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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
UNFORTUNATE E

Many buildings were burned at Danbury.
Cor The loss is about 100000
The mills and elevators of the Sergeant
Milling COMPANY at Joplin, Mo-, have
been burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
A terrible prairie fire has been raging for
several DAYS in the eastern part of Payne
county. Okla, doing many thousand of
dollars worth OF damage.
The temperature fell below freezing
point in Mississippi and Louisiana the
other night. Fruit trees. which were in
full bloom, were badly injured.
Reports from various cities and towns
throughout Illinois, Kansas, and Michigan
state that winter wheat has been greatly
damaged by the recent storm.
The damage caused by floods in the South
is more extensive than was at first suppos-
ed. On almost every railway traffic is in
~terrupted, many towns being isolated.
A seventeen-year-old daughter of George
Marlett died at :Paoli, Ind, of trichina
spiralis, and her mother may die. They
ATE pork which had been insuficiently
cooked.
IN st. Louis, Henry Keiser, Frank Conn
and Hugh Duffy were instantly killed i'm
Rohan Bros, boiler shop by beiRte caught
under an elevator. Two boys weSs anger
ously hurt.
The Spanish steamer Navarro, fron Bos-
ton, Feb. IL, for London, had on board
fourteen cattlemen who one night went to
bed in the forecastle after having lighted a
fire in the toye. The next morning seven
were discovered to have been sufioeated.
HAYWOOD Heathman, deputy clerk of the
criminal court at Lexington, No, and
Thomas and Jessie Grady, brothers, went
hunting on the river in a leaky skiff. They
have not returned, und ii is supposed they
have been drowned. The river is being
dragged for their bodies.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
NORTH DAKOTA.

Fire broke out in the Argus building the
other morning, b ut was e~xtinguised by the
fire department before much damage was
done.
Judge Mcconnell rendered decision in
the Trail county seat case, allowing the
Hillsboro people to file al answer. This
reopens the ball.
Judge L. L. Daley, Democratic member
of the legislature oil Walsh county, died at
his home at Mimic, contamination of the
bowels, after an illness of only a day or
two.
0. S. Enger, William Davis, John Croft
and a man named Ofstad, with his wife
and child, persisted in the storm of the 9th
at Langdon.
Fourteen thousand acres OF school lands
in Richland county were sold at auction
recently. Prices ranged from $40 to S34.
the average being 1855. Four hundred
farmers were present to bid.
Over 81, 600 worth of whiskey was seized
by the sheriff at Mandan, belonging to To-
bin & Drury. 1t was stored in a cellar but
It is now stored in Jail. Blind piggers are
feeling blue.
J., NJ. Kelleher, one of the oldest citizens
of jamestown died of pneumonia. He
kept the first hotel at jamestown and was
widely known in the Northwest He was
for many years a leading Democratic poll
tician in the territory.
Mrs. Lokken and Torgen Thompson, a
boy, who lives.twenty miles east of Willow
City, lost their way during the storm Thurs
day and wandered about until they became
exhausted and lay down. The woman
died. The boy woke alter the storm and
made his way to the nearest house, but he
was so bad y frozen that lie will die.
A telegram frola Hillsboro says VI, 934
acres OF school lands have been sold for
$345, T07, being average an of SLAP per acre.
The bidding was very spirited, most OF the
purchasers being adjoining farmers. A tele-
gram from Wahpeton says the average
price there was $lS.7S, the highest price
paid being S3s per acre.
Attorney Taylor CruIn, of Fargo, applied
to Judge Mcconnell to grant a new trial in
the case of A. C. Cantieny, recently con-
victed of Illegally selling liquors. He
claimed that the jurymen made statements
before the trial showing that they were pre-
JUDGED and believed the defendant guilty.
There are now 8 or 10 awaiting sentences
on liquor cases, and the sentences will
probably be passed this week,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
o

The Thompson Carriage works of Osh.
kosh were destroyed by fire. Loss, $33 Coz:
insurance, $40, 500,
Mrs. John T. Murphy, wi e of the pro
prietor and editor of the West Superior
Evening Telegram, died, aged twenty. thr,.
years.
The pulp and paper mill of Eau Claire
o in the $40, 900 suit brought against il by
Ole Anderson, a former employe, who Tell
down the elevator shaft.
Clark Burdick. formerly of Clear Lake,
was nearly killed at Glenwood. He was
coupling cars when a freight crushed him
between the cars, smashing in all his ribs
on the left side. He is not expected to live.
George Hiles, the millionaire capitalist,
has instituted proceedings at milwaukee,
to rave a receiver appointed for the Mil
waukee Power and Lighting company, al
leging that, the company is insolvent. Mr..
Hiles is the principal creditor, and his
claim Of $4,000 is secured by mort
cages.
The fye-year-old daughter OF A. L.
Hudson and the four-year-old son Of
Joseph Hambly, while playing on the
street at Chippewa Falls were attacked by
a vicious dog and both frightiulIy bitten in
the face, The little boy had one cheek
nearly eaten away. The parents fear
hydrophobia.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
NUGGETS.

A REVOLT In the province of Catamarca,
Argentine Republic is reported.
A RECEIVER is appointed for Murietta &
Co, the London bankers.
PORE LEO writes a letter approving the
worlds fair project.
MARQUIS DE MoREs, theex-rancher o Da-
kota, fights a duel in France, injuring his
adversary.
A NEW cabinet has been formed in Chile,
with Juan Castellon as minister of foreign
affairs.
In the parliamentary election in the
Kirkaldy district. England, Daizeli, the
Gladstonian candidate, won.
TEE death rate at Rio Janeiro is over
thirty a day. The stories about hospital.
treatment in Santos are terrible.
GREAT distress prevails among the work
ing classes in Lisbon, and the situation
grows worse daily.
THE legislature of New South Wales has
approved a bill of settlement OF labor dis
putes by courts of arbitration.
PARIS police are making wholesale arrests
of anarchists supposed to have been con-
Eected with the recent explosions.
THE Madrid Gazette publishes a govern.
ment decree prohibiting the manufacture
Of artificial wines in Spain.
The Archduke Leopold. uncle of En-
peror Francis Joseph, is suffering from con-
gestion OF the lungs. The physicians pro-
nounce his condition serious.
SEVEN prehistoric statues, showing a
well-deyeloped knowledge of sculpture,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
IOWA.

L. c. Preston brought suit against the
city of Cedar Rapids for 50. $40 damages,
claiming that amoun due on account OF
change of grade of a~street.
The Chuts directory of Cedar Rapids for
1892 was issued. 1t contains nearly ten
thousandname and would indicate Il pop
ulation of %, 600.
A FIRE at Bloomfield laid waste the entire
south side of the public square, including
the opera house and many fine buildings.
The loss will probably reach 100000.
At the convention held at Waterloo,
Black Hawk county elected - lei -ates
to the state convention, sending them I'M
instructed. Delegates from the caucuses
were all instructed for Harrison.
Tom Galley, in Jail at Fort Dodge for
numbering Edward Buggy, tried to COM
nit suicide by batteriug his head against
the iron bars OF the cage. Doctors say he
will die.
The fine residence of Henry Rickel on
Second avenue, Cedar Rapids, was badly
damaged by fire, the fire originating in the
servants room. The house and contents
was insured for So, 900, which will not cover
the loss.
Judge Traverse, in the district court at
Ottumwa, enunciated some novel PROPOSE
tons, defining the powers of supervisors.
He held that the power of the supervisor
is continuous and not exhausted by being
once exercised. In other words, that the
board can purchase and sell sites as often as
it sees fit.
Rev. Sweet, a young Methodist minister
of Russell, has been stricken with blind
ness. He preached his nsual sermon in the
morning out in the afternoon, while filling
a country appointment, his vision grew
DINNER until at the close of his sermon he
could see scarcely anything.
Mystic people want to know the where.
abouts of Detective Bell. He arrested >
negro named Jack Powell at that place,
OF, the charge of ravishing and numbering
a white woman in Georgia, and having
jailed his prisoner has disappeared. The
negro protests his innocence and says he
will sue the corporation for false inprison.
mani
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24

The New Gork's uniform will he OF Yale
gray, with black stockings, caps, belts and
trimmings, 4
President Byrne says Tom DAILY got
5000 a year Tor two years, was disabled all
last season and ought now to be satisfied
with a reasonable salary.
LOUIS ROGER, BROWNING is going to Hot
Springs. The gladiator still declares hat
he wants So 00e in good coin. He will get
it when Apoliinaris is made the national
drink in Kentucky.
CUB STRIcKER will be in demand before
the season is far advanced. As an infielder
and a base runner he has no superior in the
position ard a more earnest player for the
side does not exist.
some ofthe players now relegated to the
rear will be in demand in the big league
before June, because the season will bring
with il the inevitable crop OF failures, acct
dents and breakdowns. So even players
without engagements would do well to
keep themselves in condition all the time
10 accept immediately a call.
ANsoN is the only player who has been a
member ola National League club through
each of its l6 years oil existence. In this
time he played in 1852 games, wen G, 941
times to bat. made 2,252 base hits, besides
some more which the scorers robbed him
OF, and secured a general batting average of
344 per cent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
A REVOLVING DISCOVERY
Evidences of CannibaIism Found in
South Dakota.

Evidences of Cannibalism Found in
South Dakota.
A horrible discovery has been made
in tile mountains of South Dakota,
about ten miles from the border,
which indicates that a party of peo-
pie have been driven to the dire ex-
tremity of feeding upon each other. In
q deep canyon, where the camp was
sheltered from the storm, there was
found the remains of a camp and of q
fire, in the ashes of which were several
bones and pieces OF a human body
which had been cooked and partly
eaten. There had evidently been FIVE
or six in the party, and three OF them
had been killed to furnish foodfor the
others, for there were three skulls
found, and from their size it is evident
that all of them were those OF women
or children for they were much small
er than the skull of q man. The bones
OF the legs and arms were found, and
to one leg bone there was still a guam
tity OF cooked flesh hanging.
The survivors had evidently got
some other food and left the unde-
voured part of the last victim in the
fire with the intention Of burning it
up, but the fire was put out by the
snow storm and the discovery thus
made possible. 1t is believed the
party originally consisted OF two men,
two women and n boy, and that they
passed through this place last fall on
their way to the West. If such was
the case the men have sacrificed their
companions in the attempt at self
preservation, and are now alive. 1t is
understood that the authorities OF
South Dakota will make a searching
investigation, and see if they can find
out the survivors of the terribl,
deed,-A White Earth, Mimi, Special
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
TERRIER.
A Good Story About the Artist ano
the Doctor,

n SOOU story ABOUT Ihe RfIlSt n
the Doctor,
MISSIONER was very fond OF cats
and dogs. Among his pets was a rug,
ged little terrier. The terrier got very
sick one day, and the great painter
was in a sore fix. In Poissy, where he
lived, there was no dog doctor, and
the animal was getting worse every
day. At last the artist accidently
met a friend of his, one of the most il,
lustrious physicians of Paris. Doc
tor" said he, "do me an immense
favor; cure my sick dog"
Now my dear sir" said the doc.
tor, "are you really serious?'
Il am" replied MISSIONER. Il know
that the thing isn't precisely in your
line, but you would do me a great
kindness, and | will remain forever
your debtor if you will consent to try
your skill on my little terrier
The doctor at last consented. He
saw the dog, prescribed and cured.
When he returned to Paris h ereceived
a polite note from MISSIONER, asking
him to name the amount OF his hon.
orarium 'for medical services render
ed to the dog" The doctor laughed
and did not reply to the note. But
soon another note came with the
same request and a statement that
the author made it a rule not to owe
anything to anybody. The doctor re-
piled to this with the single word,
Nothing" But MISSIONER would
not be denied. He sent a messenger
with another note.
"In the dogs name" exclaimed the
mighty medicine man, "tell MISSIONER
that / have Just put up n e iron
gate at the entrance to my garden.
Let him paint that and then we'll be
quits"
And there the correspondence clos
ed.--New York Sun.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24

ago, dropped dead rom heart diseaie or
Main street at Rapid City. No relstiyes
here.
Rev. Frederick c. Schartz. an ex-mtinis
ter, living eight miles southwest OF Roscoe,
committed suicide. He made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to take the life of his
daughter. Family troubles were the
cause ofthe tragedy.
Geo. Hopkins, OF the state commission
on Russian relief met with the CONNER
cial Club Of WATERFOWL the other evening
and a committee was appointed to canvas
the county for contribution OF grain OF
money.
Mrs. Amy Gillig. who was reported
missing from Yanktop, has been found. Il
appears that she changed her mind about
returning to Yankton from New York, and
joined her mother at Milton, near Cam
bridge, Eng.
Mrs. Henry Thompson, a poor woman
living near Bakers Mill, three miles south
west of VermiiIion was found dead in her
room, having ended her woes with a re-
volyer bali. Her reasons are not known.
Some three or four weeks ago she attempted
suicide by taking a dose of paris green, but
was brought out OF that by a physician.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
England's Money Guarded.

The Bank of England's doors an
now so finely balanced that the clert|
by pressing a knob under his dess
cal close the outer doors Instantly
and they can not be opened again 81
cept by special process. This is don
to prevent the daring and ingeniou1
unemployed of the great metropoan
fromrobbing the famous institution
The bullion department OF this an1
other great English banking establisA|
ments are nightly submerged in seve
al feet OF water by the action OF u
machinery. In some OF the Londo9
banks the bullion departments an
connected with themanager's sleepinG'
rooms, and an entrance can not q
affected without setting off an alsral
near the persons head. Ii a ds'
honest official, during day or nlghl(
should take even as much as one fr0al
apile'of one thousand sovereigns IN
whole pile would instantly sink and
pool OF water take its place, BESIDE
letting every person in the establish
m entknow of the theft.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
AROUND Fl GLOBE.
A Record of the Weeks Happenings
That are Now Part Of the Worlds
History.
The More Important Foreign and
Domestic Events Arranged for
Rapid Reading.
WASHINGTON.

TIE postofice building bill passes the
senate.
The river and harbor bill will probably
appropriate $500, 600 for a deep water chan
mel between the great lakes,
A RuMoR &C mes from Valparaiso that
Mr.. Egan Will resign, but this is denied in
Washington.
The house committee on territories has
finished the consideration ofthe Arizona
statehood bill and has decided to report it
~iayorably to the house in amended form.
TEE revenue cutters Corwin, Bear, Rush
and Albatross, now at San Francisco. AVE
been ordered to police Behrins sea during
the coming season in conjunction with
United states men-ot-war.
SECRETARY ELKINs has issued a general
order for the establishment at FIT. Riley,
Kan, ola school of instruction for drill
and practice for cavalry and light artillery.
IT is said at the state department that the
Franco-American treaty, signed at Paris
by President Carnot is for a limited COM
mereial reciprocity. the details of which are
as yet unknown at the department, il hay-
ing been almost solely negotiated by Unit
ed States Minister Reid.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
LA Dor CIRCLE.

A ARG portion of the striking English
miners decide to resume work
The conductors and trainmen on the
Western division of the Canadian Pacific
begin their strike.
THE prospect is fairly good for a general
strike among the wage eo ners of Chicago
this spring. Meetings are being held night
ly. A big demonstration has already been
planned for May l. And each day sees ar
rive from the East a number OF agitators,
each with a plan for the uplifting of the
down-trodden working mau. The men are
much better organized than at the time OF
the strikers OF last year.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
MENTION.

Mrs. Nevins-B Blaine decides not to pub
lish her ex-husbands love letters.
PRO-. Steenberg, the eminent specialist in
meTital diseases, died in Copenhagen re-
Gently.
MAX SrRAKoscH, the famous musical
composer, died in New York recently of
paralysis.
Is the cathedral at Agram, Austria,
Bishop Gasparitzch was stricken with
Paralysis during the services. There is no
hope of his recovery.
Mrs. MARGARET E. DAYTON, widow ofthe
late William +. Dayton, who was on the
Republican presidential ticket OF Fremont
and Dayton, died at Trenton, n. y. at the
age of eighty-one years.
Nicholas Crouch, the author of "Kath-
leen Mavourneen'' and other popular and
famous songs, is dying at his home in Bal
tiInore. He is eighty-four years of age.
His mind occasionally wauders and he
huns the old songs.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Surveyor General Sullivan is charged
will selling contracts.
t. 0'Brien, general merchant of Mont
rose, has failed. His stock will probably
invoice $500; liabilities considerably
larger.
Owing to the premature explosion ofa
blast in the Coates tin mine at Hill City,
James Merlin, a miner, was instantly
killed and two Others were seriously
injured.
William Haskell, aged 90, who came TO
the Black Hills from Montana 10 years
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
AN INSTRUCTIVE FABLE.
The Joyous Tale of the Dervish
and the Walking Delegate.

The Joyous Tale of the Dervish
and the Walking Delegate.
A derxish iourneyed forth to teach
mankind the ~uselessness ofriches, says
Truth. He was scantily clothed in the
flthest OF rags; hishead was bare and
on his feet were fragments OF sandals.
About his neck hung a leather scrip
with a handful OF dates.
On the edge of the desert he met a
walking delegate who was on his way
to Mecca to order a strike among the
pilgrims-a non-union hadii having
been permitted to kiss theholy Kaaba.
Hello, cid duffer!" said the delegate.
"Where do you buy your garments?
you look like a locked-out tramp,
AZ am dressed" answered the der
wish, "as BELTS my vocation and in all
respects am equipped FOR any emerg-
ency. No blight OF fortune can cast
me down or impede my mission"
1907" replied the delegate; suppose
l were to confiscatethat bag of grub?"
81 have been Injured to hunger from
my youth up and seldom is the thought
of food uppermost in my mind. Be-
sides it is the fast ofRamadam and it
is not lawful to eat"
'The stones of the desert are sharp;
what if ! were to take away your
sandals?"
Behold" and the deverish uncov-
cred a foot and exhibited n sole as
tough and leathery as that of a
camel.
"But suppose l was to strip those
rags from your back.
Sun and simeon have scorched nv
back for seventy years and it matters
little whether it be covered or not.
And now" continued the deryish.
''shut your bread-winner and let me
talk. You think your equipment per-
iect, but you are not rugged for a long
distance race. A little accident by
the way will rattle you. See me prove
I'll" and grasping his staff, he executed
a flourish and with one swift, clean.
horizontal stroke he hit the delegates
plug hat in the middle and knocked
1T a shapeless thing upon the sand.
With a look of anguish the delegat..
picked upthe wreck, Thetop was gone,
the sides were caved in and the brim
was cut across and hung dangling
from the crown.
"There!' said the dervish, your
power is gone from you, for what is a
walking delegate without a plug hat?
Oh, Blsmillah! Oh, Marshallah! Oh.
rats! YAH" and, brandishing his staff,
hedrovethe delegateforth. And as the
burning Syrian sun rose higher in the
sky the vanishing forms passed over
the line OF the horizon, the delegate
ahead, with the dervish a good sec
ond about two jumps behind.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-24
sins AND

A FIfTEEN-YEAR-oLp colored girl is lynch
ed in Louisiana for poisoning nine persons.
An insane man at Tiffin, Ohio, shoots
three men but not fatally, and kills himself.
A MEXICAN mine manager is robbed of
$4,000 by bandits, who kill one of the
guards and wound another.
J. MEssIGLIA and his ten-year-old son
were murdered by unknown parties in
their store at Yazoo, Miss.
JAMES TAYLOR, a ranchman from Taylor.
Vile, Cal. was arrested in New York
charged with robbing his bride of $500 and
deserving her at Niagara Falls.
A New York burglar named Wilson was
shot and killed at Tampa, Fla, early one
morning by Officer Raine'. He had been
trying to break into several houses.
An extensive liquor dealer in Denver
fails and commits suicide, when it is found
that he had been guilty of forgery and
transportation OF funds.
BURNETT LEWIS, a Boston bookseller, has
been arrested on the charge Of selling OBJ
scene literature. Bocaccio's "Deca meron"
is the book he sold.
Ar Bryan, Ohio, an officer saw two
burglars entering a residence and fired at
them, fatally wounding one and seriously
wounding the other.
EDWARD HARpr, a Chicago jeweler has
been arrested in New York Tor smuggling.
He had jewelry concealed under a plaster
OH his back.
DR.. JAMES A. DURHAM. q Baptist mission.
AIRY, has been found guilty of heresy by a
council of ministers at Benton, ILL.,, be-
cause he is a convert to the doctrine of
specification, or 'tsinless perfection"
Epu.pD MEX pomS 1r,, rod. ,,oralo,t
of Toronto, who recently made an assign
ment for the benefit OF his creditors, has
been arrested on a charge Acknowledgement,
preferred by Montreal creditors, and taken
TO that city.
An Italian fisherman, S. Camilla, had q
quarrel with a fellow fisherman named
Cicerillo. who belonged TO the Malta.
Camilla shot Cicerillo, at their place on
Roe island. in Sacramento river, aud then
coolly towed the body down 10 the eoron-
or of Benieia, who paid him $ for the
body and took his deposition in regard to
finding it.
A who was shot on the Norfolk
express, near Wilmington. Del, during a
fight with a constable, died in Dover jail,
Without giving any further clue to his iden-
titu ex. ept to say his name was John Burns
anL. tn 1t he lived in Philadelphia. He had
!ul nerve, never moaned or uttered
a complaint, and absolutely re used to talk
10 the end. He had $50 in his pocket.
May KNOWLES, a handsome and bright
young actress, whose family is one OF the
oldest and wealthiest in Newburg, N. Y.
died under mysterious circumstances. She
was nineteen years old and very beautiful.
Official inquiry develops an ante-mortem
statement she made that medicine for an
Illicit purpose had been given her by medi-
cal students and q roommate.