Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-08-23
Foreign Gossip.


Two deaths from cholera occurred
at Amsterdam.
Santo, the assassin Of President Car.
not of France, wSS executed at Lyons
The bill for the relief of evicted Irish
tenants was rejected by the British
house Of lords by 4 vote of 249 to 80.
Bluefelds has been retaken by Mica
raguan troops and many American sym
pathiZers with Chief Clarelce have
been placed under arrest.
A movement looking to the reunion
of all the Methodist bodies in Great
Britain was started by the confer
ence al Grindelwald.
Official figures show that from Aug.
5 there were 1876 new cases of cholera
reported at st. Petersburg. In the
same time there occurred 101 deaths
from the disease.
Frederick Nagel, lately the mayor
of Leoptschafen, a village of Baden,
Germany, was arrested at New York
on the steamer W~esternland on a
charge Of forgery. The arrest was
made on complaint Of the acting Ger
a consul.
A Yokohama dispatch to the London
Chronicle says a N has reached
there of an important naval engage
ment between Japan and Chinese fleets
off Wei-HaiWei OF Aug. 10. Seven
Chinese vessels belonging 10 the North
ern squadron were sunk, according to
the report.
The Kaffirs in North T%ransvaal,
South Africa, are in open revolt. They
have blocked the road from Murchison,
have burned homeSteads and captured
cattle. The Kaffirs are now besieging
the headquarters of the resident and
the government buildings at Agatha.
Troops have been hastily dispatched to
the scene
A dispatch to the London Telegraph
from Paris says that the cooks, stew
ards and attendants on the trans-At-
lantic line steamers have gone on strike
at Havre. The employees allege that
the cause of the strike is the poor food
supplied to them while the vessels are
in dock, and other grievah res. On
Saturday 100 men on board the steam.
er La Touraine quit work.
General.
The authorities at Genoa, DeKalb
county, report that there is one case
of small ox at that place.
II. G. Bland was nominated for con.
gress by Republicans Of the Third Mis-.
souri, district.
The big rolling mill at Laramie has
closed down for an indefinite period.
The little mill will run for some time.
The Janeway wall paper factory at
New Brunswick, N. J., has been sold
to the trust after a two years fight.
Eighty cars a day Of California fruit
Is the average that the Union Pacific
has been handling for some time.
Salt water day was celebrated by So.
600 J~erseyites in various ways besides
the one prescribed by the colonial faith.
ers.
Spring Valley ml.) miners held an
other meeting and agreed to refrain
from work until the union was recog-
nized.
Mexican troops sent against the va
qui Indians have met with defeat in
all the engagements which have so far
taken place.
Gov. Aitgeld has issued a letter of
thanks to officers and men of the Il
linois National guard for their splen-
did service during the strikes.
1t was decided at the Salem (Or.l
hop convention to pay pickers 40 cents
for 9-bushel boxes. 4lop harvest will
begin about September 5.
The Prineville (Or.) News SAYS that
the wife Of J. Z. Roberts, at Newsome
creek, gave birth to a fine boy recently
which pleased Mr.. Roberts so well thai
he went ont into the woods the SAND
day and killed a large black bear, the
only n that has ever been killed III
that vicinity.
1t is thought a big mining boom will
follow the opening of the Uintah and
Uncompahgre reservations In Utah.
The best mining country in the Uintah
reservation extends westward for a
distance Of seyenty-five miles from
White Rock canyon, which Is twenty
five miles north Of Fort Duchesne,
where II is believed silver, lead, copper
and gold viii be found In abundance.