Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

New Orleans has a hospital for Jepers.
The Phoenix Iron company Of Trenton,
\. j., has suspended business and was taken
charge of by a receiver. The liabilities are
1853, 900; assets. SlS6, 600.
Two hundred and three applications for
space at the Columbian Exposition have
~been'made by Philadelphians, DESTROYS OF
making exhibitions.
A LARGE meteor fell in the Choctaw Ma
ton a few days ago. 1t was imbedded at
least twenty feet in the earth, and protrudes
twelve feet in the air.
Representatives of all the leading marine
insurance interests on the great lakes met
in Detroit. The revision lett the schedule
of rates practically the same as last year.
KING TENBRISO, of Butaritari, who ar
rived in San Francisco on tie bark Towara
last week, announces that his mission to
this country is to secure the protection OF
the United States for the Gilbert islands.
THE Lindell Hotel, of St. Louis, which
cost when it was built IA years ago 81, 800
600, was sold by the Marmaduke estate to
the present l~essees, Messrs. Howe and
Chassaing, for 1915, 900.
A Project is on foot to estab 'ish a trans
Atlantic line of steamers between Phila-
deiphia port and Breentown, a harbor in
Bristol channel, passengers to be transport
ed thence by a short railroad route to Lon
don.
GEORGE SHEPPARD PAGE, one Of the most
conspicuous figures on Wall street, and
famous as the millionaire chemist y has
been committed to an asylum for the in
sane, his mind broken down by worriment.
s~uperinduced by a severe attack of grip.
REPoRTs TO the Illinois State Board of
Agriculture on the condition of winter
wheat shows the area seeded to be l,S95,-
l46 acres, 4 per cent larger than in 1891, but
much that was plowed was allowed to lie
allow owing to dry ground.
Ms. SARA ALruEA TERRY, since her in
generation in the asylum at Stockton, Cal,
has become very reticent and violent. Re-
fusing TO conform to the asylum rules and
discipline, it was recently necessary to use
some force VIII her, and she became so re-
lractory that ~ has since been put in a
straight-jacket.
l.. A DAyIEs's celebrated suit against the
Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Assoc
iation was placed on trial in Judge Bre-
tano's court at Chicago recently. Davies is
suing for a $500 prize won by Roy Wilkes
at the Lexington meeting in the fall OF
1889. The National Association imposed a
81, 900 fine Oh the Davies and the Kentucky
Association withheld the prize money as
an offset. The plaintiff claims that the
two corporations were separate, and, that
the Kentucky association had no right 10
act as a collection agent for the national
body.
A statement shows that in
1890 there was a production of copper equal
to 259, COS, 092 lbs and in 1891, 2S4, ll9, 76i
Reports ofstocks of copper from the pro-
ducers and the majority of snelters, with
the exception of the Calumet 4 Hecla and
Quincy Mining companies, show q decline
of co. $40, so pounds on the first of January,
1891, to "a. SSS, $50 pounds on Jan. |, 1892.
All the lake companies with the exception
of the two named report 10. 16l, 52S pounds
on the former and 10, l54, 10 pounds on the
latter date, while tie Montana producers
reduced their stock from 33,6l5,9s7 pounds
TO IL, 827, S66 pounds.
A DIVORCE suit, apparently promising
sensational developments, was begun at
Chicago by Ella Birmingham, wife OF the
Oak street druggist, whose departure for
Europe during the Cronin excitement
caused much comment. The couple came
to Chicago in 1874 with only $500, and now
Birmingham is worth 49, 00, which Mrs.
Birmingham sets forth she helped to earn.
The defendants refusal to purchase q home,
Notwithstanding his ample means. and q
belief that he IS about TO start for Europe
with another woman, are the grounds all
yanced in the wife's bill for Divorce. 1t is
understood that lie Caron, who gave snch
sensational testimony before the Farnell
commission in LONDON. was a partner in
the drug business here with Birmingham.