Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-26

has ioundered In the Caspian sea and that
$50 passengers we're drowned.
A SYNDICATE Of French and Russian
bankers has made the Russian government
an offer to take charge OF the work of con-
struction ofthe trans-Siberian railway.
IT is stated that Germany has accepted
the invitation to the International silver
conference.
A GREAT demonstration of railroad men
took place in London recently. The
speeches were moderate in tone and the
proceedings orderly.
LORD SALISBURY in a speech practically
admits that England's free trade policy is
a failure because so many other nations
are becoming protective.
A LETTER from the Russian government
TO a Berlin firm, inquiring in regard to in
visible microphones suitable for prison cells
to record the u]tterances of occupants, is
published in Vienna.
Persia has refused Russia's preferred
100000 to pay the indemnity to the i'm
perial tobacco corporation, and has deeid-
ed TO raise in London a loan to pay the
compensation claims.
A London cable says: Rev. Kennedy Bell,
rector at Little Bedwyn, who was arrested
on the charge of having indecently assault
ed on u railway train Miss Bertrand and
Miss Abery, has been committed for trial
in sureties Of 800.
The privy council rejected the appeal OF
Deeming, the Melbourne and Liverpool
wife-murderer from the sentence of the
Victorian court. This removes the last
chance that the condemned man had of es-
cape from the gallowS. The execution is
set for May %.
The Vatican has sent circular letter to
the American bishops recommending the
formation of a national union against Ca
henslyism, or the project advocated by Herr
C~anensly to appoint bishops of the same
nationality a the people whom they are to
spiritually direct.
ANOTHER stormy meeting ofthe share
holders in the Freeman's Journal and Ma
tional Press Syas held at Dublin the other
day, for the purpose OF deciding upon the
reorganization of the board of directors.
Mr.. Gray, the chairman, and job Dillon
on one side, and Timothy Healy on the
other, had several hot i~nterchanges ofcom-
piiments, but no action wss taken.
The latest adyices received at Petch from
the city of Fuenfkirchen, the capital OF the
country of Baranya, where a huge water
spout burst, flooding the colliers situated
in that place, are that tw%enty-One O! the
miners whe were supposed to have persisted
have been brought mp alive by the rescu-
ing parties.
AN aged nurse named Myer, residing at
Brockenheim, a suburb of Frankfort Ger
many, has been arrested, charged with
causing the death of IS infants. The al
legged crimes extend over a considerable
length of time, and il is reported that sew
eral wealthy ladies of Frankfort are to be
accused of completely in the baby armers
criminal operations.
The pope's ~pro-republican counsel is
beginning to have some effect in France.
A priest of st. Pierre du Gros Gallon. in
A~rdennes, has declined to bestow his bless
ing on the banker who is the depository
ofthe funds of the imperialist committee OF
that district. The priest bases his refusal
on the ground that the bankers place OF
Business is surmounted by an imperial
eagle, which the priest declares TO be a Sc
ditious emblem.
An exciting incident occurred at Nice re-
Gently, two women nearly losing their
lives at the hands ola dangerous fanatic,
whose dangerous ideas in regard TO an
equal distribution of property among the
people had evidently led him TO commit
the crime. The wife of Senior Cocconato,
the Portuguese vice consul at this place,
was m~urdefously attacked by her husbands
valet, whereupon he fired several shots,
wounding both women. 1t is thought that
he is either insane or is an anarchist.