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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04
Don't Forget to Remember.
lat good lieutenants do not ALWAYS

That good ~lieutenants do not always
make good captains.
That ''cranks" are those who think
themselves anything but cranks.
That roomy hearts have more genu-
inc hospitality than roomy houses.
The foundations for a seat in the
kingdom of heaven must be laid on
earth.
That a golden key will often work
admirably where an iron one will not
work at all.
That if mud must be thrown, it had
better be with a shovel rather than
with a pen.
That until a mans name is up, he
will find it very difficult to sell gold
at par, but
That when his name is once up he
can readily sell it at a premium-and
no questions asked.
That the rider of a high horse m
times finds himself at the end of the
journey on a low plane, and
That the hobby rider who rides to
the end OF the race before dismountinp
Is sure OF one thiag-"he gets there.S
That where there's a viii, there's a
way" but where there's a won't, the
way is apt to be hedgcd up some
what.
That the outcome of whipping the
devll around a stump" can only be as
certained on learning who gets whip
ped.
That 1T is safer to Judge a man by
his walk and conversation woven to-
gether, rather than by the warp of his
walk, or the wool of his conversation
alone.
1hat 1t is well to be prompt to re-
sP0hd when the breakfasts bell rings,
10 De instant in season at the dinner
tapie and not to be out of season at
supper time.-Go0d EouseSeszsx
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04

she intended TO return to the stage
The Nayarros will pass the autumn
In Scotland and the winter in Italy.
A terrible murder story comes from
Warsaw, Russia, the victims being a
Jewish innkeeperliving near Warsaw,
his wife and five daughters. A band
of robbers in search of plumber killed
the whole family.
D'Oyly Carte's new English Opera
House, which has been a financial
failure, has been purchased by a linn
tied liability company with a capital
of LOCO, 900. 1t will hereafter be
known as the Palace theater, to be
devoted to vaudeville.
James Frazer, a bank clerk of POI
mont, Scotland, ran amuck with a
sword. He ran into the house of a
neighDor and hacked him to death
and fatally wounded his wife. He
then ran into the street and killed a
young woman. He was captured
after a desperate struggle. 1t is
believed he is insane.
The firm of e. c. Atkins & Co, saw
manufactures of Indianapolis, have
just divided the profits of a years
business with their employees, giving
them $4,000 in cash. 1t is perfectly
safe TO say that if the Carnegie COM
pany had adopted the profit sharing
scheme there would have been no
strikeat Homestead.
The eruptions of Mt. Etna are
increasing in violence, especially on
the western side of the mountain.
Villages at the foot of the mountain
are shaken almost continually by
earthquakes. The inhabitants pass
hours daily in prayer in the open
streets. The lava streams have
already destroyed many mountain
huts.
a terrible tragedy is reported from
the village of Guehen, in Backgammon
county, RoScommon, Ireland. A
woman of the village having become
insane seized her three children, one
after another, and held them head
downward in a pool of boiling water
until they were dead. The woman
then attempted to commit suicide in
the same manner, but was discovered
before life Mas extinct. Her recovery
is doubtful.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04
A SUNKEN PALACE.
w. *. Vanderbiit's Magnificent
Yacht is Sunk BY a Big
Ocean Steamer.
The Guests and Crew are
Rescued i'm the Nick of
Time.

The steamer, II. F. Dimock, of the
Metropolitan Steamship company,
has arrived at Boston, having on
board the occupants of W. X. Van
derbilts's yacht Alya, which steamer
was run down Sunday morning. The
AIva, under command of Capt. Morri-
son, left Bar Harb0r at four O'Clock
Saturday evening, bound for New
port, r. l., having on board the
owner and his guests, Frank w. Van
dcrbilt, George Deforest, Louis Webb.
Windfeld Scott White and Frank
Riggs, all of whom are summering at
Newport. Early Sunday morning a
thick fog set in, and Capt. Morrison
deemed it imprudent to run further,
as the yacht was in the track OF
coasting vessels. After making the
Pollock light-ship anchor was
dropped and the whistles and horns
blown at frequent intervals.
Shortly after 8 a. IN. the guests
were aroused by a heavy crash,
accompanied by the tearing of of the
plates of the vessel. VIM. Wander
bilt was first on deck. Looking
through the fog they could see the
dark hull of a large steamer backing
away from the yacht. The yacht
hailed the steamer and informed the
captain that the yacht must sink.
A steam launch, four row beats and
a naphtha launch were lowered from
the Alva, which was rapidly sinking,
and the over and passengers with the
crew of forty-two men were soon
rapidly pulling away from the
doomed craft. Their exit was none
too soon, for when about a cables
length from the vessel she plunged
down, bow first, and nothing but the
top of three mastS remained out Of
the water.
The Dimock was gO!r G az r atty re-
duced speed at the time of the coils
ion, otherwis she would have runright
over the Alva and a Grightful loss of
life would have been the result,
owing to the fact that all the pas
scngers and half of the were
asleep at the time of the accident.
None of The passengers or the crew
saved a thing except their clothing.
The Alva was one of the finest
pleasure steamers afOat and cost
nearly $4,000 Efforts will be made
to raise her.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04


In the interior of Australia all the
men drink tea. They drink it all day
long and in quantities and at a strength
that would seem to be poisonous. On
Sunday morning the teamaker starts
with a clean pot and a clean record.
The pot is hung over the fire with n
suificiency of water in it for the davis
brew and when this has boiled he
pours into it enough of the fragrant
herb to produce a deep c~ofree-colored
liquid.
On Monday, without REMOVING yes-
terday's tea leaves, he repeats the pro-
cess. On Tuesday da capo and On
Wednesday da capo,a and so on through
the week. Toward the close of it the
great pot is filed with an acrid mash
OF tea leaves, out of which she LIQUID
Is squeezed by the pressure of n tin
cup, says the New Orleans Picayune.
By this time the tea is of the color
OF rusty iron, incredibly bitter and
dlsagreeabie to the uneducated palate.
The native calls it real good old post
and rails" (the smile being obviously
drawn from a stiff and dangerous
Jump, and regards it as having been
brought to the very pitch of perfec-
ton. Doctors tell of cases resulting
from this abuse which closely border
IN their manifestations, on the sign.
OF the delirium tremens.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
washington, Political, Foreign,
and General Domestic,
Happenings of Note.
Teiegraphic News of the World
Condensed for the Benefit
of Busy Readers.
II

West Virginia democrats nomi-
mated w A. McCorkle, for governor.
The president has nominated Wat
son II. Sperry, of Delaware, minister
to Persia.
The bill for a public building at
Platsmouth has been amended, appro-
priation to 10000.
Minnesota republicans nominated a
strong ticket last week with Kynute
Nelson at its head.
The democratic committee announ-
ces that no speakers will be sent out
dntil after September l.
w. W. Bowers was re-nominated by
the republicans of the Sixth Cali
fornia district for congress.
Adlai Stevenson announces that he
will remain in Bloomington nealry all
of August answering letters.
J. Sloat Fassett, has declined to
address the Wisconsin League of
republican clubs at Milwaukee.
The president has signed the bill
accepting the bequest of George n.
Cullom for a memorial hall at West
Point.
Soren Listoe, appointed council to
Dusseldorf, is editor of the Nordves-
tern Of st. Paul, and "a learned men,
Der Of the Scandinavian element in
the northwest.
Whitelaw Reid has accepted the
invitation of the Illinois republican
state central committee to attend the
convention of league clubs at Spring
field on August Is.
The secretary of the navy has
orderd the United States steamer
Kearsarge to proceed at once to Hon
duras. That country is in a state of
revolution, and the presence of a
United States man-of-war is thought
necessary TO protect American inter-
ests there.
Secretary Tracy has decided that
he will, about October |, send the
United States steamer Constellation,
the training ship, to Havre and
Genoa. The Constellation on her
return trip will bring to this country
a large collection of works of art of
Columbus time for exhibition at the
worlds fair.
The California republican state
convention nominated presidential
electors and confirmed the nominal
tions of the district conventions.
The national platform and nominees
were endorsed; the early completion
aad government control. of the Mic
aragur canal favored; and liberal
expenditures for waterways and har-
bors demanded.
Irving H. Palmer and Riley Champ
lin, two prominent democrats, last
week resigned from the Cortland, n.
Y, democratic:club and came out for
Harrison. In a letter of explanation
Mr.. Palmer says that Mr.. Cleveland's
letter on the force bill, which is not
an issue, IS a cowardly evasion of the
truth and he has been reluctantly
convinced by Mr.. Cleveland's own
action OF his ''truculency and his dis
honesty and ~insincerity" on the
question of the tariff.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04
The American whist

The American Whist congress,
which was in session recently in New
York, witnessed the greatest whist
playing ever seen in any whist con-
gress in the world. The contest for
the Hamilton 81, 900 vase trophy
resulted in a tie between Milwaukee
and Washington. The Milwaukee
players were veterans, having, in
years passed added many laurels to
their repeated victories. They entered
the late congress with the prestige of
of a sinch OF the vase. The Wash
ingtonians were young men who
went to New York in their lawn ten
mis- suits for a lark. On the last day
of the contest the Milwaukee and
Washington teams were pitted
against each other, all other contest
ants having dropped out. For eight
hours they played. Sixteen hands
were shuffled and the score was 312 to
3l2, then twelve hands were dealt out
and again they were even, and the
last eight hands resulted in a victory
FOR the young men, leaving the score
even, each club having suffered n
defeat during the three days contest.
The officers declared the sittings a
draw. The 1898 meeting Will be held
in Chicago.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Sixteen of the Liege anarchists
were found guilty.
Northern Mexico is again con-
fronted with a total crop failure.
Kipling's new book, coming out in
the fall, will be one of short stories.
German soldiers are reported to
have made an ~incursion into French
territory.
The commercial treaty between
Germany and the Republic of Column
bia has been signed.
Merrell & Sons, worsted spinners of
Bingley, Yorkshire, have suspended.
Liabilities $500, 900, assets s400, 900.
The Frankfurter Zeitung says that
an exhaustive official reply to Prince
Bismarck,s continued attacks will be
published shortly.
The Russian June cropreport shows
a shortage in most grains, owing to
the drought in the southern provin-
ces and excessive rains in the
northern.
At a theatrical performance in
Paris the seats fell with 700 people
seriously injuring eighty. The screws
had been maliciously removed from
the support.
Eighty persons were injured by
giving way of the seats in a theater
at Rueil, France, Monday evening.
Some miscreant had purposely
loosened the ~fastenings.
Mr.. Deacon, who is serving a years
Imprisonment for killing NJ. Abeille
in France, has begun proceedings
against his wife for adultery, for
which the penalty is imprisonment.
The British foreign office has
received notice that the government
of Honduras has declared the Allan
tic coast of that republic closed to
foreign commerce.
Milariff, Popoff, Ghorghief and
Karaguloff, conspirators found guilty
by a court martial of plotting against
the lives of Prince Ferdinand, of Bull
garia, and Prime Minister Stambuloff,
have been executed.
Mrs. Antonio Navarro MARY Ander-
SON dcnounces as untrue the reports
which have been current of late that
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04
JUDGES son ABDUCTED.
Spirited Away by His Divorced Wife, an
Actress.

Robert Dirstine, the eight-ycar-old
son of Judge +. II. DirStine, was kid
mapped on the streets of Centerville,
this state, by an unknown man and
woman, supl Sed to be Joseph Rine-
hart and Edith Dirstine. Judge
Dirstine, who is now an attorney at
law and judge of the Turner county
court, resides at this place, where he
came about four years ago. In 1890
he obtained a divorce from his then
wife, the same Edith Dirstine. At
the time of the separation in 1888 the
mother spirited the child from the
fathers possession and at all times
since the spring of 1889 has kept him
concealed.
About three weeks ago the judge
learned that his boy was in Oxford,
Kan, and Immediately went after
and brought him to Centerville. The
little fellow in this brief period had
become dearly attached to his new
home and all its surroundings and
much preferred it to his heretofore
wandering life. Edith Dirstine is an
actress and until recently has fol-
lowed the theatrical business.
Some time within the past two
years she is said to have married
Joseph Rinehart, a man with appar-
emily considerable means, but whose
business the boy was unable to give
further than that he has no fixed
home and stops only for short periods
in different cities.
The judge is a young man of
unquestiOnable integrity and more
than ordinary legal ability and has
a high standing in social and political
circles. Rinehart and wife are now
said to be residents of Chicago. The
kidnappers and child were last seer
at Hawarden, Iowa, and warrants are
out for their arrest.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04
carclessness Gets a woman in Trouble.

A postal card is causing Mrs. John
Rice, of Holman, Scott county, Ind.
no small amount of troable. Her
daughter wrote TO her from Lexing-
ton, five miles distant, where she is
attending college. After reading the
communication the card was thrown
into a bureau drawer, and Mrs. Rice's
husband subsequently used it as a
memorandum, and afterwards erased
both the figures and the writing his
daughter had made. Mrs. Rice think
ing that the card was a new one wrote
ON it to a friend at Deputy, Ind, a
village a short distance from Holman.
Postmaster Malick, of that place,
observing that the card had been
tampered with. held the twice used
postal and notified the p~ostofice
department. Last night Mrs. Rice
was arrested by a postoffice inspector,
bat gave bond for her appearance in
tue United States court at Indiana
polls on a charge of violating the
postal laws.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04
DE MoRrs AFTER o
P~ugnacious Frenchman Challenge
Editor MedII. of Chicago Tribune.

The Pucnacious Frenchman Challenges
Editor MediI. of the Chicago Tribune.
The Marquis de Mores wants to fight
Joseph Medill, the editor of the Chi
cago Tribune. The following letter
has been received at the Tribune
office:
No. 80 RUE DE Mont THABER,
PARIS, July II, lS92.-To the editor
of the Chicago Tribune. Dear Sir
| notice the mention of my name in
your issue of June %. | am happy TO
say that as far as public sentiment
is concerned in this country your
kind appreciation of myself is not
shared. i wish to know if, as editor
of the Tribune, you take the respon-
sibility of the article. Yours truly,
MARQUIS DE MoREs.
The matter to which the marquis
took exception was IN editorial relat-
ing to the Mayer duel, in which the
nobleman was denounced as a worth
less adventurer. In commenting
upon the challenge the Tribune this
morning says:
This letter admits of only n
Interpretation. The Marquis de
Mores wants satisfaction. He shall
have it. As the challenged party,
the Chicago Tribune has the right to
name the time and place of meeting
and to choose the weapons. The
lighting editor of the Tribune will
meet the Marquis de Mores at jack
son Park on some date to be hereafter
agreed upon, between the first of May
and the last of October, 1893.
The fight shall take place in a
twenty-four foot ring and shall be
conducted in strict accordance with
the marquis of Q~ueensberry rules.
The weapons shall be gloves weighing
eight ounces-this size being the larg-
est permitted under the rules-and
the fight shall be to a finish. The
combat shall take place under the
auspices of the Worlds Columbian
exposition, without additional charge
for admission to the grounds. 1t is
well known to the marquis, doubtless,
that every first class newspaper is
provided with a fighting editor, who
holds himself personally responsible
for anything that may be said in the
paper and is always ready to back it
up. The fighting editor of the Tribune
is always in training, and is man who
habitually thirsts for gore. He will
hold himself in readiness to meet the
Marquis de MoreS at any time to set
tie upon all preliminaries not here
stipulated. The Tribune is ready.
Let the Marquis de Mores come on.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04

AT Jamesburg, N. j., died, not long
since, Harrison w. Crosby, aged
IS. Few persons knew Mr.. Crosby,
even by name, yet he ought to be
more famous than Napoleon Bona
part, for he was benefactor to the
Whole human race. A discovery of
his while he was steward of Lafayette
college, IN 1877, added fully 100 per
cent. 20 the quality and variety of
human food, and made it possible for
ship captains TO fight OFF scuryy. BY
means of his idea, Lieutenant Peary,
in the awful arctic night, was able if
still alive, to have a Christmas din
ner approaching in variety and
palatableness those in civilized
lands. In brief, Harrison Crosby
invented the process for sealing
tomatoes and other vegetables in tin
cans, so they would come out fresh
and in prime condition. To appre-
ciate what this means, il is only
necessary to think of the vast
establishments for canning meats
and vegetables, and of the great con-
densed milk industry, all made pos
sible by the happy idea of the tin
tomato can, saying nothing of the
tin plate industry.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04
DEAD LETTER OFFICE STATISTICS.
A Substantial Decrease in the Number of
Pieces Received.


During the fiscal year 1SS9-90 the
receipts of the dead letter Office were
some $500, 900 pieces, or five per cent.
owe the preceding year. During
1S90-9l, while it appeared from esti-
mates of the quantity of matter dis
patched through the mails that there
was an increase in letters alone of
owe 10000, 600, the increase to the
dead letter Office was but 11,000
pieces, or four and three-quarter per
cent. During the year just closed,
although the general volume of the
business and operations of the service
have approached eight per cent. in
excess of the previous year, the usual
and eve ordinarily expected increase
has not only disappeared, but the
gratifying fact appears that there
was a decrease of over $4,000, or
nearly m per cent. in the number of
pieces sent to the dead letter Office.
That the mistakeo of the public, which
in so many instances prevent matter
committed to the mails from reach
ing its intended destination, and
which embarrass and thwart delivery,
continue to confront the service, how
ever, may be attested by the increase
of over seventeen per cent. in unad-
dressed letters alone. While the
quantity OF matter sent to that Office
has for years taxed and pressed the
clerical force provided to its utmost
capacity and efforts, recourse to
extended and increased hours of
labor have at times become necessary
to meet the requirements of a thor
ough and most effective service and
the disposition of accumulation and
arrearage of work. During the past
year, however, without any increase
of force and wholly within the daily
official hours of labor, the Office has
had its work at all times in hand and
practically up with its current daily
receipts. The report of the dead let
ter office forthe last year showed that
the work had only been disposed of
by recourse to extra time, and that
over 100000 letters in excess of the
previous year were returned 10 writ
ers. The report this year will show
the work of every branch up to date
and an increase of 225, 900 over last
year in the number of letters
returned to writers.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04

THEY TERE MARRIED THEN AND THERE
Not knowing what was to be done
they wendell their way 10 a farm hons
which stood in the distance. Tsev'
raped at the door and Il kindly man
greeted them. He asked them in. ana
presently acquainted them with ~
fact that he was the minister wbo.
officiated at the crossroads church not
far away.
A minister.
The young mans face looked bright|
er, as though he saw a way out of tbe|
dark difficulties that surrounded them
The young lady raised her eyes from
the floor and gave the young nan 3
deep, penetrating, significant glance.
The young mans heart beat in an IN
tanned manner. Could it be possible She
understood all? She looked at him
again smiled sweetly, and blushingIy'
nodded her head.
They did not compromise their stand-
ing in society. They were marricd'
then and there.
AS has been before remarked, love q
a peculiar thing, and often works ous
its purposes in a very peculiar way
Chicago Times.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04
A STORY OF A LOST MINE.
n Rich Gold Vein in Idaho Which Wa
Iony Hidden.

a Rich Gold Vein in Idaho which Was
Long Hidden.
Lost mine stories are common in
the west, and as a general thing pee
pie place little reliance in them. A
true story of the discovery of a lost
ledge comes from Lcmlie county, in
Idaho. The incident has caused Il
widespread sensation in Idaho min
ing circles. Late in the fall of 1864
+. b. Sharkey, Bill Smith and o. e.
Mulkey, all of Salmon City, were upon
a hunting trip to Fish lake. One
day, while starting a deer, one of the
men accidently discovered a rich
deposit of decomposed gold quartz.
So completely d~isintegrated had the
quartz formation become that the
gold could be washed out, and within
Il week the three men had secured
fifty ounce of the precious metal.
Their supplies running short and win
ter coming rapidly on, the men con-
cealed the opening they had made
and returned to Salmon City. Early
in the following spring they purchased
an expensive outfit and started out to
work their bonanza. To their dis
may they could not find the ledge.
The storms of the winter had obliter-
ated every landmark, and a months
hunt resulted fruitlessly. They
returned to Salmon City, and the
story leaked out, and they were
laughed at. From that time up to
two weeks ago, organized parties of
prospectors have continued to hunt
for the bonanza. Smith and Mulkey
long ago gave up the search in dis
gust, but Sharkey p~erSevered. Last
week he and Vim. Burrows and p.
Amenson ran across the ledge, which
they at once located. They will
work the claim, having already
refused several tempting offers. A
Boise expert says the men have n
of the richest and most inexhaustible
gold mines in the world.