Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-17

| The senate committee on Indian trader.
| ships, which has been investigating tbs
Chippewa timber contracts made on the
reservation in Northern Wisconsin, arr
contemplating a trip to the pine regions
oil that state TO further investigate.
The viii OF Roscoe Conkiine has peen Of
Tered for probate before Surrogate Bliss In
New York. The text OF it is as follows: 81
| Roscoe Conkling, OF Utica, n. ", do make
| publish and declare my last viii and sssta-
ment rs follows: | give, devise and be.
qneath to my wife, Julia. and to her heirs
and assigns forever all my property and
| estate, whe Their real, personal or mixed.
and | constitute and appoint my said
! vile sole executrix OF this will. In testimo
ny whereof. / hereunto set my name, this
| 2lst day OF June, 4. D., 1867"
William Showers, under sentence o.
| death for the murder OF his two grand
children, escaped from theiail at Lebanon,
/ Pa
John j. Corneilson, who on Dec. 10
1884, horsewhipped Superior Judge Rich
ard Reed at Mount Sterling, Kentucky
from Shame for which Reed committee
suicide, was brought to- Louisville fol
safety from mob violence. Corneilson wal
arraigned at the time OF the assault bul
| was not convicted until April 3, 1887
| when he was sentenced to three vears il
jail. the offense not bearing penitentiary
| penalty. Three citizens Of Mount steriin,
made affidavit that corneilson was in
danger OF mob, and he was brought
there. His ground for the. assault wa,
that Reed decided a case uniustly agaiusi
him.
A package was reeeiyed at the treasury
department at washington from the Ameri
can Exchange National bank OF New York
| prrporting to contain SAL 900 in banl
notes, but when il was opened nothing but
| brown paper was found within. Tn,
package was returned to the bank. Tn,
robbery is supposed u have occurred OF
the train between there and New York
The president OF the express company ha,
nt, idea at what point it took place, sheth
/ er before or after il came into the hands o
| his company. He thinks it a very clever
piece OF work which il will be extremel,
difficult to trace.
Fred j. Stewart, treasurer OF Luce coun
ty Michigan. and postmaster NJ Newberry
was arrests by United States authoritie.
with hiadeputy Clyde W. Heux, editor
and Publisher OF the Sewbery News, Of
i the charge OF embezzlement. They wer,
.arraigned before United States Commits
sioner Stacey, pleaded not guilty and wer,
held under So. 900 bonds each. stewart
during the examination. jumped from .
second. story window and attempted to es
cape. but officers caught him. Both are nov
in JAIL unable to give bonds. The affairs o
the postoifice are in u horrible shape
Crookedness being suspected at Washing
ton. Inspector Stewart was sentthese and
:. found 81 200 shortage. Stewart is d
4 young man who year ago had brilliant
| prospects, but was ruined by liquor. IL j,
not yet known how his accounts stand as
treasurer.
1t wss generally believed that the burnin,
OF the family at Arlington. Nsb., was AN ac
cident, but the belief is now gaining ground
that they were murdered and burned il
the barn by some iiend. Prior to the fun
eral most thorough examination o
everything connected with the mysterious
affair was made in tbs preeenee oil Justice
Cook. DIR. Hadley and several others
nearly all Of whom came Is. the conclusion
that the deaths were not accidental. Rem
nants OF clothing worn by the victims
were found among the ruins OF the barn
Among these was a stir collar fastened
to the dress worn by Mrs. Fred Grotelus
chen This was sataarsd with blood, and
near the dress there was found about thres
ounces OF clotted blood. as fsome had come
from the victims throat. The remains Of
Mrs. Groteluschen was then exumed. and
her throat was found to have been cut
4 The sight convinced everybody OF foul
play. They believe that the murderer
met his death in attempting to escape aft
or he had fred the barn, or that he com
mitted suicide
BY the recent Hood along the &yalIey OF
the Canton river China. 1000 persons
we're drowned.
Signs are rapidly accommodating through
out Ireland that an attempt. to enforce
tho pope's decree will cause an aim ost unan-
imous revolt OF the laity OF the country
against the church.
A man fred two gun shots into the
palace al King Charles at Bucharest. No
] political significance attaches DO the in
eident. The man was a dismissed police.
man. He was irritated at his dismissal
| and fired into the palace in ~ tit of anger.
| The salient point OF the preface OF Cen
Bonlangers book is the generals ad-
socaey Of the right Of the army to have =
voice in the question OF peace or war. The
book is almost every where regarded as a
direct appeal to the army to support him
in possible coup d'eiat and it is now
seen that tile reiorps instituted by him
while minister OF war, whereby the French
soldier ca me into posse ssion OF eomfor t. and
the exercises OF privileges heretofore denied
him, were conceived and put into opera
ton with the same Interior view.
At the Colby mine. at Bessemer Mich,
Frank Robatsks wasAiastantiy killed an
three others fatally injured by u dynamite
* plosicn. The rope house was blown to
4 atoms and the engine house burned. Loss,
IS, 00o.
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