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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
From the Nations Capital.

From n Nations Capital.
President Cleveland reprimands Ad-
miral Meade and retires him.
Justice Jackson will probably soon
retire from the bench Of the national
supreme court.
The state department Is officially in
formed of the withdrawal Of Minister
Thurston.
The Yorktown and Concord have
sailed from Che Foo, China, to Maya
saki, Japan.
President Cleveland Is said to have
given ii out that there win be neither
another bond issue nor an extra ses-
sion.
Civil service examinations for clerks,
storekeepers and gaugers will be held
In sixty-three of the principal cities
and towns the latter part of June.
Lieut.. Col. John J. Rogers. Secop,.
artillery, has been ordered from tie
department of California TO the de-
partment of the East. Mai. J. NJ. j.
Sanno has been assigned to the depart
ment of Dakota.
Clerks In the engineering bureau of
the war department at Washington
left their desks TO watch a circus
parade. They were greatly astonished
TO learn next day thas the time they
were idle had been deducted from
their two weeks leave Of absence.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
Otherwise.

Two big claims against the Stanford
estate have been compromised.
The American Cigarette company is
negotiating to secure control of the
Canadian market.
Stevens & Co, large cotton dealers,
assigned at New York. Liabilities es-
timated at $125,0OO.
State University Regent Rogers Of
Kansas has been found guilty of
drunkenness and has been dismissed.
II. j. Colver died at Richmond. Va.
An operation was being performed
and a relative says an artery was cut,
but this the physician denies.
A Paris firm has commenced suit
against the Carnegie company at
Pittsburg, claiming an infringement
Of patent.
The Michigan house passed by a
vote of 70 to IL and gave immediate
effect to the Waite ''anti-treating''
bill.
1t has been definitely decided to ex-
tend the Mexican Central railroad
from Guadalajara westward to the
Pacific coast.
All otsuniZittJii tiiiD dtthk Shtitttt
employees of the large steel plants in
the Pittsburg district is said to have
secretly formed within the past few
weeks to secure an advanced and uni
form rate of wages.
The body Of Con Foley, a Bald
Mountain BLACK Hills prospector,
who has been missing for ten days,
was found last night a mile from his
cabin. He was an old-timer, about
fifty years of age, and much addicted
TO i~ntoxicants.
parallel, was enacted at Anderson,
Ind, A Judge OF the circuit court, at
tended by a court st~enographer, took
down the statements of a dying wom-
an who had been placed under the in
huence of hypnotism.
At Galesburg. ILL.,, the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen listened TO
speeches from Grand Master Sargent
and Grand Secretary f. w. Arnold of
! the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Fire
men, urging n federation Of railroad
labor organizations.
Della Harding, aged eighteen. was
brought home to Elgin, H., from the
Evanston school for girls early I'm
April. Since then she has passed much
of her time asleep, and it Is with diff
Guilty she can be reused. Her father
ascribes her condition to the cold
baths given at the institution.
Capt. Pope, commandant of the mill
tary prison at Leavenworth. Kan, has
been offered the ~wardenship OF the in
stitution when II Is turned into a PEN
itentiary, but has declined In favor of
Maj. McCiaughry, ex-warden OF Joliet
prison and ex-chief Of police Of Chi
: cago. a
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
Unfortunate Events.

The town of Augelyen, N. Y, was
partially destroyed by fire.
Two men were killed in a mine at
Butte.
In a game Of ball al English, Ind.
Harry We'll was struck on the head
with the ball, crushing his skull.
James Smithson and two unknown
men lost their lives in a boarding
house fire at Gate City, Ala.
Boos' meat block factory at Eflng-
ham, Ill, was destroyed. Loss, $780,
600.
Paul Smith, a contractor, was burn
ed to death trying to manage a brush
fire at Decatur, Ill.
At Detroit, Mich, the Imperial Tea
company building and contents were
destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $4,000.
A cyclone struck near Luling, Tex.
%unroofing several houses and killing n
small negro boy. Crops in the track
Of the storm were blown out of the
ground.
Charles, Andrew and Robert Smith,
brothers at work In a coal mine in
Winfield, w. Va, were caught under
2 fall Of slate. Charles and Andrew
were instantly killed and Robert died
a short time afterward.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
Taylor's Bondsmen Must Paw

The defense in the suit against Tay-
lor's bondsmen attempt to show
the d~efalcation to be III the first term
by proving through the treasury's
books that Taylor vas charged with
$4,000 @ in his own bank on Jan. 81,
1893, and proving by the transcript
OF the bank account that he was cred
tied with only S34, 900 on that date,
alleging that this constituted a mort
gage 1t was also contended that the
500, 600 excess of bond over stat
utory requirement voided the bond
in the excess if not in the whole.
Judge Gafey ordered a verdict for the
full amount claimed, 1914, 0O0.45,
but expressed a doubt in regard to
that part in excess of the statutory
bond OF $3.50, 900. The defense ask.
ed a stay OF sixty days for the pur-
pose of preparing an appeal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
A Partisan jest.

There are some funny fellows in
Paris, and many of them like nothing
better than to play their jokes on en-
tire strangers. One of these walking
along IL Of the largest business
streets one day saw before n clothing
shop a great placard stating that the
concern had 100000 o%vercoats for sale.
Entering the shop the joker asked
the man in charge If he were very
busy.
NO." replied the salesman. what
a 1 do for you?"'
Il see," said the jester, that you
have 100000 o%vercoats for sale, and l
thought I'd like to try them on
Harper's Young People.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

Rumor is hard at work getting IRE
mier Rosebery out of office.
China "A only boast a national debt
of $50,0O0,000.
One hundred and s%ixty-eight people
were drowned by the sinking of the
Spanish steamer Gravina recently.
Joseph Marti, who was proclaimed
president of the Cuban revolutionists,
is killed in battle.
In Coatepre Castles. state Of Guer-
rero, Mex, fire destroyed sixty-two
houses.
The lieutenant governor and six Off
Gals were killed at Kuchen, Turkey,
during disturbances because of pre-
mature collection of taxes.
f. c. Burnard's Happy Thoughts
has been translated into French. The
best the translator could do with the
title was "Ingenieuses Pensees."
China's emperor gets up at 4 o'clock
to study English and Manchu before
breakfast, which is at 8. He makes
up for 1t by going to bed at shutdown.
Minister Mariscal of Mexico will ap-
point an arbitrator to represent Mex
" III AN udNGIlilu SGlliG-
ment.
1t Is said that the names Of the five
Kurds who murdered Frank G.. LEM.
the Pittsburg bicyclist, in Armenia,
are known.
The Spanish newspapers attach con
siderable importance to the fact that
the insurgent leader, Jose Marti, who
is described as the life and soul Of
the rebellion, is dead.
On board the Atlas line steamer
Ailsa, which arrived in New York this
morning from Port Limon, was Gen.
De Vasquez, ex-president of the re-
public Of Honduras.
Capt. Trench of the warship Royal
Arthur, who was made military gov
ernor OF Corinto when the British
seized THAI port, succumbed to an at
tack of gastric fever shortly after the
ship started on the homeward voyage,
and was buried at sea.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

a young girl baby from the track
near Dixon, III. The mother Of the
abandoned baby is supposed to be
Laura Stonier. She will be arrested.
DR.. X. w. Stout, a prominent physi-
clan at Veedersburg, Ind, was ac-
cused Of intimacy with the wife of
Charles Williams. The men met and
both began shooting. Stout will die,
but Williams may cover
Mrs. Emaline Casterline of Hart
ford City, Ind, wife Of the ex-county
surveyor, threw herself in an ice pond
while temporarily insane. She was
discovered by a farmer and ~resuscita-
ted, but will probably die.
Timothy Mccarthy, aged % years.
OF Logansport, Ind, committed sui
eide. He attended a game OF base
ball In the afternoon and seemed in
good spirits. His mind was de-
ranged by a sunstroke four years ago
and ne was confined at Long Cliff ill.,
sane hospital for a time.
Two murders were the result of a
theft at Menard, Ill. City Marshal
Ragslade attempted to arrest a man
named Lancaster for stealing a skiff,
and was killed. A posse, composed
mainly OF ignorant negroes, set out in
pursuit. and succeeded in killing Mrs.
Lancaster. The boat thief vas cap
tured later many miles down the river.
Against the advice of her brothers
Sallie Dams Of Middleboro, KY,
eloped with Henry Cooley. Marshall
Cooley, a brother of the groom. met
them and warned them hat the Dams
were in pursuit. While they were
comforting the Dams rode up and
there was a pitched battle, in which
Marshall Cooley and George Dams
were killed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

A student Of human nature invested
a small sum of money last week Tor
the purpose of testing the honesty of
New York people. He bought six small
purses and put in each AZ cents, a door
key and a card with his w name and
address. He then proceeded to drop
these purses in the streets and on the
floors of the large dry goods stores. In
less than twenty-four hours five of the
purses were returned, and in each case
by a woman. This may or may not
prove anything concerning the honesty
of women as compared with men, but
II certainly seems to show that women
are the sharper-sigkted.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

born in Lithunia in 1915. His student
days We're spent at Warsaw. He
spent some years in California, and
his descriptive articles of u Far
West" published in a Polish paper,
won him the first tangible recognition
among his cOuntrymen. He has been
a prolific writer, and his novels and
sketches contributed to various jour
mails cannot be enumerated here. He
has travelled the world over, and de-
picts no type of life that has not come
under his OWE observation. Henryk
Sienkiewicz is a great creative genius
and his individuality is completely
identified with his work. His deep
patriotism, cosmopolitan s~ympathies,
his humor, pathos and love of nature
are striking qualities of his work.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

Thirty-Three Men Said TO Have Been
Drowned on the Spanish River.


Drowned on the spanish River.
Ottawa. Ont, June "details have
reached this city of a terrible accident
which occurred on the Spanish river,
by which SO men lost their lives. The
victims were lumbermen. They had
encamped for the night on a crib of
square timber moored to the shore
rear the head Of the rapids, which at
that point are very p%recipitous and
rocky. All had gone to sleep without
leaving a Waterman to guard the crib.
Some time during the night the crib
broke from its moorings and carried
it's cargo of sleeping me", all unmind-
full OF their fate, into the surGing wa
tiers below. The crib was broken TO
pieces on the rocks. and not n man eS-
capped to tell the tale. The Spanish
river flows into the Nerth Channel of
Lake Huron at a point north of Mani
tou Island. Near it's mouth is "A small
hamlet of perhaps 100 inhabitants, sit
uated on the 500 branch OF the Can
adam Pacific railway. The entire
country Whereabouts is a numbering
district.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

England is likely to meet with a
check In South Africa. She has cut
the Beers off entirely from the sea-
coast In the T~ransvaal, and the latter
issued a call for an army of 10000
men, nominally to fight the natives,
but really to fight the British land
grabbers. The Beers are terrific fight
ers, and it is said that 1t will require
a British army Of 100000 men to whip
10000 troops of the sturdy Afro-Dutcb
stock.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
Transfer of FormOsa.

Shanghai, June Lord Ii Chang
Fang, son of Ii Hung Chang, with
John w. Foster, will start of the Pes
cadore to-day to formally transfer tho
island OF Formosa 10 the Japanese.
The Japanese have landed at the town
of Taifehfu, a place of 10000 inhabi-
tants, eleven miles up the Tansui riy-
err. and the residence OF the governor
of Formosa. They have informed the
authorities that they intend to take
possession of the island. Fighting Is
Imminent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

A Columbia river salmon canning
factory has zone into the business of
canning horse meat for the foreign
trade. One popularity Of the horse
meat business is that the meat is al
ways packed for foreigners. Another
popularity is that some of the meat is
marketed on this side of the Atlantic
without discovery. 1t Is hard to get
q horse on the n
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
Criminal OofnGs.

Jealous rufiians killed Moses Latta
at his sweetheart's gate in V~incennes,
Ind.
Charles Litterell committed suicide
by shooting at Mexico, Mo. He left "a
note saying he was tired OF life.
Amos Poole, a wealthy fruit grower
OF Golden, Ill, killed himself while In
a Respondent mood.
Nellie Pope is on trial at Detroit,
charged with the murder of her hus-
band.
James McDonough killed one man
and wounded three In an Aspen (Col.)
saloon.
j. p. Foley, n travelling salesman,
was found dead In bed, q revolver in
his hand and s bullet In his brain, In
q Cincinnati hotel.
Engineer WATSON Of a north-bound
Illinois Central freight train picked up
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

Take a glass and half ill it With salt
water-the water must be ?ery salt
then fill the balance of tie glass with
fresh water.
Now take an egg and place it very
gently in the glass and 1t viii float
BY shaking the glass so tlat the fresh
and salt waite mix, the egg will ink.
OF conrsc, y0u make your preparation
previous to exhibiting the experiment,
and inform your auditor that you can
cause the egg to float or sink 1T com
mand. 1t is IL neat experiment. ara
any n a perform it, and SO create
no little amusement In Il large con-
nanY.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

The British premier. Lord Rosebery.
is suffering from physical and mental
collapse. The other day he received
a deputation of Armenians and was
80 Ill that he was unable to deliver an
address In reply to their statement;
and later, when at some public func-
ton he rose to speak, he was stricken
with a total lapse of memory and was
unable to proceed. What a contrast
between this man, who is young
enough to be Gladstone's son, and pos
sibly his grandson, and the Grand Old
Man, who at eighty-fve Is still In full
possession Of his spler ia mental fac
nIti0s
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
MORE LIBERAL IN LAND.
The Northern Pacific Receivers In
"a New Policy.


Tacoma, ', .Sh.. June The North
crn Pacific land department to-day an
nounces that beginning June /, the
rate Of interest on contracts for the
purchase of lands will be reduced
from I to 6 per cent. All the railway
lands are being reappraised. Land
Agent Cooper says reappraiSement
will probably result in p average re-
duction of prices of oEe-third COM
pared with the price at which they
were formerly listed. The object Of
the change of policy is m'de by order
of the receivers. G. p. LatOn has re-
signed as assistant land agent of the
Northern Pacific. He resigned Just
after Land Agent Schulze's de-. but
has RENAME at the r" uest of tire
officials until the investigation into
SchulZe's affairs was finished. Eaton
entered the department in 1881 at
Portland. was made chief clerk in
1887. and in 1889 he became assistant
general land agent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
State Teachers Excursion.

The general excursion, for teachers
and others, to the Black Hills on June
18TH, is an assured success. George
Schlosser, of Aberdeen, who is ~receiv.
ing the applications for accommoda-
tions, both enroute and while there,
has every confidence OF a large delega-
ton.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

The decision Of the United States
supreme court that the Geary Chinese
exclusion act is constitutional saves
the lower courts from a great deal OF
work, and incidentally keeps a large
amount of money out of the pockets
Of attorneys. The supreme court had
the interest of the lower courts In
view to some extent when 1t made Its
decision.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

The term father Of his country"
was first applied to Marirs, the great
Roman general of the century before
Christ. Since that time 1t mas been
worn more or less wurthily by various
great men, not the least Of whom is
our own Washingt u.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

Michigan has just passed an anti
treating law. 1t is to be feared that
whatever decrease In law-breakins
win have been secured by her recent
adoption Of capital punishment will
be sacfificed-in fact, IL not in statis-
tics-by the violations of this new reg
ulatioB
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

Russia Is now credited with a de-
sign Of seizing Corea and Manchuria
for herself, and is said to be concen-
trating troops for that purpose. Ger
many is becoming suspicious and is
withdrawing her support from Rus
sia's pretensions.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

Thomas Byrnes, for many years the
chief of police Of New York and one
of the great detectives of this country,
has been retired on a pension of $1,000
a year. This is the first step toward a
complete publication and reorgastza-
ton Of the New York police by the
new board of police commissioners.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
Asking the Impossible.

Sefvant-There's no coal, and the
fires are going out.
Mistress-Dear me! Why didn't you
tell me before?
Seryant-I couldn't tell you there
was no coal, mum, when there was
coal.-New York Weekly.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

A New York paper declares hat
there must be a bicycle reform; that
is to say, "scorchers' and reckless
riders generally must reform their
methods and not ride down unoffend-
ing citizens. That's right. The same
reform is needed everywhere.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
Oscar Wilde, In prison, will perform
the unesthetic and u%npoetical task Of
working q tread wheel.

Sara Bernhardt IL writing a book OF
personal memoirs. II she tells the
hat sort demanding the services Of an
index expurgatoris.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
Lewis Van Antwerp Dead.

Cincinnati, Ohio. June LEWIS
Van Antwerp, formerly a member of
the book publishing company Of Van
Antwerp, Bragg Il Co., in this city.
died to-day, aged 10 years.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06

The Wisconsin State Board or
Health, in its latest annual report. Of
icially recommends the Royal Rak-
ing Powder, as Il pure cream of tartar
powder, containing neither aluI nor
ammonia. This is a hight compliment
for no other powder was so honored
by special mention.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
Sixty-Thfrd Anniversary.

Saratoga. n. Y, June 1.-The Amer
lean Baptist Home Mission Society to-
day began its siXty-third anniversary
meeting.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
Outlook Encourncfne.

st. Louis, June 1.-The Southern
Trade. In it's review of the South, says
that the outlook continues to be most
encouraging.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
CLEANED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
TELEGRAMS

Taylor's Bondsmen Must Pay-state Pub
lie School Lands State Teachers Excur-
sion to the Black Hills-Other Interest
ing StateNotes.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
AROUND THE GLOBE
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.

All Important Occurrences of h
Past Week, Boiled Down and Arr
nnged for Rapid Reading, From
Home and Abropd d.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-06
HONORING A NOVELIST.

A Reception Given Henryk STEM
kiewicZ.
Paris. June 1.-Henryk Sienkiewicz,
the Polish novelist, about whom there
is a great deal of talk nowadays. was
siv"u n reception last night. which
was attended by many men well
A~~n arts and letters. He was
Arizona republican., 1895-10-22
GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

M. .ANATOLE LEROY BEAULIEU, the French political economist, who is not radical, proposes that tax be put on the French t..rentes" as concession to the socialists. The 'rentes" are the equivalent in France of registered gov ernment bonds.
 MEMBERS of the house of commons have heretofore reserved their seats in the house by leaving their hats in them during prayer time.. The speaker has introduced an innovation by allowing seat to be reserved by leaving on it visiting card, provided that the member has attended prayers.
 AT Avignon, the palace of the popes, in which, during the ''Babylonian cap tivity," for seventy years in the four teenth century, the popes lived, which is now used as cavalry barracks, is to be completely restored and used as a museum or for the residence of the i archbishop.
 AT the Russian town of Reni, at the junction of the Pruth and the Danube, a rich find was made lately of gold coins of the time of Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great. They are in excellent preservation, and five hundred and twelve of them have al- ready been seized by the police and sent to St. Petersburg.
 AN extraordinary story of crime comes from Naumburg, in Prussian Saxony. Four boys, from fifteen to seventeen years of age, imprisoned in the Zeitz reformatory, have been con- victed of strangling two of their fellow prisoners. Their sole object was to be transferred from the reformatory to a jail, where they thought they would | be more comfortable.
 THE Johannisberg vineyards revert to the emperor of Austria by the death of Prince Richard Metternich. The estate belonged originally to the ab- bot of Fulda; Napoleon gave it to Mar shal Kellermann. After the peace of Vienna was given to Prince Metter- nich for three lives. The limitation has just expired with the death of 1 Prince Richard, who leaves no sons.
Arizona republican., 1895-10-22
A MUSICAL ,MElANGE.

LONDON has been listening to new infant prodigy, nine-year-old pianist named Basil Gauntlet.
 ALL ancient music was in the minor key, without harmony or counterpoint, and entirely vocal and rhythmical, like our recitative.
 SEvENTY-N1NE new operas and oper- ettas were produced in Italy last year, according to the Gazetta Musicale of Milan, twenty-five of them operas in three acts and four even longer. The Gazetta is charitable enough to say that sixty of them were good.
 FLA MONTAGUE NoIRE," a grand opera, composed, book and music, by an Irishwoman naturalized in France, Miss Augusta Holmes, is about to be brought out at the Paris grand opera. Miss Holmes is known as the composer of cantata, ''Les Argonautes," per formed at the Pasdeloup concerts in 1880, and of two symphonical poems, "Irelandr and "Poland."