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

And now there isa ghost that walks
the New York Central tracks.
Little Falls appears to be the home of
sensation, and the ghost story is the
latest. The thing that is ~agitatinp
the nervous system of believers in the
supernatural is described as being
nine CT ten feet tall and dressed in
the usual ghostly raiment. 1t is said.
Judging from its apparel, to be of the
male persuasion, if there is any sex to
ghosts, and carries a large umbrella
and a conductors lantern, which
sheds a phcsphorescent luster upon
the landscape, person or thing its
rays encompass. In the daytime, it
Is to be presumed, it HES to the
woods and cleans its lantern or mends
its umbrella, as no person has vet
come forward and asserted that he
has met his ghostship perambulating
his chosen ground while old Sol holds
sway.
The spook walks along, and when a
passenger train appears it wave
It's lantern in true conductor STYLE
ana does not step from the track
evidently even when the train has
run right upon it. 1t Just floats
right into the train, and though
nothing Is then visible to the engineer
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
ANOTHER TICKET.
Woman Suffragists Nominate
Victoria Woodruff Martin
for the Presidency.
Mrs. Mary Stowe, of California,
for Vice President-Short
but Pointed Platform.

At the parlors Of the Willard hotel
in Washington last week under the
call of April &c. a national convention
Of Woman Suffragists was held
through the auspices Of delegates
from Victoria leagues of the different
states. Mrs. Anna Parker, of st.
Louis, was called to the chair and
Elizabeth Powers, of Providence,
r. l., secretary. The call from the
states brought out % representatives,
elected by state conventions from
New Jersey. New York, Michigan,
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Colorado, Oregon, California,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia,
Tennessee, Arkansas, Maine, Min
nesota, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Yer
mont, Pennsylvania. The states OF
Wyoming, North Dakota and Wash
ington sent no representatives. There
we're 80 delegates in all.
On motion of Mrs. Windish, OF New
York city, Mrs. Victoria Woodruff
Martin, New York and London, was
nominated for President of the United
States. Mrs. Cynthia Leonard, OF
New Jersey; Mrs. Linda Slaughter, OF
Washington, and Mrs. MaryL. Stowe,
Of California, were put in nomination
for vice president. Mrs. Stowe re-
ceived the largest number of votes.
The platform reads as follows.
Whereas Under the 14th amend
ment no citizen is deprived of the
franchise through law, but by custom
and habit, therefore be it.
Resolved, We, the representative
women of America, ask the officers in
charge OF the election precincts
throughout the United States in the
coming campaign to give us the
opportunity to cast u ballots on the
first Tuesday of November, 1892, for
our candidates.
Resolved, That, by the united
efforts of the women voters of this
nation, We will drive anarchy, crime,
insanity and drunkenness from our
midst by our humanitarian efforts
backed by the ballot
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

A new republican newspaper is to
be started in Boston the LIST of next
month.
Texas republicans expect to send
two men to congress as the result of
their support of the Clark faction in
the democratic party.
Judge Geo. w. Allen has been
appointed to the vacancy on Colo
radios supreme court bench occasioned
by Judge Helms resignation to be-
come the republican candidate for
governor.
VIM. Fishback, acknowledgement
elect, of Arkansas, has accepted the
invitation of the national democratic
central committee to make campaign
speeches in New York. He will also
go to Tennessee.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS.

The Jefferson Davis monument
will be erected at Richmond.
Virginia.
A movement is on foot to combine
all the larger safe companies of the
country in a trust.
Bergman, the anarchist who
assaulted Prick, has been sentenced tc
% years Imprisonment.
The report of four cases of Asiatic
cholera at GAINESVILLE, Tex, and two
deaths from the disease is pronounced
a canard
The pope has approved Cardinal
Gibbons plan for an exhibition OF
Catholic schools at the Chicago
worlds fair.
Frank G. LEM, who left New York
June I to make a tour Of the world
on a bicycle, has arrived at Walla
Walla, Wash.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen, in session in Cincinnati,
selected Harrisburg, Pa, as the place
of meeting in September, 1894.
The grand jury found 1877 in
dictments against the Homesteaders,
three OF them for murder, viz:
O'Donnell, Hugh Ross and Burgess
McLuckie.
At Battle Greek, Mich, the entire
plant of the Union School Furniture
company, together with all the manu-
featured stock on hand, was burned.
Loss $3.50 DOC.
Frank Glover, ex-champion heavy.
weight pugilist of Illinois, died in
Chicago aged Twenty-Five years.
His death was caused by tuberculosis
OF the stomach and bowels.
ID. A. Mckinley, brother of Gov.
Mckinley of Ohio, and Hawaiian
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
FIOgCed By An Actress.

Jakey Hirsch, formerly agent of
the Press News, but who of late has
eked out a living as correspondent
for Chicago and New York papers,
was horsewhipped and badly
punished by a Philadelphia actress
named Lizzie Gonzales, now filing
an engagement in Denver.
1t seems that Hirsch had acted
in a ~distasteful name towards
Miss Gonzales, who quickly resented
it. This enraged Hirsch and to get
even he wrote scurrilous items to
his papers, which reached Denver
last week. Miss Gonzales Immediately
procured a blacksnake, and when
Hirsch made his appearance she
flew at him, bringing the whip
around his legs and shoulders with
the force of an old time oX-driver.
raising blisters at every blow; then
reversing the whip she struck him
a stunning blow with the loaded
butt end across the nose, smashing
that member almost fiat. Hirsch
then endeavored to protect himself
by elinching with her, but found
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

The cremation at Swinburne island
-one of the quarantine islands-of
the bodies of those who died of
cholera on the ships in New York
harbor will meet the approval of
every intelligent American. 1t is not
a pleasant subject to think about or
wriee about, but it is not unknown
thatcorpses buried at sea are devoured
by fish. If the pestilential corpses
had been broughtt to land and buried.
Infection would have been almost
sure to follow; il they had been con-
veyed far out to sea and thrown over
board, they might have been washed
ashoreor been devoured by food fishes.
Either contingency is sickening
enough to contemplate.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
Oyerrun With Rattlesnakes.

The unprecedented drought in the
southwestern part Of North Carolina
has caused some of the wamps to
become almost dry, particularly in
Brunswick county, and as a result
the monster rattlesnakes peculiar to
that section have crawled all through
the neighborhood. They have bitten
and killed a white woman and three
negro men, and have also killed
scores of horses, mules and cattle. as
well as a great number of dogs. The
snakes crawl into or under houses.
Cattle are now kept in pens in order
to protect them. Many persons have
become so thoroughly frightened that
they have moved away from the
vicinity OF Smiths swamp, which is
near the Waccamaw river. The
rafting of the snakes a be heard
there at all times and immense ones
are killed In the roads, some over 6
feet in length and 3inches in diameter,
Mrs. Morris, the white woman who
was killed, heard the noise in her
room at night, got up to see what
caused it and was bitten as soon as
she stepped on the floor, death result
ing In three hours. Such a plague of
snakes was never before known in
the state.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Several garrison officers have been
arrested at Buenos Ayres for copspir-
acy against the government.
A man can hire a horse in Japan,
keep two servants and live on the fat
Of the land ona little over S4a month.
Capt. Andrews, in a sixteen-foOt
dory, which sailed from Atlantic City
July 20, has arrived at Lisbon in good
health.
Ten Russians have been arrested in
Berlin as revolutionary conspirators,
and will probably be expelled from
Germany.
The steamer America has arrived
at Buenos Ayres from Genoa. She
had on the voyage twenty-four deaths
from cholera and has been strictly
quarantined.
During a sham bombardment on
board the United States cruiser Phil
adelphia at Baltimore, a shell ex-
ploded, killing Capt. Martin King
and badly injuring the gunner.
The Eastern ecclesiastical province
of the Church OF England in Canada
has finally adopted the constitution
as proposed by the Winnipeg con-
ference, with a slight amendment.
Ryder, formerly American consul
at Copenhagen, who is under arrest
for frauds connected with the
administration of estates entrusted
u him in his official capacity, has
been held to await trial.
The Figaro states that Edward Par
ker Deacon has been liberated from
Imprisonment. The Figaro adds that
Mr.. Deacon intends to reside in Paris
and TO prosecute legal proceedings for
the custody of his children.
The report of the inspector general
of bankruptcy in England has
been made public. The increase in
bankruptcy since this last report was
due to the collapse of Barring Bros.
and the effects of the Mckinley tariff
law.
According to Poultney Bigelow,
the German emperor's yacht Meteor
will not be entered in the race for
the American cup. Mr.. Bigelow
states that the emperor assured him
that he had no idea of entering the
Meteor.
Lord Haghen, who belongs TO one
of the first families in the peerage of
Ireland, has been arrested at West
minister, on the Canadian Pacific for
vagrancy, and sent to the common
Jail for two months. His lordship
was at one time inspector of the royal
Irish constabulary and draws a hand
some pension for past services.
A wholesale dismissal of Canadian
Pacific railway passenger conductors
has just taken place. Five well
known officers have been informed
that their services were no longer re-
quired. No reason was given. 1t is
reported that the company will make
a clean sweep among the passenger
conductors between Ottawa and Van
couver. Most of the dismissed en-
ployes have been in the service of the
company for over ten years.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Washington, Political, Foreign,
and General Domestic,
Happenings of Note.
Photographic News of the World
Condensed for the Benefit
of Busy Readers.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Mrs, Harrison has arrived at the
White House. She stood the journey
well and her physicians are greatly
encouraged.
B. +. Stevenson, surgeon general of
the G. A. r., in his report says that
according to Commissioner Raum, at
the close of the fiscal year June SO,
1892, there were S76.07S pensioners on
the roll, and that the appropriation
aggregated Sl39, 1872, 1897. In addition
to these vast expenditures the annual
appropriation of the numerous
government homes was S2,633, $40.
There are also l73 government GENE
teries kept up by government appro-
priation.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

They say they can grow sugar along
their strip enough to supply the
whole United States-the members
OF that $4,000 600 syndicate that is
going to drain the st. Johns and
Indian rivers in Florida. The swami
is eighty-three miles long and from
three to six miles wide. The syndicate
bought all this land for a few cents
per acre and expects to finish drain
ing it in two years. The soil is
covered with a rich loan three feet
thick. The company will not wait
till the work is completed before
beginning to plant sugar cane, but
will drain in sections, and as fast as
one section is finished il will be put
under cultivation. Here is an enter
prise which will give employment to
hundreds of men and enrich the
state of Florida by millions as well
as add to the supply of an article of
consumption which everybody must
have. This is one of the under
takings that attest the true great
les and civilization of our age. As
a benevolent and reformatory work
its value is incalculable.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
WAR On BLACKS.
Uprising" of Negroes Down in Arkansas
Five ofThem Killed.

IN
Five ofThem Killed.
The excitement in Calhoun county,
Arkansas, over the race war is con-
fined to one township, where the ne
one. 1t was first reported that the
trouble was dae to the dissatisfaction
of the negroes with the new election
law, but politics had nothing to do
with the uprising. During the past
two weeks several negroes have been
taken from their cabins at night and
severely fiogged by White Caps for
| offenses committed. Charley Jones
was whipped about a week ago for
DESERVING his wife, a punishment
which ali the negroes Endorsed. Sew
eral white men who made a living by
trading with the negroes in the fall
and winter, inclted them against the
people of the county, and armed with
guns and pistols, they Immediately
went On the war path. For several
days they roved about the country in
bands, muttering threats of the most
incendiary nature. Every white per-
son they met in the road they would
insult and threaten with bodily
harm. Their conduct became. I'M
bearable and the sheriff, at the re-
quest of the citizens of Champagnolle
township, sent Deputy James to the
negroes to reason with and, if posi-
bic, pacify them without bloodshed.
As soon as the deputy and his posse
arrived at their camp and announced
their mission the blacks opened fire
on them, wounding Deputy James in
the leg. The fire was returned and
FOUR NEGROES WE'RE KILLED.
On the way to Hampton Saturday
night the posse was fired into from
ambush, but no INT was injured. The
whites returned the fire and the
blacks fled in confusion at the first
volley into a thick wood, where il
meant certain death for the whites to
pursue them. Sunday afternoon the
posse encountered about 100 blacks
mounted on horses, only about half
the number being armed. One of
the negroes fired at the deputies, who
turned their horses out of the road.
The negroes kept up a constant firing
for about two minutes without effect,
after which the deputies, numbering
hfty men, made a charge, killing n
negro and wounding seven. This
stampeded the blacks, who made
their escape in every direction. They
reported to the negroes throughout
the country that they had been at
tackled by 1000 white men who were
determined TO kill every negro in the
country. On Monday the greatest ex-
element prevailed in the southern
part of the county.
NEGROES LEFT THEIR HOMES,
taking only such clothing as they
could carry in bundles. The cotton
fields were deserted, and the farmers
became much alarmed over the pros
pect OF not being able to get their
crops harvested. An effort was made
to allay the excitement and induce
the negroes to return to their homes.
They were told about the prevalence
Of the cholera and no matter in which
direction they were going they were
given to understand they would GER
tainly encounter the plague. BY
threats and much persuasion many
were prevented from leaving the
county. This morning Gov. Handy
teledraphed the sheriff for an official
report of the condition of affairs in
the county.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

that he was only a Sullivan in the
hands of a Corbett and the prints OF
Miss Gonzales hands are plainly
visible upon his face.
A meeting vas called at each news
paper Office and each contributed a
beautiful basket of flowers to the
plucky little actress. Accompanying
those from the Rocky Mountains
News written on a card were the
words: Next time use an az
From the Republican the card read:
sReceivethe thanks from unprotected
ladies of Denver" From the Colorado
Sun: "Your job was not a coarse
one"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

In a two room shanty in the suburbs
or Bay CITY, Mich, foul with
gathered filth of weeks, the dead body
OF Mrs Clara Hosmer was found lying
on the bed. She had been attacked
with fever several days ago, and with
no one to nurse her had literally, so
the physicians say, starved to death.
The husband, too, is also in the throes
OF death from lack of food. He is
scarcely able to speak. but says over a
week has passed since anything had
passed his lips. He is a veteran of
the war, but, in spite of wounds that
made him a helpless cripple, has
steadily refused to apply for a pen
sion.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
HIS NAME WAS GOOD THERE.
Neat Little Piece of detective "orh -
y. st, Louis Collector

Neat Little Piece of detective worn
ST. Louis Collector -
"My name may mot sound 50 wa
nor weigh so much as Caesars, oa''s
was once successfully used to conlurs
an evil spirit from its hiding place.
said Jasper Biggs, as he Joined the eA.
perience meeting in the Lindell COTE
doris, SAYS a St. LOUIS dispatch. .I"o
years ago, in the course OF eoiieet-
ing tour, l received ten crisp NC.
s LOCO bills. They were beauties, anu
| spread them out on the taole III m'
room at the hotel to examine thenl'
In one corner of each note wro'o
nv name, quite small, but legioic-
AS, the bank was closed, | took quo
bills to a firm with whom | deait aha
placed them in their SAFE. ins
night it was cracked and my oeau,'
full bills and much more besides az
stracted. | sized the situation up
and concluded that it was the worn
of amateurs, but the detectives wouiu
not have it that way. Whiie INV
were racing all over the couh'.
shadowing '.Scotty' and rug au1
the Kid 1 was watching the cierhs
in the store. In a short time one =.
them took a vacation and went y
New York. | shaved off my Deaia,
blended my hair, followed hini an-
made his acquaintance intlle metrofsi
oils. He was no fool, and, whiie
rolled pretty high, took care NOT
make it too high. l felt certain '"a'
he had the money and that MS m,s
sion to New York waste get IL @
some other shape, so | stuck
like a burr. One day as we "us
walking down the street ne eA.
himself for a moment and enlei.-
a bank. l hastily scrawled a ho'e
the teller, asking him to take parto
ular note of him, and sent it in pY
cabby. AS soon as | could get a"as
from Mr.. Clerk l visited the pan
He had changed one of my si,Voo :.
my name being plainly visible ~
corner. The teller took its decrip1.
and then passed it over TO men,
change for smaller bills. l NUM-
M the clerk, confronted hin
the evidence of his guilt anu -
promptly forked over his lii-gosss
gains. 1t may not have been q
artistic piece of detective wosk
bagged the game
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
PUNIsHING
When They Kill IA Man, Mohammedans
Put Them to Death.

MOhammedans believe that
crocodileS are especially protected by
Allah and that it is wicked to kill
one of them except for just cause.
Also that their great protector has
strictly forbidden them to eat his
human children and it is only the
wicked and worthless one which
disObey his command. When a man,
therefore, has been devOured by a
crocodile a professional e%nchanter is
sent for to try the cannibal murderer
and carry out the sentence of death,
as well as to warn the other roc
diles.
This is a great event, and crowds
always gather to witness the
ceremony, which takes place near a
swamp infested by ~crocodiles. The
enchanter, usually an old native, has
a great deal to say, first to spectators
and afterward to the reptiles. When
he has related TO his audience the
whole story of this particular
crocodile's crime he utters a long,
shrill cry, and then sings a monotonous
song, to which he beats time with his
hands. This is all repeated several
times, while the magician bows his
head to the east and west.
The people are almost breathleSs
with expectation: and at last there is
a movement in the water. Two
pieces of burned wood seem to rise to
the surface, and are joined from
another point by others, the enchanteT
repeating his cry all the time, and the
dark objects moving forward as long
as it lasts. When close to the beach
they seem to be drawn up in military
style, with their heads, and here and
there a great Scaly back, quite out of
the water. Slowly and sOlemnly the
magician now begins a dance along
the line, muttering to each one in
turn of his virtues and various good
deeds, and assuring him that Allah
was well satisfied with his conduct.
But on approaching the CRIMINAL
things are quite changed, says
Harper's Young People, and a thick
hide seems a fortunate protection
against such wholesome abuse. This
particular crocodile is made out to be
more wicked than any other of his
tribe that eve existed. He has been
warned and warned in vain, and now
a just punishment will no longer be
delayed The creature really seems
to understand this unfortunate
opinion of him, for he Squirms about
uneasily and prepares to retire into
private life under the water. But
the old man has his eye upon him and
utters his shrill cry louder than ever,
which arrests the misbehaving
crocodile at once.
Several natives now appear with
food for these animated logs, and an
especial piece of meat with a sharp
hook concealed in it for the doomed
one. 1t is generally swallowed, and
the enchanter makes a signal to the
Malays to draw in the rope 10 which
the hook is attached, slowly at first,
while he addresses a lecture to the
other crocodiles on the folly of leading
an evil life. Another sign and the
offender is dragged out of the water
by the ready natives, in spite of its
struggles while its throat is cut by
the conjurer himself.
The well behaved companions of
the criminal now quietly retire into
deep water, apparently with the
unanimous verdict of 'served him
RIGHT
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

Congressman Oates, in The North
American Review, calls attention
to the fact that the best paid skilled
workmen at the Homestead mills
received as much as $3.50 a month.
and large numbers of the skilled
iaborers got $500 a month. Common
laborers got fourteen cents an hour.