Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-11
News in General.

The thirteen children in charges OF Mormonl
! who arrived on the steamship Wisconsin ako
were Detained By Collector Magone Of New
| York, has been released by the order of See
rotary Fairchild. The party left for Salt
Lake City.
The law firm Of Shipman, Barlow, Laroqas
< Choate of New York. has sent to the Far.
mers' Loan and Trust company a certified
check for $1I2, 664.S4 in settlement for the
money which James L. Bedell, their employe,
obtained FROM the trust company by means
Of bogus mortgages.
Mrs. McGarigle, the wife Of boodlel
MeGarigle, arrived at Winnipeg, en- route foi
Banff to join her husband. She refuses tc
converse about his affairs, but gives the PEG
pie to understand that McGarigle will remain
on Canadian soil for some tins. McGariglt
has been MASKING some of Cauada's fair bells
ut the Springs oflato.
The parties boring for gas in Freeborr
county, Mimi, are down 500 feet and nov
have $50 feet of water, In which oil appears
In the proportion of n tcacupfnl to u pailfnl
OF water. Every indication is favorable FOL
finding gus. The operators at the well pro
pose to put dow a six-inch pipe TO shut of
the water, and will continue boring inside thu
six-ineh pipe.
A great deal of excitement prevails in
Waseca County, Mimi, over the mysterious
Disappearance of County Treasurer Nc
Kenny. He and his wife left for Faribault,
and Mrs. McKenny returned two days later
end reports that they stopped at a friend
near Faribault aud Mckinney said he would
go out to the fields where they were thresh'
ing, and that was the last she saw OF him
Rumors are afioat that he was short in hif
account s. 5000 to $4,000. His bondsmen
are at a feyerheat over the affair.
A crank named Lewis Greenslade. called
4 a. - 4 IL u /. Ill -
Brooklyn on account of his religious pranks
and who has made himself obnoxious TO tbs
Salvation army, capped the climax by visit
ing the Brooklyn tabernacle OF Sunday
morning during the service. After a short
period of quiet he rose to his feet and took of
an oyercoat, showing on his breast a hugs
| red flannel heart. Mr.. Talmage said nothing
but the treasurer requested Lewis to put on
his coat. He refused, and it took a specia
policeman to persuade him to depart.
The published report that Judge Thur
mans letter accepting the Democratic nom
nation for the yice-presideney would be Civ
en- out at once proves to be untrue. The ex,
senator said: 81 have not written a line OF
the letter or given it a thought. | haye al
present too much correspondence Of other
kinds to attend to and it is not my practice
to give up essentials for non-essentials. II is
an unnecessary performance any how, but
! suppose that custom and precedent must BIZ
followed. When il comes there will not be
much oft and it viii not come until the spir.
il moves me-
Quite u sensation vas caused at Washburn,
Wis, by the finding of ar anonymous letter
in the postotice addressed TO Postmaster
Swain, threatening his hotel and the build,
iags of several more Of our prominent eiti
zens with destruction by FIRE before Oct. 6,
It also claims the disastrous coniagation Of
two weeks e wastEe result ofan incendiary
1t charges q prominent contractor with the
deed for the purpose Of making work for him
self through the winter. An armed watch,
man has been kept on duty since the receipt
of the letter. 1t Is thought by many to be
simply n hoax, and this is probably the true
solution.