Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-18

There is to be considerable work
done on government buildings in the
Northwest during the present season
il the department can eyerget around
TO the letting of contracts and have
the construction once placed under
way. Besides the St. Paul building
there are buildings at Sioux Falls, S.
D.. Mankato, Mimi, and Fargo, n. ID.
While Charles Hadlock was thresh-
ing wheat near Ogden, Utah, a sheaf
in which a dynamite cartridge had
been concealed was fed into the sep
arator. The result was an explosion
which tore the machine to pieces and
threw the threshers in all directions.
Two of them were fatally injured.
There is no clew TO the perpetrators
of the outrage.
Nearly 600 Shoemakers employed
| by the firm of j. Wickert, Williams
burg, n. j. are either locked out or
have struck. The cause of the trouble
is that $50 turner's of the shop have
been dissatisfied with their pay
alleging that they were only paid
eight or nine per cent. of the value of
| the goods, while in New York twenty
or thirty per cent. Of the value is
paid.
Recently, on the Marietta and
North Georgia railroad, a train ran
over and killed a cow near Thompson,
Tenn. A day OF two afterward, when
the train passed through, an officer
arrested the engineer and took him
before a justice of the peace, where
he was tried for cruelty to animals.
The passenger train was held for four
hours, during which time the mails
and passengers we're delayed.
Thesituation at Homestead remains
about the same as last week. The
company claim to be running with
full crews of men. The strikers claim
that there are about as many deser-
tions from the company as there are
accessions totheir ranks, and that the
product of the mills made by
unskilled laborcrs is not fit for use.
The chief cook and seventy assistants
left the compay's service last Thurs
day.
A representative of the Groveland
Artificial Rain Company experts per-
formed at Council Grove, Kansas
four days last week. He was TO
receive 800 cash if he produced an
inch of rain over an area of twenty
miles square. lie gave up the job in
despair and departed. Experiments
in that county have thoroughly
exploded the rain making delusion.
1t is very dry and hot and rain
is badly needed for corn.
Senator William B. Allison of Iowa,
Senator John p. Jones of Nevada,
Congressman j. b. McCreary of Ken
lucky, ex-Controller Henry w. Can
non of New York and Gen. Francis
a. Walker of Massachusetts have
been appointed 10y the president as
the five financiers who will represent
the United States in the international
monetary conference, which will
meet in one of the capital cities of
the old world-probably Berlin or
Brussells-semetime in October next.
Letters have been sent by the post
Office department to about 2SO post
masters at county seats asking them
to repeat this year, some time
between August first and December
fifteen, the visits of inspection made
by them last year to the smaller post
offices in their respective counties.
The experiment last year is said to
have worked well in bringing the
pOstmasters at small places into
relations with postmasters of larger
experience, and thereby improving
the postal service.
At the preliminary examination of
Frederick jacobson at Tracy, Minn,,
accused of the murder of Carl Magmus-
son, before Justices Landrua and Smart,
it was decided that the prisoner was
guilty of murder in the first degree
and that he be confined i'm the county
Jail without bail until the sitting OF
the grand jury. jacobson pleaded not
guilty and appeared to be quite at
ease during the trial. Testimony
against the accused was very strong.
Three witnesses swore that the muir
dered man accused Jacobson of the
stabbing when on his death bed.
AUhorrible double child murder is
reported at Eagle Lake, MINI. Mrs.
Martha Kester fed milk poisoned
with rough-on-rats to a month old
baby and the child died. Later Mrs.
Kester took the other child aged two
years, and after making an unsuccess-
full attempt to drown him in a barrel
of water, carried him a mile and a
half to a well and tossed him in,
drowning him. Mrs. Kester, who
declared that she was glad she killed
them, tried to drown herself, but was
placed under ARREST and is closely
watched in Jail to prevent suicide.
A party of thirty bowling dervishes
en- route to Chicago, INDUCED i'm some
of thier peculiar religious rites at
Madison square garden in New York
one day last week. The spectacle was
a shocking one, and those who came
to be amused went away disguised.
The dervishes abused themselves
with sharp pointed instruments,
swung their bodies violently until
they dropped from exhaustion, ate
glass and tortured a big snake for
several minutes, when they proceeded
to eat it. The whirling dervishes
were less horrible. They swung
about IN a circle until they were so
dizzy that they nearly swooned and
groveled at the feet of the high
priest.
A Judge Suicide.
Judge ]. C. Normile, of the Grim