Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-08-23

Gov. Hill of New York has granted Daniel
Lyons, the murderer, a respite until Tuesday,
Aug. 81. The document from the governor,
accompanying this respite, says that he dis
approves of the custom which has so long
been in vogue, Of having all executions upon
Friday.
j. Harmon Reed and Miss MiIliken took a
cruise out and around Bar Harbor. The
night was intensely dark and, becoming
alarmed at their absence, searchers were sent
put. At an early bour next morning the
wharyes in the vicinity were crowded with
anxious friends, who hoped and waited until
noon. when a gun from the steam yacht Nov
STA, belonging to Montgomery Sears, m
nounced that she bore tidings. She had
picked up the boat, bottom up, of Egg rock,
a distance of three miles from Bar Harbor.
Miss Milliken was a guest atthe st. Sauyeur,
and was chaperoned by Mrs. Van VOORHEES,.
Her parents are residents Of New Orleans.
Mr.. Reed was IS on of Joel Harmon Reed,
one of the wealthy iron foundry men of Al
hany n. Y. The age Of each Of the supposed
victims was about twenty-five years.
While Gen. Boulanger was driving in open
carriage at Saint Jean d'Angely Prof. Perrin,
OF the Lyeee, fred five shots at him from Q
revolver. NJ. Ratapan, n friend ofthe general,
rushed in and managed 20 turn the weapon
aside. The result was that Ratapan himself
received a bullet in the head, but the wound
is not serious. The peasants were also
wounded. Gen. Boulanger vas not touched.
Prof Perrin is a friend of Mayor Lair. the
candidate nominated by the Opportunists in
opposition to Gen. Boulanger. The affair oe-
CURED ut the height of a pitched battle he
tween the rival political parties. When the
gendarmes charged Count Dillon received a
blow On the head from q stick and other
Boulangerists were roughly handled. II is
not certain that Perrin intended to aim at
Boulanger.
Dispatches report that an agitation is be-
ing carried on in Cuba, with the assistance of
influential American politicians, in favor OF
the annexation ofCuba to the United States.
The Cuban situation is becoming extremely
difficult, owing to the financial troubles, and
the increasing agitation in favor Of home
rule.
Carlessness on the part Of an engineer
caused a collision between two so freight
trains at Chicago and entailed a loss of $40
600. A number of oil cars were struck by
the locomotive of a train going in an oppo-
site direction and upset. The oil, of which
there vas 10000 gallons, was soon afre. 1t
destroyed four tank cars and ruined the To-
motive which was the cause of the trouble.
+. NJ. Enos Of Chicago, a drummer for
~MeLaughlinis coffee house, who has been i'll
at the Michigan Exchange hotel at Salt Ste.
Marie for three weeks, exhibited symptoms
OF insanity, and was conveyed to the county
jail. Signs Of mental alteration lave been
noticeable for several days, but it was not
until lately that he became violent. Enos is
a nephew ofCapt. Enos Of Waukesha, Wis,
the well known politician.
A dispatch from Corning, New York, gives
the details of a wreck on the Erie railway.
two miles east of that village. The Iocomo.
motive o. the Chicago and st. Louis limited
express, ~east-bound, running at the rate Of
over forty miles an hour, Jumped the track
and dashed into a Lehigh Valley locomotive.
standing still. The passenger locomotiy i've
overturned and crushed to death John Mer-
cereau Of Hornellsville, the engineer. The
fireman escaped. Henry Fisher, the Lehigh
engineer was hurt about the head. Two
baggage cars and the smoker we're wrecked.
Louis +. Denmuth of Chicago, was hurt inter-
nally and Hans Won Open of Cincinnati had
one hand hurt These were the only injuries
to passengers.
At Black River Falls, Wis, q drunken In.
dian was arrested for making an assault on
a young woman. 1t was but a few rods from
the depot, and her cries and a shot from a
revolver which she carried frightened him OF.
but the officer soon captured him and lodged
him in jail. The AMOUNT Of drunkenness
among the Indians is astonishing during
their payments. Some get drunk on lemon
extract, and Others get some kind of LIQUOR
mpoitJ HTe NdbcT.
The Billings, Clarke's Fork & Cooke City
Railroad company, who's. bill for a right OF
way across the Crow reservation met with
so much opposition in congress, seems likely
to have about as great a difficulty in secur-
ing it's right Of way across the reservation
rom the Indians as it did in getting the
consent of congress. The Crows are hostile
to the scheme, and say they do not propose
to ALLOW another railroad to be run across
Their reservation. They say that they have
allowed one railroads.&c. Rocky Forks &
Cooke City-to run across the reservation.
and that that is enough.
A passenger train on the Chicago, MiIwsu-
kee q st. a near Eau Claire, Wis. was
stopped barely in time 10 escape wreckine on
three ties fastened across the track. Several
freight cars on a switch east OF the city ON
the same road were turned loose and started
down grade. A telephone message warned
the yard men in time to get other rolling
stock out Of the way just before the freight
cars came rushing through the yards. The
authors Of the mischief are supposed 70 be
actuated by spite against tho railroad com.
identity.