Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18
News G~eneraiities.

Judge 0'Brien, in the supreme court OF
New York, granted permission to Atty. Gen.
Tabor, 10 bring action to nnul the character
OF the Havemeyer's Sugar Company on the
ground that by joining the trust it forfeited
its Corporate rights.
Father Kelly 'sroom in New York was burg
lariEed while he was attending mass. Har-
ry Flannery, IL years old, was apprehended
as the thiei and confessed that he had stolen
$3.50 Of the priests money. To avoid dis
coyery he had already thrown n 500 bill
and $50 gold pieces into the sewer. The
mud in the sewer was sifted and six Of the
gold pieces we're discovered.
Judge Perkins OF Minnesota has decided
the tax injunction case, in which the Sioux
City 4 st. Paul Railway company IL plain
till and Cottonwood county defendant,
tried under stipulation in st. Paul last win
ter in favor Of the county. The decision
goes upon the theory that the so-ealled
trust deed executed by the company in 1871
was Intended as a conveyance of the land,
and hence the land is taxable. From
ST3,D 900 to 500, 900 in taxes are involved.
The coal prospector, II. h. Breckie, end
ing il necessary TO put in some blasts to
loosen the slate stone in the bottom of his
shaft at Blunt, Dakota, succeeded in not on
ly turning up the rock, but adhering TO the
bottom of the stone was the genuine product
of the carbouiferous age which was pro-
nounccd by those experienced to be as good
bituminous coal as ever was shipped in here.
All Blunt turned out to wee, and await
anxiously the development of the project.
In the awards Of premiums at the corn
palace ct Sioux City, Dakota carried of her
share of the honors. The first premium OF
$S0for the best exhibit of corn, grain, grasses
and grass seeds was waried to Union coun-
ty, Oak, with Dakota county, Neb., second.
Custer county, Oak, was awarded the first
prize for the best separate exhibit of SINAI
grain, with sioux county, Iowa, second. Da-
o county, Nebraska, was awarded the
first prize for the finest separate exhibit OF
corn, with Union county, Dakota, second.
Apostle Lorenzo Snow presided over the
Mormon semi-annual conference at Salt Lake.
In his remarks he gloried in the suffering Of
the saints for the sake Of the Lord. He urged
the establishment OF private Mormon schools
and said the membership of the church was
never increasing so rapidly as now; Elder
Jacob Gates said that as the prophets OF
old broke down the prison walls so
the priesthood Of the church would
pull down its prison walls. The church must
grow until it covers the whole earth.
The first installment Of President Yerkes'
imported Philadelphia cable car men arrived
at Chicago. There we're about twenty-five
in the party. I'VE are not asked to sign any
contract" said one. ''They took most OF us
right from the cars and put extra men in
our places. Every nan there would have
rome willingly IL there had been enough 'ex-
tras.' Our way was paid, and il promised
to be n pleasant change" Not a car is run
ming in the entire north division. Express
wagons and rattletraps of all descriptions,
on which temporary seats have been liked
were run by the STRIKERS and patronized to
their fullest capacity.
The failure is announced of the j. L. Clark
coinage works of Oshkosh, Wis. The Eomi-
nal assests are placed ut $50, 000, on which
it is estimated 81, 900 may be realized. The
liabilities are not yet given completely, but
following are the principal claims held in
this city: National Bank Of Oshkosh, $780,
0c0, secured; s.. NJ. Hay. S16.S00, partially
secured; j. II. Porter. $14.500, not secured.
There is also said to be $25 900 due outside
creditors not secured, besides numerous
small running local accounts. j. l.. Clark
formerly owned the largest match factory in
the world, which was bought several years
z by the Diamond Match Company for
over $3.50 ZOO. Clark Immediately erected
a mammoth carriage works plant covering
several acres of ground at immense outlay.
IL is stated that he sunk 500, 900 the first
year. Since his death his son Herbert has
been conducting business for himself and
mother.
When the yellow fever broke out at Decatur,
Ala, among the refugees who left we're
Charles Parker, his wife aad WI children.
Parker was acarpeRter and had little money.
He had relatives near OAK Mountain, and
decided to 90 there. When within fifteen
miles of the house he was confronted by the
shotgun quarantine guards. He could not
obtain shelter. After being driven away
from a number OF houses, Parker and his
family camped at a spring at the foot of the
mountain. That was the last time they were
seen alive, as the people in the neighborhood
would not go near the camp. A physician
heard OF the circumstances, and determined
to ascertain the fate of the family. On reach
ing the spot he was horrorstricken to find
the dead and the decomposing bodies Of
Parker and his family. Parker and his wife
had evidently died Of yellow fever, while the
little children. about two and four years old,
IL Is supposed died Of starvation.
The spectacle now witnessed in Chicago is
that OF halfmillion people reduced 10 the
necessity of walking tn whatever point they
might desire to reach. This uncomfortable and
unprecedented state of affairs was the result
OF the strike of the street-car conductors and
drivers on all of the lines in the north and
west divisions. These lines are all controlled
by q syndicate Of Philadelphia capitalists
and the president Of the company is Charles
T.. Yerkes, lats OF Philadelphia. In both di-
visions when the strike began IL was stated
on behalf of the strikers that no violence
would be permitted. and that no obstruction
other than that OF moral suasion upon those
who should take the strikers places, would
be used TO prevent the companies from run
ming ears. SO far as the strikers themselves
are concerned, this promise seems to have
been carried out, but the bitterness of feeling
toward the management Of the lines appears
to increase as time passes, and the eontasion
gives evidence of spreading to outside ele-
ments IN the population which are net under
ths striekerr' rcntfcL