! United States VS.. Christian Sallcntine and
! Others, $95; to Lueien b. Croker, S35i:
| Van Schaick 4 Co., Sc, 333; Otis X. Glover,
receiver, S1.65; H. w. Jackson, re.
ceiyer, s632; the Sioux City g. Pacific Rail-
way company, $50, 765. TO enable the sec
rotary OF theinterior tomake an allotment
| oil lands in severalty to the Crow Indians
| In Montana, $4,000, or so much thereofas
may be necessary, and the money to be
| available until june 80, 1887.
| Col. Colyille, OF the "old First living
about a mile below the city OF Red Wing.
was severity gored and bruised in the legs
and breast by his bull The colonel being
a cripple was unable to get away from the
| brute and was at his mercy until help ar
rived from his hired man. He was attend
ed by DIR. Iaehins, who says his injuries are
very severe, but not fatal
The public debt was decreased by So.
| S061, 81 during June.
! The president has approved the follow.
| ing: The act TO reduce the fee on domestic
| money orders for sums not exceeding So;
| the act making allowances for clerk hire to
postmasters Of the first and second class
| postofiiees; the military postotfice army
| appropriation bin; the act granting leave
of absence to the employees OF the govern
| ment printing Offices, and the act relating
1 ff, FattlAl hull at
| Senator's Sabin, German and Blackburn
| went to the White House to intercede with
| the president in behalf OF Cadet johnson
| Of Minnesota who was to have graduated
| at the West Point academy, but was under
arrest at the time his class received their
| diplomas, and awaiting trial for assaulting
| fellow cadet. 1t was the first time Mr.
| Sabin has been out OF his house since his
! illness. He is interested in the young man
because he comes from Minnesota, while
| German and Blackburn went with him at
! The request Of some OF Johnson's class.
| mates But the president WIS inexorable,
md declined to interfere in the discipline OF
| the academy.
G. sl. Gillet, near ScGoha, Miss, shoots
| atally Mr.. and sdrs. Barlow.
Prof. Dwight is Installed as president OF
| Yale college
About $50. 600. 900 feet Of logs are hung
Up on the Chippewa aud tributaries.
The project of building great bridge
| across the Potomac at Washington as a
memorial to Lincoln and Grant, which
Senator Spooner embodied in an amend
ment to the sundry civil bill, is well con.
ceiyed.
T. Sullivan, Parnellite, has been re.
elected to represent the College Green di-
vision Of Dublin in the next parliament.
w. Murphy, Parnellite, has been returned
from the st. Patriek's division. They had
no opposition. John Bright has been re.
elected rs member OF the house for the Cen.
trail division Of Birmingham and Joseph
Chamberlain for the West division. Neither
was opposed.
Mr.. HILL chairman Of the committee on
territories, said few days ago: The pas