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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19
IOWA.

A peculiar disease has broken out among
the horses at Mt. Auburn and quite a num-
Der have died. The state veterinarian will
be called upon.
Suit has been brought in the federal court
OF Cedar Rapids Gas Light company by the
National Gas Light and Fuel Company Of
Chicago for damages in the sum of SO, 600
FOR alleged Infringement of the Springer
patent.
Father Cooney now lies seriously sick at
his home in Usage. By mistake he took
several ounces OF caTbolic acid. For hours
he was unconscious and it was necessary TO
use a stomach pump 10 emo the poison.
He will recover.
Five of Iowa university professors nave
been called TO Leland Stanford aud other
universities during the past year. To find
successors has Kept the state regents busy.
Thus far only one has been secured. Ed
ward Everett Hale, of Harvard, for The
chair OF English.
r. Krefing's drug store at Sioux City
was closed by attachments by Sioux City
creditors amounting to $500. Kreitings
had borrowed about IL 900 on his note just
before leaving for Europe, and raised other
sums. There are many creditors yet to
hear from.
James Hctherington, a Dubuque wagon
maker, employed at Spencer, Iowa, took
the keeley cure, and alter abstaining for
some months resumed drinking. He is
nov a wild man, and the physicians think
he will not recover.
John A. Kemp was arrested at Carroll,
Iowa, by Detective ID. G. McNaughton, Of
Seattle, Wash, where Kemp is wanted on
a charge of embezzling between s., 900 and
$500 from the Firemen's Insurance Com
pany. Kemp disappeared a year ago when
an information was filed against him.
What would seem to be a genuine stradi-
varius violin has been discovered in Fl.
Dodge it was purchased by Benson & Ray
ne, music dealers. from an uneducated
foreigner, who brought it from Germany.
The violin bears the inscription Strand.
~varius, 1721." An offer of 5000 for the
violin has been refused.
Joseph Higbee, a we'll to do farmer. liv-
ing near Marion, m~ysteriously disappeared
from his home OIL the morning OF April &c,
and ali endeavors TO find any trace of him
since have proved unavailing' He is s.
years old and there was no reason for his
suiciding and his relations have come to
the conclusion he has been foulIy dealt
with.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

tOTlHflS>lDtltI NihHit MdtfttA tAabihffhAANh
and gave $500 bail for his appearances at
the next term Of The United States court.
All arrangements are now completed,
contract signed. and money raised for an
artificial rain trial TO be given by the Inter
state Rain company OF 6oodland. Kan, at
Doland, May 20. Special trains will be run
for accommodation ofthe public who de.
sire to witness the tests. Reduced rates
will be made.
Charges have been preferred by h Farm
ers Alliance against Stake Land COMMITS
sioner Ruth. Crooked transactions in he
sale ofschool land is alleged and the coun-
~ commissioner have been petitioned to
begin a legal action to restrain aim from
selling any more land pending an inyesti-
CATION.
President KingSbury, ofthe state board
of control, says that il the money Is not on
deposit before June II there will be no
tournament at WatertOwn. In that event
Tankton is ready to put up the money,
and the Yankton fire department announ-
ces that it will give $500 in prizes il Water
town fails to perform her obligation that
the state tournament will be held at Gank-
ton in July.
A Mitchell advice says: Farmers in this
section complain of the scarcity OF farm
help. Higher wages now being paid than
ever before on account of the big demand
for farm hands, a result ofthe big acreage
being put in and the evident anxiety to get
in grain in a hurry, which has been delay
en- on account Of the great amount Of rain
fall. Twenty-Five dollars "A month and
board is now being offered where last year
SIS a month and board was hard to obtain.
The Baptist people ofSouth Dakota will
hold a series of meetings during, May,
June and July, conducted by Rev. 5. h.
Mitchell, a well known evangelist of Bos-
ton, Mr.. Mitchell comes to the state under
the direction of the American Baptist
Home Missionary society, and will spend
but ten days in any one place. The towns
in which the meetings will be ED will he
the larger ones and those most convenient
ly reached by railroads. Wonderful results
are anticipated from these evangelistic
meetings.
1t is reliably reported that a strike OF Il
large body of 81 gold ore has been made
on the COO foot level Of the CALEDONIA and
the 40O-loot level ofthe Monitor mines,
where prospecting has been done with a
diamond drill, thus proving the ore body
of great extent. Explorations with the
diamond drill also show that the ore
body crosses DeadW cod and Sawpit gulches
and extends to the Minerva mine, recently
purchased by the Homestake Mining com
pany. Facts concerning the strife have
lust been made public and are creating o
a good deal of excitement.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

REDDING, Cal, May l6.-ORe OF the rob-
bers who held mp the Redding Il Weaver
hill stage last night was captured at 4
o'clock this afternoon 400 yards from the
scene of the robbery. He was found
lying in a ditch almost exhausted
and was brought here by a deputy sheriff
and posse this evening. He gives the
name OF Arizona Charley" and says there
were three in the gang, and that his COM
panions ribbed him and ran off leaving him
to die. He says ;heIr names are Arizona
Phil' and Arizona Jim" He is shot IN
five PAGES all the way from the KNEE TO the
eve.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19
~ISoNcoIts

tive board of the knights OF Labor is still
in session here and will not finish the
work on hand before the middle of next
week. Boyco:ts nave been placed upon the
Pabst Brewing company OF Milwaukee and
WLiteIey Reaper company of Springfield,
Ohio. The members of the knights OF
Labor will be requested to use their intlu-
ence in favor Of TIE Busch Brew
ing company OF St. Louis and the eXecu-
tive commiue, OF the Farmers Alliance
will be asked to unite with the knights
CT Labor in ths boycott against
the Whitley concern. An cEterpTising man
in Missouri wanted the beard to allow him
TO organ Ze an assembly OF Chinese. 1t de
ciIcd that the Chine.e should be excluded
and 50 notified him. In the whole organ
izat,on ut The II. o! l.. there is not one
CliLlInun.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19
The Clerks Mistake.

Travers-I had a provoking thing
happen the other day. ! opened an
accoun with a furnishing store, and
then they had the nerve to send me
some stuff c. o. d.
Dashaway-How did that happenf
They must have made q mistake,
didn't they?
Trayers-Yes, sadly. The proprie
tor was out when opened the &C,
count.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

AT Mount Holly, Pa, a young man
died Of scarlet fever and his body was
placed on view for the melancholy
pleasure of numerous friends OF the
deceased. The numerous friends
aforesaid have. mostly got the same
disease themselves, and the coun-
try for miles around has an OBJ
iect lesson in sanitary science that it
will not forget very soon.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

CHICAGO. Special-A relay bicycle r,le
from Chicago to New York by means of
which a government mess ge signed by
Gen. Miles will be conveyed from army
headquarters at Chicago to Gen. Howard at
New York will be started next Wednesday
regardless OF weather. The prospect is that
the one hundred or more men who will
carry the pouch containing the messag
will have many long stretches OF extreme
ly muddy road to contend with during the
thousend-mile ride, but this will add large
ly 10 the merit Of the performance, as one
OF the chief purposes is it possible 10 make
a record which will ar surpass the posi-
bilities of horsemanship in actual military
dispatch work.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19
THE WICKED WORLD.

At Butter, Miss, George II, Ross, colored,
Tor an attempted assault on n white wom'
an, was hanged to a tree.
Henry DARRow, a farmer, was arrested
at Garfield, Wash, for incest with his 10
year-old daughter.
Ten thousand foreign Jews in Odessa
have been ordered to leave Russia forth
with.
The Bearing sea patrol leaves Victoria
about June |, with orders to seize all YES
sels found sealing whether they had been
notified or not.
neapolis, Catherine Johnson, who sued
Mrs. Harris for $500 for defamation CT char
actef. is given q verdict OF one cent.
Ar Syracuse, \. Y, J. Crouch killed Jack
Preston and then committed suicide. IL was
the result OF a drunken quarrel.
: A Ewof the late President Gar
field dies in Ohio. He was once convicted,
on o charge OF perjured testimony, of kill
ing a man and served several years in the
penitentiary.
TnE Jury in the case oil Mrs, Frank Les
lie. at Wheeling. Va, who weeks ago fol-
lowed her husband 10 a house of ill-fame
and shot him dead, brought in a verdict Of
not guilty.
Ar Baltimore Capt. Kuhn. Of the steamer
Gothic. was fined 500 for allowing an alien
paupcr who, with several Others, had been
ordered 10 be returned TO their native coun-
,ry b. The Immigration commissioners, to
escape from his vessel.
Al Salt Lake City, Utah, while Mrs.
Enzenberger and a friend, the wife OF o
wealthy wool grower, were sitting in their
room three masked men entered the apart
ment with reyolvers in hand and robbed
them Of 81. Oo0 in jcwelry and S15.
AT Altoona. Pa, ariot was started among
the Italians. aud for half an hour a general
fight resulted, clubs being freely used. Joe
l'artre went into the crowd 10 qnelI the
disturbance when he Was instantly killed
by a brick which broke his neck.
WIEN the section hands at Lyons, Tex,
returned from work they found Mrs. b.
Mcdonald, wife OF the boss, and her sew.
en-year-oid son. wel.ering in their blood
dead. Tie woman had been ravished and
then beaten 10 death and the boy also kill
ed 10 conceal the indemnity ofthe criminal.
Two men. Frank Connors, white, flagman
and Frazer Davis. q negro, recently dis
charged by McDonough, are under arrest.
The negro may be lynehed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19
HOUSE.

The sundry civil bill created quite a stir
in the house in committee Of The whole.
1t has been explained that thc approPri-
alton carried by the bill j. $4,000. 90 less
than that carried by the existing law.
dali. of Kentucky, was appointed u a
member Ofthe banking and currency and
claims cOmmitteS. Adjourned.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

''~
We offer One Hundred Dollars r,w.rf for an,
case OF Catarrh that cannot h. care by H=IIs
Cntarrh Cure.
FL, CHENEY & co, Tole,lo. q
We. the nude esfgB"d, hn We kROwn =. J. Cheney
Tor the lsst IL years, and belify- him plrfrt y
honorable in all business transactions .nd nnan-
",a4iy able TO carry ont any obIiga ions made hy
their hFyn.
VEST \ FRrAN, Wholesale Nraggfsts. Toe edo q.
hALbINs, kINNAN n MARVIN. WholCs .ta Iirag-
gists, Toledo, @
hats 'atarrh Cure is taken iHteraaur. a,tiRg
Directly upon the blood anl mR.CI.S surfaces *
Fhe .Sstem- Te'tim eniais saHt frop. prce zoe.
per bottle. Sold by n!l Druggist.
HE London court OF appeals iias con-
hrmeu the compromise a~rrGileemen: ar
rived AZ bctween Mrs ParRval. the widow
g [. ;. Parnell. aS sole hair ut her aunt.
the late Ann Maria Mood and Charles
Page Wood and Gen, Sir llcmry Evelyn
Wood.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19
e

The Boring sea arbitration agreement is
formally ratified in London.
TBE sultan of Turkey is seriously
i'll.
KING HuMBEET has accepted the resig-
nation OF Count Tayerna, the Italian ann
bassador TO Berlin.
The Melbourne trades council has resoiy.
cd to appeal TO the queen TO vote the
Queensland bill Introducing kanaka labor
The prince OF Wales is said TO be suffer
ing from a throat aiiment, but the exact
ailment i, not known.
In Quebec, tie MeIcis: ceasp:facy pass
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

In the hose, Mr.. Holman l%ndlana)
moved to recommit the river aud ilarbor
bill, with instructions to The committee to
report it back with an amendment striking
out the contract provisions. Mr.. OutiI-
waite (Ohio) moved to AMEND the insiruc-
tions by requiring the committee to strike
ont all appropriations which are iOr new
works or Tor HE further extension OF works
now under construction, 50 the bills shall
include only approx riatiou3 FOR the contiuu-
uance or completion OF works now in pro-
Ere,s.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

JAY GoULD is reported as i'll again.
II he is to give 500. 900 to his favor
ite form of othodcxy every time he
gets somewhat "off his feed" we antic-
ipate, in view OF his advancing years
that Presbyterian churches will be
TOO numerous to talk about before
long. But Jay was only making a
bluff at the devil, likely enough, when
he gladdened the hearts OF the elders
the first time.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19
Arrived ut Rira.

RIGA, Russia, Specialize American
steamer Conemaugh, loaded with -four and
grain and provisions from PHILADELPHIA
Tor the benefit Of the starving Russian peas
ants, arrived in the Riga roadstead at mid
night last night and the work of dischar,-
ing the vessel is now in progress. This
the municipal authorities and
the chief residents of Riga extended most
hearty greetings to those on board the Con-
emaugh. The car yesterday signed a
and corn. vas
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

WASHINGTON, Special. May 1.-THE house
is in a very great tangle. The Democrats
are trying to force the passage OF the
silver bill or prevent any more pensions
being passed by doing away with Friday
evening sessions, which are devoted to the
consideration OF pension bills. The Farm
ers' Alliance members are yOciferating in
the corridors that there will be no more
unanimous consent allowed for the passage
OF bills until the subtreasurv bill is report
ed from the committee on ways and means.
The temper ofthe house is getting decided
iy ugly, and it is possible tina there will be
some very disagreeable scenes in the next
few weeks. N
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

ROBERT FoRD, the slayer of Jesse
James, has been firmly but kindly APP
rrised by the ~populace OF the new
mining camp of Creole, Colo, that he
IS persona non crata. Robert shrewd-
ly construed this to mean that they
would lynch him anon and departed.
The days of the truly bid man in the
far West are mostly days that we're.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

REV. HOWARD MACQUEARy is again
in trouble with his religious associ-
ates. On leaving the Episcopalians
he took charge OF a Universalist
church Mt Saginaw, Mich, and now the
Uniyersalist papers are hauling him
over the Goals for being too heterodox
for usefulness in the pulpit of that de
nomination.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

THERE is now considerable doubt,
owing to important political ques-
tions at home, whether the King OF
Greece will attend the celebration of
the golden wedding of the King and
Queen OF Denmark next month. The
Crown PrincelotA9reeee will represent
his father in case OF his absence.
Queen Olga intends to visit the En-
press of Russia before going to Copen.
hagen. The Cr3xnfrncess Sophia will
spend a part of the coming summer at
a German bathing place for the bene
fit OF her health
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

In is rumored that Bismarck and
the kaiser are 70 become reconciled.
This might have happened long ago
had it not been contrary 10 German
stiquette for Bismarck to spank his
august master.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

OTTAWA, Ill, Special-Justus Moss, a
moulder employed at the Adams factories
at Marseilles, disappeared to-day after per
petrating a fearful double crime. NJ oss
went home drunk, and upon his Wife re-
monstrating with him tor ms condition,
gave her an almost merciless teating with.
his fists and theu jumped upon her with
his boot heels. The woman, who was i'm a
delicate condition, was taken Violently i'll
and gave birth TO a premature Child, which
died, and the mother, after terrible s.1iTe-.
ings, oon followed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19
POLITICAL ECHOES.

A BLAINE-RUsK ticket is suggested by the
anti Harrison element.
Louisiana's warning Democratic factions
re-unite on a compromise.
Gov. BOISE is doomed for the presidential
nomination by the Iowa Democratic state
convention.
Much difficulty is encountered in raising
the funds necessary for the Peoples party
convention at Omaha.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

Returns from the scene OF the recent
disturbancesff China are coming in
slowly. One OF the prime disturbers
OF the peace and dignity oftbe country
has been gradually sliced to death
with a drll knife by order OF the inn
perial Authorities, an6 a few other
prominent citizens of the region are
to be skinned alive and then dressed
with hot aqua fortis and table salt,
as a reminder that the government
disapproves their course.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

BJoRNsoN, the Norwegian poet and
politician has renowned a pension
which he received from his government.
He declined TO accept the gift any
longer unless KielIand, abrotherpoet.
became the object of a like honor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

WArERrowN, :. D., May l6-The murder
trial of Dr. 5. V. Groesbeck Tor shooting
John Schuman last winter was brought TO 4
short stop to-day by a juror stating to the
cOur thar his conscience would not per-
nit him to sit longer As a Juror in the case,
as he was a friend OF the defendant, and
had already expressed a wish or his ac-
%quittal. The jury was discharged. Groes-
beck gives s.. 0O bonds, and the case will be
tried IN JulN.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

Here is a bit o. dialogue from the
New York Press. The moral OF it is
not expressed, but perhaps the
reader will be able to find it.
What is Mamie doing?"
"She is a saleslady."
Does she earn much?"
Hardly enough to keep soul and
body together, but her sister helps her
a little.
what does her sister do"
"Sne's a servant-girl."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

NEw YORK papers are a deal an
noyed by the remarks of Rudyard
Kipiing about that queer town. For
a long time the people OF the United
ctates have not cared much about
what was done in New York, being
much disguised with what failed OF
getting done. The sensitiveness of
New York is so far beneath the rhl-
noceros hide of the place that all its
s%quirming never results in amendment
of its evil ways.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

San BERNARDO. Cal, May IG.-The ma
tional editorial excursion has entered the
glorious CLIMATE OF Cali ornia at Barstow.
The party being met by :. Il. Haynes,
general passenger agent of the
Southern "a oruia railroad OF the
Santa Fe system, and the executive com.
mittee OF the southern Cali ornia associa.
ton. The delegation was increased by a
party from the South. The trip across the
continent has been one of pleasure.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19
Invested in Timber Lands.

S.UgT STE. MARIE. Mich. SpeciaI,-A
deal was closed here to-day by which
Frank Perry of this city. Lewis Hall of Bay
Mills and ]. Norton of Lockport, ILL.,, COM
posing the Perry Lumber company, bought
1872 square miles of Canadian Indian res
e~ryation tributary to the Goulais and
Batchawanna rivers. about forty miles
above here. The deal will reach into the
millions and will result in pine, spruce and
cedar operations of immense proportions.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

NEW YORK, Specialize transpires that
been since 1887, to Jennie Champion,
daughter of the late G. W. Garmany Of Sa.
vannah, Ga. The young man, whose mar.
rage is only just published, nearly five
years after date, is a son Of the only Ward
McAllister, the Inventor Of the four hun
dred, and the man who boiled them down
to one hundred and fifty.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

MILWAUKEE, Special-Sandelin Harter,
fireman at Pabst's brewery, shot himself
yesterday because ofdomestio trouble, To.
day his " e killed herself by taking poison.
five children, two OF them deaf muies, are
!e.t to struggle with the world by the double
tragedy.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19
MoSDAY, MAY 9.
SENATE.

After the routine morning business in the
senate today. Mr. Frye, from the commit
tee ON commerce, reported back the house
bill to encourage American ship building;
He said that the report was unanimous and
that he had been Instructed TO move It's
present consideration. lie made that mo-
non and it was agreed TO.
Afcr some discussion he bill was passed,
yeas, 81; nays, 10.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

ST. LOTS, May l6.-Late last night two
men, wearing masks and rubber coats,
boarded the outgoing Frisco train at Chelt-
enham and tried TO rob it, but not succeed
ing, fled. They got or the from end of q
sleeping car aud attempted to get inside,
ordering a passen ,eT TO throw up his hands.
He responded by drawing a revolver, and
several shots were exchanged. One robber
is supposed to be hi. in the leg.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19
VAST damages are, wrought by floods in
Iowa and Illinois.
The Only One Ever Printed.

CAN o FIND THE WORD? There is a 3
inch display advertisement in this paper.
this week, which has no two words alike
except n word The same is true of each
new n appearing each week. from The
Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house
places 8 Crescent on everything they
make and publish. Look Tor il. send them
The name Of the word and they will return
you BooK. BEAUTIFUL L~lrHoGI.PHs or SAM
Pills FREE.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

FRANCS c. SESSION, who died in
Columbus, Ohio, n few weeks ago, has
left his estate, valued at more than
81, O0O, 600, to his wife for her life.
Hall a million is then to be used TO
establish an academy OF ATT in colum.
tj;,s.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-05-19

A BATTERED old hack that trans
sports passengers from the depot to
the hotels in Jackson, Mass, with a
colored Jehu at the reins, was once
the family carriage OF Commodore
Vanderbilt.