Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-07-21

the Third district. He was a cousin
of John G. New. No cause assigned.
The people of Hunter county, Ala
bama, on the Tombigbee river, are
absolutely destitute on account of
floods. They have appealed to the
governor &c ask congress for relief.
He has issued a proclamation asking
the people Of the state TO contribute
for the purpose Of furnishing tenn
porary relief.
All western roads reaching the
wheat territory of the Dakotas and
Minnesota, with terminals at Mime
apolis, St. Paul, Winona and La Crosse,
have agreed to make a one way ate OF
So per head for parties of five or more
from those cities to all points in the
territory named. The rate will take
effect Aug. /.
NJ. A. Collins of Chicago, who
became somewhat prominent at the
time of the anarchist trials by his
efforts to save Spies, Parsons and
other leaders from punishment, has
committed suicide. He left a note
asking that a complete examination
Of his brain be made. He was
probably demented.
The employees in the upper and
lower Carnegie Union mills, in
Pittsburg quit work last week, and
| the gas was turned off in the fur
naces. The men struck because the
company refused to confer again with
the Homestead men. 1t is the most
remarkable iron strike on record, the
firm having signed the Amalgamated
scale for the ensuing year.
The Hop Bitters Manufacturing
company of New York has been dis
solved. Asa T. Soule made his fortune
out of the medicine, drawing a salary
as president of $4,000 a year. The
assets were not more than $1,000, and
the liabilities about $4,000. The
company has not for the last five years
sold more than $1,000 worth of the
medicine per year, which was not
enough to pay its officers.
The last session of the Oklahoma
territorial legislature made nc
provision for the holding of any
elections next fall. This can be
remedied by IN act of congress, and
Gov. Seay has gone TO Washington to
attempt to get a bill through. If he
is not successful a special session OF
the legislature will be necessary, and
that body might again decline to
enact the necessary legislation. The
people of the territory are greatly
exercised Over the situation.
The real coach of an excursion train
on the Louisville, Evansville & st,
Louis line was wrecked near Evans.
vile, Ind, with fatal results. The
accident was the result of carelessness
on the part of an employe of the
transfer company, who threw a switch
too soon and caused the real trucks
on the last coach to jump the track,
The car ran on the ties for % feet and
then rolled down the embankment
into a ditch, completely overturning,
A half dozen persons were fatally and
seriously injured.
George William Curtis, the dis.
tinguished editorof Harper's Weekly,
and chancellor of the board of regents
of the University of the State of New
York, has been very i'll for several
weeks at his home on Staten Island
with a disease that puzzled his
physicians to define. Last week a
consultation was held and it was
then decided that Mr.. Curtis was
suffering from cancer of the stomach
and that a favorable termination OF
the Ease could not be looked for,
a. though there was no instant
danger. Mr.. Curtis may live a
month or more.