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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
People I'm Print.

A Richmond paper declares that Fitz-
hugh Lee mixed the first mint julep
that President Cleveland ever drank.
Congressman Livingston of Georgia
Is talked OF for a candidate TO com
plete the Democratic presidential
ticket.
Gen. Wolseley says the man who be-
lieves the time is coming when there
will be no wars is a dangerous dream
err.
Thomas w. Keene made a contract
with Charles b.. Hanford, who will
manage his tour mex season and act
with him.
John Wright. a leading planter Of
Ceylon, protects his employees from
cholera by giving each a t~easpoonful
Of charcoal every morning.
Describes tercentenary will be OBJ
served by the publication OF a com
plete edition of his works, by author
ity of the French government.
Mrs. Emma Van Horn, a travelling
physician, dropped dead after eating
a hearty breakfast at Edinburg, Ind.
She was about 40 years Of age. She
gave her residence as indianapolis,
and relatives at that place have been
notified.
DIR. William j. Scott, for years the
leading member of the profession in
Cleveland, is dead, aged IA years. after
a brief illness. He had held professor
ships in various medical colleges. and
had been president of the State Medi-
cal association.
Billy Williams, the oldest of the Nez
Perces Indians, and the last of those
who saw the explorers, Lewis and
Clark, when they crossed the CONT
nent from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
ninety odd years ago, died at Kamiah,
Idaho, April 6. His exact age was not
known.
Leonard Huxley is hard at work on
the life of his father, the late Prof.
Huxley, but the volume Is not likely
to appear before the autumn. An in
~teresting feature of it will be a num-
Der of letters on social and political
subjects addressed by the professor to
an extensive circle of correspondents.
Mrs. Anna ID. Clemmer. the dairy
commissioner of the State of Colorado,
Is a self-reliant, progressive oma
She lives at Boulder, where she has a
Jersey herd, and with her own hands
makes 200 pounds of butter q month.
Two miles from Boulder she has a hay
ranch of 160 acres and 1000 chickens,
10 all of which h gives her personal
attention. besides looking after her
office in Denver.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
Nevada Republicans

Virginia City, New, May II The
Republican state convention met in
this city to-day. Two delegates to
represent the state at the national
convention were chosen. The resolu-
tons contained a declaration for free
and unlimited coinage of silver at 16
To i, and an expression favoring the
election of NevaGans who make their
homes in this state to offices OF United
States congressman and senator's. The
national delegates were pledged only
to use all honorable means to nom
mate an advocate of silver at st.
Louis. The delegates chosen We're g.
H.. Sproule, John Torrey, w. s. Bonni-
held. j. h. Overton. Enoch Strother.
W. ID. Phillips and A.. c. Cleveland
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
Both Blue and Grnu

Chattanooga, Tenn, May 12.-It is
understood here that a new departure
Will be made in the observance of
Decoration day. The Queen & Ores.
cent route will bring an immense con.
course or soldiers and their friends
from the North who will visit Chick
a Park, Lookout Mountain and
Mission Ridge battlefields and will as
sist In decorating the graves in the ma
uonai cemetery. A nominal rate for
the round trip from Cincinnati has
been made for this occasion. Nun.
pers or veterans will make this trim
and 1t is expected will be followed hy
an enor TO get the national enca mn
ment in 1917 at Atlanta.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
CaaualtieA.

Fire Quilted the store of the Good
year Rubber company at Buffalo, en-
failing a loss Of $100,O OO.
The British fruit steamer which
went ashore off Highland Light was
the Forest Holme from Mediterranean
ports. She was floated without dam
age.
There was a disastrous blaze at Syc-
amore, Ill. A Chicago Great Western
freight train caught fire and several
freight cars, a dining car, which vas
on a nearby siding, and three oil
tanks were destroyed. The fire started
from an oil explosion in one of the
freight cars. Conductor Pierce per-
ished in the flames.
McEwan Bros & Co.'S saw mill mar
rowly escaped destruction by tire al
Bay City, Mich. Fifteen hundred
cords of slabs west of the mill were
destroyed, The entire department Mas
called out and the fire brought under
control. Had there been a high wind,
the mill and a million feet of lumber
would have been destroyed.
Oscar Brinn, a ~five-yearold boy, liv-
ing with his parents neal Anna, ILL.,,
died from the effects Of an overdose of
morphine, administered by his mother
She lad sent to the drug store for qui-
nine. The package was properly la.
beled on the wrapper. A mistake had
been made, evidently by the packers,
and instead of quinine. the bottle in.
side the wrapper contained morphine.
The two barges cut from their lash.
ings when the steamer Vera PaZ wen,
down have been found and towed to O
port of safet ynear New Orleans. They
will be sold for salvage. The Vera Paz
and barges left Jeffersonville, Ind.
March Z, for Livingston, Guatemala
The steamer was valued at $lS,00l
and the barges at $4,000 each.
Lecount G. Pierce, a Chicago Great
Western freight conductor. who was
killed by his train at Sycamore, Ill.
was a resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa
He was well known in railroad circles
having been a conductor for the Chica-
20, Milwaukee & st. Paul for many
years. He leaves a wife and two chill
dren. one Of the latter being the noted
boy singer, Willie Pierce.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
FINANCE THE MAIN ISSUE.
Chairman Harrity Discusses the
Election

st. Paul, May II. - W. +. Harrity.
chairman Of the Democratic national
committee. and Col. Jay Grif Prather,
national committeeman from Missouri,
spent yesterday in st. Paul. They
were the guests of Michael Doran at
the Ryan. The gentlemen spent the
day in driving about st. Paul and
Minneapolis and visited the promi-
npnt members Of their party in both
cities. Last evening they were joined
by n party of M~issourians and left for
Superior. They will have n weeks
fishing for trout on the Brule in
Northern Wisconsin. and there they
will find Chris O'Brien Of st. Paul,
and. possibly. Senator Villas of Wis
cOnSin and National Committeeman
Wall of Milwaukee. In an Interview
Mr. Harrity said that finances would
be the main issue of the campaign
and that if the Democrats nominated
the right kind of n man they would
win. He did not know whether Mr..
Cleveland would be q candidate and
said that Senator Villas of Wisconsin
is "A possibility.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
Miscellaneous.

State Senator James Ballantine OF
the Twenty-sixth New York district,
died at Kingston, n. Y.
The German-American Title company
made an assignment at Louisville, Ky.
Assets, $4,000; liabilities, 100000.
Preparations are under way at New
ark, n. j., to send a filibustering party
10 Cuba. A hundred men, many of
them civil war veterans, have enlisted.
Theodore r. Graham, formerly a
member of the firm of Youngsmith,
Field & Co., Philadelphia, has disap-
peared, and it is said that his finances
are in a badly tangled condition.
The Denver chamber of commerce
authorizes the statement that no con-
tributions for the Cripple Greek fire
sufferers from other states are needed.
Tie contributions in sight in Colorado
amount to nearly $4,000.
The movement Of Father Kolaszew-
ski, pastor Of the Independent Catholic
church at Cleveland, to transfer the
church and congregation to the Meth
odist Episcopal fold is progressing and
is said to % be an assured fact.
The net income of the New York,
Chicago < st. Louis Rail way company
for the year. as shown by the report
submitted at the annual meeting at
Cleveland, was $1,141, 30S.46, A bal
ance on hand Of $2S1, 3OS.46 is shown.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indi-
ans of Oklahoma are greatly incensed
against their agent, Capt. A. +. Wood
son of the Fifth cavalry, and at an
Indignation meeting just held by all
the chiefs and prominent members of
the tribes decided to give him thirty
days notice to leave the reservation.
John b. Leone, a Corsican who was
found in Joliet In an insane condition,
was recognized by a travelling man
who called him by name and gave him
q cake OF soap. In n few minutes he
was himself and told the story Of his
lie. He Is a sculptor in soap, and his
most famous work was the designing
of Brooklyn bridge at the Worlds fair.
He does not know how he came to be
In this city, but thinks he was robbed
In Chicago and put on Q train for
Joliet
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
CONGRESS.
senate passes the Cree Deportn-
ton Bill.

ton Bill.
uasb,noton May 12-ln the enate
80 MI was passed for the deportation
- canada of the Cree Indians VINO
eod into Montana at the time OF the
Louis Riel raid.
Mr. Dubois Rep., Idaho) created a
temporary furry on the Dond QUESTION
hy asking immediate consideration ol
q Joint resolution providing that mere
ofter no bonds shall he issued by any
officer until the president mas coih-
municated to congress the necessity
for the bonds. the amount OF the issue
and until congress shall the
,ayn,ent of the bond issued.
..That seems quite important III
terposed Mr.. Hill, land it ought o go
TO a committee
mo" said Mr.. Dubois, 'let us nave
a vote of the senate
Mr.. sherman suggested that this in
volyed an important change of law,
ard certainly il should 20 10 the
finance committee. He objected 10
immediate consideration.
..Then | would like to vote to-mor-
row." said Mr.. Dubois.
Mr.. Palmer Dem, I'D reported
back the bill TO pension the widow OF
Capt. Allabach, recently vetoed hy the
president, with n recommendation that
il pass over the veto. and gave notice
that he would call it up ut the hrst
opportunity. The senate passed bills
arpropriating 100000 for a public
building at Butte City, Mont; giving
to the evidence Of private soldiers the
same weight as that of officers in pen
sion cases: amending the pension law
OF 1890 so that absence of an honor
able discharge shall not be a bar to
pension, providing there is no charge
of desertion against the applicant;
leasing to the city Of Bismarck, y. d..
Sibley island. Missouri river; amend
ing tie pension laws SO as TO make
mastering into service prima facie evil
dence of sound body and mind.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14

The Italian cruiser Lombardia re,
ports hat while lying at Rio Janerio
her whole crew of 25S persons, except
five, we're attacked with yellow fever,
and 116 died, including the captain.
This Indicates the possibility of casual
ties on American men of war if the
United States should be drawn into
q war with Spain over Cuba. Yellow
fever would be an enemy more to be
dreaded than Spanish guns.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
The Sleeping Chou.


The japanese believe in h.,
from the bedroom everytbin, n
is not really necessary to tb., \
ment. All things useful thew ~
decorative as possible, but d,
ornaments sake little or pots,'
added, unless 1t be a vase -
ing flowers arranged in their j.,
imitable way, or something els !
ly simple.
Their customs will bear coD,,
tons by the housewives Of on, n
ern world, says Womanklpd !,
this Japanese method the utmos,
ness, simplicity and repose il me-,
Add beauty and daintiness, And
else is left to be desired. Rcd,
so appointed may be easily ksr
order and free from dust-that \
comfort and health.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
From Foreign Shores.

From Foreign Shores.
Roman newspapers deny that nego-
tiations are pending for a cession OF
Kassala to Great Britain
England has refused extradition in
the case Of Cornelius Hertz the Pana.
ma canal lobbyist wanted in France.
A letter from Smyrna, Western Tur'
key, says that Armenian relief funds
are diminishing while the number of
destitute is increasing.
The newspapers confirm the rumor
that II. Herbette, French ambassador
to Germany, will only return to Berlin
TO present his letters of recall.
A body of 1000 deryish rifemen and
n large body Of mounted dervishes
have been seen near Akasheh. They
appear TO be concentrating for an at
tack upon that place.
The emperor Of Russia has ordered
4O0.0 600 decorated goblets to be dis
tributed among his subjects who at
Enc the festivities in connection with
his cornation next month at Moscow.
Preparations are being made to APP
peal through Brussels against the ac-
quittal of Capt. Lothair. the Belgian
officer who hanged the English trader
Stokes in the Congo Free State.
1t is said that the Spanish govern
ment has declined the Pope's medita-
ton in Cuban affairs, on the ground.
that the acceptance would be tanta-
mount TO recognizing Americas right
to interfere.
IL Hung Chang was received in audi
ence by the car and czarina and pre-
scented the z with the order of the
Double Dragon, studded with large
bTilliants, upon behalf of the emperor
OF China.
Constantinople newspapers were u
thorized to announce the death of the
shah of Persia, but without stating the
cause. One newspaper announces that
the shah was out for a walk, felt I'M
well and died suddenly.
Spanish papers announce the mar
rige OF the eldest daughter Of Gen
Martinez Campos, the predecessor Of
Gen. Weyler in Cuba, and the marquis
of Cayo del Rey. Gen Campos is now
in Germany with his second daughter,
who is extremely i'll.
The czarewitch, who is i'll at Nice,
passed a restless and feverish night.
His mother, the exempress of Russia,
was at his bedside during the greater
part Of the night. The physicians
have ordered a change of air, but his
condition prevents him from being
moved at present.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
Bfshous

cleveland. May II. = The delegates
10 q Methodist general conference
are beginning to DISCUSS the eominr
eiection OF Bishops which will be ths
business next in Importance to the
u,sposltion OF the women delegate
Question: IT has been decided thai No
nominations will be made. the Iist no,
my open TO as many candidates -.
dvslfe 10 enter. The delegation viii
vote Tor whomsoever they nlaasa
.hose hrst receiving a ma joritv h%nn
eiecied. Already q Gambler ~ carat
ua'es nave been announced.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14

Chadron, Neb.. and reported that he
had killed his neighbor, Glenn Santee,
farmer near Ida. Wolch has always
borne a good reputation.
Arthur G.. Wellington and Mrs.
Fanny Speed. both Of Chicago, were
arrested ut Colorado Springs, Col. on
a complaint sworn out by e formers
wife and were brought ~ Denver,
where Mrs. Wellington was waiting to
receive them.
Eddie Locherc, featherweight pugil-
list, tried to commit suicide at New
York by taking paris green. He will
recover. Dependency W. the diff
Guilty he was experiencing in raising
money for the renewal of his saloon
license was the aus Of his attempt
at self-destruction.
G. Edward E~ggleston, son of the Chi
cage multi-millionaire. and Mrs. G.. f.
Turner, who eloped from Phoenix two
weeks ago, and were married at Tue
son, AriZ., have been he'd to answer
before the federal grand jury, the
former for adultery and the latter for
bigamy. Both are in Jail.
The Office of Frank Novak at Walker
village, fifteen miles west of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, was broken into by ex-
pert burglars. The safe was blown
open with powder. The burglars Sc
cured $1,000 in cash and $1,000 in ne
gotiable papers.
Oscar George Westphal, n barber,
struck George Bischoff, a tailor, such a
blow with his fist at Buffalo as to
break his neck. W~esphars story is
that Bischoff was choking one of his
pin bows in a bowling alley, and he
commanded him to desist. Bischoff
never stirred after he was hit.
The federal grand jury at Kansas
City indicted John X. Watkins, form
erly vice president and superintendent
of the Indian Rice Milling company,
for violating the interstate commerce
law. The section of the law under
which Watkins was indicted was the
tenth, which applies to the reporting Of
false weights by shippers.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
Quiet I'm Milwaukee

Milwaukee, May II. = Expressed
fears of disturbances, growing out OF
the street railway strike, were un-
founded. The strikers, nearly 1000
IN number, paraded the streets In the
morning, and in the afternoon a COM
mittee OF h union stated it's case to
the state board Of arbitration. To-mor-
row the company will be heard. The
strike, however, is believed to be prac-
ticaiiy over. The company has all
the men 1t requires to operate it's cars
and refuses to treat with the strikers
In any way.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
Executions DELAYED
The Oregon Is n Dandy

Santa Barbara, Cal, May 1.-THE
%battleship Oregon, the official trial of
which will be made this week, is the
queen OF her class. She arrived here
from San Francisco this morning and
her behavior on the trip caused Irving
NJ. Scott, her builder, to express the
belief that on her official trial she will
beat the record of her sister ship, the
massachusetts. On the trip down the
coast the Oregon made fifteen or
eighteen miles at the rate of 1884
knots an hour.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
popularity of IN.

The evil days on which =,
ufacturers of nails foil
when prices went down 10 =
nails and Toe on the ~
passed away, and a more u
now pervades the industrr
we're competition had J,
prices so low that the NAH
was a losing business. IN 1
employees in nail factorias "
duced; the cuts were deem "
strikes followed and sevo.a aad
forced to the wall. Ono aNal
movements was a retp,.u ID
movements In the re%storas,os0 |
ness was a return 10 biaL {
Following this advance sf !
raw material went no. ana ~
nails rapidly improved IN .aa
most pertinent point in am
with these facts Is thar I'm
for cut nails is dying or ny Z
as many cut nails as wire y
used last year. The Amaaasa l'
nail is now supreme In Il.
1t has distanced all comnati,,NI
foreigners. Although the utsl
a native of Germany, it has /
a finish in the United Stat =
makes il more popular thar ~
article with Americans. IN |
wire nail is thicker than orrS /,
attempts have been made 10
1t here without success ,a'
strange TO say, the foreign rs "
in this market in the DAYS
Americans started to make VII.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
Tit for Tat

Servant (from next door)-Hery
er sends his compliments. and v,
you please shoot your dog, as It n
let him go 10 sleep?
Neighbor-Give my respects 10 \
Mayer and tell him | shall be M
obliged if he will poison his daug
and burn her piano.-Unterhalu
Eiatt.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
WnshinEton Talk.

Senator Thurston from the commit
tee on international expositions made
a favorable report upon the bill 10 aid
the proposed exposition at Nashville,
Tenn.
The house committee on pensions or
dered a favorable report on the bill in
troduced by Representative Stallings
10 increase the pensions of veterans Of
the Mexican and Indian wars and
their widows from IS 10 $12 a monSa.
A trip Of inspection OF many of the
local land offices in Minnesota, Mon
tana, Idaho, California and Colorado
will be made during June by Commits
sioner Lamoreux of the general land
office.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14

The bicycle craze has struck Athens,
and there are nov about 400 wheels
in that city. Several years ago the
king introduced the first one. but there
was such a popular prejudice against
Il that he seldom appeared on it in
public. Even now the Greek peasants
regard the bicycle as %uncanny, and
cross themselves and pray whenever
a bicyclist passes them.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14

A confederate veteran recently pen
stoned by his estate, enlisted at the
age Of 67 and served through the war.
He has since supported himself by his
own labor until now, at the age of 101,
he finds himself unable to do SO, and
so asks for a pension just sufficient
to keep him alive. Such a man as this
is a hero, and North Carolina ought to
be proud Of him.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
An ANALYSIS Of 1000 accident policie

An analysis Of 1000 accident policies
on which benefits were paid shows 531
persons injured by falls on pavements,
,243 by carriages or wagons, 20 by
horse-kicks or bites and AZ by horse
back riding; III were cut with edge
tools or glass, SO were hurt by having
weights fall on them, and 76 were
hurt in bicycle accidents, while ~ We're
hurt by falling down stairs.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
A Sure Sign.

Editor-Did you interview the pi
fighter?
Reporter-Yes, he's given up fshul
for good.
Editor-Did he say so?
Reporter-No. but he refused TO u
for publication.-Truth.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14
The Snureh bachelor

Il cannot See" said tie sentinel
maiden, why a young man in a
should always be deemed a sub.
for laughter"
Nor l." said the soured batha
There is nothing more cruel Il
making sport Of "A mental iniirmiy.
indianapolis Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14

There is a sad lack of originality in
the Booth-Tucker methods. If the new
commander had familiarized himself
with the history of Summing in Am
erica before he began his labors he
would have found that the expedient
of a cheap disguise and a court room
scene after is too stale to give any
body but the perpetrator a sensation.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14

Prof. Morton, Of the Lowell institute,
observing infinitely the action of the
human heart by means of the y rays.
We are rapidly approaching a point
where it will no longer be necessary
for any one I 0 make q clean breast Of
anything.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14

Douglas and Lincoln were rivals in
love as well as politics Both proposed
~ the same young woman, but Lincoln
won her. If the Lincoln biographers
are TO be believed, this was an unfor-
tunate thing for the martyr-president
and a happy escape for Douglas.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14

The inevitable woman in the case
comes to the surface as the cause of
the reckless behavior of Cecil Rhodes
in South Africa, though none but the
most vivid imagination could figure
out any connection between his re-
lection by a fair London dame and his
ambition to be founder of the United
States of Africa.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14

The great German soldier. Won
be for either of the European powers
to inaugurate a general war. said,
shortly before his death: "Woe be to
him who shall apply the torch to the
magazine that viii set lire to all Eu-
rope"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14

william Of Germany is very proud
Of the role of working mans emper-
or" which he has undertaken in earn
est, despite the opposition of the Con-
s~ervatives. AS things now stand, the
kaiser and the socialist working peo-
pie of his empire seem to be in close
sympathy.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14

WOnId Run His Que n

hftchneid. Mimi. May 12.-In a "a.
loon brawl Thomas Wandok ssr,n,,
refer Johnson on the head with q
cluo. Johnso is still unconscious
ahu may die. Wandok is proprietor of
.he saloon, and claims johnson tried
to run his bar. '"u