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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28
MENTION.

THE annual income OF the Rothschild
lamiIy is estimated at S35,0o0,0o0
DR.. MARY 7. jacob. in New York, and
DR.. Mary Hoxon, in Washington, are each
.eputed to earn $1,000 a year at their pro-
tession. i
erasmus L. Spencer nightsuperintendent
ofthe Joliet, Ill, rolling mills, and one of
he best known men in the country inroll-
ing mill affairs is dead.
THE Grand Duchess Alexandrine OF
Mecklenburg- Schwerin, who recently cele-
brated her 9Oth birthday, is the oldest OF
European lTincesses.
CARDINAL RANPoLLo, papal secretary OF
state, is sick ard confined TO his bed The
physicians Who are attending him DO not
sonsiderthst his condition is serious.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has signifed his ap.
provsl of Princess Frederick Charles
assuming the patronage of the German
female department OF the Chicago Column
oian exhibition.
Mr.. EDISON is confident OF his ability to
establish telephone connection with
Mercury and Mars, and says that he can
lind out whether the inhabitants of those
planets are civilized or savage.
MARIE JANSEN will leave Francis Wilson
on May Z. She has played the leading
feminine roles. Miss Jansen refuses TO
say why she is leaving Wilson.
Henry W. Derby, for many years the
greatest book publisher west Of the Allie
yhenies, died at Columbus aged seventy.
one. over forty years ago, he established
he publishing house OF II. W.Derby & Co.
n Cincinnati, the company being Harper
& Sons ofNew York. He also sold the
cincinnati Enquirer, which he sold TO
James 4. Mclean.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28
TRIPLES.

PICKETT will play second instead OF
short for the Orioles. 9 , l&.
JIM CoRrErT is to train at Ashbury Park,
n. J..
BREWER was beaten at Richmond, Va,
in a match Shoot by William Tell Mitchell.
The score was AZ to As,
JOE GODDARD, the Australian heavy
weight, is u horse racing tiend. He keeps
himself poor all the time picking the osers.
II. A. Bashrord of California challenges
any man in the world to shoot a match
with him fbr sl,0o0or S2,5 500 a side.
CATCHER WILSON, oflast seasons Kansas
City Blues, will play with the Philadelphia
Eastern league team.
The umpires OF the Western league will
be compelled to wear blue fiannel uniforms
on the field this season.
The Times-Star thinks Billy Clingman
will be the Herman Long of the Western.
His work is of the sensational order.
McTAMASY and Esterday, both of whom
played with Kansas City in the American
| association, are with Rochester this year.
THE first ball that has been knocked over
Charleston's fence in eight years was
hammered out this week by T. Oyster
Dbl Is VI IA AASOhA
Harvard claims to rave a phenomenal
pitcher in Jack Highlands. In a game
| with the Manhattans he struck out fifteen
men. and not o run or O hit was made OF
his delivery. %
F~rrzslMNoNs is now in the West and Hall
is in New York. Hall is therefore telling
everybody that Fitz is a cur and a coward.
"Ko-IS-sKg' is the official way of pro-
nouncing joe ~Choyinski's name. At any
rate that is the California "pug's W YER
sion, and he ought to know. $3.50. ...s
The Yale crew has been changed again.
| Chatfield has been placed at bow and Der
by Dodgers, who proved too light for the
Yale boat, was relegated TO the second
crew. - =
"IF Corbeti whips Sqlliyan,' says Car
| roll, Bob Fitzsimmons will challenge
| him, but if Sullivan wins he will not say 9
word, as he thinks John l.. has earned and
is entitled to the title. of champion of the
world
Billy Gallagher, ofOakland: and George
4 Dawson, of Australia, light weights, fought
! before che California Athletic Club for
purse of 81, 200. The betting favored Daw'
4 son. and even money was put up that Gal
I Iagher would not last Ii rounds. AT thu
] end of the SD round it was anybody:
fight. Dawson won in thes42d round.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28
o SIN.

Property yalued at 800, 900 is burned at
kenOsha, Wis.
A iO-ycar old daughter of James F
Cornwell. living three miles north o
Downing burned TO death while playing
with fire during intermission at school.
Rodin, a photographer, living at West
Superior, was killed on the Eastern Mimi
esOta road, fifteen miles south OF this city,
County Supervisor P. ]. Ryan's residence
at Durand, was totally destroyed by fire.
His vile was alone with small children at
the time. The origin is unknown. Loss
over 5000,
The home of A. D. White, the agent for
the Singer Sewing Machine company at
Brandon, was entered by thieves while the
family was at church aud 81 900 in money
stolen.
Albert W. Weisbrod, a prominent law
yer of Northern Wisconsin, and one OF the
attorneys in the celebrated state treasury
cases, died at Oshkosh suddenly.
Two children were poisoned by eating
something they picked up on the street,
which is supposed to have been 3~trychnine,
as both died in q short time OF commissions.
One was five and the other six years OF
age.
The wife OF Theodore H. SpeCht,
of the firm OF Specht, CrGnen d
Co, carriage manufacturers, of Milwau-
kee. presented her husband with three
babies, two boys and a girl, weighing ex-
actly six pounds each. All are doing well.
\ row BOAT was found near the shore in
Green lake hartford containing he dead
body of boy, aged fifteen, the son of the
wealthy owner OF "~Sunnyside," one Of the
finest summer houses on the lake. Thela lad
had just breathed his last. He had evil
IDENTIFY been killed by the accidental dis.
charge of his run.
Wm. Bortel, who tried to get out OF Bar
ron county with a livery team, was cap
tured at Eau Claire by Deputy Sheriff
Dai,z, who returned with him and the
team.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28
CATTLE FILCHING.
On This Charge Is a Nebraska
Ex-Sheriff Arrested at
Rapid City.
Accused Of Being the Head of a
Dangerous Gang of Cattle
Thieves.

RAPID CRY, s. D., Special, April %
Yesterday Deputy United States Marshal
Mathieson arrested John q. Lutte, for iour
terms sheriff of Cherry county, Neb., on a
charge of cattle stealing. Little, it is
claimed by the o~fficeals, has been the lead
er of the worst gang OF cattle thieves oPer-
ating between the Indian reservations and
ne Northern Nebraska towns. 1t is as
serted that they have stolen and shipped
hundreds of cattle TO Chicago.
but it has h r~eto!ore been impossible to
lasten "a case upon or arrest Little. The
particular charge on which he was arrested
is stealing seventy-twohead rom the heard
on the Rosebud reservation belonging to
Slayen Of Kansas City, the agency beef con-
troctor. They were driven INTO Nebraska
and shipped to Chicago. Deputy United
States marshals and Indian police are
now in pursuit 0. the other members o! the
gang,
L!ttle's arrest was kept secret yesterday,
in order that they should not take warning
aud skip the country. 1t will break up The
largest and most audacious gang of cattle
thieves in this part OF the country. Lit
ties arrest was only accomplished after
much planning and considerable strata
GEM, but blood-hed is expected before all
are captured. United Sales District At
torncy Sterling will return in a 'ew days to
personally attend to these cases.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28
NORTH DAKOTA.

A Grand Forks bank cashier embezzles.
He attributes his downfall TO gambling.
Executive Manager Tyler, of the state
worlds fair board, spent a day at James
town recently working mp interest in the
state exhibit.
The working of the industrial school al
Fort Totten is being investigated by Su.
pervision of Indian Schools Ansley, and
testimony is being taken at Devils Lake.
An Edinburgh special says: Seeding is in
progress, having commenced. The soil is
in good condition. The acreage will be
about twU-thirds that OF lastyear. as but lit
tie blowing was done last fall
The Normal School Board, in session al
Valley City recently accepted the design:
and plans OF W. Il. Hancock, of Fargo, fol
the new normal school building to be built
here. Mr.. Hancock is to superintend The
work.
At the school election at Grand Forks
D.. Lay was rejected member at large. The
board of directors are: James Elton, Sec
Ond ward; J.. ID. Bacon, Fourth ward; W
l.. Wilder, Sixth ward.
Roadmaster Mcnamara, of the Northern
Pacific, has been arrested at Grand Fork
on a charge of classifying his pay rolls
drawing money for fictitious employees ane
forging signatures to the ray roll. pocket
ing the proceeds. He is in custody a
Pembina. He is said to have made a full
confession.
Heavy immigration still continues. Tht
Great Northern is carrying loaded trains
The Northern Pacific also Is doing a heavy
business. Settler are SCATTERING out among
the small towns west of Grand Forks. A
large party from indianapolis, Ind, passed
through 20 take government homestead
in ToWner county.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28
SOUTH DAKOTA.

A. a public meetin. at Howard, citizens
pledged a carload of wheat for the Russian
sufferers.
1t may be safely said for the first time
this season that seeding has actively begun
In the entire Jim Valley. The acreage
will be largely increased i'll many local..
lips.
Many farmers began seeding wheat at
Harrison in February and it is not all
sown II Land is advancing in value
rapidly, wing to the prosperous outlook
and the number of land buyers who are
arriving daily.
Fred Larson, a young man, met a fearful
death near Webster. In an effort to separ.
ate two vicious dogs who were fighting, a
man named Olson, who was using the han
die Of a pitchfork on the dogs, drew back
and one of the tines struck Larson just be,
low the brow and above the ball ofthe right
eye, Penetrating the brain.
James Everett cayle very near death at
Watertown. He was agitating a soda foun-
tain which had been charged when it ex-
ploded, injuring him severely, but not dan,
gerously. One piece of the fountain made
its exit through an open doorway and was
fifty yards from the scene Of the explosion.
A Miller Special says Sowing
grain SIS now in full blast again,
although the. ground is in a moist condi,
ton for the work. The scarcity OF Iarm
help is quite a drawback to the rapid ad,
yancement ofthe work, and it will be the
first OF May before all the wheat is sown.
Prof. James f. Todd has been elected to
the chair of geology and mineralogy, left
vacant by Prot. G. L. Culver. Prof. Todd
previously occupied the chair of natural
sciences. at Tabor college, Iowa. He has
also filled the chair Of geology at Beloit
Few, if any other, biologists have had the
practical field experience III South Oak.
ota geology enjoyed by Prot. Todd.nliis
The sisseton reservation boom is by nc
means over, although the rush for land i;
about over. A town site fever epidemic
has taken possession OF o great many, ane
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28
T~ELEGRAMS.

Detroit. Mich, mas a yarioloid scare.
Cholera is spreading in Aighanlstan and
Persia.
Two Mexicans were frozen to death in Colo.
RADIO last week.
Two thousand two hundred and ffty-nine
immigrants we're landed at New York yester'
day.
susan b. Anthony has written az open letter
advocating the opening Of the wocld's fair on
Sundays.
Delegates representing the local branches OF
the Brewers Employees National union are in
convention at Buffalo, n. Y
AGrrman spy named Schurieder has been ar
rested IN Paris. He had in his possession a
quantity of documents which were seized.
At Glen, France. yesterday. a serious con
Rict occurred between eendarmes and strikers
The former made vigorous use OF their swords
and several persons we're seriously wounded
over two hundred bakers Of Cleveland, ono,
are out on a strike. They demand that they
be Exempted from night work and that baking
concerns shall employ no one except union
men.
Confirmation has been received OF the defeat
by the BRAZILIAN government troops of revolters
under Col. Barbosa. As soon as the tight began
there were many deserters from Barbosas
ranks.
The Brazilian government has sent dispatches
to Brazilian ministers abroad denying the truth
OF the rumors OF the separation OF this states o.
Sac Paolo and Rio Grande Do Sui from the fed
eral government. -
The colossal equestrian statue Of Marshal
Radetzky, in AmhoT's square, Vienna, was an.
yelled yesterday. The emperor made an ad'
dress. The monument is on the exact spot
where the revClutiOnists OF 1913 hanged Count
Latour, the war minister.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28

A German chemist has invented a
method whereby petroleum and SINH
lar liquid hydrocarbons can be rendered
non-eXplosive.
II Is proposed TO employ aluminium
for the manufacture Of the metal parts
OF Photographic cameras and Mate
holders, owing to its extreme light
ness.
a mysterious ringing of electric bells
In a Swiss house was traced to n large
spider, which had one loot on the hell
wire and another on an electric liUbt
wire.
Tea tasters nowadays depend more
upon the odor than the taste of teas
and some of the most expert do not
taste them at all, but rely entirely I'M.
on smelling them.
II the earth's atmosphere extended
to. a height of 700 miles the SIMS beat
and rays could never penetrate ii. and
we would freeze to death while wrap
ped IN darkness blacker than the
blacklist midnight.
Glass with a wire core is a ney mo-
terial made in Dresden, the glass be;no
FUSED to the wire while in q plastic
state. The adhesion is said to remain
perfect under severe fluctuations of
temperature.
photography has now become Of
great assistance to astronomers In
their study of the heavens. Abont
So,ooo plates are at the Cambridge
MASS observatory, making an I'M
Paralleiea collection of Photographic
records OF every part of the sky.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28
FOREIGN NUGGETS.

The Russian nihilists are reported to have
smphaticaiiy rejected anarchist overtures
for an alliance of forces.
French vineyards have suffered immense
damage from the icy storms of Easter. The
crop has been destroyed ia many parts of
Burgundy.
ApyIcrs from Senegal are that Samora,
the powerful native king of the Niger
region. has been defeated by the French
near Kerouane on March IA.
Although advices from Emerson say the
water is going down there, 1t keeps. on rails
ing here slowly. and If the ice shoyes with
the river high bridges will be in great dan
ger.
The British column has had continuous
Jungle fighting along the kaukkive river.
Six men were wounded in carrying Ting
Gram. Ten were killed ara four wounded
in a fight with pacoits.
A DEMAND was made al the point of a
pistol upon ex-Finance Minister Caryaliio
of Portugal for $500 by a suspected anar.
chist. He got over $50, which it is be-
lieyed had been placed 70 buy explosives
before he was arrested.
ALARMING reports are current respecting
the condition of Cardinal Tachereau Of
Quebec. There are indications that his
mental balance is gradually becoming I'M
strung. Bishop Begin of Chicoutimi ha:
been appointed assistant 20 the archbishop,
with right of accession thereto.
An internal machine filed with powder,
eighty gevelot cartridges and a juanty o.
scrap iron, with a burning fuse attached,
was found in the electric lighting shed o.
the campagnie du Nord at Lille. The cal-
prit by whom It had been placed there es'
capped. Il :
Owing to the difficulties that have beer
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28
OTHE RWISE.

Two antitrust distilleries are 10 be bnilt
at Peoria.
john LoFrus died at Clean, n. y at the
age OF Ill years. He had several medals for
foreign war service.
The Cheyenne and Arsgahoe reservation
Is opened to settlement. Many persons are
injured in the scramble for lands,
MANY Sisseton reservation boomers de-
sert their claims and return home because
the land is poor.
NINE. DE BArRIos, widow of the late
president of Guatemala, is married in New
York to a spaniard.
TOBACCO Oh which full duty had not been
paid is seized in Chicago, and seizures are
| expected in Minneapolis and other cities.
These are notifications of the San Francis
co customs frauds.
PRELIMINARY arrangements are nearly
| completed for the Eleventh International
Christian Endeavor convention which is to
be held at Madison Square Garden, New
York, July I to 10
AT the Troy Methodist conference at
Plattsburg, n. Y, a resolution was adopted
earnestly and emphatically protesting
against making our Columbian Exposition
a vast saloon
Gov. FLOWER has appointed Hon. Daniel
| McNaughton, ~ex-state senator, to the posi-
| ton of Chief executive officer of the board
of general managers o~fthc-exhibit OF the
state of New York at the Worlds FaiL
The doors of the Mutual Banking, Scre-
ty and Trust Company, of Philadelphia,
which have been closed for the past two
weeks by the order of State Bank Exanin-
CT Krumbhsr, were opened to the public.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28
RAILROAD RumBLiNoS.

The Duluth & Winnipeg road secures ter
minal facilities i'm Allouez bay, where the
Mesaha & Northern will build ere docks
TIE Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City
road Glover Leah has withdrawn the tariff
on Uestbound traffic between Boston and
St. Louis. whereby rates were reduced 3
cents on iirst-class freight and proportion
ately on all the other classes.
AT the request of the Worlds Fair de-
partment of transportation exhibits, Geo.
De Haven, general passenger agent OF the
Chicago & West Michigan. andthe Detroit,
| Lansing & Northern roads, has consented
| to undertake the work of making a histori-
cal collection of railway tickets.
! E The earnings OF the Milwaukee for the
| second week of April amounted TO $780,
! 949, an increase of $79.0S4 as compared with
| The corresponding week ofls9l. For the
| same week the earnings of the Milwaukee
& Northern were $32, 054, an increase of
81, 1882.
A Canadian power company hasleased the
| Horseshoe falls to Niagara. This great
water power is TO be harnessed and deyel-
opeG by tunnels and raceways similar to
those ofthe tunnel now in process of con-
| struction on the American side OF the river,
andthe ompany to do it is practically the
same as that which has control OF the
| American enterprise.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28
IOWA.


A number appointment ca capitalists of Du-
b1que organized the Dubuque Life Insur-
ance Company recently. The details are
not yet perfected.
A man named KELSEY was fatally injured
at Iowa Falls by being caught in a cog
at the bottle works. The engine could not
be stopped in time.
The corner stone of the new Hardin
county court house, which will cost S75, coo,
was laid with appropriate ceremony. Hon.
G. W. Ball, oflowa City, will deliver the
address.
Charles Blackman, a cattle thief who for
fl We years has eluded officers of the Law has
been captured and placed in Jail at Creston.
There are several indictments pending
against him for wholesale cattle stealing.
Vac Adamel, is held in bonds of 81, 900
at Cedar Rapids to answer to the charge of
attempting TO rape Mrs. Hosik, a promi-
nent Bohemian lady. Adamel is married,
but it is claimed he has another vie living
in Prague.
Workmen while digging down a bank in
the eastern port of Cedar Rapid, unearthed
the skeleton ola MAJ with a broad-brim-
med Lat on his head, a silk tie around
his neck and a part OF q vest. There is no
clue as to who it is.
William Stackhouse, q German, while
engaged in erecting a windmill tower seven
miles west of Eldora, was killed. He was
at the top ofthe shaft and fell, killing him
almost instantly. Helived at Hubbard, on
Chicago & Northwestern railroad.
The federal inspection of beef went into
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-28
A CHAPTER OF AcclpgAr.

The Confusion Which Resuit.1
From a Young Mans poiitsness-
Whether gallantry is &C all times
good thing to display in public ia
question that was debated mensalI,
by a whole carful Of people in Broad
way, says the New York Times. Thu
car was bound downtown, and Al
Fourteenth street it was comfortable
filled. 1t wGs nearly II o'clock and
the outpouring crowd from the Star
theater supplied enough more passen.
gers to pack the "a from door to1
door. Three or four men were seated
and hall q dozen women, all young
vivacious, and apparently robust.
were standing. Everybody was good
natured and as the crowd bowled'
along there was not t~heslightest mani
festation OF discomfort.
But there was one very gallant
young man who could not let well
enough alone. He was packed snueiv
between two women whose skirts al
most concealed the lower portion q.
his body. By frantic efforts he extri,'
Gated himself, and with a polite bow
rendered his seat to a young woman
who was contentedly conversing with
friends, who were also standing. She
glanced at the vacant seat, saw about
two inches OF space, and smilingly
shook her head. But the gallant
young man insisted, and, in an effort
to make another bow, knocked a stout
woman with a bundle off her balance.
The woman fell into the lap of an old
gentleman, and the bundle landed
among the feathers OF a love OF a
bonnet" at tho other end OF the car.
The startled old gentleman in trying
to assist the stout woman TO her feet
lost his silk hat, which, in it's down
ward course, swept n pair OF opera.
glasses from the lap OF the woman
who sat, next TO him.
Meanwhile the gallant young man
was trying TO apologize to the stout
woman. He stumbled over the feet OF
n passenger, knocked a womap's
hat awry, and, by the sudden stop
ping of the car, Involuntary en-
braced the maiden to whom he had
offered his seat. There were muttered
signs of discomfort, and the embar-
raised gallant would have left the car.
but for the masses Of humanity packed
between him and the doors. Hethere-
fore swung discOnsolateiy from a
strap, humping against this one and
that, and listened to such feminine
calculations as well, ! never For
goodness sake" "Gracious:' etc. And
the young woman did not take mis-
seat.