Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-15
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS

The cholera scare is seriously affect
ing eastern stock and produce mar
kets.
The souvenir spoon fad has been
succeeded by a craze for collecting
souvenir dolls.
John G. Whittier, the great Amer
lean poet, passed peacefully away on
the 18th inst.
McAulife defeated Meyer in a
fifteen round prize fight at New
Orleans Monday night in the presence
of $500 people.
The old Academy of Music, of
Cleveland, one of the most famous
theaters in America, has been de
stroyed by fire.
Miss Lizzie Borden has been bound
over to the grand jury's action
accused of the murder of her father
and step-mother at Fall River, Mass.
Thomas Rooney of Plymouth, Pa,
having lost all his money and prop
erty on the resulto the Snllivan-Cor-
bett fight, committed suicide by tax
ing poison.
T~wenty-one of the Jersey City,
n. j., ballot box suffers were SEN
fenced. Their sentences ranged from
six to fifteen months. The prisoners
were at once SEN to Jail.
The steamships Rugia and Noman-
mia arrived at New York on Saturday
last and reported nine deaths from
cholera on their passage. They were
detained at quarantine.
The New York Standard, founded
by Henry George and for a long time
a prosperous weekly newspaper, has
passed out of existence. 1t is said to
have been run at a loss for some
time.
Up to and including the 3lst of
August the treasury department has
shipped to various points in the
United States $1,000, 900 in small
notes to facilitate the moving of the
crops.
Some cholera infested immigrants
arrived on a lake steamer at Detroit,
Mich, last Monday. This probably
introduces the disease into the
| nnrfhyrnpt aogn Of Tho disease il
also said to have been discovered at
Bismarck.
John Hurley, a married man, who
was clerk in the treasury department
at Washington, borrowed $500 from a
Chicago owoman under promise of
marriage. His ~raScality becoming
known he skipped out, taking $4,000
of the governments money with him.
If the managers of the Worlds Fair
should close their big show on Sunday
when would they open it? The Greeks
have their holy day on Monday, the
P~ersians on Tuesday, the Assyrians
on Wednesday, the Egyptians on
Thursday, the Turks on Friday, the
Jews on Saturday and the Christians
on Sunday.
Daniel D%Oughcrty who won
national fame as an orator when he
nominated Cleveland in the
convention of 1884 died at his home
in Philadelphia last Thursday.
Though best known as an orator, he
was regarded as one of the most
brilliant of Philadelphia's many
able lawyers.
General John J. Perry, of Portland,
Me-, is n of the few surviving
congressman of the ante-war period,
He served two terms at Washington
prior to 1861. He is well informed,
is gifted with an excellent memory
and enjoys fine health, and has q
wonderful store Of "reminiscences OF
the statesman of that day and
generation.
The whaleback steamer Charles w
Wetmore went ashore in a fog or
North Spit, Oregon. Owing to &
dense fog she was not located for sew
eral hours, when the ~life-saving crew
with tugs took off the crew. The
WetmOre left Tacoma listing heavily
to port. Ske was bound for San Fran
cisco with 2,400 tons of coal. She wal
valued at $500, OO0.
During the street parade of Sell.
circus at Maysville, KY, a man known
as "Animal George" whose home i!
thought to be in Columbus, Ohio, wa'
attacked by a huge tiger in whose
cage he was riding. The beast
seemed possessed of the devil anC
screamed in fury as he bit and tore
his shreaking victim. The spectators
panic-stricken, fled as if pursued by
death, while the show hands rushed
TO the cage and did everything posi-
bic to rescue the man who was being
rent to pieces alive. They cOult
accomplish nothing until the trainer
was dead, when the Infatuated Deas'
retired to a corner. Not a shred o
clothing remained on the unfortunat,
man. His head is torn open, the fac,
gone, and nearly every bone in hi
body broken.
A BE SURPRISED
A Divorce C~oIonist's Wife UneNrectedl,