Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-04-13
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS


A persistent lover killed a Spokane
girl in Chicago and then committed
suicide.
Explosion of a miners lamp caused
q terrible disaster in a mine at Sham
okin, Pa.
Corbett is willing to fight Mitchell
before the Coney Island Athletic club
for $4,000.
Fire in a hotel at Bradford, Pa,
caused the loss of several lives. The
place was a fre-trap.
A locomotive leaped from a dizzy
height into the Fraser river in Mani
toba, killing four men.
Several trades throughout the
country will not wait for the LIST Of
May to strike this year.
Nellie Villas, daughter of United
States Senator Villas, died at Madison,
Wis, OF malignant quinsy.
VIM. r. Shaw, cashier of the Lin
coin National bank of Bath, Me-, is a
defaulter TO the amount Of $4,000.
The Mills revival in Minneapolis
has come TO an end. Over 10000 per-
sons claim to have been converted.
Four inches OF snow fell at Tacoma
last week. No trains arrived from
the east for three days. A number
OF slides occurred in the Cascade
mountains.
The number of business failures in
the United States for the first three
months Of the current year were less
than for any similar period in the
preceding eleven years.
Mrs. f. NJ. Harris, mother OF Car
Isle Harris, has written a letter to
the American people saying her son
has proof of his innocence and viii
not be allowed a new trial to present
them.
Fire totally destroyed the beauti-
full summer residence of Joe Jefferson,
situated on the shores OF Buttermilk
Bay, Mass, and the family cook,
Relen McGrath, persisted in the
ruins.
Mrs. Charles Watson Of Creston,
Iowa, gave birth to a boy that in one
respect is a curiosity. The child was
fully developed in every way, and in
its upper jaw were four teeth as large
as those of a child Of two years.
Carl Rock of San Francisco fatally
shot Mrs. Amelia Rock, his ex-mis'
tress, and then killed himself. The
woman was Rocks cousin. They
eloped from Germany together sever
years ago and went TO Arizona, finally
drifting to San Francisco. They had
two children.
The stage coach on the Cripple
creek line was hurled over steep EN-
bankment about twelve miles south
east Of Colorado Springs. The acct
dent was caused by the horses becom
ing frightened and plunging over &
precipice. Nine persons were aboard
the stage and they were more or les:
injured.
The greatest forest fires ever known
in Moore and Richmond counties
II. G are raging in the heart OF tn,
long.leaf pine district. The tree
had just been bored and thousand
of them are destroyed. Many peopl,
owning %turpentine orchards arr
ruined. One man lost 2,GG8 acres o
trees.
The siege against Mrs. James G
Blaine, Jr., who has been confined il
her rooms in the New York hotel 70
the past ten weeks, on account of he
sons attack OF scarlet fever, has beer
raised. With a wave of her hant
and a jubilant smile, young Mrs
Blaine shook the dust OF the oil;
place from her feet, and, with her sol
and mother, departed for Atlanti,
City.
An important change has beef
made In the management OF the Chi
cago s. Northwestern railway. TIL
position Of assistant general superin
tendent, filled for many years by +
Hallenbeck, has been abolished ant
Mr.. Hallenbeck transferred to theIow'
division. The work OF the Office will
be performed by the division superin
tendent.