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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
Judge Greer Declines:

Judge James Greer, has addressed a letter
to the National Committee of the American
party declining the nomination for Vice
President of the United States. He says:
l feel constrained 10 resign. i am in favor
of restricting both immigration and natural
~iEation, but | cannot go the extent of the
convention in believing it was to uncondi-
t~ionally repeal our naturalization laws.
The effest of this would be to prevent any
foreign born person from ever becoming an
American citizen. 1t cannot be a healthy
thing for any nation to have a large part of
it's population madeup of resident aliens who
can never hope to take any part in the max
ing of laws under which they must be taxed
and to waieh they must submit their per-
sonal liberty. 7 hold that the immigrant
who has renowned all allegiance to any for
eign power, who accepts the spirit of our
constitution and laws, should ave held out
to him the proud honor of American citizen
ship, by keeping out all who do not furnish
evidences before they come ofprobably adopt
ing in heart and mind this ambition and by
requiring them after they come and nave re-
sided some years among us to make this
probability a judicial certainty by proof in a
court of Justice. We will keep America for
Americans. The convention leaves the pub
lie TO infer it is immaterial whether we reduce
the tariff taxation TO the basis of the actual
need of the nation or whether we shall let the
principle remain of accommodating an
idle surplus in the treasury.
To this l cannot subscribe. / rave been
taught that protection, rightly understood,
simply means n payment of a bonus by all
our citizens to a few of our citizens
to engage in certain industrial pur-
suits. Under the name inc guise Of pro-
tecting workingmen, We are paying to their
employers q premium and filing the treasury
with unused money without benefit to the
workingman or to the nation at large.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20

dominion to neutral tribunal for settlement
Your correspondent was the first to convey
the newt of5he passing of the retaliation
bill in congress 20 the government here. Sir
Hector Langeyin express no surprise at the
result, which turned out as he had expected.
The government holds to the opinion that
President Cleveland will enforce the retalia-
ton bill in so far as it affects the transmits
sion OF goods In bond from Canada to foreign
countries through the United States terri
tories, or vice versa, rs provided by the
Washington treaty, without breaking the
treaty existing between the United States
aud Greet Britain. Your correspondent was
informed by a prominent politician, and one
who know whereof he speaks, that any at
tempt to enforce this part Of the fetaliatory
bill will leiid 10 a formal femonstfanee from
Great Britain at oPce. II have no fear, how
ever. he continued, 'that the bill will be car
fied into effect, as the dominion govern
ment viii keep a sharp lookout now
that no initiative to American citizens
which might cat for it's enforcement, Is given.
Under the modus tiTendi American fishing
Vessels secure all the privileges" Either Sir
John Macdonald Or Sir job Thompson,
ihiiister Of Justice, viii proceed to England
shortly to confer personally with the British
government as n more direct and satisfactory
way Of discussing the situation than through
correspondence, as at present.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
What Immigrants Give and TAI

Speaking of the pectmiary van
immigrants, it is well enough To
ure them up as worth economI9
SO much per head as muscle
labor, and then to count up
capital they bring to this COD
(about 500 apiece; but we :
next estimate what is sent out @
country by them to aid friend!
the old countries. Sine 1881
5000, 600, 900 have been sent !
by settlers to Europe. 1t is also
generally known that the nump
successful emigrants who return
England and elsewhere is large.
1856, 10000 persons of British,
Irish origin returned thither
North America. 1t is not impr
BILE that more cash goes ous
means of immigrants than cons
st. Louis Dispatch.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
stricken Jacksonville.

Each succeeding day has seen a day oi
gloom and death, and What is worse, the
outlook for the immediate future is gloomier
sti}l. Tw~enty-seyen new eases were reported
to the board of health for the last twenty
-four hours. There were eight deaths from
Yellow fever during the same period. Among
the prostrations by fever are Hon. H. A.
Lenkle. cashier of the State Bank of Florida,
chairman of the committee on sanitation OF
the citizens association, who has worked in
defatigaDly since the outbreak of the fever.
Total rev cases to date, 511; total deaths,
go.
The committee on d~epopulation completed
the census of the city to-day, and reported
the total population remaining at 13,577-
whites, 3,945; colored, 9,S12; unwilling to
leave, 1875, mostly colored people; with
means for ~self-support, 1896; without
means, S,495; refused to answe as to
means, ] 800. 1t is expected that 1900
or 5000 will leave in ten
or twelve days. The complete
d~epopulation Of the city is impossible,
and those without means can hardly be pro.
yided for in the refugees camps under a
month or six weeks, during which time it Is
feared the epidemic will nave lone it's work
and hundreds of lives sacrificed. The negroes
are 10th to leave, being told by politicians
that they will lose their vote by change of
residence,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
RESUME OF NEWS
Tho Latest Telegraphio News Con-
densed,
DoIugs Al WASHINGTON.

Assistant Secretary of State Rives said
that he SAN no reason TO disbelieye hesitate
ment hat there has been a riot in Canton,
China, growing out Of she treaty trouble
Chef Bell, OF the United States secret ser
vice ut Washington received q telegram dated
at Chicago, from Agent Porter. stating that
be captured at Mount Carroll, H., two eoun'
terleiters, Keneh and Mclaughlin, together
with a large quantity Of counterfeit money
and a complete outfit
The House committee on p~ostofices and
roads decided 10 report on a bill authorizing
a new lock for registered aAail pouches, tbs
postmaster-general having represented that
the locks now used for registered mails arr
not adequate TO prevent ~depredations o.
this class of mail matter.
Speaker Carlisle has decided to appoint
Messrs. Rice, of Minnesota; Catehings, ofMis
sissippi; Hayes, Of love, d. b. Taylor, %
Ohio, and Perkins, Of Kansas, a committee
10 Investigate the charges made by Arehi
tect Smithmyers alleging that a member o
the house had endeavored to Influence
him in the awarding of the contract for mn
terial for the construction Of the new con
gressional library building.
The department OF state has received in
formation in regard to his exeelleney Had
Hassein Kouil Khan Matamed ell yesare, TIL
tthcl0h tthAt1arHttuOF 70 TINS couutF1. WIN
was supposed to have lost his way on TIN
journey to Washington. The information h
to the effect that the ministers left Teherai
Aug. ATTENDING to proceed to Amefiea by TIL
Caucasus, C~onsannople and Paris. Though
the United States has been in treaty rela
tons with Persia since December, 1856. tn
new minister viii be the first Persian repre-
sentative ever accredited to this government
The acting secretary OF war has issued tn
following circular: 1t is hereby directed that
hereafter, chiefs of bureaus of the war de
partment shall cause to be stated in all ad
yertisements for proposals forfurnisbings sup
plies needed by or under the wardepartmeDt
that preference will be given to articles q
domestic production or manufacture, eondi
tons of quality and price being equal, AMI
that no contracts shall be awarded for TN
furnishing of articles of foreign production o
manufacture when the article, of suitable
quality, OF domestic production or manufac
ture can be obtained.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
Bismarck and Brandy.

On the occasion of Prince Bis
marck's last speech in the reichstap
Count Herbert, his eldest son. now
secretary of state in the foreign Office,
Kept the cognac bottle in his owr
hands while a group of high fune-
tlonaries divided the rest of the work
between them. Nothing could exceed,
orr downright comicality, the busy
scene that was enacted behind the
~;hancellor's back during the whole NJ
the speech. The difficulty with which
the glass-mixers had continually 10
contend was that of securing the re-.
qulsite degree of dilution. First one
would taste and find the compound
TOO weak, SO that more cognac had
TO be added. Then another Womb
pronounce it to strong and the ad.
ultlon OF seltZer water was the consa-
quence. More than once the chan.
ceilor, hard to please, refused to
drink the draught SO carefully pre-.
pared and n Of the solemn sroun
nad TO drain the glass so that the
oiending operation might begin
again. Probably a dozen and n hal,
smaii glasses We're handed to Prince
bismarck full and removed from his
bench empty before all had been said
1nat was in the great statesmar;,s
mind. That was a high record to
reach, but then the occasion was a
momentous one and the chancellor,s
The Argonaut.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
The Trade Review.

Special kilograms to Bradstreet's show an
active movement of staple merchandise gen
orally throughout the country, with i'm.
proving tendencies at cities where relatively
IesG improvement had heretofore been shown,
notably at Cincinnati, Detroit, Savannah,
Galveston and P%ittsburg. Leather has been
firm, with an upward tendency, reflected on
boot and shoe prices. Sales and
shipments. OF shoes are heavy.
Cooler weather has helped to stimulate a
reasonable retail demand East and West,
which is reflected in favorable advices from
jobbers and commission agents at most dis
tributing centers. Tho demand for funds to
move the crops is beginning to make itseli
felt, as declines in deposits ut almost all lead
ing Eastern and Western money centers show,
This brings about an upward tendency in the
loan rates, notably on call accommodations
at New FORK and at other cities. The West.
ern and Southern advances in iron have not
shown themselves in the East except in hat
quoted prices there are no longer cut. Old
rails are in demand and firmly held. Steel
rails are dull and within 81 per ton of the
lowest price on record. Business failures re-
ported to Bradstreet's number 157 in the
United States this week against ZIG last
week and 119 this week last year; Canada
has % this week against % last week. The
total of failures in the United States. Jan.
i 80 date, is 6,S7s, against 6,531 in 1887.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
Criminal DOlngs,

Jacob Halgason, an Ieelandic IA rmer, co
mitted suicide at Glenboro, Manitoba, /
cutting his throat and stabbing himself wi
a small penknjfe.
The postofice at Wyoming, o., a subj,
TO Cincinnati, IL miles from the city. on t
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad "
entered by burglars and the safe blown ope
The burglars secured $400 in money a
stamps.
Willie Fischer, aged Ave, son of a farm.
living near Aberdeen, d.. r., strayed or W
carried away from his fathers wagon, as,
has not been seen since. The city has beer
searched in vain, md his parents entertain
fears that the boy has been kidnapped.
The Hatfield trial has just come &c a Gloss
rt the Pipeyille, KY, all the prisoners being
acquitted. They have returned to West yir
ginia. Thus ends the famousc case that threat
ened interstate complication between West
Virginia and Kentucky.
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Lookout, o
mining camp thirty-fye miles west of Rapid
City, N. Y. Chris Lane aud 4. p. Purcell
quarrelled in a saloon over cards. Purcell
left. Lane followed with a Winchester. Pur,
cell finally secured a revolver and stood al
bay, firing three shots, one of which took
effect, killing Lane instantly. Purcell g8vs
himself up and is now in jail.
At Hudson, Wis, a burglar entered the
residence Of DR.. King t~hrougha back window
and o 50 in moaey and a fine gold watch
from the doctors sleeping No clew to
the perpetrator. Officer Carroll has a close
eye on several MISUNDERSTANDING characters
in town, as several other attempts at burg.
larry have been made durinR the week. Fred
Crary,s bed room was entered early in the
week and his pants pockets riffted.
The murderer of John Rombaugh. by two
Nez Perez Indians has just been reported nj
Helena, Mont. Rombaugb, with Frank d.
Jacquette, Corvallis on Aug. rs: for MiReraI
Point, shere. they wera employed In a Ihine
The two men had reached Dilisrd creek, in
Misso1la county, when they met the two In
dams. Rombauqh and ~Jaequette, after
camping for the night, went to sleep, wheD
Jacauette was aroused by a shot. He leaped
to his feet and saw the Indians standing ovei
R~ombaugh's body. After wandering through
the mountains several days, yacquetts
reached the mining camp where he organized
a posse who are now pursuing the Indians.
A sensation has been caused in Edwards
vile, ILL.,, by the arrest of a combination Of q
counteffeiters who have been successfully
posing as a respectable family. About
six weeks & this family came here from
kimmswick, Mo. They gave their name as
Russell, and there were three daughters, two
sons, aud Mrs. Russell. They rented a house
and settled down apparently TO housekeep-
ing. Officers searched the house and found q
counterfeiting outfit. There were molds, a
photograph camera, metals, dies and O buck
ct FULL of 50 guild pieces in process.of manu-
~fncture. Boehling said So gold pieces was
their speciality. Counterfeit bills were also
captured.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
Death Of Richard 4. Proctor.

The startling announcement is made that
the eminent astronomer, Richard A. Proctor,
died in New York, ofyellow fever. Her reached
that city on Monday, Sept. 10, having Travelled
by rail from his farm called Oak Lawn in Flori-
da- His family remained at Oak Lawn and
he came alone. 1t was his intention to sail
for England in the steamer Ufabria on Satur-
day, and his passage on the vessel had been
engaged. Upon his arrival in New FORK he
went to the Westminster hotel. where he had
been o guest on many previous occa-
IONS. He was assigned to room So, a
large apartment of the second floor. He was
not feeling well when he went to bed in the
evening, but he thought his indisposition was
the result of his long railroad journey. On
Tuesday morning he was much worse. and
Mrs. Schenek, the wife of the landlord, adj
Proctor said he did not think such a step
was necessary.
knowing that Prof, Proctor had Travelled
suspicious and summoned DIR. George s. Co
he would like to call in another physician to
assist in the diagnosis. Mr.. Schenck said he
would advise consulting the health board
and DIR. Conant sent word to DIR. Edison,
chief inspector OF contagious diseases, who
responded promptly to the The
two experts q n careful examination
and also called DR.. Jacobs in
consultation, knowing that he had experience
in yellow fever cases. Prof Proctor had q
high fever and his skin had a yellowish color.
He also vomited at intervals, but the physi.
clans could not be certain that he was suffer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
Shocking Accident From . Blast.

The most fearful fatality ever recorded ia
Montana took place at the Wickcs tunnel on
the Montana Central roilroad about twenty
miles from Helena. The tunnel, upon which
work has been going on for two years, is
nearly completed and one morning the north
and south heading made about twenty feet
apart, the contractors expecting to make the
connection in a day or two. About 6go'clock
in the morning the night shift we're engaged
in putting in their last charges. There
were about thirty or forty men at the south
heading, n twenty-five in the north.
Charges Of giant powder had been Pot in at
both headings, and 10 was the calculation 60
set them both Mt once. The men in the south
end were just leaving the heading, having
finished tamping tho charges, md began to
move out to get in a safe place, when a fear
full explosion shook the mountain. over
whelmed the workmen, blew some Of them to
atoms and buried a number OF others under.
rock and earth. Those who were in the lead
on the way out were blown forward by the
eoncnssion, but escaped serious injury, but
the crowd caught the full force of the explo-
sion and suffered q terrible mueilation.
Several were killed outright and a number OF
| Others severely wounded. The survivors
escaped to the outer air and gave the alarm,
when the work of the rescue was begun. Tie
the track at. the mouth of
the tunnel where they presep ted
a ghastly spectacle. Here a face blown
out Of all semblance to n human visage;
there a ~lifeless trunk minus legs and arms;
in one place a mangled form begrimmed with
dirt and powder, in another a nude corpse
with fragments of bloody garments clinging
to it. Such was the awful sight, and no won
der that strong men shuddered at it's horror
and made haste to screen the revolving spec
tacle by covering il from human gaze, An
other and another body was added to the
railroad morgue until at noon ten ~lifeless
figures, that a few hours before were healthy
men, lay ranged side by side in front OF the
black yawning portals Of the smoking tun-
mel. Six wounded men we're also taken from
the debris. Only one lie seriously hurt, hay-
ing q compound fracture of the arm. The
others are but slightly injured, and viii re-
cover. The contractors, Larson. Keefp
4 Co., were not Responsible
for the accident, which is the first fatality
that has occurred in its construction. The
cause was the exploding Of a single cupinth
north heading. which touched off powder in
a long hole charged from the other end, the
mel not dreaming that a charge wasso near.
The ten dead bodies were brought to Helena
for intermsnt, The catastrophe has cnst .
gloom ovsr the entire community.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
Personal Gossin.

Sofia Monte Miss Neuberger ofNew York,
has been engaged as leading artistic for the
Concerthaus in Berlin.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe had a slight
apopletic attack a few days ago, which con
fined her to her bed. Her physicians report
that her condition is improved and hat she
Is now comfortable.
ID. r. Baker, editoTin-ehief of the evening
Post Of Cincinnati, has gone 60 Jacksonville,
Fla, in spite OF the pro~testations Of his as
sociates on the newspaper aad all his friends.
He goes to do what he can for the people OF
that city, and has ordered a box Of medi.
cines.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
He Gave it un.

Senator Cullom tells a good story
and not being given to practicing
law much himself says n Washington
correspondent of the New York Tri-
bune, ! suppose he can afford to do
so-of a prosperous storekeeper in a
small Illinois town, the name ofwhich
has escaped me, who once practiced
law, but who has long since abandoned
it. Being met by an old acquaintance
he was asked for all the particulars
as giving up the profession.
Didn't it agree withyour health2''
ooh, yes" answered "Uncle Joe"
as he was familiarity called by his
friends.
Didn't it pay?"
First-rate."
"Meet with sufficient favor from
the courts?"
"All l could ask"
Then what was it compelled you
to quit?"
"Well, I'll tell you'll was too hon.
est"
A loud laugh from the bystanders
aroused"UncIe Joe" into earnestness,
and he repeated the strange state,
ment, and nailed it to his shop coun-
ter with his huge fist. But mis- cross.
questioner went on:
when did you find this out?'
in my very last case"
What was that?"
Zone in which / vas retained to
prosecute a neighbor for killing dog
And he was acquitted? So YOU
lost the case and gave up your pro-
fession discouraged"
mo, he was convicted"
Then he was guilty."
mo, he was innocent"
But didn't the evidence prove his
guift?"
Certainly it did,"
Then why do you say he was in
nocent?n
Because / had killed the dog N.Y.
self a few nights before for trespassing
on my poultry, and Icame to the
conclusion that any business chat
would aid a nan to convict a neIph-
dor of his own crimes wasn't the
business for me, so / gave it up,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
Looks Like War.

The official announcement from st. Peters
burg that previous to- the departure of The
car for Southern Russia he gave an audience
to a number of Abyssinisn priests in indis.
putable evidence of the close relations exist
ing between France and Russia, and is re-
garded in diplomatic circles as an answer to
the recent sharp reply Of Signor Crispi, the
Italian premier, to the French note
respecting the e~apitulations at Mas
sowah. Those European states.
men who commended that the net result ofthe
correspondents between France and Italy in
relation to Massowah was to establish more
completely than ever the isolation Of France
in Europe have had their confidence in the
maintenance of peace through these means
rudely shaken by the action Of the ear,
which evidently means that Russia will en-
courage Lbyssinia to maintain her claims
over Massowab. as well as to Zula, another
Red sea port. which Italy has taken posses.
sion of. The relations of France and Italy
a v never been cordial since
the first indications of a
French movement eastward from
Algeria. Italy regarded Tunis as part OF
her own future sphere o~finluence, and France
has all along disliked the growth in the
Mediterranean of a navy which, with the as.
sistance of a single ally, woul be able to
seal up all the French ports. The entry OF
Italy into the German alliance, and perhaps
still more, the understanding which, of late,
has SO often and so loudly been declared to
exist between Italy, Austria and England,
naturally enough aroused French sensibilities.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20
Sir John and the Treaty.

A short meeting Of the cabinet was held at
Ottawa and the presidents message and its
probable results was again informally dis
cussed, without any positive action be-
ing taken. Sir John Macdonald said that
he viii not recede from the position he has
taken, and that he is in that fully sustained
by the British government. He believes
that out of evil good will come, as by
adopting a policy of retaliation toward
Canada the United States will be
forcing the dominion to become self.
reliant and dependent on her own re-
sources, which would certainly develop un-
der such n policy. The willy old premier is
very reticent as to what line Of action his
government viii follow, preierring to hold
back and watch developments before declar.
ing bis policy forthefuture. Several members
ofthe cabinet favor admitting the question
IN dispsss hstNssn tbs United ststss and che
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-20

at the WiIiaru
pitaI, noticed a change for the worse in Prof
Proctor's condition, Eminent physicians
we're in attendance on theinYalid all day, and
every possible effort was made to a y or
prolong the life of the gifted astronomer.
Late in the afternoon the physicians had
decided that he was a victim of the yellow
fever. There was M more room for doubt
when the black vomit made it's appearance.
Until he lost the power ofspeech Prof. Proctor
did not lose his nerve or give up hope. His
death was preceded by commissions peculiar
to the disease.