Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04
GENERAL OMESTIC NEWS.

The corn crop oi western Kansas is
said to be almOs. i. tJtal failure owing
20 the intese heat of the past week.
One hundred and fifty japanese
laborers have been driven out of
Name and Caldwell, Idaho, on sus-
picion of having imported smallpox.
Mr.. Louis Bestor, member of a
wealthy firm of iron merchants of
Cincinnati, committed suicide by
hanging. An attack of la grippe had
made him insane.
The hot weather OF last Friday
caused forty-two deaths in New York
city at ninety in Chicago. On the
other hand it was so cool at Burning
ton, Iowa, that fires were comfortable.
When the Cramps launch a big
ship they give their men a holiday. In
case of the Columbia all but the 500
required to Get the ship into the
water put on their best clothing and
took their families to see the fun.
The San Francisco Cremation COM
pany will spend $4,000 for a stone
crematory, modelled afteran ancient
temple. 1t will contain a hall for
services. A body will be moderated
almost instantly in a white heat
furnace.
One of the gayest and dreSsiest
wolnen to be seen at the Saratoga
is the editor of one of the Sara
toga papers. She plays the horses
heavily, and if fine dresses and many
cab rides are an indication, she plays
always to win.
Daniel Dougherty, the famous law
yerand crater, is lying dangerously
i'll at his residence in Philadelphia.
An attack of malarial fever, aided by
liver trouble, is rendering his condi-
ton very desperate. The ailments
were brought on by overwork.
Advices from Ashland report that
the entire business district and many
residences in the new town of Iron
River, on the Northern Pacific line.
were destroyed by fire, the loss being
fully $1,000 DOC. Five hundred people
are sleeping in cars furnished by the
railroad.
John ID. and Charles Ruggles, the
two brothers who robbed the Redding
stage, neal Redding, Cal, several
weeks ago, killed Express Messenger
Montgomery and wounded the driver
and a passenger, were taken from
Jail by about forty masked men at2:3O
Monday morning and hanged.
Hugh ODonnell, the leader of the
Homestead strikers, who is charged
with murder, has been released on
$4,000 bail. Hugh Ross, Martin Fay
and Peter Allen, three other defend
ants in the Homestead murder cases,
were also released on bail with
O'Donnell.
The suicide of Chas. Wilson, the
self-confessed murderer of Mamie
Walsh, a 14-year-old girl, in his cell
at Portland, Oregon, closes one of the
most noted cases in the criminal his
tory of the state. He u%nwrapped the
bandage from his broken arm and
made a rope with which he hanged
himself.
A grand jury has been called
together to investigate the charges of
malfeasance in Office made against
county officials by the Carson New
Appeal. Editor Davis declined to
give his source of information. hold
ing that confidential communications
to editors were held sacred. Judge
Rising ordered him to Jail until he
gave the information.
Paul Deering, a Chicago laborer.
fell a distance of seven stories to the
pavement and was not seriously
injured. Deering was at work on a
scaffold and accidentally stepped off.
In his fall he struck a plank scaffold-
ing at the fourth story, and that
broke his descent. Before any one
could reach him he had regained his
feet and was able to talk.
The New York Herald announces a
novel scheme to entertain its readers
during the present presidential cam
paign. To the person predicting
nearest to the popular plurality of
either Harrison of Cleveland, it will
give a free excursion around the
world; to the person making the
second best prediction a free trip to
London and Paris, and to the third a
trip to London.
The supreme court of Michigan has
handed down opinions declaring
unconstitutional the two legislative
bills re-approtioning the representa-
tives and the senators in the state
legislature. The opinions follow the
lines of the celebrated decision in the
Wisconsin gerrymander. The court
is unanimous. A special session of
the legislature will be called to re-
district the state