Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-04-12

At Houston, Tex, Henry Regain,
switchman on the Missouri Pacific rail.
road, shot and instantly killed ex.police.
man John z. Butler. The tragedy was the
result of love affair between Regain and
Miss Butler, daughter OF the deceased.
James w. Drape OF Pittsburg is in re.
ceipt OF "a letter from a personal friend,
Pittsburger, now in Vienna, in which this
passage occurs: | saw Mr.. Blaine quite
often at Florence, and it is evident that
he is greatly broken il health. He looks
every day OF seventy years, and yet ] s only
tifty-eight. Washington excitement and
too much hard work have been his troubles,
and any one who sees him will know the
reason OF his withdrawal from presidential
aspirations. fear his wife will not be
spared long.
The secretary OF state was asked:
"What will be the government policy to-
wards Morocco? .Mr. Bayard replied: The
government will endeavor to get along
with as little difficulty as possible, and
there will be no trouble between them.
A dispatch to the Independence Beige
from Madrid says: The United States
government refuses to accept the proposed
mediation OF Germany in the dispute with
Morocco, and demands suitable indemni-
ties and apologies. 1t is feared that the
United States steamer Enterprise will
lombard Tangier.
Sioux City, Iowa, was visited by little
tornado, which demolished and injured
several buildings. The funnel shaped cloud
rose as rapidly as it fell, and rushed away
eastward doing no further damage there
About an hour later similar cloud
struck near the town Of Marcus, on the
Illinois Central fifty miles east OF Sioux
City, tearing up the track and again re-
bounded. A violent thunder storm pre-
vailed after the passage Of the tornado.
1t transpires that Hazeltine OF Stevens
Point, Wis, was shot down unawares by
John Curran, and that Henry Curran fred
Immediately afterward simply for a blind.
Ali the witnesses agree that the first two
shots must have come from a shotgun.
These were the shots that killed Hazeltine.
Thereupon Henry Curran fired two or three
shots from large revolver at the ground,
and then threw the weapon towards Haz-
eitine' PROSTATE body to make it appear
that it had been used by the latter. But
for eye witnesses. the plot would have
proven successful. Its said that ofhis $50,
900 insurance money Hazeltine had legally
set aside $50, 900 for the prosecution OF
his murderer, he evidently experimenting a
violent aud sudden death.
IL was reported in Berlin that Bismarck,
the emperor that he desired to retire IRON
the German CHARACTERISTIC. The real rea.
son was said to be due to conflict be-
tween Bismarck and the emparor's party.
The report was promptly contradicted.
The Cologne Gazette says: Great excite
ment prevails in diplomatic circles in Ber-
lin over the possibility OF the speedy resig
nation OF Bismarck because of the pro-
posed marriage OF Prince Alexander OF
IaNt a "a -
STA. Prince Alexander wishes to accom-.
pany Queen Victoria to Berlin as suitor
Tor the hand OF the princess. Until the
Bulgarian question shall have been settled
by all the powers, the projected marriage
can only be judged from political point
OF view, and on that account the marriage
is an impossbility.
A murderer who had been released on
ticket oi-leave near Tempesva, Hungary,
went to the house OF the Judge who con.
demned him and killed the judges wife
with revolver. Then he went to the
house OF the notary and killed the Iatter's
deputy. Thence he went to his own home
and split the skulls OF his wife and chill
dren, after which he fled and has not yet
been captured.
Marietta, Ohio, is celebrating the one
hundredth anniversary OF it's settlement
The exercises opened with the annual ad.
dress of the president, Hon. f. C. Sessions
OF Columbus, and was followed by an ad-
dress by Judge Cox Of Cincinnati on THE
Building Of the State" This celebration
is intended to commemorate the one hun.
dredth anniversary OF the first settlement
ofthe territory northwest ofthe Ohio river,
from which we're carved the States OF Ohio,
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin
The first settlers. under the leadership of
Gen. Rufus Putnam, the Revolutionary
soldier and friend OF Washington, arrived
at Marietta April z, 17SS.
Luther Shaffer was hanged at Lock Ha-
ven. Pa; he assembled the steps co the gal
lows with firm tread and was supported
by Fathers Zeubert and Sheridan. On the
scaffold Shaffer stepped to the front and
said: Goodbye, gentlemen; / am going
now: l hope to meet you all in heaven. :"
After kissing the priests and the sheriff he
bade them goodbye and the moose was adj
iusted. Ten minutes after the drop fell the
pulse was hardly peroeptibie and at Is
minutes after IL had ceased to beat.