Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13

A monument to the memory Of
Mathew Thornton, one OF the signers
Of the declaration OF independence.
was dedicated at Merrimac, N. H.
last Friday.
At Rome, Co., Lord Walter s.
Berosford, alias Sidney Lascelles, the
noted English forgar, was sentenced
to six years hard labor in the
p~enitentiary.
Edward S. Damn, the Buffalo, N. y.
bank wrecker, suicided the day
before he was to have been tried.
His d~efalcation amounted to half a
million dollars.
A. S. Lett, assistant cashier in the
freight office of the Pennsylvania
railroad In Jersey city, N. j., is a
defaulter to the amount of over $780,
COO and has disappeared.
Culbertson, and Wenton, rival
Nebraska ~aspirants for county seat
honors, are INDUCING In wal this
week. And the state militia has
been called out to prevent bloodlett-
ing.
Millionaire John Cudhy and his as
sociate Austin w. Wright appeared
in court at Chicago Tuesday TO ans
wer the charge of conspiracy in corn
ering the short ribs market. The
complainant was not in court and the
case went over.
The 1000 colored people Of West
chester, Pa, are in a ferment of
excitement and fear I've the
phophecies Of Andrew Jones, a negro
preacher who has been exhorting in
the Baptist church. His pr, d ,ctions
call for a big cyclone.
At Coldwater, Mich, Nora Standish
was thrown from a buggy and fell On
her head, ~dislocating her neck. Two
men pulled her head as hard as they
could. The bones sprang into place
with a snap. Sue soon recovered
consciousness and will live.
William NJ. Runk, of the extensive
dry goods firm of Darlington, Runk
& Co., of Philadelphia, committed
suiside Friday. The cause was the
using of $50, 900 Of the firms money in
stock speculation. He was promi-
nentia Sunday school work.
The body Of {. G. Miller, mayor of
South Omaha, was found in the east
bottoms Wednesday with a bullet
hole in his head. Friends scout the
theory Of suicide and there is arumor
that some of the gamblers in the
magic city" are responsible for his
murder.
A passenger train on the Northern
Pacific railroad collided with a
freight train at Northtown Junction,
near st. Paul Wednesday. Fireman
Hubbell was killed ard seven passen-
gers and the conductor, mostly St.
Paul and Minneapolis people, were
injured.
At Birmingham, Ala, George jack
son and William Florence, room
mates, fell out over the division of
their effects. Florence shot Jackson,
who fell MORALLY wounded, but with
life enough TO draw a pistol and
shoot his assailant. Florence will
also die.
DR.. Douglas, the famous throat
specialist, who abandoned his prac-
tice and devoted his whole time to
General Grant for six months during
the great generals last illness, died
at Washington last week from the
same disease which carried off the ex-
President.
Mrs. James Pike, who lives across
the river from Gallipolis, Ohio,
became incensed at a remark made
by her neighbor, Charles Bippers, and
taking a shot gun, went to his house
and killed his two children, who
were playing in the front yard. She
has been arrested.
In a prize fight at Coyington, Neb.,
early Sunday morning, George Roway
OF Mankato, Mimi, was knocked out
by Jack Keefe of Sioux City. Roway
died hall an hour afterwards from
injuries received in the fight. The
coroner found traces of organic heart
disease. Keefe, the referee and sec
onds are under arrest.
Geo. w. Wilson, chairman of the
Florida dem cratic central com
mittee, has reports from Tuesdays
election in that state that give
Mitchell a majority of 26.0O0 over
Barker, (People'sl. In 1888 Fleming's
majority was 40, 900, and in 1890 the
democratic majority was 26, 900. The
election will prove a great disappoint-
ment to the third party leaders in
this section, as they had anticipated
a large vote from republicans, white
and colored.
Maj. Joseph Magone walked into
Chicago Wednesday on the Rock
Island tracks, completing a walk of
2, 100 miles from John Day, Grant
county, Oregon. Maj. Magone under
took his long tramp July 4 last, and
with the exception of swimming a
river in Oregon on a mules back, has
walked every step of the way to
Chicago to attend the ~dedlcatory
exercises of the Worlds Columbian
Exposition. Maj. Magone is eighty
two years Of age, with snow-white
hair and beard, but with a robust
constitution as his feat bears witness.
The court Of appeals of the second
division OF New York, has handed
down a decision in the noted ease of