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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18
Chicago Street Car Middle,

The street a strike in Chicago ,ont;c,-
On Monday Oct. &, six opel cars. dn.s- T
horses and manned by about ado,ea 81
men each left the city limits car harms I'D,
for the business center. The ears. uh:sbs
run in n bunch, preceded by a patrol -
load of policemen, were not moIested ~
two or three hundred strikers and or,se.7
gathered around the barns. The doxa <
was made successfully without any nishs1
to speak of, although the ears were 80
what hampered by the crowd Of Fehidss "
took up the tracks.
Mayor Roche actcdthe role of pea>su.i~
and when he left his Office for the egeai9r
seemed probable that he had acted tAe 9
successfully. The first COMMITTEES 10 =
upon him represented the sirihfs n
came to inquire the exact extent OF ii. I'd,
possessed by the private deteetissi II
mayor informed the committee Tint 4. 4
tectiYes only mad authority to protes d
property of the company while insiae 90
property. As soon as the detsciives rssa
the street they lose all right os uSa
While the committee was in contfs,< Z
other committee of iourexeopduetsso5 4
North side line was admitted This essni
tee complained bitterly that sorae oftks I
lice were acting practically as employ4,
the street car company. They bad kdx
hitch and unhiieh the horses, rug ae j
and collect fares. The mayor said The q
all done without his knowledge or consent s,
an order forbidinG the police doing anyti,
except guarl the property of the eenpxi
was issued. The committee also cnnplszl
that Capt. Setback had violently digs1
a peaceful crowd on the North side Tie ID
before. The mayor promised to i~nEszsE<
the matter. IL vas following these razs
enc that the mayor called in Prsitz
Yerkes, and the latter concluded to dsV<z
entirely with the services of the private ss
guards.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18

In the Senate Mr.. Allison reported the
tariff bill with an amendment in the nature
of q substitute. 1t was placed on the calen-
dar and ordered 10 be printed. He said that
the majority and minority reportsto accom-
pany the bill would be hled, and gave notice
that be would call up the bill for considera-
ton Monday next. The bill is n ver.l long
one and very few copies were printed. The
Republicans will all support the bill Amem-
Der of the committee h has been engaged
in preparing the bill says oft:
The absolute reductions OF tho bill are
$65. 900, 900. These reductions are dis
tributed as follows: Sugar. $2S, 900. 900; in
the forty-two articles of the free list, $780,
900; on alcohol used in the arts. $1,000
600; on tobacco. s24. 600, 900. IL is claimed
that these are specific reductions. Another
calculation has been made as to the effect
of the bill based upon the customs receipts
for the last fiscal year. According to
this calculation the reductions effected by
the bill will be S73, 900, 900. This result is
reached in this manner; Reduction on Gus
toms articles, $&2, 297 1913 30. To this is to
be added the internal revenue reductions,
$24, GOO, 900 and the reduction on tobacco
and sugar 81, O0O, 900. This is the estimated
effect that the bill will have upon imports
and duties.
When the tariff bill had been reported Sena-
tor Sherman said he would be compelled to
leave the city IN the afternoon n would
like TO be INDUCED in making a few remarks
on the bill. Unanimous consent was given
and he addressed the senate. He eompli-
mented the subcommittee on the work lone
and severely criticised the house bill.
In his Judgment there would be few defects
found in the senate substitute 1t
would he found to be a very perfect bill.
Among other things it RAJ a substantial
compendium of the provisions for the collee-
ton of internal revenue and of customs du-
ties. II contained a positive reduction ofrev-
enues to the extent OF S73. 6SS 900. The re-
duetion was On a few articles. He believed
that the senate bill was on the whole the best
revenue bill ever introduced in ongress, and
that IL it could be taken up free from party
~preiudices and considered and debated and
amended, il might be made the most perfect
revenue measure ever put on the statute
books. II was a question whether the articles
necessary for human life should be made by
American labor or by foreign labor. whether
the wages of American laborers should de-
pend on the wage of European laborers or
should depend on the American policy of pro-
tecting all forms oflabor and production.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18
From Foreign Lands.

At the inquest on tho trunk Of a woman
found in a cellar in Whiteehapel, in London,
surgeons who examined the remains testified
that they were those Of an unusually fine
woman, who had probably occupied a good
social position.
Mrs. Paran Stevens, n wealthy American
lady, has accused her maid, an Italian
named Anita Celanza. with robbing her of
diamonds in Paris, valued at $4,000. The
girl has been arrested. She asserts that her
mistress sent the diamonds to London.
Slowly but surely public interest from one
end OF the dominion to the other is being
aroused over the talk of annexing Canada to
the United States. Ten years ago the prop
osition would have been regarded as treason
able in Ottawa, but there has been a marked
change even in the past IL month. The an
nexation question promises TO dwarf all
other political matters. Ii is practically the
sole topic of conversation on the streets.
The Canadian propellers Mattawan and
Gibraltar are reported ashore near Rich
mondsyille, and the life-saving crew has been
sent there to look after their crews. This is
Gull, but the latter is now all right in the st.
Clair river. The Magnet reached the st.
Clair river, too, and he's since sunk. A tug
is ashore about fifteen miles up the Canadian
shore from Port Huron. 1t is thought the
crew escaped, although the vessel is badly
used up.
. Emperor William has added brilliants to
the Black Eagle decoration conferred upon
NJ. De Giers, the Russian foreign minister.
The same decoration has been conferred up
on Prince Waldemar OF Denmark and Herr
Bildt, Swedish premier. The police nave
seized the remaining copies of the October
number of the Deutsche Rundschau, which
contained the extracts from the diary of the
late Emperor Frederick. Count Douglas
goes to Rome to remain during Emperor
Williams visit. Prof. Ceffcken was sub
jecte9 to a fo%ur-hous' examination at
Moabit. Through his counsel he has lodged
a protest against the attempt of friends to
plead that he was not responsible for his
actions.
The London Telegraph published two
sketch portraits from descriptions ofthe man
last seen in company of the woman named
Stride, one of the victims of the W~hiteehapel
murder fiend. Theresult has been the uneer-
emonious arrest of every man bearing any
resemblance to the pictures, and a great deal
of discomfort has been caused by this new
phase Of police activity. Many OF the ar
rests were made by selftonstituted detectives,
or ambitious vigilance committeeman. The
victims are generally discharged from custo-
dy as soon as brought before a magistrate,
but some are unlucky enough not to be able
TO satisfy the officials OF their rectitude, and
are subjected to more pr less annoying de-
~tention. One of the m, n arrested carried q
bag, in which was found a razor. This sus-
pect is still held, and will have to give a very
good account of himself and his razor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18
The Rich Nan Died.

James c. Flood, the bonanzn king, died at
heidelberg, terinany, according 20 a dis
patch received by members of his family in
San Francisco.
Mr.. Flood was born in ireland in 1926 and
went 10 California in 1851. HI received n
plain common school education. How his
time was occupied between his school laws
and his majority is not known, but when
about twenty-three years of age, in 1910.
he sailed for California, making the
long journey around the Horn. With 81. 900
he returned to New York. but resided
IA that city only o year. Back again at the
Pacific coast, like all the Adventures or tho
period, Mr.. Flood had troublesome times.
dissapointments and failures and plenty of
hard work. In 1851 we lind him emerging
from obscurity and becoming known ms The
leading partner in the firm OF Flood q
y Brien. The partners made m oney keeping a
hqpor saloon in San Francisco, which be-
fssns o kind Of exchange, much 90 tho profit
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18
Curious Stabbing Affair.

A stabbing ARRAY which will probably
terminate fatally tool place ut Winona,
Mimi, in the yard adjoining Burmeister's
hotel. WI farmers, brothers-inlaw, named
Herman Bakbe and Herman Bemke Of Rush
Creek, came into town and put up their team
IN Burmeister's stable. After spending the
afternoon about town and drinking some,
they returned about 6:30 and ordered the
hostler, Charles Zuetkc. to get out their team.
He made some reply about their coming
around after dark instead of going home by
daylight, and started for the barn, followed
by the two men. Just what followed is not
known, but in a short time Zuotke was
heard loudly crying for help, and soon came
running into the hotel dripping with blood
and fell down exhausted. Officer
Schoening arrested Bakbe but his
brother-in-law fed and could not be found.
Zuetke was frightfully cut up,
ten stabs being reported in his back three
in his left nrm, a bad cash near the heart
and some smaller cuts. He is too feeble to
make any statement and will pro baby die.
Bakbe was jailed and n knife found on his
person, hut with no evidence Of blood on it
nor on his person, and it is thought his
brother-in-law, Bemke, who is at large, did
the cutting Much excitement exists and
Burmeister has been compelled to lock up
his hotel to keep away the crowd.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18
The Chicago Stree, Ca,

Chicago is all brokfn IN ovar
the street car drivers. On Sup5s~ ss7<@
fully one Thousand hacks, kausamsH ~
buses, express wagons, grocery ~
vehicles Of every description nov
continuous stream from the eous.s =
to the city limits and bach 49, -
were more of them in fact thar ii L
loads of passengers to earrv ~
dition of Affairs was due ~ xt~
of the executive committee ii ths s.st
issuing a general appeal "a go
having vehicles not otherwsse
to put them into service on ;sSe yc.st
The meeting of tine trades and l.h
was much more numeroussv yssasSF
usual, in anticipation thai ~
would come up for consideration. 4
were delivered by John Goodsin SsH:
Side Drivers and Conductors
and others, severely scoring tie a.
Of Mr.. ferkes and ~denouncine III NJ. q
titude, and resolutions were adonfn
tbizing with the strikers and pk.8~F
the support Of the amalgamat.a - Z
CARNATIONS of Chicago.
A Sunday telegram from iH&.
The first melee Of the stfike oceiirf.a
after midnight this morning. ~
imported workmen under the gr,;sa u
detectives arrived at the Lllrr,.sa.P ~
barn under escort Of Cant. sedssL
score OF city police. They were end.s1H
to get under cover without ohss-,a
when a crowd OF strikers on the o.hs~s.
the street began TO shout "scabE ~
furiated the captain, who, sprinrips -
buggy, orfercd the officers to d,s,s--
crowd. They we're slow in obeyi,~
springlng TO the front with the crs =
ards. disperse this mobl" the niBea, ~.
men behind him. pounced upon ths ~
The latter quickly dispersed in ess,S 4
ton, but not until more than half !
had been severely ciubbcd. A good 4.
bad feeling was manifested at Inc stst
headquarters to-day over this episoae
the reading aloud Of q dispatch from p
delphia printed in one Of the moruinr ~
and setting forth that the strikers MA
well understand at oncs that tae l0S,
City syndicate proposed to run fha;v /,
without Chicago interference, did nj
to put the men in better humoY.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18
or for Washington,

Fourteen Sioux chiefs from Standing Rock
agency, accompanied by Agent Mclaughlin
ana Louis Primeaux, interpreter, passed
th!ough st. Paul en- ronte to Washinpton
The party left the agency Monday noon. and
Joined parties from the other our agencies
at chicago. The entire delegation viii in
elude sixtyfour chiefs, FIVE agents and 6yo
interpreters. The Standing Rock marty
Includes the most famous braves
OF the Sioux nation, their names in order Of
precedence given by Maj. Mclaughlin being.
John Grass, Mad Bear, Gaul and Big Head
the four anti-treaty orators: Two nears
Hawk, Bears Rib, High Eagle, High Bear,
sitting Bull, Gray Eagle, Fire Heart
walking Eagle and Hairy chin
The Indians, with the exception of Gaul and
sitting Bull, wear citizens cloth
ing and white felt hats. The two
old chiefs wore white robes. GauI. who
weighs over $50 pounds, was nearly over,
come by heat in the sixty-miie rid
across the prairies to Eureka. Tbe Marty
rave several council pipes with them
Priemeaux, the Interpreter, an intel;oont
and well educated half-breed, states that the
chiefs declare they will not sign the treaty
m rs present form but will go to WASTING.
ton, hoping to secure a better n-;ca apa
cash payment rs the result of negotistions
a great crowd thronged the depot at Abar.
deen and shook bands with the leading
ehieis' who were in a happy frame of mind
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18
Personal Talk.

Portland Oregonian: The following is
printed in this weeks Catholic Sentinel over
the signature DR.. Al Sommer, pastor of the
German Catholic church: "A few days age
an aged German arrived here from st. Cloud,
Mimi, and found n first shelter in the police
station. He is eighty years old and his name
is Frank Hartwiek. He Travelled with his
daughter, Theresa Fisher, but the latter be-
came insane, tried TO give all her effects
away, and finally jumped from the train
some night at Pasco Junction and could not
be found. The destitute old man says he
has another daughter in or about Portland,
either serving a priest or being in q convent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18

appalled, at the coming aisasis.
Immediately saw could not 80
an instant the two engines
with such fearful velocity fhaf !. "a
locked together on the TRACK w
base upon which was piled f. "a
pyramid twenty feet high. ore eHlz.
wrecked freight cars, two esnrs11s q
mail a and q baggage cas. M
ed rs q buffer Tor the passenrer
tached to the weetern-bouDd e,sce|
though the passeugeFS were FOL-
forward they escaped uniaiured u
sengers Immediately set to rort ( 2:
the trainmen from the debris IN ) al
train arriving a few hours Issa. \ "a
the work. The accident was a.. 49,
take of the freight trainms
say they had orders TO ~
switch at Tuscarora, end
sections of the Pittsburg exrsrsss so<j
press train which caused the cons ao q
They had been on duty cont;aas vi
thirty-six hours, they sa7nrd ass'ntJ
the first section of the Pitfshprs i
had gone to sleep at their 1p'sx
awcke as the second section tksnx
and as it was running on the schs5s5s g
the Cincinnati & st, Louis .'als q
thought it was the train which ~
and therefore pulled out Of IL s1 p
came down the single track. s.'a9
hees and Postmaster Dalton. a a'2f /
representatives, were ON tho as ~
way to Indiana. "
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18

Christian Cunningham, a boy but
fifteen years old, was n~aturalized and
regularly registered as a legal voter
in Baltimore, according to n telegram
from there, which recites further that
"his naturalization papers were en-
dorsed by politicians in the Twelfth
ward. Hisfather returned thepapers
and informed the Court how it had
beenimposedupon The judgeimmedi
ateiycanceled thepapers and ordered
the boys name stricken from the
registration lists"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18

A Russian sergeant of the Semon-
ovsky Regiment has invented a meth
cd for the rapid construction OF
boats from tents. In thirty minutes,
under the designers direction, a de
tachment of men improvised several
handy boats with the air of green
wood from a neighboring grove,
Each boat readily supported four u
six full equipped soldiers.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18

Gifts proprietors. In 1869 these men made
tbei, krst investment in the Comstock iode,
Nevada. John w. Mackayjoined hisiortunes
with theirs the next year, and in 1869 james
&. Fair became the fourth partner IN Ine
m;rinc n~roperty owned by the firm.
Wboe1er suffered by the collapse OF the
comstock Aboom'' ten or eleven years ago
Flood and his associates came out ahead. IL
was Mr.. Flood who projected the Neyada
bauk. He had for associates James !. falr
and John w. Mackay. After finishing the
immense row OF buildings calleii the NEVADA
block in San Francisco, and Just before S.ars
h,avy call on the California bank which leo
its suspension aad incidentally TO the
death of William c, Ralston, the popular
Californian. whose fall and subsequent SUI
eide we're greatly deplorcd by the pubic
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18

Smoking is killing mel" said
Joseph Schiff, of New York, and then
deliberately jumped from a pier into
East River and drowned himself be-
cause be could not break himself OF
the smoking habit. Joseph's cure is
too radical TO becomepopular among
victims ofthe weed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18

The London News created a tremendous
sensation by printing in red ink facsimiles of
the letter and postal card received a few
days ago at the Office of the Central news
company purporting TO v been written
by the Whitechapel murderer. In commuLi-
cation the writer gloats over his crimes and
threatens to commit Others in defiance of the
police, of whose efficacy he expresses a very
poor opinion.
Mrs. Mary l.. Garrett of Medina, Ohio,
was sentenced to be hanged on the oath OF
next January, for the murder Of her two de-
mcnted stepdaughters. The crime was an
atrocious one, the room in which the girls
were sleeping having been saturated with
coal oil and filed with kindling and dry
leaves to which she set fire. IL was discov-
cred before the house had burned and the
flames cxtinguished, but the girls we're both
dead from sufTccation. The fire had reached
the limbs of one and burned them. The
bodies also bore evidence Of being struck with
a club. When sentence was announced Mrs.
Garrett protested her innocence. She recent
ly gave birth tn a hoy baby which win be re-
moved with her to the ~peuiteptiary awaiting
the mothers execution. II is thought that
Mrr. Garrett Is the FIRST woman ia Ohio to he
septsnrsd 70 The death psnaity for murder,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18

Gneisbaeh, under fifteen years sentence for
robbing the mail Mt Qu'Appelle. escaped from
Stony Mountain penitentiary in Manitoba.
During several years already served he had
commended himself to the wardens by exem-
plary behavior and had become the net of
t~hechaplain, Rev, Goulding. The latter en-.
ployed him a good deal as o servant about
his house. One evening Mrs. Gouldinu
was unwcll and Gneisbach was left in the
house TO act as messenger should emergency
arise while the chaplain was holding services
for prisoners and officials. No sooner had
the chaplain left the house than the convict.
changed his stripes for the clergymnn's best
black suit, took all the money he could And
IN the house, saddled the best horse in tbe
stable and rode of. When GouIding returned
rom the service the only trace of his protege
was an affectionate note, stating that the
writer had been pining for a sight of his
mother until ne could bear it no longer and
had TO go and see her.
The trial of the Indian Cut Face for the
murder of Joseph Banyille, took place AT
Aitkin, Mimi, and resulted in an acguittaI.
IL appeared on trial that the murdered man
visited the Indians wigwam ard committed
an assault upon the Indians souaw and
then went to his own tent, not far distant
Ono or two hours later Banville again visited
the wigwam and tried to gain admission by
cutting the ropes that fastened tho blanket
used as u door, whereupon the Indian drove
Banyilie away. A few hours later BanyiIle
again visited the wigwam. the third time
whereupon the Indian shot him with fne
shot, from the cffecs Of which Bnnv;llr ,liod
about O week latpr.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18
The October Crop Report.

The October governmental crop returrAshow
that the condition Of the present corn crop
has been equaled only three times in ten
years, and is extended materially only bv
that of 1879, when the condition was .gS.
and the subsequent ascertained Yield was
twenty-eight bushels. The present average
of condition is 92, against 94.2 in Septem-
Der. There has been no DECLINE in the North
west, and the status of the great corn
surplus states remains as on Sept. J.
The indications favor n result ranging
little from twenty-six bushels per acre, max
ing a full average. The condition of buck
wheat has declined heavily from 93.7 last
month, to 79.1, mainly from frosts. The
average condition of the potato crop is about
81, adecline of less than four points. Tobacco
has fully maintained the condition of last
month, averaging for all kinds $50. The
returns relative to wheat are those of Weld
per acre, by counties. As consolidated the
general average for winter wheat is IL bush
els per acre, and for spring wheat slightly
over 10 bushels. The former has yielded bet
ter than the early expectation the latter
much worse. This is of course in measured
bushels. TIL quality is much below the nv.
erage, which will still further reduce the sun
ply, as will be shown more exactly hereafter
from the testimony OF inspection and millers'
weights. The spring wheat averages nre.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18

Everybody has heard OF persons
who have been swallowed up by
quieksands, and a dreadful death it
must be; but here is a form of death
quite as bad: recently Frank Gildden
a lobster hunter, went about his task
on the Beverly, Mass, flats, and
while SO employed stepped into q
bottomiess mud hole. He couldn't
get out. and gradually sank until
the mud closed over and smothered
him.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18
Railrnad Wrerk

Inc Cincinnati st. Louis Express. which
leit washington on Saturday Oct. @. eoIlided
WIN an east-bound freight train from Mar.
nnspurg, w. Va, near Diekerson, killing
three train men and ~injuring six Others. nv
almost a miracle the passengers all es,aped
unsnJureo a mile west of Dickerson station
me ROAD makes a short turn and then roes
aown a heavy grade in a deep cut. the benks
pelng twenty feet OF more above tho
leyei OF the tracks. Around this
enrye the train dashed just before mid,
nlgne u began the descent
gathering momentum every second. Ths
,re,gn1 Tram which had orders to remain on
NTH ~ ae Iusearora-one mile beyond
ansl tne express passed, had a few minutes
oeiore ieit the switch and was toiling mn
k.sos' suddenly there wus q flash of head.
usnst q ths traiumen on thu ENGINES wsrs
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18

North Carolina alone is caring for
LOCO eolored people afflicted with
insanity, and every other southern
state has its hands full. In almost
every case it is the light hearted,
lazy negro WHO loses his mind, while
the hard workers grow brighter
every year.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18

Theremainslof several prehistoric
canoes have(been found at the bot
tom of somef lakes drained off in up
lands in central Sweden. They we're
made by the following out of trunks
of trees by fire. One had evidently
been sunk on purpose, being full OF
large stones.