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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
Horrible Freaks Of q Maniac.

A Mattoon, Ill. telegram of Sept. both. con-
eeys n piece Of news like this: Peter Strnub,
n Chicago mnchinist out OF funds, anne TO
Mattoon Friday. About 8 o'clock Saturday
night he became possessed ofthe haIlucination
of being controlled by spirits and Mt their
command danced until 3 o'clock Sunday
morning, when he fed from his room without
coat, hat, or shoes TO get away from
them. He jumped over the fence into
an adjoining yard, but they con-
tinued TO torture him. He rushed
out on a broad street, but when he stopped
TO recover his wasting yigor he was again
surrounded by millions OF spirits. ~lnappcal-
ing tones he said:
"What can do to induce you TO cease your
tortura2"
The spirits said: Tear out your eyes"
81 have but one good eye and do not want
to lose it,"
They wore memorable, however, and IN
sisted on the execution of their demand
He then ran the forefnger Of each
hand into the sockets aud gougsd
his eyes ont. He was found about Z O'Clock
this morning insensible near a baru three
fourths of mile from the boarding house.
He presented n CHASTITY appearance. He was
taken in charge by the police and physicians
placed the balls in their proper position. bat
on account Of Inflammation it was impossj.
BILE to determine whether or not the sight of
the good eye was injured. While be is no
longer disturbed by the spirits vet the
mania il still upon hiin.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
Criminal Dolngs.

Three officers at Kingston, N. Y, arrested
a man. who gave his name as Houihy, on
the suspicion that heis Tascott. the murderer
OF Mr.. Smell in Chicago. Houlihy claims that
he is employed by the owner Of a racing stud
and says his arrest is absurd.
Levi $. Morse. a resident of Spring Valley.
Mimi. a mason by trade, attempted suicide
with a jacknife, cutting a terrible cash in his
throat, though not sufficient to cause death.
The doctors think he will ecoyer. Ii is a
case of temporary insanity, as no cause for
self-destruction is known.
A young man named C. r. Stras was In G..
H. Totes saloon at Furgus Falls, MINI.
drinking. He was full and went out without
paying for his drinks. A youag brother OF
Tote followed him out and'kicked him so as
to perhaps permanently injure him. Young
Tote was caught, and was held to the grand
Jury in $500 bail.
Another Apache killing is reported near
Dudleyville, on tho San Pedro river. so miles
east Of Florence, AriZono. A man named
Jones rode to the amp of Chief Patehula,
five Indians came up and riddlod Jones with
bullets. They then escaped, going III the di-
rection of the San Carlos reservations Pat.
chula has given the nauaes of the mrrderoas
Indians and the Sheriff has teleerapied the
San Carlos authorities to arrest them.
The Italians and Irish have been at work
on the water works at Dover, N. H., came
together, and a general rowfollowed. Knives
were freely used and many cuts were inflicted.
1t is claimed that Hugh Miller began the dis.
turbance with Jose Pratto by slapping his
face. Knives were then drawn and both were
badly cut. Others who were cut are William
Casey, Mix Mullen. Peter Casey, Hugh Wat
J son aud Pat Carroll. Carroll Il very low and
there are doubts Of his recovery. More ar
rests viii be made.
T~hirteen-year-old Minnie kratzenberg wa
arrested at Chicago for poisoning her moth
er, sister and two brothers. Tn mother,
| who Is a poor widow, will die. A neighbor
Mrs. Snyder, is also under arrest fer being ae
cessory to tho crime. Minnie had got hufet
at her folks and went to live with Mrs. Sny
der, who had a grndge against the Kratzen
bergs. The police claim to he aple to Prov
that at Mrs Snyder's mitigation Minni'
put rat poison in her mothers soup, ant
spread il on her sister and brothers beei
steak.
The state examiner and the counts com
missioners have completed the examination
Of the books in the county treasurers ofie
at Waseca, Mimi, and report the shortage il
Treasurer MeKenna's accounts to BE- $9,6S4
81. Nothing having been heard from Nc
kenna, and nobody knowing anything Of hi
whereabouts, the governor was called upol
to declare the Office vacant, and III e. Chase
the Democratic candidate for Treasurer, wa
chosen by the county commissioners to 81
the unexpired time. II is reported tliut tn
bondsmen of the ~absconding treasurer wi
at once make up the deficiency and thnttayoi
any further trouble. II will be some tiue bt
fore any man will again hold the Office G
county treasurer in Waseca county for uin
successive years.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
A Safety Lantern for Barns.

The loss of many valuable horses
by the late fires suggests that too
much care cannot be taken around
stables and barns to prevent similar
disaster. Such danger has been a
source of great anxiety for many
years at the Cation stock farm, and
so of aistudy how to reduce the dam
ger to a minimum. All ofour stables
are provided with outside doors,
which can be opepedfrom the outside,
But the kerosene lamps, which had
to be used for an hour or two by all
the men morning and evening during
the long nights, caused me thegreat-
est anxiety. Lard oil was tried as
less dangerous, but in very cold
weather with the most improved
make of1amp the oil would CONCEAL
and the light would 60 out. A year
ago | furnished the farm with nine
teen lanterns, made as follows: / took
conductors lamps, removed the lamps
from the bottom, and in place of the
oil receptacle inserted a tube of
the proper height, length, size and
finish for a coach candle, with q bot
tom base four and one-half inches in
diameter and filled with, say three
pounds of sand. This coach candle
gives as good n light as ever the
kerosene did. and burns about twelve
hours. This lantern is not easily up
set, and if, by accident, it is broken,
it does not scatter the fire every
where, as kerosene, or even lard oil,
would. believe this lantern affords
a maximum of security from fire in
Il barns with no appreciabIe in
crease of cost. Their use at the sta
bles Of public fairs would tend to
quiet the fears of many owners of
valuable animals there stabbed, and
it is worthy the consideration of the
managers of such institutions wheth
er it would not be wise to prohibit
the use of any other lanterns and
especially OF kerosene in their stables.
lhave taken out no patent on this
invention, so all a use it and well
come.-John Dean Cation in Farmers
Review.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
News about People.

Mabel Vaughan, the daughter Of q retired
New York merchant. has caused a sensation
m.Mont Clair by clipping with her fathers
Goodman. Henry T. Upton. He is a good
looking young Engiishman and well educated
The girl took $1,000 OF her own money with
her.
Wallace Turner of Fergus Falls, Mimi,
died at Jacksonville of yellow fever. He was
about twentY-one years Of age. He learned
telegraphy, n worked at different places in
the state. The last time ne was heard from
he was near Stevens Point, Wis. az station
agent for the Wisconsin Central. He changed
bis name to W. j. Ford and wentto Jackson.
vile to act as an operator when the fever
broke out. lie had the fever and died from n
relapse. Just before dying he made known
his identity and the news Was sent to his
uncle Mt Bay City, Mich, and then sent to
Fergus Falls, TO his father, f. Fl. Turner.
T. +. Cakes, who was elected president OF
TIE Northern Pacific Railroad company, re.
TUNED from New York. accompanied by N.
G.. Nhrall, his private secretary. Mr.. 0akes
was the recipient OF hearty congratulations
from his many friends in st. Paul on hls pro
motion, which he has earned by hard work,
He said that be feft very much gratiied al
the pleasure expressed by his st. Paul friends
over his promotion. BE was asked If his
being made president would cause any
ehangrs az the general Offices, and he replied
that II would not; that he should continue to
discharge the duties Of general MANAGER OIL
the road. and should make his permanent
home in St. Patti.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
The Brigl. Side Of Farming.

Although there are clouds in farm
ing, as in all other occupations, who
ran say that there is not a bright
side also? Certainly not the man
who loves nature and country life,
because he will see too many things
to admire to be constantly looking
at the clouds" and complaining OF
everything. There is a good deal OF
hard work to be done on the farm. L
know from thirty-five years expert
ence, but there are q great many
pleasures and advantages to coun-
terbalance it. We have the freedom
of Gods bright sunshine, and many
beautiful things toiook at while at
work. We can beautify our homes
with fine trees-both fruit and orna-
mental-shrubs, vines and beautiful
flowers; from these there is truly a
great deal of pleasure to be derived.
Who can have such beautiful trees as
the farmer
There is also q pleasure in hay-
ing a fine garden, and 9th
er good crops, and good animals,
too. Indeed, | think there is more
pleasure to be derived from tiliing
the soil, than from any other occupa-
ton. There is nothing monotonous
about it; the labors are ver chang
ing. and there is also a change con-
tinually taking place in the garden,
field and orchard, and new attrac-
tions continually being brought out.
II the farmer has q flower garden it
will help to make the home bright
and cheerful and add attractiveness
thereto; not only for the farmers
family, but for the visitors and
traveller as well. When passing a
farm house / almost always look for
The flowers and the garden, and the
nicer these are the more | admire
them and the higher opinion | have
Of the inmates of that home.
There is a fascination in planting
and caring for flowers and vege-
tables, and is it not interesting to
watch the growth of our choice vines?
Harry said that a Prentiss grape
vine had grown three inches in
twenty-four hours, and on taking
out my rule i found it to be a fact.
What man can spend a day to at
tend a picnic or entertain company
with so little break in his business as
the farmer. When the farmer sits
down and counts up his blessings
ought he not to be the happiest man
on the face of the earth? Don't let
us always look on the dark side and
continually find fault with the
weather, or something else beyond
our control, but, rather, let US look
about us and see how much happi-
ness We can get out of life and how
much of it We can impart to Others.
l believe we were placed on this earth
to enjoy it, and now let us cultivate
the beautiful.-F. III. d. in Prairie
Farmer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
The Record Of Casualties.

John yath and Charles Blake, two prom
inent young men of Dubuque, Iowa, left theil
homes for a row on the river. Their skih was
found overturned On a a bar just below
the city. Search was made and the body o.
fath was recovered from the river, but that
of Blake has not been oun
The famous Turtle Creek cheese factory
five miles northwest Of Austin, Mimi, caught
fire from sparks from a chimney and was to
tally destroyed. Loss, 81, 500; no insurance
IL was owned by a farmers stock company
and has paid well. Its product has taker
several state fair premiums. They viii prob
ably rebuild in the spring.
Walter NJ. 0ulten was killed by a freight
tram on the Chicago, st. Paul & Kansas City
railway at Austin, MINI He with two com
panions Was stealing a ride on the train. On
entering the city he attempted to jump from
the bumper of the car and fell en- the track
TIL cars passed over both legs and he died
IN a snort time. He was from Washington
ID. Y. his companions were John Dover and
Henry Deyins, both from Chicago.
A train on the Oregon short line, bound
east, ran into a herd OF cattle at Onyx sta
ton, between Poeatello and McCaunnot, kill
ing engineer Dan Hill, Fireman Leonard and
Brakeman Charles Walton, besides tive
tramps found in a box car, and who are no,
known. About 80 cars were derailed. The
damage is estimated at SIS, 600. Tho train
men were all found in the engine. Conductor
Long and the rear brakeman were the only
persons on the train escaping.
o.. w. Fisk. one OF the subcontractors oil
tho Duluth, Red Wing & Southern railroad,
was held up by highwaymcn near Rcd Wing
Mimi, and robbed of 50. Az he made a feint
to take out his pocketbook he struck both
Of the ~desperadoes, knocking them back.
ward into a ditch. He then jumped into his
buggy and drove of. Two shots were fred
after him with no effect. TIE robbers were
evidently rev at the BUSINESS, as they per.
mitted Mr.. Fisk to search himself. He car.
ried about $500 in his pocketbook, and con.
sequsntly considers himself very fortunate in
escaping with as small a loss as he did.
Two lives were lost in a fire which oc-
CURED at Chicago in the furniture manufae.
tory offs. G.. wilkins < Co. IL started in the
basement and quickly mounted up the eleva-
tor SHAFT and the back stairway, fed by the
infiammable materials in the structure,
About eighty persons were employed in the
building and many Of them had narrow es-
capes. Two of them escaped from the
fourth floor by swinging themselves off up
on telephones wires; one OF them slid to n
place of safety, cutting his hands badly, and
the othe, was rescued from his perilous posi-.
boys were employed on the fifth floor. They
were penned in, escape being cut of by tins
only stairway, which was on fire. Sixteen Of
them managed to get upon the roofthrough
the ~scustie, several of them severely burned,
but William Cook, the fireman who remained
behind TO see them all out, and a boy known
only by the name of Pete were overcome
by smo ke and flames end were burned to
death.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
When the Cow Docs the Huskinx.

With all his shrewdness the Yankee
never stops to ask why the COW and
steer cannot do their own husking
and save him the trouble. In his
eagerness TO get all he could lay
hands on our New Highlander in the
West has ,out-generaled himself.
Have you ever watched a COW hunt
over an armful of fodder for an ear
or nubbin that perchance escaped
the eye of the husker? Every fiber
of her body shows that she is alive
to the possibilities that lie therein,
and that she prefers her pie, if there
he any, at the beginning of the
meal. But despite all that this
teaches, our thrifty, hard-working
farmer will this Fall cut his corr as
usual and then laboriously wear the
knees of his breeches out during tho
Indian simmer day at husking, in
stead of leaving the work for tho
stock to attend to, as they gladly
would. How apt We are TO forget that
time goes on and some day we will be
ancestors and smiled at for the many
foolish, useless things we earnestly
ana honestly didl-Breeders Gazette.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11

Army recruits are not of first
quality nowadays. OF sixteen re-
cruits recently arrived at Livingston,
Mont, six are in the guard house for
serious offenses, three have deserted,
one has been sent to Fort Benton for
trial by courtmartiai, and one was
strung up by indignant citizens and
made 10 confess where he had hidden
a satt bel, gold watch and some
money from a dead woman.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
Tn. military mieronhone

The military mierophone is now
being. tried in France, not only to
give warning to the passage oftroops
from afar, but to indicate the differ,
ent branches of the army in move.
ment, and to furnish anapproTimate
idea of the number of men and horses
on the advance. 1t consists of q
sounding plate buried in the sol
across and along any route, andcon.
nected by a long wire conductor to
the receiving desk of the apparatus
in position, which has the necessary
arrangement for making the sounds
louder and readily distinguishable.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
Murder Most Foul:

A few weeks ago Mayor Fuller of Helena,
Montana, offered a reward Of $500 for the dis.
coyery of the body of Anna Lindstrom, sup
posed to nave been murdered by George
Bryson. Duncan Dixon, miner, prospeetor
and blacksmith, OF Helena, who has been
searching for the body ever since the re.
ward was offered, found the body of a
woman in a prospect hole about a mile east
of this city. He had been searching the hills
for days past, and finally discovered marks
OF footsteps on the margin of an old mining
shaft. Going to the mouth Of the hole he
saw further evidences and his suspicious We're
further excited by discovering that the hole
was about twenty-five feet deep, and that
| there was a tunnel at the foot of it going
back in the solid rock OF the mountain. III
procured a rope and lowered himself down.
| When once reaching the bottom he found o
woman's body. Sufficient evidence was ad.
| duced to show that the remains were those
of Anna Lindstrom. Geo. d.. Bryson, o
former Minneapolis crook was the alleged
husband ofAnna.
On the 21st Of August Bryson and his
alleged wife had a quarrel, but afterward
| made up. In the afternoon of that day Bry'
son took Anna Lindstrom ont for a wolk in
the hills, which was a custom they had. Mr.
Bryson came home that evening alone and
the next morning moved his trunks and
| goods TO the hotel, where he registered under
| shN ucohlstN AttAhN VI thNs+ ~ a.
| hotels ia the city for about three weeks, when
the officers lost track of him. On the 18th
Of September he was arrested at o hotel near
the Northern Paeiie depot, whittier he had
been traced by a woman whom he had au.
thorized TO get his mail. On the prelimi
nary trial he denied the crime Of muir,
der lodged against him, and said the
woman Lindstrom had quit him and gone tt
| Butte, whore he had seen her ten days after
her Disappearance. He was placed in jail for
ten days, and on the27th inst. was arraigned
for murder in the Justices court. As before
he denied the crime and conducted his ownde
Tense. Judge Sanders thought the circumstan
tial evidence so strong hat he bound him oyel
for the grand jury and remanded him total
where he has been ever since. When Informed
that the body of the woman had been found
Bryson never quailed, and said that that
had nothinsto do With him. He lisa smooth
villain. and bears himself with an air Of in.
jured innocence. This evidence against hin
is f~earfully strong, and he viii probably swinf
for the murder OF Anna Lindstrom in time
il citizens do not take matters in their owl
hends and string him up. Bryson served
term OF one year and ten months in the Min
nesota state prison for larceny end wa
also In the workhouse at Minneapolis fo
obtaining 5000 from Anna Lindstrom unde
false pretences.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
The Ysshinston aqueduct.

The frauds in the construction ofthe Wash
ington aqueduct win greatly injure the rep
utation Of the engineer corps with congress-.
This corps has been justly regarded as the
highest corps OF the army. Its officers are
men cfhigL character, and have always been
regarded az men of ability. Congress has
lelt that the interests of the government
we're safe when the expenditure Of the APP
preparations for the rivers and harbors was
entrusted to the officers of this corps. But
there seems to be something in the social Mt
mosphere of Washington which eneryates
some of the best men of the service. 1t is
raid that one of the army officers responsible
for the construction of this work, whose sig
nature that the work has been satisfactorily
performed is required for every voucher upon
which payment is made to the contractors,
hns never yet set foot in the tunnel.
except on one occasion when he accom-
panied n congressional committee
there. An investigation is to be made by
congress into all OF this; but nothing has
been heard that the war department CON
templates any inquiry of it's own, or that the
officers themselves have asked for an official
inquiry. Rugged old soldiers ~criticise the de
partment for this and say that it could o
happen unless there was great decentralization
in the service and discipline was much relax,
cd.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
n Would go 70 England.

The free trade Boston Globe sneeringly re-
marks tina lit costs American infant indus
tries' $50. 900, 600 u year to pay dividends
IN American stocks owned by Englishmen. y
These are railroad stocks. The Globe re-
mark calls attention to the fact that an i'm
mense SHIRE OF our railroad stocks is owned
N England. We are just learning that the
Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st. Paul is owned ID
England.
This win hardly add force to the demand
Tor the reduction of duty On steel rails. Ii Is
Englishmen mostly who are paying the duty
on steel rails, which duty enables the rolling
mills of the United States to employ tens of
thousands of men at good wages, and gives
employment to tens of thousands of men in
the iron mines. The removal OF the duty on
steel rails would increase the revenues of the
English stockholders, and the money they
aow pay TO the English manufacturers, ex-
sept the amount of the duty which would go
INTO their own pockets. Free steel rails
would be a great blessing to the English.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11

The irony of fate is strinkingly
illustrated in the death recently OF
Count William Kaunitz. He was the
most perfect gentleman rider in
Europe, the winner of ~innumerabie
steeplechases both on Austrian and
foreign race-courses, yet he was killed
instantaneously by a fall from a lit
tie pet donkey belonging to his
nephews and nicces, which he was
riding Tor their amusement.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11

1t is gratifying to record the just
punishment of a brute named vii.
liam Bohawn, of Rockaway, n. Y,
The man in a fit Of rage last July
gouged out both of his wife's eyes.
The Grand Jury indicted him on two
counts, one for each eye, and after
ore Of the shortest trials on record
Justice Garretson sentenced the
brute to IA years and 6 months i'm.
prisonment at hardlabor on the first
count and II years and 5 months OF
the second count, making a total Of
20 years and IL months.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11

A man in Trenton, N. j., was re-
Gently drowned in a beer glass. He
had been drinking hard, and was
well under alcoholic influence, when
he entered a saloon and ordered a
glass of beer, which was brought
him. He sat down at a table and
fell into a stupor. bis head dropping
forwi.rd into the glass before him.
When the barkoeper tried to arouse
him, hall an hour later, it was found
that he was dead, his nose being inn
mersed IN she liquor in such a way
that respiration vas completely
stopped.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
American Nationality.

TheNew York Press q o one sid the
.onfedcracy and the British backed up. by
the northern tory. reinforced by the legions
81 ignorance and Y~enality in the great cities
Of the north. On the other sides the forces
Of American nationality and the enlightened
and heroic elements Of our foreign-born
.~itizens. History will repeat itself. We met
our Bunker Hill in 1854. We viii have our
Yorktown in 1888. There is n reserve
power in American nationality that has al
ways asserted itself ON great occasions,
One of these great occasions presents itseli
today. and the American people will prove
equal to the emergency"