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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14
THENEWSSUMMARY
The Latest News of the World Con.
densed and Arranged in Conyen-
lent Form.
Washington, Personal, Foreign, Cri m
lnal, Casualty and Other
Important News.
The CAPITAL.
Js-rIoB L,MAR's il ness is serious,

JesT4eR LAAAR's illness is serious.
THE national silver committee will meet
in Washington, April %.
PRIvATE ApEGRr Pant, of the 18th in
fantry, TT. Sully, is discharged from the
service, being under age.
Assistant Secretary Crounse has appoint
ed Duncan NJ. Campbell superintendent
OF construction of the public building at
Salina, hau.
The supervisor of immigration has been
transferred from Assistant Secretary Nettle-
ton to Assistant Secretary Spaulding. The
change was made TT the request OF Mr..
Nettleton.
The state department has granted Min
lister Egan leave of absence, and he viii
return TO the United States from Chill in
May. Secretary McCreery, the charge
d'affairs, will be in charge during the alb
senee of Minister Egau.
Tue president has d .clined to interfere
with the sentence ofCinton f. Dixon, con-
victed in Nebraska of murder and sentenc-
ed to to hanged April 2, 1882.
The president directed the removal of
Charles NJ. Leavy, appraiser o. merchandis
a. San Francisco for completely in the
recent frauds at that port in connection
with the undervalua;ion ofsilk goods inn
ported by Newberger, Reiss & Co.
Mn. WAsHISGroN, OF Tennessee, chair
man ofthe house committee on territories,
reported favorably a bill introduced by
Delegate Came providing for a commission
to see that Utah is properly represented al
the Worlds Fair. The bill appropriates
$50. COO.
RE~PREsENrATIyE BACON, of New York,
reported from the committee OH banking
and currency the bill agreed upon by the
committee 10 carr into effect the recon-
mendations, of the international American
Conference looking 10 the incorporation of
the international Bank.
TuE treasury department purchased 220,-
600 ounce of silver as follows: 1900 at
50, $3.50, 1900 at s0,S622, $1,000 at 50, $3.50,
2a.OCDat 81. S63. 5000 at 50, 1854, and 5000 at
sos 4 ccI per ounce. The oilers were
AGO. 600 ounces. The silver purchases OF
the month aggregates 1889, coo ounces.
The house committee on rivers and bar
bors has reconsidered its former action in
continuing its improvement under the
contract system of the Ohio river by the
construction of q movable dam at the
mouth ofth Beaver river, Pa, and the ini-
provement will be continued undo the
direction of the government.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

THE M a X ETS


CHlCAGO-WnEAr-No. , spring, sOI
No. ) spring, 744c; No. = red, Sole.
CoRN-NO. 2, 39tc.
OATs-NO. ., 2Stc.; No. . white, 314c.. No
3 white, 2S@2Stc.
RYE-No. 2, 7jc.
BARLEY-No. ., 51c.: No. 3, 46M52c.
INNEAPOLIS- WHEAT-No | hard
oltc; No. Northern, soc; No. = Northern,
IS to nc.
ConN- No. 8, a3s to 34e; No. 3 yellow, sls
to Soc.
oArs-No. 2 white, 81 to 272c; No. 3 white
&c.
RYE-No. ., "A to 74lc.
BARLEY-No. 3, b to 43c.
HAY-NO. / upland, $4,000; No. 2 do,
S7.50@S; No, ] wild, s. to 80; No. . do,
80 to q No. l timothy, $11 TO ll.50; No. z
do, $3.50 to 10.
81. PAUL-WHEAT-No. ! hard, rs to SOC;
No. l Northern, u to 7Sc; No. ? Northern,
"A to T6c.
10 35tc. :"
0ATs- No. 2, p to 26c; No. white, 2s,
TO 274c; No. 3, 26 to 264.
BARLEY n RYE-No. 2 barley, 80 to Soc:
NO. barley, 50 10 40c; No. Frye, 75to76c;
malt, 6otoT5c.
FEEp-Millers held at SI4 % to Is; less
than car lots, SIS to15.5n, with corn meal
at Sl4oo to IA %. Bottled meal, SIG. so;
graduated SIS. ~
Observation-Disclosures. 2 srring.
fS@7S4c; No. Northern, 83tc. "
CoRS-No, 3, SIC.
oATs-No. 2, white, 29lto3le. No. 3, do, ga
to 294c.
BARLnY-No, 2 sac sample, 81 to Coo.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14
THE RAILROADS.

JAMES C. Pom. formerly of st. Paul,
elected president of the Chicago Railway
association.
The Great Northern expects 10 run trains
into Spokane by July l at the latest. The
Pacific extension is now in the mountains,
about 40 miles west of Sand Point, Idaho.
TROUBLE in the Northwestern blind pool
is averted by the Omaha road agreeing not
to reduce its time between st. Paul and Chi
cago. An additional day train will be put
on between the two cities.
Is tina case of Henry d. Laughlin, Will
lam II. Fenner. Thomas A. Griffin ct al.
against the United States Rolling Stock
company. a decree was issued in New York
by Judge Lacombe granting the petition of
William c. Lane, permanent receiver, to
sell the property of the company. The
price demanded at the sale is 100000.
The Chicago, milwaukee & st. Paul road
continues to show large increases in rev.
enue from traffic. During the fourth week
of March, the gross earnings were $500, $50,
an increase as compared with the CORES
ponding week last year of 800, 327. For the
entire month the earnings were s, al ,oi0
an increase OF 5000. l47.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14
PIE

WILLIAM SALISBURY, United States sena-
tor from 1889 to iii, died at Dover, Del,
recently.
Prof Richard I. Ely, of Johns Hopkins
university and director-elect Of the school
OF political science in the University of
Wisconsin, has accepted the presidency OF
the Summer university at Bayview, Mich.
MICHAEL J. KING, one of Dubuque's
earliest settlers and a prominent contractor,
is dead, aged eighty-four. His daughter is
the wife OF Secretary Wilcox, of the West
ern Newspaper Union.
GEN. w. S. SINGLETON died in Baltimore
recently, aged e~ighty-two years. In 1865
President Lincolh Entrusted Gen. Singleton
with a mission to R:thmond, whittier he
went foUr times and conIerred with Jeffer-
son Davis and Others,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

bME one has discovered that there
not been n bank failure in China
more than nine hundred years.
S, however, can hardly be ascribed
he superior sagacity or ~astuteness
Fhinese financiers, but ratherto the
that, in case OF a suspension,
sident and Directors would have
oss not only their official but their
te-ial heads. The result is thas
1ese bankers v aspire TO be-
ne 'Napoleons of finance" TAX
no risks, they are always able to
It all o~bligations. 1t is BY no
hns clear that such ultra-punish-
1t would entirely end bank failures
his country. Americans like to
e chances. But a stiffening up of
pains aid penalties would be
tty sure to act as n Adiscourager
hesitancy
5&z@IkEz
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14
Perfume Crayons,

Adainty and novel gift lately received
from Paris by a young Bostongirl is a
box ofperfume. Not n box ofbottles OF
perfume, but an exquisite hand-paint-
ed, gold-bound box ofparfums solidilies
perfume in the form OF sticks or
crayons. The good feature OF these is
that it can be applied without moist
enlng or n any way injuring a delicate
fabric. Ii the possessor can get her
own consent to depart from that good
old rule, "the best perfume is no per-
tune at ALI (and most women confess
to a lurking fondness for "a delicate
perfume, a very little you know, she
rubs the crayon lightly on her handker-
chief, her gloves or her bouquet of
satin violets, and goes sweetly on her
way,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14
SOUTH DAKOTA.

The South Dakota prohibition law is de-
clared constitutional by the state supreme
court.
Reports from parties in from the country
near Miller indicate that considerable stock
persisted in the recent storm. Snow drifts
B and 8 feet deep are still to be seen, and no
trains were able to get West on account of
the snow for a couple of days.
An institute for the cure of drunkenness
was established at Yankton recently, with
DIR. II. L. Livingston as superintendent.
The institute is incorporated and has a
capital stock of 50, 600. The cure used is
the Hagey bichloriGe of gold.
The supreme court has decided that pri-
yate parties may do banking business with
out incorporating. Another decision re-
quires the state auditor 10 issue a warrant
for . per cent of insurance moneys to the
fire departments of the state on Il test case
of the Pierre department.
A Huron dispatch says between IL, coo
and II, 00 acres of school lands in this
county were leased at public auction, rang
ing in price from 5 to 20 cents per acre.
This is about one-Iourth the school Iandsin
the county. Others will be offered for lease
alter in the season.
The governor has ordered the sheritfs of
Day. Grant. Marshall, Roberts and Coding-
ton counties to organize a posse of 100 each
10 keep order on the Sisseton reservation
April Is and protect everybody's rights.
The state militia will be held in reserve.
The prospect is that trouble will occur.
Considerable feeling exists at Blunt be.
cause of Gov. Mellette's failure to call a
special meeting OF the legislature for the
purpose of making a Worlds Fair appro-
priation. 1t now looks as Il South Dako-
Ia, as a state, will not have any exhibit.
George and Frank Eastman, aged 10 and
II respectively, vent fishing at Sioux Falls.
During their absence they ate wild pars-
nips. George is dead and Frank is in a
precarious condition. Another boy, named
Betchel, also ate OF the parsnips but sue
ceeded in Kidding his stomach of them be-
fore he was fatally poisoned.
Three detectives from Washington have
been sent to Watertown by the commits
sioner of the general land office to look aft
er any crooked work that may be going on
in connection with the reservation OPEN
ing. There are big frauds alleged on the
part OF land agents in the vicinity of
Browns Valley, Mimi, and they will be in
yestigated.
A Kimball dispatch says: The prairie fire
which swept over the Southern prt of this
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

The vote at West Superior amounted to
1870, which shows an increased /, 900 over
last year and puts this city next to Milwau-
kee in voting population.
Frank Kane, of Durand, a member of
McMahon's driving crew on the north fork
of the Eau Claire, was drowned at a point
about fifteen miles north OF Thorpe.
William Tiets, of Ashippun, Dodge
county, has been arrested on the charge oil
criminally assaulting his own daughter.
who is about IA years of age. Tiets friends
are disposed to believe that the charge is
false.
The public schools at Hudson have been
adjourned one week for the new high
school building has been condemned.
Architect Bassford, ofSt. Paul, has inspect
ed it aud pronounced it unsafe.
Or. Irwin, a well known physician, was
found drowned in the mill pond at Lodi.
1t is supposed that he committed suicide,
as he has been respondent of late. He was
about 60 years OF age.
Eric Johnson, late of Mortified, Mimi,
was arrested at Black River Falls, on a re-
QUESTION issued by the governor of Mime
sofa, charged with seduction and bastardy.
Young Johnson is a drug clerk and his
home is in Minneapolis.
There is but little change in the situation
caused by the carpenters strike at La
Crosse a few days ago. Two or three COLI
tractors have conceded to the demand;
Others refuse to-. Doth sides are confident
of winning. All is quiet.
The Black River House, a large frame
building. one of the old landmarks OF
Black River Falls, owned by Mrs. Fred
Gebhart, caught fire from a detective fiue
and was partially destroyed. No insur-
ance.
A stranger who registered at the Revere
House, West Bend, as Charles Miller, of
Ashland, committed suicide in a saloon at
Barton, 4 mile north of here, by shooting
himself through the head. He was stately
looking and well dressed. Family troubles
seem to have been the cause.
Black river came up to a 10 foo driving
stage the other night, caused by the break
ing of some of the tributaries, and there
has been an excellent run of logs. The
driving crew will begin operations soon,
and as a result there will be an unusually
early, heavy run of logs. The break up is
from a week 10 10 days earlier than usual.
Edward Callahan, aged % years, EN-
ployed at Hickory Grove farm, near
Racine, while returning from q visit a.
Milwaukee On q train, got up out OF his
seat asleep and walked out ofthe door and
off the platform. The train was going at
the rate of 10 miles an hour. Strange TO
say he was not much hurt, but was taken
to a hospital for treatment. A physician
says he is injured internally but will re-
cover,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

RESARSABLy ingenious and simple
nse and lemon peeIer is now being
foduced by which it is claimed that
Do oranges may be peeled without
ing finger OF glove or losing a drop
liee. The peeler is a piece OF wire,
kel-plated, very much in the shape
b button hook, but with a tiny
DE let into the inner bend OF the
|k. When the point OF the hook is
wn into the fruit it slides between
pulp and the peel without danger
ntering either, while the blade di.
IS the peel easily and rapidly, alter
|ch it may be removed without
Lii
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

New York, Spccial-A morning paper
has an Albany dispatch dealing with Gov.
Flower and his official habits, in
which occurs this; When he was
nominated for governor. Mr.. Flow
er gave as his election states
shows IS, 200 for campaign expenses. Mrs.
Schley sent TO the Democratic executive
committee-it is said to Daniel Grit
Tin. its chairman-a blank check on
her bankers with directions to
NIL u cut for any amount that
might be necessary to serve Mr.. Flowers
candidacy. The check came pack filled out
Tor $40. 900, and this enormous sum was
cheeriully paid" Mrs. Schley is a sister
in-law to Gov. Flower. She is said to be
worth s., 600. 600 or more.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14
IMMENSE INDIAN FoRTuNEs
| Decadence OF the Habit Of Hoard
ing Vast Sums of Money.

Decadence of the Habit Of Hoard
ing Vast Sums of Money.
The ancient oriental passion for
boarding appears, from +. C. Harri.
sons elaborate article on the circ,.
lation OF the rupee in the Economic
Journal Macmillan, to be gradually
disappearing, and is o believed 10
be mainly confined to the old wealthy
families and princes. The original
cause, fear OF civil tumult, has passed
away, and the presence OF an in.
creasing market for investment, the
sweet simplicity OF the 4-per-cents, or
family misfortunes, sooner or later
have the effect of employing the family
vault. Notable instances of the dis.
sipation OF large boards have occurred
in recent years. The maharaia OF
Gwailor, q Mahratta chief, lent the
government upward of 80, 900, 900 m.
pees, of which all but 5000.
900 were native coin. The nah.
araia of Burdwan's accumulation
principally of sicca rupees has
disappeared in litigation and Il.
vestment, and recently large hoarls
OF Arcot rupees from Madras aad
Chilki rupees from Kashmir have
passed into our mints. In Bengal
several considerable boards Of sicca
rupees have been found to exist in the
houses OF wealthy landholders on the
occasion OF their property passing in.
to the control OF the Court OF Wards.
Mr.. Harrison estimates the annual
quasi-permanent disappearance OF
government rupees due to this cause
as now less than 5000, 600, and
would put it even lower if there were
not reason to believe that in south
ern India the priestly trustees of TEN.
piles still accumulate the offerings oil
pilgrims.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

| county recently did more damage than wa
supposed. The residence OF John Ellington
in Torrey Lake township was entirely
destroyed, and the family lost almost
everything except their stock. Neighbors
are raising money for them by subscrip-
ton.
S. G. Palmer is now under arrest at Clarion
for the murder of Will Mills at Dows.
Mills, it is claimed, was intimate with
Palnier's wife and upon returning home
one evening he found Mills in company
with his wife and bounced upon him and
beat his brains out with q club.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

TROUBLE arises between the United
States and Spain over the appointment OF
II. Rand. who Is Objectionable TO Spain, as
United States CONSUL at one of the Caro-
line islands.
Mrs. MoNTAGu, the lady of quality who
killed her little daughter in Ireland by
leaving her hung up TO a ring in a dark
closet, IS convicted of ~manslaughter and
sentenced to a years imprisonment at hard
labor.
4 FIGHT has occurred between Mexican
troops and Yaquie Indians at the Gabian
mines. Three YaQuies were killed and one
wounded. No soldiers were hurt. The
affray grew out of the arrest of seyeral
Yaquies suspected of preparing for a raid,
The Walsall eng anarchists, Frederick
Charles, Victor Gales, Joseph Thomas
Beakin and John Battola, were foune
guilty at the Staffordshire ~assizes. Battola,
Charles and Cailes were each sentenced 10
ten years. and Deakin to FIVE years inn
prisonment.
The police at Madrid are convinced that
the violent section ofthe anarchists is al
most wholly composed OF foreigners. Six
persons have been arrested at Pueblo
Nueyo charged with exploding petards.
No damage was caused by the explosion.
DEFINING has had an interview with his
solicitors. He absolutely denied the
various crimes imputed TO him. He said
he had never made any confession and had
made no admissions to anybody. lie
could prove an alibi in the case ofthe
murder of three men in Johannesburg.
South Africa.
CARDINAL RICHARD archbishop OF Paris,
officiated at a mass in the church of the
Madeline for wounded soldiers and sailors.
Conspicuous among those present was
President Field Marshall Mcmahon, who
was loudly cheered. The old soldier was in
good health, and seemed to enjoy the hon.
age shown him.
MONTREAL was beset by a number OF fires,
which. in four instances, were of incendiary
origin. An attempt was made TO destroy
the Bonseeour market, and before the fire
was got under control, eighteen firemen
were overcome by smoke, and had to be
taken TO the hospitals, while thirty Others
had to be laid off for q time. Two cases
are likely to prove fatal. Loss, 100000.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14
MiSCELIANEOUS

ATTORNEY JOHN +. BEGGs, who wa;
charged with completely in the murder o.
DIR. Cronin, bui OH trial was acquitted, died
in Chicago
The board of general appraisers has rer
| dered a decision which will put an end to
the attic mpt of Canadian fish companies To
send fish into the United states free of duty
The National Broadway Bank has laid
TO the Bank of the State ofSew York S1I3,
3S7, in iull settlement OF the forged check:
manipulated by the ioIger james f.. Bedeli.
Gov. BoyD of Nebraska has issued a proc.
lamation calling on the people of tile state
TO aid the cyclone sufferers of Nebraska
and vicinity.
THE Newark Methodist Episcopal con-
ference voted 100 for to 81 against the pres
cntation OF a memorandum admitting
women delegates to the coming general
conference at Omaha.
Il. J. Stanton. the successor of Secretary
Theodore Banta, of the New York Life In
snrance company. has resigned. 1t is prob.
able thai Mr.. Banta will be reinsiated.
Ex-Goy. Thompson of South Carolina has
been appointed comptroller of the COM
pany.
MAGGIE DoSAGHER of ~Shelbyville, ind,
who for several months subsisted upon dog
flesh in the hope that it would effect a cure
of pulmonary consumption, finally yielded
TO The Tell destroyer and WAS buried the
other day. She had eaten seven dogs.
Nelson Morris & Co., entered suits to re-
cover 1890, 600 from various railroad conf
panies for alleged oyercharges on dressed
beef said to have been paid under protest
for fourteen months after the enactment
ofthe interstate aw.
THE annual conference of the reorgar.ized
Church of Jesus Christ oil Latter Day Saints
began at Independence, Mo. Eight hun
dred delegates were present from all parts
of the world and nearly every state IN the
Union.
PRovosT PEPPER, of the University OF
Pennsylvania, has asked for the r~esigna-
lions of Rev. Robert Ellis Thompson, pro-
fessor of history and political economy;
DIR. Joseph J.. Rothrock, professor of bot
any; DIR. Charles NJ. Motley, professor OF
biology; George A. Koenig, PHI. d., pro.
fessor of minerealogy and mining; DR.. L.
Otis Kendall, ex-dean and vice-provost of
the university and Francis A. Jackson
professor Of Latin and literature.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

BISMARCK. N. d., Special Telegram,
The United States grand jury finished
its labors to-day and presented eight indict-
ments, none of which were made public.
The case against William Bryant for cut
ting timber on his homestead was dis
missed, and the grand jury was discharged.
The case OF p. Il. Smith VS.. the Northern
Pacific railroad came to a sudden termina-
ton by the court directing a verdict for the
defendant. The jury was strongly the
other way, and public sentiment was large
ly with Smith. The Agaard case, selling
liquor TO Indians, was put over to the Fargo
term
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

F MiIbank, the duelling blaekguard
b has mixed himself up SO miscel.
fously in the Drayton-Borrowe
Ftiness, doesr't get back to his ma
E Europe before long he is apt to
counter some old lady with daugh-
s and kettle OF hot water. As a
wizard he beats any tornado since
dawn of history in the far West.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

fTTH all its eccentricities, the career
De Lesseps has been a remarkable
!, rejecting in many ways honor
only upon himself, but upon
lnce. 1t seems rather tardy, there
!, TO revamp a transaction OF ten
RS ago as a basis of prosecution.
J questions that the French Pros
tor is now asking where as peril
{ and evident then as at the pre-
| time.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

NEW ULM, Mimi, Special, April 1.-THE
Brown County bank Wan sold yesterday TO
New Ulm citizens with State Treasurer Bob
Letter at the head. Col. Bobleter will lie
president of the new corporation and w. F.
Letter cashier. The change will take place
July /. Thus business move settles all the
rumors that Col. BobleTer will be a candi-
date Tor denomination or for any state O.
flee. lie has purchased q $l0.0 90 residence
here and has decided "a retire to private
life. Three terms where n the nomination
was rendered unanimously he considers
honor enough for any man.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

COMPETITION is the life of every
de, even Spiritualist seances. As
result OF rivalry, a Kansas City
blum promised for herevening's en-
tainment an interview with Mrs.
! or Salt, a lecture by Jesse James
"The Shotgun Policy" and brief
Frssions by Brigham Young, Chris
her Columbus and Don Quixote on
lies about which they were compe-
h TO give xpert testimony.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-04-14

IA oSst~
every cent you've paid for it, ii it
doesn't benefit or cure you. a med
icine that promises this is one that
promises to help you. !
But there's only one medicine of
its kind that can and does promise it.
Its DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. It's the guaranteed remedy
for all Blood, Skin and Scalp Dis
eases, from a common blotch or
eruption to the worst scrofula. 1t
cleanses, purifes, and enriches the
blood, invigorates the system, and
cures Salt-rheum, letter, Eczema,
Erysipelas and all manner of blood
taints from whatever cause. Great
Eating Ulcers rapidly heal Under
its benign influence. F.,
It's the best blood-purifer, and it's
the cheapest, no matter how many
doses are offered for a dollar-for
You pay only for the good you get.
Nothing else is "just as good" az
the Discovery" 1t may be better
for the dealer. But he wants
money and you want help.