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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

One of the most %atrocious crimes
ever committed IN Illinois was perpe-
trated near Morrison last Thursday.
For cold-blooded brutality it is doubt
full if il has an equal. A. NJ. Swart-
hout, a prominent and wealthy
farmer residing about two miles west
from the village of Lindon, was the
victim. He drove to the city Thurs
day afternoon, and after attending to
some business matters started for
home, arriving there about s o'clock.
His two sons, John and Ernest, were
engaged at work around the barn
when their father returned, but no
words were exchanged between them
Mr.. Swarthout unhitched his horse
and put him in the stable. After he
had embarrassed his horse some one
stepped up behind him and shot him
through the head. His body was
then placed in a cart and wheeled
about 100 rods TO a strawstack, car
ried on top, and then the straw was
set on fire. A daughter of the MUIR
dered man was the first to discover
the fire and gave alarm, when the
two sons rode to the stack but made
no effort to extinguish the flames.
me absence of Mr.. Swarthout did
not seem to disturb his two sons, his
daughter and daughter-in-law, and it
was not until a neighbor came in and
insisted upon search that they in
stitused one. When the ashes Of the
straw pile were examined, portions of
the skull and other bones were dis
covered. Clues subsequently found
have led to the arrest ofthe two sons,
John and Ernest. They denied all
knowledge of the affair.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

aWbat will it cost TO get Jim Off"
she demanded. a.
sOne hundred dollars" said the
clerk. - tho
table. while all in the room staree.
"Come, JIM" said she.
lin came from his constable-guarded
corner and followed her out. He was
amazed. His malodorous career a
not brought him many acts OF KIND
ness at the town peoples hands. ""nao
does this mean, Miss Abby" ne saio'
huskily. ,.
She smiled at him reassuringly.
a.Just this, Jim-gold heeled Shoes
And, jim, go home now n say sooo,,
nv to YOUR mother. Then be a good
sailor-aud a man."
Quickly he stood b~areheaded. BE-
fore God, I'll try" he said.
That night the widow again lay in
Abby's arms. "Jim's gone; he toid
me ALL" she whispered. How couid
youp Abby, Abby. here I've lived
beside you for years and | never knew
you" aoia
Il maven / CliduSCh " "PNN'
Abby, in affected grimness, her lace
turned away.
"Abby, don't turn away You've
saved Jim. You've saved me- And
think what it cost! Oh, Abby, your
gold-heeled shoes!" :.
There, don't mind. Leather Is
good enough the rest of the way.
n 81 can never pay you back, Abby,
but while | have a crust On, 40,
by, | can't tell you all | think. she
cried, for the event bore a poetic fancy
into her plain-furnished mind. "Bu
! do believe your g~old-heeled shoes are
LAYING up for you to walk the street:
of paradise. "-Hdrper'S Weekly.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24
The State Agricultural College.

The regents of education at the
meeting held in Aberdeen, recently.
prepared their annual report to the
Governor and made up their estimates
of what appropriations must asked
of the next legislature for the
maintenance of the several state
schools for the next two years. 1t is
understood that they are to ask for
moderate sums. They selected the
following gentlemen to constitute the
board of trustees for the Agricultural
College, at Brookings: Hon.
Z. T. Sheldon, of Hand
county, ]. G. Carter, of Edmunds,
John Geisey, of COdington, Louis X.
Larson, of Minnehaha and c. II.
Collins of Brookings. AS the MONIES
furnished by the United States are
the only funds at the disposal of the
regents for the salaries of the
teachers, and, as no part Of this
money can be used for the teachings
of music or foreign languages, the
board were obliged to dispense with
the further services of Professors Kerr
and Lapham until the legislature
shall make provision for their salaries
At this meeting the Hon. Alex.
McTiryer, of Watertown, appeared
and took the oath of office as a
regent. He was appointed by the
governor to succeed Rev. r. o.
Brandt, whose term had required.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24
FROZEN wIrH.FF,R.
Fireman Who Could Not Move When in
Extreme Danger.

Extreme Danger.
Indianapolis News: at is not
often that an engineer stays on his
seat in the face of a collision if he
has a chance to jump said an old
railroad man last night. "When he
doesn't jump its because he hasn't
time. l remember once when a fire.
man was metaphorically frozen to his
seat. l was on the engine at the
time. See these gray hairS?" and he
pushed back his hat. ~ got them all
in about two minutes. 1t happened
on the indianapolis division of the
Pennsylvania line. / was in charge
of the fast mail train, No. 7, and
Charley Mason, as good an engineer as
ever took hold of a throttle, was
hauling us. No. 7 is a fast train any
how, but that night we were late out
of Columbus, and | tell you we were
splitting the wind. Having nothing
else TO do, l climbed over to the
engineer and asked Charley to let me
run her awhile, and he pushed over
to give me room. Everything went
as lovely as a May day dance until we
strated down the hill. Suddenly a
red light showed up ahead of us on
the track. The awfuiness of that
minute | can never describe. I'VE
are gone, Charley l yelled to the
engineer behind me. There's a fiat
car ahead of US. See that red light?
Charley saw it and started to get
down. | yelled at him not to do it,
that we might escape death, but if
we jumped from the engine, running
at least eighty miles an hour, we
would be killed sure. | shut Off the
steam, and, throwing on the air,
began plugging her. The wheels
reversed, but she rode over the sand
as if there was nom on the track.
Charley chung to me with wide
staring eyes, and | honestly believe
he was praying. Nearer, nearer we
rushed to that fatal Highland
dashed pastit. Soon we were stopped,
and | called the fireman to go back
with me and ascertain what il was.
He could not move, and when |
pulled him from his seat he was as
stiff as poker, and it was several
seconds before he could utter a
sound. The poor fellow was paralyzed
with fear, and it was a long time
before he recovered. What was the
red light doing there? A fool agent
had come up to flag a train following
us and had left his red light near the
rails. When l met him Inever felt
SO much like numbering q mar in
my life
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Washington, Political, Foreign,
and General Domestic,
Happenings of Note.
Telegraphic News of the World
Condensed for the Benefit
of Busy Readers.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The queens of Spain and Portugal
were present at a bull fight at Madrid
last Wednesday.
1t is expected that the court to
VIII CT Mrs. Deacon has appealed will
confirm the action of the lower court.
The Vossische Zeitung states that
the imperial loan which it is pro-
posed to raise on account of the
army, navy and imperial railways,
amounts to 149, 600, 900 marks.
The DixNeuvieme Seicle says that
NJ. Eiffel will not be included among
the directors of the Panama Canal
company whom the government
intends 10 prosecute.
A divergence of opinion regarding
the exhibition of the works of the
Swedish painter, Munich, has caused
the disruption of the Berlin Society
of Artists. A majority of the society
had denounced Munch's paintings as
worthless as works of art.
At Hirschfeld, Herse Nassau, a
Roman Catholic priest named Thiel
has been arrested on a charge of less
majestic, he having spoken in a
derogatory way in a sermon of the
kaiser's attendance at the Lutheran
celebration in Wittenburg.
The little wonder of today in Paris
is, as was Adelina Patti, the daughter
of a gifted singer. She is the only
child &c Nine. Emma Nevada Palmer,
and is just 6 years cid. Little
MignOn has never been taught a note
of music in her life. She seats her.
self at the piano and improvises
strange sweet strains, often in a
minor key, and singing as well to
her w accompaniment.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS.

Judge d. w. Cooley, of Dubuque,
and a prominent Iowa man, died
Sunday morning in New York.
The annual meeting of the general
assembly of the knights of Labor
was held in st. Louis last week.
Saloons opened at FIT. Scott, Kan,
as Dol as the vote on the consti-
tutional amendment became known.
A quarter of a million dollars
worth of property was destroyed by
fire at Norfolk, Va, one day last
week.
Margaret Mather, the actress, was
married on the occasion of her last
visit to Chicago to Gustav Pabst, son
of the m%illionair brewer of Mil
waukee.
Chas. Bartold, employed at the
Stockton, Cal, electric light works,
was instantly killed, Wednesday, by
q shock received while working at
an arc light.
The whole county of Cape May,
n. j., is greatly excited over the
robbery Of the residence of Capt.
Elijah Wheaton, last week. S35, 900
was taken from a bureau drawer.
David B. Hills bachelor days are
numbered. When he returns to
Washington in December he will
take with him as his wife Mrs.
Fannie Jerson, a southern widow.
The National Association for the
Advancement Of Women met in
Minneapolis last week. Papers were
read by Mrs. Julia Warde Howe, Mrs.
Mary Newburg, of Iowa, and Others.
AT a meeting of prominent citizens
and business men of San Antonio,
Texas, it was decided to raise a fund
of $1,000 to be added to the $40, 900
fund already secured by the govern
ment ~rain-making expedition for
experiments.
Edward p. Moxey and Edward ].
Riley, the expert accountants who
have been examining the books of
the Lombard Investment Company
Of Kansas city, in the interest of its
Eastern stockholders, have almost
concluded their work. 1t has leaked
out that the stealings of W. III. L.
Russell will reach 800, 900.
John Ryan, a hired man, was leav-
ing Tommy Dolan's saloon in
Dubuque county, Iowa, with a jug
of beer Sunday, when Billy Dolan,
his employer, seeing a rife at hand,
concluded it would be a good joke to
put a ball through the jug and see
the beer run out. The ball took off
the index finger of Ryan's right
hand, glanced off the jug and went
through his left thigh. Ryan fell
and fractured his skull In two places.
He is lying at q hospital at the point
death. Dolan has not yet been
arrested.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24
Words Too Expressive.

One is almost startled at the discov-
cry of a new and most disagreeable
force in n single word, when that word
is applied to himself to characterize
some unpleasant fact of which he has
ieshv" said q lady of magnificent pro-
portions; don't object to my size, but
| simply can't bear that word" An
other woman has not the least desire
to marry but cannot endure being
called "spinster." Not long ago a
pretty woman in the thirties an
nounced her intention of taking a
somewhat extended trip alone, and
ended with the remark: IAN old maid
like me doesn't need an escort" Then
Marjorie, the little maid of the family,
burst into a torrent of tears. You're
not an old maid, %auntie!!" she walled;
you're not! | can't bear it," But |
am, Marjorie" said her aunt, laugh
ing; it's a nice thing to be. ! like it"
"Oh, but you're not, you're mott" cried
study to ask, ~passiQnately: Papa, is
auntie an old maid?:" NO. dear, said
her father soothingly, not at all. She's
only a postponed BRIDE" That proved
~wondrous comforting. The tears were
speedily dried, but auntie herself was
somewhat electrified when a caller
Lame that afternoon to hear the little
girl inquire sweetly and in a tone so
innocent that no II could suggest her
ceasing TO repeat the remark: Did
you know that Aunt Helen is a post
poned bride? Isn't it nice?"-St !. Louis
Chronicle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24
WAS WRONG.
The Lady with the Cold, Fishy Eye SHOWS
Sympathy at Last

A woman with a basket on her arm
passed through one Of our fashionable
drv-goods stores the other day intent
ON making some small purchases. She
was yerv poorly dressed, and with
such severe disdain of all the fashions
that her costume almost borrowed the
distinction of an ascetic garb. e
il resembled a horse-blanket made into
a gown.
An elegantly dressed lady sat by a
counter making her purchases OF I'M
necessitous things. The other woman
saw her. but did not obtrude her recog-
pition: she waited. Then the lady
turned a cold, fishy eye upon her
and said slowly in a tone Of interroga-
ton:
well, Jane?"
a was wondering would you know
me, ma'am," said the woman with a
shadowy smile. It's changed and thin
l am, with the long sickness"
"You haven't left him yet, Janc?"
mo, ma'am, | can't do that"
"And he doesn't do any work"
when he can get it, ma'am, and he
is able to do it."
But you work Just the sahleF
"Why shouldn't | ma'am? / was
brought up to work."
I'm sorry, Jane. You should have
staid with me. I've had as good
a girl in your place" said the lady in a
voice that indicated that her time was
up: then. as an afterthought, Jane,
are you very poor" -,
$50 poor, ma'am, that all through
his sickness | couldn't spare the money
to buy him a lemon"
What did the other woman do at
this revelation? Offer a word of SYM
pathy or a bit of real help from her
well-flled purse? No. She looked
aggressiveiy distressed as she re-
marked:
There must be something wrong
where there is such poverty"
That's what | think, ma'am," said
poor Jane with unconscious sarcarm;
at all seems wrong somehow"
Then she resumed her dismal march
in the procession of life.-Detrott Free
Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The cabinet has been considering
the establishment of a United States
protectorate W. the Sandwich
islands. The statement is made that
Paul Newman, ex-attorney general of
Hawaii, and a confidential adviser Of
Queen Lilickulanai is now on his way
to Washington to endeavor TO con-
summate the proposed plan of pro-
tectorate. 1t is believed he will be
cordially received at the state depart
ment.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24
WHAT AN IL
1 travel each day full many a mile,
Yet never get out of my bed;

L travel each day fun many a mile,
Yet never get out of my bed;
And my mouth, IL increases the faster I run,
I'LL its greater By far than my head.
ST. Nicholas.
A mau's idea of practicing economy
is TO preach it three times 4 day to his
wife, Atckis0n Globe.
Il have lots TO tell you about" SAID
the real estate man, meeting an old
friend on the street YoRkeTS States
mua.
When nan pictures a heaven for
himself he always has his own man
sion right in the center of it.-Ram,s
Horn.
Jagson says the man who can t take
a joke always seems to he the editor Of
the paper he sends his to.--Ehairg
Gazette.
When Jones read of the "finding OF
an abandoned schooner" he remarked
that it vas probably empty.-Bosto's
Transcript.
A long face in church and a short
measure in trade are two things that
aeyer he;F she cause of God q bit
Rams Hora.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

1t is quite possible that in the CEN
sus of 1900 the new south will be
found to have grown comparatively
more than the north. In the one
city of Augusta, Ga, manufactures
increased from 1880 to 1890 more than
2i0 per cent. Three times as much
wages are paid to operatives as were
paid ten years ago.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

The claims of the scientific prepa-
ration of food to a universal hearing
are pretty well established. Women
who do not fully understand its prin-
ciples themselves are sending their
daughters and their servants to cook
ing classes, and the teaching of the
elements of cookery in public and re-
formatory schools is being adopted
more and more generally. Santa
tion, as a popular study, is little
behind cookery, but its turn has come
and it will never again be universally
neglected.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

The public school system is of par
amount Importance to our country.
Everybody is interested in its success,
and either directly or indirectly, is
connected with the great educational
system. What are the teachers do
ing? Are they running through the
same old rut year after year, or are
they devoting their spare hours to
the consideration and elevation of
their profession? These questions
are frequently asked by citizens who
have anxious regard for the advance
ment of public instruction.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

Among the striking sights of New
York are those to be seen at the
docks. 1t is as interesting to look at
a steamship load of Americans bound
for Europe as to look at a steamship
load of European immigrants coming
into port. The outward bound
Americans are apt to be less pictur-
esque in their garb than the incom-
ing foreigners.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

Mr.. George Stewart of New York
asked Miss Adds TO be his wife. He
did SO just for fun. When he failed
to come TO time she sued him, just
for damages. The court instructed
the jury that the law could not dis
tinguish between ~jocular proposals
and the other kind. Wherefore the
twelve good men decided that George
ought to pony up about 5000 for his
little joke. Miss Adds in now ready
TO receive other proposals from funny
men at current rates.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

The corn crop this year will reach
between LOO. ooo, 900 and 1880, OoO, 600
bushels. This is not so great as last
year, when it reached the enormous
figure of 900, 000, 900 bushels. The
Russian famine helped Us to get rid
of it then, but this year We are told
there is nothing left but to make it
into whisky after the hogs have de-
youred all they can.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

The body of Frank Paine was
found in the Cedar river near Austin,
Friday. Ugly gasheS were on the
back of his head, indicating that lie
had been murdered. At present the
affair is shrouded with mystery, as
no motive can be assigned for the
act. Paine was past so years of age
and was a quiet in~offensive man.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

Fred Oelschlager, employed in the
wood factory at Waseca, had two
fingers of his left hand cut off by the
saw, and while having the fingers
temporarily bandaged, tainted, fall
ing on the same saw, which partially
severed his right elbow.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

You may speak of an elegant watch
or chain or carriage or harness, but
do not talk about an elegant land
scape or an elegant mountain view.
Do not call Niagara elegant
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

Thomas Oliver, the Snowman who
conducted The Great Eastern circus
through the Dakotas and the north
west, has disappeared from Monte
vido, where his show will winter,
and the circumstances surrounding
his absence are such as have led some
to believe he has been foully dealt
with.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

The Winona fire department has
been worried lately by false alarms
being turned in. The city council
has offered a reward for the adpre-
hension Of the guilty parties,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

New York Advertiser: Mrs. f. b.
Grannis, editor of the New York
Church Union, is probably the only
woman who has carried for nearly
twenty years the whole burden,
financial and editorial, of a large
religious journal. A New York paper
describes Mrs. Granuis as "a quiet
little bundle of energy" and adds
that 'in her team of assistants
she driveS\ seven doctors of
divinity tandem" The paper is
devoted especially to the advocacy of
church union: the D. DIS are of the
most various theological tenets, and
the paper invites contributions from
all evangelical denominations. In
addition to the Church Union, Mrs.
Grannis for many years edited the
Children's Friend and kindergarten.
She is president of the National
Christian league, for the promotion
of social purity and an active member
of many of the benevolent societies
Alfred j. Clode, who formerly run
a newspaper in Japan, gives us some
idea of the business in that country
in recent interview. He says: 1.-THE
income of the Gazette used to be
about 6 5000 per month. We employed
thirty japanese compositors at an
average of SIS per month, some get
ting as much as $50. The subscription
price of the paper was S24 and the
advertising rates Sd per inch per
week. We had about 800 subscribers
the paper was enteIprising and no
expense was spared to get the news.
The Mikado attempted to
exercise censorship over the English
press of the country, but the British
Consul General attempted it once
and was forced to leave his station.
The japanese Mail is subsidized by
the government, but all the other
English papers are free from govern
ment control"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

Grant & Dougherty's store at
Fergus Falls, vas robbed of 5000
worth of shoes and ane plush goods.
This is the secona time within a
month,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

II. Brevig of Yueatan, was killed
about five miles from Caledonia. His
buggy went over a steep bank and
overturned, killing Bervig and his
two horses.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24


The electric fly catcher, which has
been tried and found successful by
several large s~hopkeepers, consists of
a small induction coil giving about
an inch spark and is furnished with a
series of fine wires strung on a board
and looking not unlike a either.
Each alternate wire is connected
with an induction coil, and a sliding
regulator is so adjusted that the
spark will not strike across between
the wires until the unlucky fly alights.
Then the battery puts in its work,
and the fly dives down between the
wires and leaves the field clear for
the next victim.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

The longest horse railroad in the
world runs from Buenos Ayres to
San Martin, in the Argentine
Republic, the distance being about
fifty miles and the schedule time of
the trip thirteen hours. Trains
leaves Buenos Ayres every hour in
the day and twice during the night.
Every morning and evening express
trains leave, carrying only baggage.
The night passengers r furnished
narrow little hunks, where they may
snooze the long hours away if the
train does not run of the track too
often. When such an accident occurs
the passengers are expected to turn
out and help lift the cars back on.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

The plant of the st. Paul Plow
Works at Gladstone was destroyed by
fire last Wednesday. Loss, $500, 600.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

Two masked men made the cashier
of the Bank of Woodstock hand over
81 200 last week.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

Major Pikestaff (at the Thanksgiving
reunionrWell, my little man, do you
know what you have to be thankful for?
The Little Man-Yes, indeed, sir. |
am thankful that there is some Jamaica
ginger in the house.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

Over a foot of snow has fallen in
the Mouse river country.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-24

Chinese control almost 2
shoemaking business in Caili0'