Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-08-13
miscellaneous.

A Chicago judge accepted two wom-
en- as Jurors.
Speaker Reed is nominated for con-
gress for the tenth consecutive term.
A lion killed a little child at a show
at C~hillicothe, Ohio.
The new lock at the 500. the largest
in the world, has been formally open
ed.
Seven thousand idle miners on the
Gogebic range in Michigan are threat
ened with starvation.
Prostrations and deaths from heat
and damages by storm occur in Wis
consin. Michigan and Minnesota.
The twenty-sixth annual convention
of the Catholic Total Abstinence union
met in convention at st. Louis. About
LOO delegates were present.
Important proceedings against Ar
mour and Co. for violation of the state
oleomargarine law are on at Syracuse,
y. Y.
A Washington judge refused TO grant
naturalization papers 10 two Italian,
because they know nothing of the con
stitution.
DR.. Frank NJ. Closer of Oakland.
Cal. has perfected a machine by means
of which pictures or cen may be
transmitted. He claims TO nave discov-
cred a new property of light.
The furnace men in the Mahoning
and Shenango.valley have been notified
of a cut of 20 per cent in wages, to
take effect Aug. Is. There is talk Of
q strike.
The long strike at the quarries Of
Eerea, Ohio, which involved from 500
to LOCO men, and led 10 such serious
rioting as to require the militia, has
been finally settled by a state board
of arbitration.
The wool commission firm of w. D..
Eaton and Co. of Boston made an as
signment for the benefit of creditors
to-day. Joseph w. Spaulding is the
assignee. and the liabilities are placed
at $4,000. No statement of the as
sets have been given u
John Kniffin of DanviIle, H., ac-
companied by his wife. arrived at
R~idgetown. Ont. at noon. About 3
o'clock knifiin was stricken with apo
plexy, and died shortly afterwards.
Knitin was well Known in racing cir
cles, and was fifty years Of age.
A gloom wos cast on the Indiana
~Spiritualists' state camp meeting at
Anderson by the death Of Prof. +. NJ.
Davis of New York. one of the best
known ~Spiritualist workers and musi-
cal directors in the work. His death
was tragic. He had just closed his
days work and gone to his cottage.
Washington l.. Mccoy, secretary and
manager of the big Mccoy lamp Chin
ney works at Elwood, Ind. has been
made defendant in q $4,000 suit for
damages. filed by Sylvester Beymer. "A
merchant. Beymer claims that Mccoy,
who is a wealthy bachelor. has de
stroyed bis home through the aliena-
ton of his wife's affections.
The Ohio river at Cincinnati is thirty
feet five inches above low water mark
!, and still rising. This Is due to the
large amount Of rainfall in the North
eastern part Of its basin. Consider
able damage is reported from the cities
on It's banks. with fear Of serious re-
suits should it reach the extreme high
water mark.
According to the instructions OF
Judge burton, of the supreme court of
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern
was sold at auction by Commissioners
Brown and Baskin. 1t was bid in with
out opposition by the manager Of the
Illinois Central for 81. 500, 600. The lat
ter road deposited 100000, and win as
sumo control at once.