Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-23
General News Items,

Winona's new high school is dedicated,
an address being made by Gov. McGiI.
Capt. George w. Hubbard was appointed
chef OF police Of Chicago, by Mayor Roche.
to succeed Frederick X. Ebersold, resigned.
Seymour, the Republican candidate for
congress in the Eleventh district OF Michi-
gan, is elected by from zoe to 800 plural.
ity.
At Billings, Mont. Sam II. Wildly, coun-
ty attorney of Yellowstone county, W as
declared temporarily insane. Whisky
brought him to his present condition. He
was elected county attorney last year.
An error has been discovered in the con.
stitution OF New Jersey, which, it is sand,
will liberate all prisoners committed since
1875. The constitution provides hat
Judges OF the court OF common pleas shall
be appointed by the legislature.
The most important news of the day on
Wall street comes from Philadelphia. 1t
is a statement that the Rock Island rail-
o a Proposes to extend its lines by 1000
miles. running extensions to Denver aud
the Gull OF Mexico. This work will require
$50, 900, 900.
Great Falls {Mont.) Special. Paris Glib
son who has returned from the East,
where he met President Hill, Col. Broad
water and Others interested in Montana,
says that the Manitoba railway has closed
a contract for 90, 900 IONS of steel rails,
mostly for Montana, where the company
will build about o miles in extensions
and branches.
At Baltimore as Miss Sophia Hunger.
ford, "A tes cher in the Woodbury. high
school. was passing the Druid Hill Park,
she was approached by a young man, who
insulted her. She caught one of his fingers
in her mouth and bit it savagely, when the
man let go his hold. She drew a revolver,
at the sight of which he ran, but she fired
two shots after him.
Two prominent capitalists in st. Louis
propose to revolutionize passenger and
freight business on the upper Missis-
sippi, and have filed an order with the
Iowa Iron works oil Dubuque for the con-
struetion of a steel steamboat, the first
one ever built for use on the upper river.
Thu boa will be 22o feet long, 81 feet
beam and 81 loot hold, aud will cost $50
00o- ALI its appointments will be first
clas IS. and it is proposed To make the trip
from ST. Louis to st. Paul in hall the time
consumed by the slow packet wooden
steamers. Work will begin on the boat at
once.
A decision was rendered by the inter
state commission in the case of William
H. Heard vs.. The Georgia Railroad com.
pany. The commission holds: The petit
tioner, a colored passenger on defendants
road between Atlanta. Ga, and Charles
ton, s. c., who had paid a first-class fare,
was subject to undue and unreasonable
prejudice mt disadvantage in being CON-
PEELED TO travel in a car of inferior accom-
modations, OF which only one-half was as
signed to colored passengers. the other
hall being used as a smoker for both white
and eoiored passengers, and ii Is the duty
oil the carrier under the law to furnish to
passengers paying the same fare equal &C
eommodatioLs without discrimination on
account of color But il separation Of
white and eolored passengers is expedient
for adequate reasons, such separation is
not unlawful II the accommodations and
comforts for colored passengers are in all
respects equal to those OF white passengers
paying the same fare.