Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-09
General News items.

Pat Killen and John P. Glow sign articles
Tor a fight to a finish for 81 900 a side.
At Chippewa Falls, B. F. Willard has
madea an offer Of six acres OF land to the
city for a park.
All the roads do a general slashing oil
rates between Chicago aud st. Paul,
Omaha and Kansas City.
Callan and Harkins. the American dyn.
aniters in London, are convicted and sen.
fenced to fifteen years penal servitude.
Omaha Is agitated over the indiscreet
conduct oil a handsome young widow, who
became infatuated with a Chicago nan
The sale and transfer OF the Minnesota
a. Northwestern road to the Chicago, st.
Paul & Kansas City DAD was formally &C.
complished.
The organization OF a Minnesota Repub.
lican leegue is completed ia Minneapolis
with I. E. Byrnes president and Tams
Bixby secretary.
In the Kentucky senate strong resola.
tons protesting against the passage OF the
Blair bill by congress were adopted by a
vote OF 81 to 8.
'0ld Buekskin.n the horse rode by
Lieut.. L. b. Baker o. Lansing. Mich. In
the pursuit and capture OF J.. Wilkes
Booth, died there recently.
ITeSlutUb luShllS Oi Tie seUh.e dunOun-
ces the select committee Of five to deal
with the Pacific railroad funding matter,
and Senator Davis is a member.
John o,Connor. a pine broker OF Chippe.
wa Falls, has just completed a large sale
of land for II. p. Christy OF Detroit, Mich.
The purchasers are Bosworth Il Reilly,
and the price paid 100000,
Out OF the SO, 600, 900 Montana Central
railroad first mortgage bonds, principal
and interest guaranteed by the St. Paul,
Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad, tenders
for which opened 81, 500, 600 was allotted
to Clark, Dodge & Co.
TIE supreme court OF New York has
granted an additional attachment against
the property in that state oil lanes NJ.
Vail & Co., OF Milwaukee within a suit
brought by William Ahlernauser to re-
cover S21, 900. moneys deposited.
1t is two weeks since any mail has been
received al Nantucket. Mass, The sound
is full of ice and it extends southwark as
lar as the eye can reach. A three masted
hoone is drifting with the ice near Tuck
ernut shoals and is likely to be carried
ashore.
Capt. Richie, hof the state Line steamer
State OF Indiana, was presented at ON
don, on behalf OF President Cleveland, a
gold watch and chain, and Campbell, frat
officer, a binocular glass, for saving the
crew OF the ship Triumphant OF Boston,
abandoned at sea.
Rev. DR.. Courtney, who was rector OF the
81. James aristocratic North sid parish,
Chicago five years ago, has accepted the
mitre OF Nova Scotia. DIR Courtney went
from Chicago to the rectorship OF st. Paul's,
Boston. He is a Scotch Englishman and
still swears allegiancs to Victoria.
Interest in the mysterious case of Willie
Dickinson, the son OF Capt. w. Z. Dickia-
sou, superintendent OF the Commonwealth
mine at the tow OF Commonwealth, near
Florence. Wis, WIN was supposed to have
been abducted five years ago, is In a fair
way to be cleared up by the return OF the
boy to his home. &
The ffteen-round fight at Duluth te-
tween Weir, the Belfast Spider, and George
Siddons OF Quincy, ILL.,, was ended in the
eleventh round. the referee tJohn Donald.
SOM giving the fight to Weir on the refusal
OF Siddons to 60 on with the fight after he
had claimed a foul which the referee would
not allow.
The assembly chamber at Albany is
about to be vacated. The preliminary re.
port OF the commission appointed to ex.
anime the ceiling was made. They discov.
cred many serious movements of the stone
in the groined arch, all OF the main ribs of
the vault split. and many of the stones
cracked clear through.
TIL earnings Of the Northern Pacific Tor
January show an increase of SS4, 965.02
over the corresponding month last year.
For January. 1888, the earnings we're
S656, 1876; Jsnuary, 1887, 571.42o.9S
The earnings OF the Duluth for the fourth
weekin January were S25,942; for the
month, $67, $50.
Judge Gresham, in the United States cir
cult court at Chicago entered a final decree
for the foreclosure and sale OF the Central
Iowa Railway company OF Illinois. The Hi.
nois division is about ninety miles in length,
and runs fromK eithsburg to Peoria. The
Iowa division. with its branches, is about
395 miles, and runs from Keithsburg to
Marshalltown, Iowa.
Dubuque Special: A.. E. Walker OF Dick.
ey. Iowa, asked Revenue collector Byron
Webster, whether sweet cider can be sold
in Iowa. Mr.. Webster forwarded the let
ter to Gov. Larrabee for his views. The
letter was returned with .he following no
tation: Respectfully referring Jack to
Collector Webster, William LARA bee."
The collector then returned the letter to
the author with the following suggestion:
THE governor declining to answer your
question. | would respectfully refer it to
| Mrs. j, Ellen Foster, superintendent OF leg
islation, Des Moines, Iowa" And so the
important question regarding the leyality
OF the cider traffic in Iowa is still unan.
swered.
Chippewa Falls. Wis.,, is excited over an
outrageous occurrence which took place
a short time ago, very near the business
center. The story is told by Mrs. Sadie
Tibbetts OF Eau Claire, who claims that
she came to the Falls to attend a ball and
visit friends. At not a very late honr in
the evening she started for the depot
without an escort, and while passing an
alley was iorcibly seized by a man, who
smotbered her cries and, despite her strug-
giles, dragged her into a building near by.
There she was locked in a dark room, and
repeatedly assaulted. At first she claimed
that there were ten men. and that three of
them she could not identify. John Weiner
says that, being a friend of the assailants,
they desired him to pay Mrs. Tibbitts
$3.50 to hush the matter up, and that he
took her to the office o. County Judge
Stafford, in Chippewa Falls, where she
signed the receipt for the same, and that
afterward she demanded $1,000. which
was refused.