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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
The Washington Silver.

A granddaughter of Augustin VASE
mgton is now living in the city OF Wssns
ngton, IN circumstances so reduce
that she is forced 10 sell the fani4
plate, of which a large portion canlelo
her by inheritance. Augustin was :
half-brother of George Washingtons
and the quiet, elderly lady who nos
represents the family is grand-nirss
OF both George Washington and 9
Mrs. GUSTS, whom he married. &c
has some beautiful silver and GOO
deal OF heavy cut-glass; and amos
the family treasures is bedqrb
made from pieces of Lady Washl1g
tonn's" gowns A few days ago {
visitor in Washington bought "
silver bowl from which George VAS
ington was christened. Ithas squss
stand and is of the heavy, plain olo
silver, that is very Handsome. ln
only characterization is beaded edg
and the engraved letter w, surrouna
ed by a wreath.
1t seems very sad that family plaI,ss
and especially the plate of the Wasr
ington family, should come into "
market in this way.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03


The new law for the arbitration
labor questions arising in New York
between employer and employed,
provides for state board OF arbitra-
ton, consisting of three members, to
be named by the government and
confirmed by the senate. These com.
missioners serve for one year, and
constitute a board of appeals to
whom can be referred appeals from
the decisions of local boards consti-
tuted under the law. The Inaugural
ton of the system of arbitration UNI.
der legal forms is great advance and
it is to be hoped that it win put an
end to the wasteful contents between
laboring rnen and their employers.
The commission is composed of VII,
liam Purcell (dem.) judge Gilbert
Richardson (rep.) and Mr.. Donovan,
labor representative.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
THE PRESIDENTS WEDDING
The Wedding to Take Place in the
Blue Room, and No Reporters
VIII Be Admitted.
A Grand Reception win Be Given at
the White House After the We'd
ding Tour.
THE TALK OF rHn rows.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, May So
There Is nothing talked Of here but the
presidents wedding Miss Cleveland arrived
at the White House last evening Sue was
accompanied by her friend Miss Nelson, at
whose house in New York she has been stay
ing for several days Miss Cleveland will
remain here for short time and then return
TO Holland Patent. where she win spend the
summer She does not object to her
brothers marriage, and emily mildly ap-
proves it, and, of course, viii do every
thing in her power 70 make his mar
rage life O happy one. Miss Cleveland
will be followed here by Mrs. Hoyt. who is
expected on Monday. These are the only
sisters of the president who can attend the
wedding, and for some reason the Rev. Will
lam Cleveland will not be present Mrs. Dr.
Bacon Of Toledo is one of the sisters who
will not be present Another Is Mrs s Yeo-
mans. the sister next older than Rose Eliza
beth Cleveland Mrs Hastings, a fifth sis
ter, Is in Ceylon. Her husband is mission
airy there The wedding arrangements are
all very simple. The blue parlor will be
decorated for the occasion, but not lavishly.
The guests will include the members of the
cabinet, their wives and half dozen rela-
tives of the president and Miss Folsom
There will be
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03

1t is claimed that plate of finely
perforated zinc, foot square, hung
five inches above gas burner. will
remove most of the sulphurous acid Sc
| injurious to persons, plants and books.
A capital method of administering
| castor oil to children is to pour the oil
into pan over a moderate fire, break
an egg into it and stir up. Then fla,
vor with little salt, sugar or currant
jelly.
Orange Jelly-Soak one ounce OF
gelatine twenty minutes in one pint OF
cold water, add three pints of boiling
water, two pounds of sugar, the juice
of two lemons and eight oranges
Strain.
1t is a good plan to wrap cans OF
fruit in newspapers and put them away
in a dark, cool place. The wrapping
in paper and keeping in the dark is un.
derstood to prevent the bleaching OF
the fruit.
The ordinary hop toad is not very
pleasant object about kitchen, but il
is certainly preferable to reaches and
water bugs, and it is claimed that these
pests will disappear if one or two toads
are domesticated.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
The Milwaukee road viii not pay com.
,s..ai.,r, =. Sn.nl.,nr.

The Milwaukee road will not pay com.
mission to scalpers.
In reply to inquiries as to the advisable.
ity of the construction Of the Cinabar and
Clark's Fork railroad in the Yellowstone
Park Gen. Sheridan has written letter
saying: A railroad through any portion
OF the park is not in harmony with the OBJ
lects for which the reservation was created
and il permitted would be precedent for
various others already projected. The
game is collecting in great numbers, and il
not disturbed will continue to do so.
Senator Conger introduced {. bill to
amend section 4444, Of the Revised
Statutes, SO as to include American
built and registered steamships regularly
engaged in the coastwise service, in whole
or in part, and transporting the United
States mails" among the vessels exempt
by that section from compliance with state
laws requiring vessels entering or leaving
state ports to take pilot.
Lamar advises Sparks to attend to cur
rent business
The resignation is announced OF A. A.
Hobart, superintendent of the Eastern di-
vision oil Omaha, at st. Paul. Mr.. Hobart
resigns to accept the position OF general
superintendent OF the Chicago & Indiana
Coal & Railroad company, running from
Fair Oaks to Brazil, Ind. Mr.. Hobert will
be succeeded by James McCabe, superin-
tendent OF the Nebraska division. Mr.. Nc
Cabe will be succeeded by II. s. Jaynes, at
present claim agent, and he by FL l.. Poole,
special agent OF the land department. The
several changes occur June l.
1t is pretty well settled that Jones OF
Florida will not make his appearance in
the senate this session, and Senator Black.
burn has applied for his seat, which is a
very desirable one
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03

When Governor West OF Utah who
is a Kentuckian, talked to th,
pol ,gamous Mormons about aband
oning their defiance of the United
States, they iibed him on his secession
record. The Governor, was not al
all backward in theemergency. "Yes, ,
said he, II did defy and resist the
United States, and got so well whipped
for it that advise everybody tc
avoid my example" This is the pc.
sision of nearly all the ex-confederates
who actively participated IN the war
They were whipped and do not want
to be whipped again.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03

''The great Lick telescope" says the
Boston Herald. "when mounted anc
swung against the California sky, will
have focus OF fifty-fve feet length
and nearly fifteen feet longer than the
largest one ever made. 1t will be re
tractor, which means that the image
is formed directly to the eye by the
object glass, as contradistinguished
from the Gregorian and Herschellar
telescopes. The largest instrument
ever known OF the latter style was DR.
Hersehel's. The tube lacked bat
eight inches of being forty feet in
length. What new revelations in the
heavens this largest and most power
full of all refractors may disclose from
its costly minaret and the SURPRISING
aid it promises to the further study o.
the surface OF the moon alone, arr
matters which already excite impa-
ticnt expectation from the whole
scientific world"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03

A disastrous fire occurred in large brick
and stone structure at Congress street and
Wabash avenue. The loss viii approximate
81, 100000. Among the principal losers
are the publishers, Beliord, Clark & Co.,
and the large book bindery firm OF
Donohue Il Henneberry. The structure
was six stories in height. In a
short time after the flames were first
discovered the building was on fire
from top to bottom. II Was filed with ma
teriaI OF the most in6ammable description.
The occupants were Belford, Clarke 4 Co.,
publishers; Van Antwerp. Bragg & Co.. in
the same business; Donohue & Henneberry,
book binders; R. ii. Peele & Co., Autograph
ers, and the Central Litl,ographing com
pany. Mr.. Bedford, Clarke & Co, places his
loss at $500, 900, many valuable plates
being destroyed. Next door was a FIVE
story building, owned by A. o.
Slaughter, and occupied by the furniture
firm OF r. Defined i Co. This firm
was burned out short time ago, and was
just moving back, and had only small
stock on hand. The loss will not exceed
1000. A panic occurred among the
guests OF the Hotel Brunswick, directly op.
posite the burned block. The heat was so
intense that every pane OF glass in the Wa
bash avenue front OF the hotel was broken.
and the sashes and window frames scorch-
ed. The guests became alarmed, and not
stopping to dress themselves, fed from
the hotel.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03

There are now published in tn,
United States IA, tsio newspapers and
periodicals of all ella sses. The net gain
OF the year has been sos. The daily
newspapers number 1,216, gain Of
33. Canada has 679 periodicals
There are about 1900 periodicals o.
all sorts, which, according to the
ratings and estimates Of the editor Of
Powell's Directory, enjoy a circulation
Of more than 5000 copies each. The
increase in the weekly rural press,
which comprises about two-thirds o
the whole list, has been most marked
in States like Kansas and Nebraska
where the gain has been respectively
"a and 1s per. cent. Kansas also
shows the greatest gain in daily news
papers. The weekly press is gaining in
Massachusetts, while the magazines
and other monthly publications are
losing ground there. The tendency OF
spch publications toward New York
city, as the literary centre of the
country, is shown by the establish,
Inent here OF not less than twenty.
three monthly periodicals during tn,
year.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
Tho German government +

The German government has pre-
scented report to the reichstag in jus
LITIGATION of the decree recently issue;
under the socialist law, forbidding tn,
holding of public meetings in Berlin
Pottsdam and environs, without per
mission from the police, and to be Oh
tanned forty-eight hours in advance
The report says that it is notoriou,
that meetings of workingmen are util
ized to disseminate socialistic propa
ganda; that socialist agitation ex
lists. and that the threatening confer
ences OF railway employees at Berlin
might oe fraught with fatal results tc
the public.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03

in this country was for the purpose OF de-
stroying the labor movement. After ar
guments by counsel and the charge by the
recorder the jury retired, and after
seventy minutes returned with a verdict OF
guilty for all three of the prisoners, but
recommending SChcnck to the mercy OF the
court. They VERT at once conducted to
the prison van in waiting close by. A big
crowd was awaiting. AS Most was enter
ing the van a man threw out to him a long
round parcel, but was hustled away, He
ran around the van and again attempted
to get the parcel to Most. He was this
time most etfcctually repulsed. A motion
for new trial will be heard shortly. The
maximum penalty is one year.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03

It is South Australia's turn now +,
have great international exhibition
1t will begin in the city of Adelaide OF
June 20, 1887, and in the year which
interyenes between now and that TIM
great preparations viii be made te
make the exhibition success com
mensurate with the wonderful growth
of Australia. The progress of thai
country has only been exceeded by
that OF the United States.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
philadelnhia i about 20 =,

Philadelphia is about to place up
on the tower OF one of the publ
buildings in that city the second larg
est clock in the world, tie dial faces o
which viii be twenty-five feet in diane
ter and more than seveaty-eight feet il
circumference. Tho minute hand:
uitt.hs~bwalsa~fsss- ip length. and al
the expiration of every sixty second:
will move over thirteen inches. TIL,
hour hands. one foot shorter. will NOV,
more than six and one-half feet every
hour. Chimes of bells will probably
be connected with the elaborate
mechanism, so that the quarters
halves and hours will be unsteady an
nou need.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03

1t appears from the report OF the
insurance commissioner ofNew Hamp
shire that since the withdrawal OF the
foreign fire underwriters from that
state, four stock companies having ar
aggregate capital of S525,o00, twelve
state and two town mutuals have
been organized; making in all five
stock companies with total capita
of 81, OPS, 900, fifteen state and nine
teen town mutual. The commissioner
says he has not changed his mind ir
regard to the valued policy law. He
still regards it as an exceedingly un
wise measure.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, May 2S.-
The senate to-day passed bill which has also
gone through the house, and only needs the
presidential signature to become law, pro-
viding:
All general laws hereafter enacted by the leg
islature OF Dakota. Incorporating Insurance.
companies, are legallZed and made valid at once.
and shall have the same force and effect as II
they had been passed by congress.
Under the Revised Statutes the territorial
legislatures are authorized TO grant charters
for various purposes, but the power to in
corporate insurance companies is not con-
tanned in the law, so that it requires this
special act of congress to allow them to do
so. The senate committee on territories
states that several laws have already been
passed TO incorporate insurance companiee,
and under them these companies have done
a large insurance business, and to remove
doubt as to the legal status of the companies,
and to protect the interests of those who
deal with them, legislation is necessary, and
therefore the bill was passed
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
UAkUIA IEKKIIURIALNE
pakata.s ylrorous Grouth.

HURON, Oak, Special, May rs. The re-
ports received by the commissioner of immi
grafton from The ten United States land Off
ces in Dakota for April show large increase
in the amount of business transacted oveI
the previous month The total number Of
new filings was 2,S27, aggregating 426, ia
acres of land, an increase over March
of 900 entries and 123,315 acres
The growth OF Dakota from all sources was
very satisfactory. the greatest immigration
aside from the public domain going into the
Black Hills country. The increase OF popu-
lation from all sources during April, for the
entire territory, is estimated by the commits
sioner at IL 900. which is a moderate esti-
mate. The tabular exhibit is as follows:
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03

It is anSnteresting fact that the frs,
locsl Sunday trains in Massachusetts
were run as the request of chnrch-go
ing people who had moved into til,
country, and who wished to continu,
to worship God in Boston. Prior te
1860 there wereno local Sunday trains
on any OF the railways that center il
Boston. and at the present time Their
are 1913.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
Might Have Been Worse.

Esthetic Young lady-"Can 70,
conceive of anything more sombrel,
and POLITICALLY solemn than the denoue
ment of Romeo and Juliet? Could tn,
poet have made their fate more weirdll
tragice"
Cynical Bachclor-''Oh, yes; he nigh
have married them. The Hatcset.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
Hsrr MOST sent.nesd % Prison

Her Most was brought to court in New
York handcuffed to thief. His associates,
Sehenck and Braunschweig, were with him.
The spurt room was crowded. 1t was said
that Most is greatly annoyed at the spread
oil the statement that he was in the pay o.
the German government, and his presence
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
WEBSTER

One il not more of the fast passen
ger trains between New York and Chi
caso, now make the run in twenty
four and a hall hours-a distance o
over eight hundred aud fifty miles.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03

be present, but Col Lamont will take It all
in and deliver lecture after it is all over to
all the newspaper men who assemble in his
Office. He will also furnish an official &C
count for the associated press The presi-
dent and his bride will remain at the White
House for day or two after the ceremony,
but will probably then go away for a
week The arrangements for this trip are
not yet perfected 1t Is generally under
stood, although not yet fully determined
upon, that after the president and his wife
return from their journey there will be a
grand reception at the White House, at
which the official and social world will have
an opportunity of paying its respects to the
new mistress of the White House" 1t is
not the presidents intention at any time to
take up his residence ct the suburban estate
which he has purchased He simply wants
n place where be can go in the afternoon
and spend quiet hour away from all the
life and care of the executive mansion He
viii be a resident of the latter so long as he
remains president. He will not, therefore,
spend a large sum of money in improving
the house on the Tenaly Town road 1t will,
when put in complete repair, answer his
purpose very well, and he will spend good
many afternoons and evenings there during
the warm months
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
NO BEST MAN.

After the ceremonies a wedding supper
will be served in the family dining room
tuot in the state dining room, as has been
generally stated No correspondents will
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
THE BLUE PARLoR.

The blue parlor, in which the wedding
ceremony will occur was decorated by Tiff
fanny of New York, and reopened in the win
ter of 1882 A robins egg blue is used for
walls, furniture covering and window snad-
ings, but it looks green by gas light, which
is the light always used on state occasions
The ceiling is silvered over beautiful de-
sign, silver and crystal brackets on the
walls, having gas burners, which, as
well as those in the handsome
center chandeliers Of crystals are
always lighted at ceremonials Although
the east room was used for Nellie Grants
wedding, the blue parlor is the room in
which the most formal and ceremonious
social events usually happen at the White
house. The wedding of John Quincy Adams
son In 1926 while his father was president,
and of President Hayes niece, Miss PlatJ.
occurred in this room The blue bed room,
which the president and his wife will occupy,
is the same from which the last two brides
whose weddings occurred in the White House
descended
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
TO BE MARRIED


In the parlors below 1t was Nellie Grants
chamber during the months preceding her
wedding IN the east room May p, 1874,
and it was the bed chamber occupied by
Miss Plat, PRESIDENT Hayes niece, during
the time she spent in the White House be-
fore her wedding in the blue parlor June
IS, 1878 That room, however, now looks
not at all as 1t did then, having been thor
oughly refitted for President Arthurs use
when he moved INTO the White House in De-
cember, 1881. Then one of the presidents
sisters gave her special attention to that
room, and had all its wood work, formerly
white, painted blue, and red, corated in a
style tn harmonic The furniture is all of
pale blue satin. There is a lounge also COW
cred with that delicate color of satin. The
white marble is covered with a hand-em-
broidered blue lambrequin. The hangings
at the two large windows are of blue satin.
The bed in the apartment has its head to the
west Above is "a canopy of lace over blue
satin AN eider-down quilt, one side of
which is blue and the other pink silk, the
blue side worked with figures in colors. is
thrown across the foot of the bed There
are three doors in the large square room,
which is on the north side of the building
One door opens into bath, and opposite is
one opening into the corner loom, which
adjoins the bedroom This corner room
is about han the size of the other, was fitted
up at the same time the larger was for
PRESIDENT ARTHUR
and used by him and his successor as
private study. Into the large room, the bed
chamber, President Arthur used to have the
ladies shown after a state dinner when the
gentlemen were enjoying cigar down
stairs The married presidents never used
the bed room Arthur and Cleveland chose
to ocolpy it Presidents Grant. HAYES and
Garfield, with their wives, used the opposite
rooms, which face the south and look out on
the large grounds on that side of the man
sion Superstition has had not little to do
with this wedding. 1t is a secret, treas
ured among a few confdepts who have
kept 1t closely, that President Cleveland
slept the night before his Inauguration with
a piece of wedding cake under his pillow
This traditional charm was tried at the
Arlington hotel, and the inspiring genius was
a prominent society lady long resident In
Washington. In January, 1885, Mrs Penn
broke Jones, the daughter of Representative
Wharton Green of North Carolina, who had
been married few weeks previously, was
asked for some of her wedding cake to be
used as charm Good Democratic wedding
cake was wanted Mrs Jones kindly gave
the cake. 1t was white cake with white icing,
and it was safely put aside by the proyident
lady until the morning of March 3, 1855:
when she handed it enclosed in a small box
to the hotelkeeper, who promised to see that
the cake was pat under the presidents pll-
low. In slip of paper placed in the box
were the initials of names OF ladies reported
to have been engaged to the then president
elect during the campaign and subsequently,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-09
Tine Amalgamated Association.

PTrTsBURG, june 8.-Ths session of the Anal
ganated Association of Iron and Steel-workers
was taken up this morning with the considera-
ton of the scale of wages, without conclusion.
From an unofficial source it was learned that the
committee recommended the scale OF 1884
President Wiehe has been asked to appoint a
committee of five to draft BILL to be presented
in Congress. establishing the Birmingham wire
gauge as the national standard gauge of the
United States
The convention adjourned shortly before !
o'clock this "Wednesday morning. Secretary
Martin said the wages scale had been prepared
and would be presented to the manufacturers
tomorrow. 1t is generally understood that they
will ask for the present SCALE which is So per ton
for pudding the 2cent card rate.