Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-17
9TH ERWiSE.

JAY GoULD has given sos, 900 to the Uni
versity OF the City Of New York.
Manager Chapman, of the Louisville Ball
Club. announces that he has signed
Tom Brown, of Boston, the center fielder
THE La Crosse Lumber and Manu-.
featuring ~company's property is in the
sherif's hands.
A SPECIAL meeting of the stockholders OF
the Standard Oil Trust has been called for
March q.
The Bell Telephone directors have voted
TO issue 81, 500,0 600 new stock, one share at
par to each holder of six shares.
AT New Orleans both the cotton and rice
exchange unanimously Endorsed the Torrey
bankruptcy bill, as pending in congress
for its early enactment.
J. KNowLroN, diamond dealer of Boston,
who has flied a voluntary petition in in.
s%olvency, owes, it is said, S0o,O00 with
nomina assets of $4,000,
1T is estimated that a larger acreage has
been planted to fruit in California than ever
before, and the present outlook is for the
largest crop in the history of the state.
THE Western Union committee met at
New York and recommended the declara-
ton of the regular quarterly dividend 1t
per cent by the directors tomorrow.
THE anti-Hili Democrats ofNew York
announce that they are not welded TO
Cleveland and will accept any good Demo
crat who can carry the state.
Binding agreements have been entered
into between nearly all the anthracite car
rying and producing companies for the
purpose OF maintaining rates and restrict.
ing production.
All railroads south of the Ohio river, in
order TO insure the success of the grand
reunion of the confederate veterans, which
is to be held in New Orleans on the Stb and
9th of April, have agreed to issue tickets to
the reunion and return for a single fare.
The New Jersey senate by a vote of IS to
3 adopted a resolution asking the Worlds
Fair commissioners to close the fair on
Sunday, and asking the New Jersey COM
n~issioners TO close the states exhibit on
that day.
The manufacturers OF sewer pipe ia the
Ohio valley met and formed a combine 10
regulate the prices. Twenty firms are in
the trust, having an output of $4,000 cars a
year and a capital of $35, 500, 1000.
The proposed national federation of
chinery constructors has fallen through,
owing to the absence at the PittSburg meet
ing of representatives from many promi-
nent trades connected with machinery
making.
The census enumerator at W~arrensburg,
n. Y, found a child three months old, the
mother, Mrs. Fred Chandler, one month
less han fifteen years, grandmother, Mrs.
John Allen, aged thirty-three years, and
great grandmo her, Mrs. Oscar Greene, aged
fifty-iour.
News has just been received of another
rich strike made in the Colorado mine by
Walton & Timmey, at Bonanza. This pro-
spect Is located near the head Of Rawiey
gulch, and the vein uncovered, is over our
feet wide and assays l62 ounces gold and
$40 ounces silver TO the ton.
PRoF. SWIFT Of Rochester y. Y, has dis
covered a bright telescope comet. 1t was
in right ascension 1sh Som declination,
south 81 degrees 20 minutes. 1t is moving
| in an easterly direction. 1t eau he seen
with an opera glass, but no tail was visible
! through the great telescope,