Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-04-05
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Neyvs No,es.


The bill conierrins municipal suffrage on
women, on final passage In the senate OF
New York, was killed by a vote Of TO 10
Peter Brisbers. a saloonkeeper. OF Eau
Ciaire Wis, beca me insane from drink and
attempted TO kill his children. He vas
Jailed.
The will of the late vice President Wheel,
er is being contested at Malone, n. Y. He
left $35, 900 to charities aud $40. 600 to
relatives, who are the contestants.
The Republicans will hold a territorial
convention at jamestown May 16, and
the Democrats at Watertown May 2, to
elect delegates to their respective national
| conventions.
The fifth annual report OF the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul company shows the
gross earnings during 1887 were S35, $780,.
1913, net earnings, $40, los, l39-a de-
crease OF $1tS, 70S.
Mrs. Charles S. Steele has commenced
an action against ths st. Paul street rail-
way company Tor fifty thousand dollare
| for damages sustained in the cable car
accident. in which Mrs. Steele had her
nose broken and sustained other severe
| injuries.
An important meeting OF anthracite
managers was held in Philadelphia. 1t
was decided unanimously to maintain the
! prices for anthracite during the season OF
| 1889, beginning April 1. and to regulate
| the output OF coal so that the market shall
not be burdened by an overproduction
| this year.
In the United States circuit court at
| Detroit JudgeBrown ordered the sale OF
| the Chicago & Canadian Southern railroad
under foreclosure unless the past interest
on the first mortgage bonds, amounting to
| SO, % !, 069.67 is paid on or before Aug.
s Of this year. Among other conditions it
is provided that the road shall not beseld
| for less than $500. 900. The sale will take
place In that city. -
The decision recently rendered in the
case of the BONN Manufacturing company
VS.. Jameson ct al. by Judge Wilkins OF st.
Paul, is of vast Importance to the work
| ingmen OF the state, deciding. as 1t does,
| the mechanics lien law OF 1887 to be I'M
constitutional The only question argued
was the constitutionality OF the new law,
and Judge Wilkin decided to be unconstitu-
tional giving no reasons therefor.
| There has been for several days an
agent at Austin. Mimi, for fancy oats,
charging SIS bushel for the seed, and
then making a contract for buying back in
| the fall at the rate of $40
bushel. 1t is stated that one subs tantial
| farmer from Freedom county gave his Sc
| holds contract to sell back eighty bush.
els for SO a bushel to the agent after
| harvest.
The Manitoba is about to equip its line
between st. Paul and Minneapolis with
| the Palmer torpedo railway signal, an APP
| pliance which is combination OF visual
and non-visual signals Tor preventing acct.
| dents. II isacombination oisemaphore and
| torpedo signal Whatever the semaphore
is set at danger" q torpedo is automat
ically placed in such position beside the
| rail that the first wheel explodes it. 1t
can be manipulated either from tower,
as an ordinary switch, or automatically.
1t is probable that the appliance will also
be adopted on the Northern Pacific.
A convention to tale action against
| trusts and monopolies was held at
| Fargo, d. T. The Attendance was light. but
farmer agitators from North Dakota and
Clay county, Mimi, were present. Smith
| Stimmel was made temporary chairman,
| and in taking the chair said that he be-
lieved the farmers should combine and
| hold their wheat until the millers must
have it. He did not think the protective
| tariff had anything to do with the farmers
| troubles. England had free trade. and her
/ farmers we're in worse condition than
| those OF this country, and trusts originated
in England. Lyman Loring of Minnesota,
| thought the tariff was the farmers bane,
| and after further discussion Messrs. Slim
| mel, James Hales and Loring were appoint
| ed a committee to correspond with the
Kansas farmers antitrust monopoly. The
| permanent organization is as follows:
Smith Stimmel. president; e. A. Webb,
secretary; James Hales, treasurer.