Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
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washington, Political, Foreign,
and General Domestic,
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GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS.

NAe1AL 4 NEWS.
Nancy Hanks, the famous queen of
the turf, lowered the record TO 2:O4 on
a regulation track at Terre Haute.
The jury in the case of Burton c.
Webster, charged with numbering
Broker Charles Goodwin, brought in
a verdict of manslaughter in the first
degree. Webster was remanded for
sentence.
Mrs. Gilmore, in a graceful letter
TO the Herald, has declined the
monument the Herald suggested
raising by popular subscription to
the memory of her husband, the late
~bandmaster. While acknowledging
her gratitude, Mrs. G. says her request
is in accordance with the wishes of
the dead.
Yale college has entered upon the
193d year of its existence. In many
things the university has made the
most remarkable progress the past
year of any since its foundation.
Over half a million dollars have been
expendediE the erection of new build.
ings for the different departments of
the college during the past twelve
months.
An agitation has again be COM
menced at Sing Sing, n. Y, in favor
OF changing the name OF the place on
account of the general association
with the state prison. Theargument
is raised 10 that the name Sing Sing
is a great detriment TO the growth
and prosperity of the place, and that
If the village were rechristened the
influence of the prison in making it
unpesirable as a residence place
would be neutralized to a great de-
gree.
Frank Sweeney, grand chief of the
Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association,
was defeated for reelection. John
G.. Wilson, of La Crosse, Wis, who
served ON the executive board the
past year, was elected in his stead af-
ter an exciting contest. The knock
out OF Sweeney, who conducted the
Buffalo strike, was in the nature of a
surprise to that gentleman and his
friends. Evansville, Ind, was Sc
lected as the place for the next an
nual meeting.
During the nine months from Jan.
l to Sept. 30 there have been 2,5le
miles of main track laid on 200
different lines in the United States,
while a large amount of grading has
been done on which the rails are yet
TO so down. There n IN sight over
1,500 miles OF road on which track is
expected to be laid before the end of
the year, so that the estimate made
that the track laying OF 1892 will
aggregate not far from 1000 miles
will probably be correct.
One man, a miner named Abraham
Thompson, a rescued alive from
the Inflated Norrie mine at Iron
wood, Mich. He is uninjured, but
was so fearfully scared by his thirty
hours imprisonment 500 feet below
the surface under millions of tons of
rock that he can hardly speak. He
was in a ''roomn by himself and does
rot know where the other ten men
1t is feared that they were in
he room" adjoining and that all
,erished miserably, carried down TO
by the enormous fall of
ock and ore. Ii SO even their bodies
will never be found.
While threshing on the farm OF
Adolph Block, at Fairhasen, near
st. Cloud, Mimi, an explosion
occurred which completely demol-
lshed the machine. One of the sheafs
a dynamite cartridge, and
when it struck the cylinder il
exploded with terrific force, breaking
the separator into splinters. The
cylinder was lifted from its place and
thrown a distance of twenty feet.
Fortunately the entire threshing
escaped injury except Christian
Block, who was hit by a flying tooth
from the cylinder $50 feet distance.
1t is a mystery who placed the
destructive cartridge in the sheaf.