Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

federation of all railroad brother
hoods. The plan is for each to have
three members on the federation
general executive board.
David A. Wade of Enterprise, KY,
was married TO Mrs. Elizabeth Garyin
at Wellston, Ohio, a few days ago.
they are a remarkable couple, their
ages aggregating 1s2 years. The
groom has passed the century mark.
A collision occurred between two
sections of a G. A. r. excursion train
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at
Kent, Ohio, Sunday. Two sleeping
ears were badly damaged. Several
passengers were hurt, though not SER
iously.
Joseph B. Rucker, the editor of the
Somerset, KY, Reporter, was
murdered while on his way home.
Indications point to ex-Chief of
Police ]. c. Anderson as the guilty
culprit, they having had numerous
q%uarrels.
John j. Shotwell, manager of the
Colorado Hammerbrick company at
Denver, has left for parts unknown,
and there is said to be a deficit of
500 on the books of the company.
He is accused of squandering the
money in gambling.
Gen. John Pope is suffering from a
severe case of nervous prostration at
Sandusky, Ohio. While his friends
are not sanguine of his restoration to
health they do not anticipate an
immediate fatal termination of his
malady. Gen. Pope is in his
SEVENTEEN year.
The largest cOnflagration that ever
occurred on Long Island coast
destroyed over 100 frame buildings
at Rockaway Beach and left about
l6O acres a mass of ruins. The main
portion of this famous old summer
resort was completely wiped out.
The loss wa fully 81, 900, 900.
1t is claimed that Arthur L.
Colgate, a young New Yorker, who
had his preliminary training in Edi-
sons laboratory at Llewellyn Park,
has produced a storage battery that
is commercially practicable and
destined to supplant the trolley
system. 1t is free from the faults of
the earlier types and gives evidence
of great economy in operation.
The National Colored Mems as
ISOLATION, which has been meeting,
at indianapolis, issued a national
appeal which asks: MAY we be
permitted to live peacefully as COM
mon citizens of the country, or must
we submit to the cruel, merciless
judgment of Judge Lynch, the FACET
and the eneniy's b~ullet?" The
association declared itself to be entire
ly non-partisan.
A lively fist fight occurred in st.
Louis between DR.. Isaac n. Love,
editor of the st. Louis Medical
Weekly, and DR.. Frank A. Glasgow,
both prominent physicians. DR..
Love was slapped in the face for an
insulting remark which be is said to
have made to DR.. Glasgow, and a
lively exchange of blows followed.
DIR. Glasgow is declared to have come
off the victor.
In the school parade of the
Columbian celebration next month
$4,000 school boys will pass in view
before President Harrison. The day
of the school parade will be October
10. The boys will march in files of
twenty and will be divided into
battalions. Each battalion will be in
command of a school principal. The
Roman Catholic societies will have a
special parade on the night of
October IL.
Bill Baxter, the English bantam,
has issued a challenge to fight George
Dixon for from 81, to 5000 a
side, and the largest purse offered by
any club for the contest. Charley
Mitchell has deposited a forfeit of
50, 500 with the London Sporting
Life and renewed his challenge to
fight James Corbett for the champion
ship of the world, $4,000 a side and
a $4,000 purse before the Olympic club
in February.
Last week the shearers in the
l19-inch plate mill and the Carnegie
steel works was broken, entailing a
direct loss of about SIS, 900 to the
company and causing suspension of
work in the entire department. In
this department is made all of the
larger sizes of merchant steel armor
plate. 1t will be necessary to send to
the manufacturer of the machinery
for duplicates of the broken parts,
and several days must elapse before
the machinery is restored.
Champion Corbett's brother, Jack
Corbett, has escaped from the house
of correction, where he was serving a
three years. sentence for forgery.
Young Corbett, who is a strapping.
handsome fellow, as big as his more
famous brother, is an opium fiend
and about two years ago he forged his
fathers name to a check in order to
buy dope" As this was the climax
of a long series of similar offences his
father allowed the boy to be prose-
cuted and sentenced. He had only
seven months more to serve.
Passenger train No. S on the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
was wrecked by robbers three miles
west of Usage City one day last week.
The train, consisting of a baggage,
express and mail car, two day coache,
two chair cars and three ~sleepers,
was thrown over an embankment
three feet high and the first six cars
telescoped. Four persons were killed
outright and % seriously injured.
The train carried $1,000 coo in cur
rency en- route from the Mexican
Central railroad to its head quarters
in Boston.
Kitty and Herbert Yancy, of
Warsaw, Mimi, aged respectively IL
and l0years, went out for a walk in the
woods Sunday morning, and not