Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-01

asst week for one dollar and a half
,he cheapest travelling eve known.
The largest contract for stationary
engines In the world has been
awarded to a Milwaukee company. 1t
calls for fourteen engines, with a
capacity of 10000 horse power.
The Oleo tribe of Indians located
In the Indian territory near Okla
homa, are said to be dancing the
Me ssiah dance, and several smaller
tribes will join them.
Giddy girls In the east are wearing
diamond buckles on their suspenders.
Single nail buttons are good enough
however, for ordinary men who wear
galluses for use and not for ornament.
This seems to be the prize fight sea-
son, no less than four great ring
events now being arranged for by the
pugilists. The Sullivan-C orbett
match OF course takes most of the
attention.
Roanoke, Va, was visited by a
cloudburst which did great damage.
Stores were flooded in the business
portions of the city, which is IN low
land, the damage being estimated at
q, 200, 900.
Extensive forest fires are raging in
the South mountains, ten miles west
of Carlisle, Penn. Large tracts OF
valuable timber land have been
burned over, and the fires are not yet
under control.
The City Of New York breaks al
east-bound ocean records by making
the trip to Queenstown in five days
ninteen hours, flfty-seven minutes
This beats the previous best recorC
made by the anne vessel some thre,
hours. The average speed wa
twenty knots per hour.
George Talcott, coachman for Mayo
Stephen Buhrer, OF Cleveland, Ohio
was shot and killed last week b
Edward Hutchinson, whom he wa
trying TO eject from the house 70
prosecuting a servant girl. Hutchin
son then attempted suicide, infiictin
a probably fatal wound.
George w. Argo of Sioux City an
) w. w. Erwin of st. Paul, the tw
foremost criminal lawyers of III
northwest, left for Pittsburg las
week to defend the Homestea
strikers. Their expenses are paid b
Minnesota labor u%uions, who thin
the strikers are oppressed.
The National Mail Carriers CONVEX
tion was in session at lndianapol
| last week. One Of the most impor
ant questions to be considered is ii
ACCESSIBILITY of instituting in q
: insurance feature of the associate
a graded assessment for the levy RAJ
which now prevails. The carrie
will also urge another grade
$1,000.
4 While a number of workmen we.
getting timber on the Kaw India
n reservation near Guthrie, Oklahom
h they unearthed the bones of son
S mammoth animal. A tusk was fouI
that was five feet in length and Il
largest end was over three feet in Ct
conference. The bone from the KIN
to the hip joint was owe five feet
n length and i'm the center was % inch
q in circumference. Across Il
n launches the bones we're over fl
feet in length. The skeleton W
A probably be exhumed and exhibit
: at the Worlds Fair.
IS John Howard and wife of Seattl
WASH, walked the entire distan
IS between their home and Chicas
Ir between March 10th and Aug. %
for a wager of 5000. Howard push
10 a wheelbarrow in which there "
Ie a change of cloting and a rubber tel
NJ Every foot of the distance "
ST travelled on foot and nc stop made
a hotel or other public house. NJ
is Howard dressed in male att
a and both came through in excellC
ne health. The route was along
Union Pacific and Northwest
or railway.
A special from Jefferson Ci
4, Tenn, says that the day set for
We execution of Talton Hall, the no.
ms Virginia murderer, who is repor
TO have killed ninety-nine men,
next Friday, between the hours
ten and two O'Clock, at Wise Co
House, Va. The sheriff has &C
menced the erection of the scaffC
and the death watch has been
ed over Hall. His friends are now
GER lecting on the mountains with W
chesters, and swear he shall not
.od hanged and that they will rele
him if all are killed in so doing.