Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-08

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Wis; Michael Crockitt of Ironwood,
The cause of the acciden is
not known, as the bridge was
inspected only the day before and
pronounced safe.
Arrests are being made by whole
sale of the Homestead strikers on
warrants sworn out by the Carnegie
officials.
Three convicts at the Jackson,
Mich, penitentiary made a bold dash
for liberty. Two were fatally shot
before they were recaptured.
At Omaha, George Foss, a chop
house cook, killed himself and Laura
Day, his mistress, in a quarrel over
TIE possession of & gold watch.
L. B. McWhirter, a prominent
lawyer and politician, was assasinated
at Fresno, Cal, by unknown parties,
Iii believed that his political enemies
put him out of the way.
The Oldest living graduate Of
Harvard, DR.. w. l.. Russell, aged 90,
is an expert, active and inyeterate
croquet player. In other respects he
is a gentleman of exemplary habits.
Nancy Hanks trotted a mile
against a strong breeze on the kite
shaped track at Independence, Iowa,
last Thursday in 2:05i. On the
same day Flying Jib placed a mile
in 2:07.
Three unknown men entered the
store of j. [. Hughes, at Wildwood
Penn, one night last week bound
and gagged the clerk and his family,
and then took goods amounting to
81, 500, piled them in a wagon and
hauled them away, leaving no trace
as to their identity.
Sugar has been advancing rapidly
during the past two weeks. At
wholesale the price has gone up from
S4.65 TO s5.3S per hundred. a whole
sale grocer says that the market
advance is bound to affect the retail
price in the course of a few days and
that the consumers will feel it by
getting less sugar for a dollar than
they have been getting.
st. Paul will establish a binding
Irvine mandatory of enormous
proportions. IL wall employ 500 men
and manufacture 10000 pounds OF
Irvine per day. The site for the
plant has teen secured at Como, the
plans for buildings laid and the
machinery already ordered. The
corporation is called the North,
western Cordage Company.
The steamship Moravia of the
Hamburg-American line from Ham.
burg, arrived at New York on the
30th ult, having had twenty-five
deaths on board during the passage
which the ships doctor says were
from cholerine. Twenty were OF
children and two of adults. Thirteen
were natives of Poland, five OF
Prussia, one of Austria and three OF
Hesse. AL were buried at sea. The
first death took place Aug. 10 and
the last on Aug. %. The Moravia has
been ordered down to the lower bay,
for instant and thorough fumigation.
This is the first ship to bring over
the disease.
One evening last week at Fulda.
Mimi, a farmer named Haberman,
who lives a mile east of town, came
in and informed the people that one
of his twin girls, three years old, was
lost on the prairie. The child went
TO the road cal the house and with
her sister wandered along the high
way out of sight of her parents. A
short time after her sister returned
and said, Julia had gone after
candy" The parents could find no
trace of the child, but hunted nearly
all day before they alarmed the town
people. Search was made until dark
by a few, but about 100 men went out
at daybreak and the search has been
continued by hundreds of people all
the next day. The prairies for miles
around has been carefully searched
without avail. No trace of the miss
ing child has been found people have
abandoned the search. The opinion
is now quite general that the child
was abducted,