Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-18
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS.

A preserve and Jelly trust has been
formed.
The twin cities are flooded with
spurious coin.
The extreme hot weather has
injured the Kansas corn crop.
The universal peace union held its
twenty-sixth annual meeting in New
York last week.
A rate war between the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific
is prognosticated.
William White, grand secretary of
the Odd Fellows of the United States,
died of heart disease at Louisville.
He was seventy-ive years old.
st. Paul's crack militia company,
Co. D., are taking an excursion TO the
Yellowstone park, and are march,
ing through the park in real military
style.
A boat used in transporting
vegetables on the Savannah river at
Charleston, S. c., capsized one day
last week and drowned the captain
and seven of his passengers.
The Duquesne mills at Homestead
started up last Monday with about
400 of the strikers at work again.
This is the first victory for the
Carnegie company.
At Knoxville, Tenn, Newton Clapp.
a deputy U. S. revenue collector, a
republican, was shot and killed by
Gray Cloud, a democratic member of
the legislature; cause, an election
row..
At a picnic at Ball Hollow, KY, a
regular mountain battle took place
between two Terrell brothers and two
or three Daniels. One of the former
was terribly butchered while two of
the Daniels received bad wounds.
Daniel W. Shea, son of a wealthy
Boston family, and Henry Smith, of
Saratoga, worth a million i'm his own
name, fought two rounds to a draw
at Saratoga Monday, before a select
few. The fight was the result of a
quarrel.
Minnesota has been the victim of
several sever storms of late, of
wind and hail, which have done much
damage to crops, farm buildings and
towns. Mortified, Litchfield,
Marshall and vicinity have all
suffered heavily.
Martin Foy, under death sentence
for murder, escaped from Jail at
Ballston, New York. He had opened
his cell in ONE way and was in the
corridor when the jailor entered.
Foy darted past him, through the
outer door and is still at large.
Lizzie and Bertha Shultz, of Graf
ton, Eeb., were thrown from a buggy,
the horses running away, and both
received slight bruises on the fore
head. Some hours afterwards, while
at home, the girls both dropped
dead within a few minutes of each
other.
Col. H.. Clay King, a Tennessee
murderer, who was to have been
hanged on the 18th inst. has been
committed to Imprisonment for life.
The governor is much criticised for
his action, and citizens of Memphis
expressed their indignation by hang
ing the governor in effegy.
An unknown tramp assaulted and
outraged Mrs. Ernst, a oma &c
years old, at her home on a farm nine
miles north of Sioux City, while her
son, with whom she lived, was in the
field working. Young Ernst followed
the mar to Sioux City and there lost
track Ofhim. Mrs. Ernst will recover.
A shocking accident happened at
the Menominee Falls, Wisconsin,
Lime works. Nick Marks, foreman
of the works, while inspecting a half
empty burning kiln, fell in and was
cremated before anything could be
done to save him. He was a young
married man, aged 30 years, and
leaves wife and one child.
Eleven boys, ranging in age from
twelve to seventeen, confined i'm the
Cincinnati House of Refuge, made
a break for liberty by crashing
through the glass windows of the
institution, one day last week. They
managed to get quite a distance
away but were all recaptured, every
one more or less wounded.
News comes from Easton's ranch,
near Elk City, Idaho, Of the death of
William Easton, aged 6s. Two CHINA
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