Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-06-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

G~rTTYsBURG's high water m ak" tablet
is dedicated.
A SUIT against the Bell Telephone COM
pany involving millions of dollars is won
by the Western Union.
TEXAS fever is imported into South Da-
kota, and cattlemen threaten to keep Texas
cattle out themselves, 1.-THE governor does
not do so.
CosTER & MARTIN, Chicago brokers, fail
in an attempt to corner the corn market,
though they succeed in driving corn up
from Al cents to 81. Prices alterward fell
to 50 cents aud the brokers assign.
TnE monument erected by tho people of
New Orleans TO the memory of the late
superin sendent of police, David c. Hcnnes-
sy, who was assassinated by The Malta in
October, 1880, was unveiled recently.
Chicago board oftrade markets will soon
be distributed free TO the public. The con-
tract between the board and The Western
Union Telegraph company, arranging Tor
the distribution OF the quotations, has
been signed. The contract IS for one year.
THE Barney & Smith car works of Day
ton Ohio, have been sold to New York and
Cincinnati capitalists at q valuation OF
81 500 900. The works have been in success
full operation for forty years.
Tue Edison General Electric company
and The Thomson-Houston Ele:tric COM
pany have ceased to exist under those titles.
| They became merged III the general electric
| company formed two months ago in New
York.
The phenomenal Jersey Cow, Signals
Lily Flag. owned by Moore Il Matthews,
OF Huntsville, Ala, has broken the record,
1as,,r ,,,nln 4 ono ,nTtn11 10 I,,rn ~
butter. with four days more to end her
years test. She is now the Jersey queen of
the world.
THE monument to the unknown victims
of the great flood was unveiled at Johns
town, Pa. Addresses were read by Gov.
Pit;tison, ex-Gov. Beaver and Flood Com
mi sioner Ogden. The monument is of
granite and is surrounded by three figures
representing faith, hope and charity.
The long-talked-of combination of wall
paper manufacturers became an accom-
plished fact recently, when a certificate
was filed with the New York secretary OF
state incorporating the National Wall
Paper company with q capital of S14, co.,
600.
CROWDS fhrongcd about The tomb of Gen.
Grant at Riverside park and heard the an
nour cement made by Gen. Horace Porter
that the fund for the erection OF the Grant
monument bad been completed. The ora
ton was delivered by Col. Charles Mar
shall, who was the chief of staff to Gen.
Lee, the Confederate commander.
A young man supposed to be JOIN Bran
denburg dropped dead in the union depot
| at Chicago. rs he was about to take a Pan
| handle train. B~randenburg registered at
the Gault House from Minneapolis. In his
pocket was a ticket to New Albany, Ind,
and a letter with the post mark Living
worth, Ind" The letter was signed "Pa
and Ma" and contained an urgent request
to come home.
THE Crockett clan, descendants of the
immortal Davy, will celebrate the 106th an
nivcrsary of the birth of That deceased hero
and statesman at Rutherford, Tenn,
Aug. II. The old double log house and
homestead ofCol. Crockett when he rep
| resented West Tennessee in congress and
where he lett his family when he welt on
his fatal mission TO Texas, is still in good
repair, and will be an interesting curiosity
TO the surviving relatives.