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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
Erie couaty murderer Tic must hang

Erie ccuaty murderer He nus hang
Dec. IL.
Robert Il. Foote. attorney for Allen
| Henze Downen. the highvayman cen
| victed at Denver for the murder of
Joel G. Ashworth. Ias filed ~ applica-
ton for a nev. trial. backed Ivy an afii-
davit by Downen Co the effect that ais
confession was untrue.
At Chicago. Aid. Frank &. Vicrllng
has been arrested on a charge OF en-
hczzling $500 from n concern in Sac
rafuento, Cal. The case was continued
until Dec. z, when he will be tried for
tl.e crime.
Mrs. Grace Dolan, n white IN
shot and instantly killed Henry Jack
son at indianapolis, n negro. Mrs. DO
Ian claims that Jackson was trying to
enter her house. and after being driven
away, returned and threw a brick at
her.
Louis w. Hermann died at No. Al
Florence avenue, Chicago, from the
effects Of injuries received last Satur-
day evening in a personal encounter
with Dorsey OConnor. The men were
representatives OF rival publishing
bouses.
Gray jim the negro who hrutaIiv
murdered one Of the Williams boys and
fatally wounded his brother, in Melton
township. neal Pine Bluff, Ark. was
captured near the scene of his crime
He was fully identified. Reports last
night say that n mob of farmers o
the negro from the officers and lynchea
him.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
A Brave wamnn

Wooster, Ohio. Dec. 14.-At an early
hour this morning three masked mon
battered down the door of the farm
house of Perry BristoW. an aged man
living near here. Just as they entered
the house Mrs. Alice Raxter, Bris-
lows housekeerer, met them with n
lamp I'm her hand. As one of the
burglars attempted to grab her by the
throat she hit him in the face with
the lamp, breaking 1t. She continued
to hammer him with the glass handle
OF the lamp until he beat a retreat and
the other robbers ran away. One OF
the three was afterward arrested.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
A Gold Mine Sold.

1t Is once more reported at Deadwood
from the East that the entire Home
stake and associated properties have
been sold, and the price set is S35,OOO,-
900. The sale is said to include the
mines and mills at Lead, Terraville and
Central. of the Homestake, Deadwood-
Terra and Highland companies. The
purchasers are said to be the British
Exploration company, who have been
reported for some months as anxious
TO get the mines. But Judge Moody,
attorney for the Homestake, says tn &c
is nothing in the sale. The n of
the valuable properties adjacent to
the Homestake, who recently bonded
them for nine and twelve months to an
agent from Sioux City, are now Of the
opinion that he was working In the in
terest of the company that has been
looking for the latter.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
TELECRAPHIo nRrv,,.
Items of General Inter.
and Boiled n.N"t "a

Items al General Ip,.
Boiled Dow Cst
England's coal mines. II =
will soon be exhausted. peaev
Cholera has killed moro ~.
cent of the hogs in Iowa. Aan %
A niece of Gen. Pulaski 80
tionary fame, has committed heydl
New York. sulcida
A Cuban home rule plan !.
have been formulated by tha sad|
government. Spaul
More inferior armor n,ato
supplied the battleships LOS 81
built than has been Supposed VI
A first edition copy OF Mil,an.-
adise Lost" as sold at anction II
timore the other day for Saa5 IN 4
John Hickey. superlntendo..
motive power of the Nortborue
has resigned on account of in ha raed
II 10 believed that Minneso,a suu
represented in the cabinet r. WIN
either in the war or interior a.
ment. uepa
Joseph l.. Bonesteele, WIN -,
Frank Cole ut Butte. has hoe, Ai1
fenced to eleven years in the ra,, '
tiary. penl0
Mrs. Sadie Thompson. domo,.,.
the Buckingham, in st. PAM y,
washing windows. fell and -" WI
ably fatally injured. ~
The st. Paul chamber of couu.
committee will urge the retiremous
the greenbacks and the extens,aa
national banks.
Mrs. William ]. Bryan has sor.
ladies of the Congregational chnrsn
Reno, Wash, a linen piece for !,
fair. orked by herself. y
Chairman Lane, of the nation.,
metallic committee. has issned on
dress advising that the silver ayi,a,
be temporarily suspended.
Samuel p. Putnam, presiden, a,
free thought congress, and Miss "
l.. Collins. a young agnostic lectn'
were killed by escaping gas in RoS,
The application of South Dakota
publican candidates for a manda,
to secure the issue TO them Of COR
Gates of election has been arpnod
fore the superior court of South
kota.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
IMMIGRATION.
The Executive Committee Holds mn
important Meeting

Important
uno a~xocutiyc committee of the South
Dakota Immigration association neid
a meeting recently at Sioux FAILS
Col. II. III. Brown was appointed a
committee 10 bring up matters belore
the legislature for the encouragement
of immigration.
Resolutions were adopted c~ensuring
the Sioux Falls Journal for publishing
q clipping from the Davenport Demo
crat. which cast reflections on the
state.
The following resolutions were adopt
ed: -.
Whereas. In recent years there q
been a large increase In Immigration
from illiterate and industrially unde-
yeloped countries of Europe and Asia;
and, !.
Whereas. such immigration does not
distribute itself throughout the United
States so as to become an integral part
of the people, but tends 10 remain In
the Atlantic states, and within those
states to form colonies alien To u
people in language, habits n morai
and political ideas, and puts q great
burden upon all penal and public ana
private charitable institutions in those
states: therefore he it
Resolved. by the South Dakota Inn
migration association. That We heartily
favor the application of a stringent
reading and writing test for all immi-
grants, except children under fourteen
years and the aged parents or grand
parents of admissible immigrants, and
that ~illiterate immigrants are not de-
sirable as colonists In u state.
Resolved, That we urge upon con-
gress the immediate adoption of laws
%embodying the educational test as
above set forth.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
MARKET
Latest Quotations From Grain Al
Live stock C~enterS /

Live Stock C~enters.
Chicago, Dee. 14.-Wheat - Deceul
Der. 10 I-Sc; May, so Use; July, 743a
Corn-December, % lie; May. IN
Oats - December, lie; May. M1.9|
Pork-Decembcr, S6.S7: January. sid
May, $T.92. Lard-December, SD
January, S3.S7; May Si.0T. Ribs-D1
cember, $3.50; January. 1897; MAJ
S4.02. Rye-Cash, 80 lie; Decembe
3S 1-2c; May. 43c. Barley-Cash. NJ
3. 23a3Tc. Flax-Cash, 76e; do n. wi
rs lie; December, "A lie; MAJ
10 1-2c. Timothy-Cash, $3.50; Deced
Der, S2.55; February, S2.65; Marl
$40.
Milwaukee. Dee. IA. : Flour stead
but dull Wheat higher and firm; Nj
2 spring, roc; No. 1 Northern, sec; MAJ
so SAC. Corn steady; No. 3, 22a23 IA
Oats neglected; No. 2 white, 1919
20 lie. Barley steady; No 2, 3312
SAC; sample, 23a34c, Rye steady; N
i, 40a40 LIE. Provisions steady.
Minneapolis. Dec. 14.-Wheat = D,
cember opened at tie and closed 4
II 1-2c; May opened at zoe and close
at 40 lie. On track-No. 1 hard, 20
No. / Northern, n 34c; No. 2 Mort
ern, 76 1-4c.
South st. Paul. Dec. 14.-Hogs stead
10 &c higher; sales Mt $2.S0a3.15 Cd
tie steady; good demand for fat ca
tie, stockers and feeders; common stu
slow; sales at $2.25a3.25.
Chicago, Dec. 14.-Hogs-Market
higher. light, $3.25a3.45; mixed, S2
3.45; heavy. $3.05a3.45; rough, 81
a3.10. Cattle quiet and ~unchange
Sheep strong
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
Accidental Happenings.

Nearly 300 lives were lost by the
sinking of an Italian steamer.
A head-on collision between two
freights on the Southern Pacific road
near Waelder, Tex, resulted in the
death of two engineers, two fremen
and a brakeman.
The Solderholm block at jamestown,
NY, owned by j.. NJ. johnson, burned
early in the morning. George Kille-
man, a lodger, was suffocated by
smoke and may die.
Frederick Loveland, the oldest and
best known guide In the Adirondacks,
has been accidentally killed by n fall
ing tree. He was a giant in stature
and possessed remarkable strength.
He was seventy years old.
A Burlington plug train ran into an
electric car on Choctow crossing at
Leavenworth, Kan, smashing the
front OF the electric car and severely
injuring Capt. Montgomery of the pen
sion department Of the soldiers home
at Fort Leavenworth.
Blanche Bishop, aged fourteen, a
daughter of David Bishop, and Ella
Alpha, aged fifteen, daughter OF T. III.
Alpha, while skating on thin ice Mt
Rawley, Pa, broke through and were
drowned, as was q brother of the latter
who attempted to rescue them.
The entire plant and buildings of the
Wilmington & Russell company, cov-
ering about six acres in Newton, a
suburb of Nashville, Tenn, was totally
destroyed by fire, together with a
large stock OF manufactured goods.
The loss Is 1925 900 An exploding
lamp was the cause Of the fire.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

A man who has evidently no poetry
IN his soul has invented a milking MA
chine, which. 1t is claimed. will easily
milk seventy-five cows twice a day.
Twas ever thus In childhood's hour"
One by one, invention is depriving us
Of III dearest illusions. For genera
tons the milkmald has been read Of n
song and seen In pictures, and now she
rs to be banished from the world and
her place taken by a patent aiI-pump.
This is hard.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
bum ID ia Dentn

A terrible accident occurred ton
miles southwest OF Alcester. The little
fou~r-year-old girl Of Knute Ofstad
caught her clothes afte while the
mother was absent a moment or two
after a pail Of water. When the moth.
er got back the child was rolling on
the moor wrapped In awful flames
a:c sss;ieT caiue with all haste after
Dr. Hyden or this village and the
neigh0ofs assisted all they could but
to no avail. the fire having done ia
dreadful work. The little sufferer lived
about two hours. The funeral war held
Yesterday from the Norwegian Luth-
eran church. ~
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
wantea to INnch Him.

Upton. Mo-, Dec. IA. moo ~
pearcd at the county jail last D's ~
and demanded to be admitted 70 -.
cell of Isan Vaughn, who was ~
rested yesterday and who Is cna,ssa
with having murdered his aunt M nrs,
Nancy Bridscn, who reared him. ln'
sheriff. fearing mob violence, hau pls
viously taken Vaughn TO Jeliea
City, and when he assured his vlS''y tss
that Vaughn was not In the jan ras
mob dispersed. Mrs. Bridson ~.s
murdered Friday evening Mt heI n' -
four miles from here, being snu
death while standing in her door y sbe
Robbery is supposed to have Deen -
motive.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
Otherwise.

The Massachusetts, State Grange has
adopted a resolution favoring Col. j.
III. Brigham Of Ohio for secretary OF
agriculture.
A joint convention of coal miners
and operators to formulate q scale of
wages i'm the Pittsburg district for
next year is In session.
Whales have been numerous in the
bay at Santa Cruz recently. A fishing
boat narrowly escaped capslzing by
n of them.
Some time since Clint X. Coulter, the
well known Denver bicycle rider, cov-
cred a mile unpaced in 1:59 10, estab-
fishing a worlds record which has
been allowed.
George Thomas, a merchant Of Grand
Junction, Col, brought on an attack of
nose bleeding three weeks ago by lift
ing a sack of flour. The bleeding con-
tinued in spite Of all the physicians
could do, and he died.
Inspection of winter crops of celery
now in the trenches in the Kalamazoo
celery fields shows that fully onc-third
is rotten on account of damp, warm
weather. The estimated loss is $780,
600.
At the annual meeting of the board
Of directors of the Santa Fe system,
held at Topeka, the entire board of di-
rectors, the executive committee and
the officers of the board were re-elect-
ed.
The Knower Cottage, on the Cliffs at
Newport, X. L., was sold to Henry
Payne Whitney, son-in-law of Corne-
lius Vanderbilt, the price paid being n
quarter of a million. Mr.. Whitney win
present the property to his wife.
An examination Of the assets of the
recently failed Baxter Springs (Kan.)
hank, of which Col. Alexander Warner
was president, reveals but $29.36 in
cash on hand. The capital stock Of
the bank vas $4,000.
John II. Strauchan, a well known
mason contractor, who has been in
business at Rochester, N. H.. for %
years, has made an assignment, with
out preferences. 1t Is estimated that
his assets will foot up $4,000, while
his Liabilities VIII reach $4,000.
The Independent Club of Canada,
which has been in existence in Mont
real for some five months, and whose
| object Is the attainment OF Canadian
Independence. is gaining In strength,
and a convention probably will be held
next March with a view to federating
all the groups and Cube having n ike
object.
The Union National Bank of New
Orleans, which SUSPENDED payment on
Sept. 1, 1896, having complied with all
the conditions imposed by the comp
| troller of the currency precedent to
resumption, Is now In a solvent condi-
ton. and has been permitted to open
It's doors.
The Columbia & Red Mountain rail-
road. the new line which Is pushing it's
way into the new mining regions
around Rossland, B. c., has progressed
rapidly In building. The last advices
from Rossland say that the tracklay-
ers are within o couple of miles Of
town. The completion of the line win
be hailed as quite an event In the
North.
During the past season seven broth
ers named McCutcheon have hunted
birds OF rare piumage, such as the
egret, heron, elder duck. etc, on Made
line Lever GaiHofnis, and tine
value Of the feathers secured by them
Ii estimated at 81. 100. Egret feathers
are worth $32 a pound In San Francis
CO, and none Of the other feathers are
worth less than - or $6 per pound.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

According to Lombroso, woman is un-
developed man-therefore physically
and intellectually, his inferior. He says
mat before arriving at womanhood. the
girl equals or surpasses the nan phys
icaily and often mentally. Then atav-
ssm sets In, and she degenerates. Our
nh-de-aiAcle philosopher th-c-ss 9 sop
70 the e he ~depreeiates by saying
hat women are naturally hess Grim
tnai thar ussn and more susceptible to
pfty ana Gne. esznotion~ (
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
MISS CASE.
The San Francisco Girl mn Inmate
of m C~rtttentOn Home.

OF n Crtttenton Home.
Washington. Dec. ii. - Mrs KATE
Waller Barrett, who has been closely
allied here with the work of the CrlH
tenton Rescue league. spoke today q
Matte Overman. whose name wa
connected with DR.. Brown In the say
Francisco church scandal. and q
whom 1t was stated that she wal
coming to this city. -
mr.. Crittenton gave me a check Io1
$G0," said Mrs. Barrett, land sent y
to Miss Overman TO come here, 90!
since the press has announced the iae1
that she was coming here, she VII, y
elsewhere, and when her tormenml'
find out where she is, we will taAe
her somewhere else"
The meeting destroyed Miss oWI'
mans plans To come here. She Us uav,
cling i'm disguise under the name o.
Sister Martha, and will continue y
work with the Crittenton band. sno
was not coming here TO join MIS-. nal.
rett, as was commonly announced ru'
she intended TO live here in tne Va
tional Crittenton home.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

The extreme luxury has perhaps been
reached by the sultan of Morocco. He
has a narrow gauge railway running
through all the rooms of his palace and
travels about ON a sort OF sleigh pro-
PEELED by a little motor. The line
ends in his bedroom.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
Bystander KtIlea

Butte, Mont, Der. IA shooting
scrape resulting In the death OF Wrl-
lam Coontz, an Innocent bystander,
and the serious wounding Of Reuben
Leveridge, took place at Princeton.
near Royal. The row starred between
George Bieber and I%yerldge, both old
timers OF the county u .s claimed;
Bieber Is responsible for the shooting
Of Leveridge, but who shot Coontz h
not known. Leveridge was shot in
n groin and IL cot expected w live.
Coontz was shot In the forehead and
died almost Instantly.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

School teachers have started a cru
SADIE against the treacherous cigarette
button. III the deceptive and unrelia-
bic suspender button will be included,
aid and support may be expected from
a large contingent of betrayed and out
ragged humanity.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

There seems to be some surprise that
a actor should be able to i'm
personate Svengali with thrilling ef-
feet. As a matter Of fact, Svengali
had a good deal more of the feminine,
or, at least, OF the feline, in his make
up, than he had of virfiity.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

Ex-Bandit Frank James is out after
a political Office. He aspires to the POI
licr ccmmissionership of st. Louis. If
Frank gets In with the politicians he
win learn some points in the noble art
of fleeing the public that he never
dreamed Of.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

The Belgian Captain Lothaire. who
forded it over the Congo region for four
mas been compelled by a prosaic civil
court in Belgium to pay the cost Of a
wedding trousseau ordered by his jilt-
ed sweetheart.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

What troubles poor old Spain nova
days is an increasing surplus Of coloDi-
a, revolutions and a deficit In the
ear of supervising them. Her great
esf need at present is something that
will help her let 60 Of some of her
bothcrsone colonies.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

DR.. James G. Mackenzie, before a.
distinguished educational association
IN Philadelphia last week, asked Amer
lean employers to remember that "a
man, in order to be &c aayy use to civil
ization, must be able to earn enough to
pay his board" This remark deserves
to be booked az a fundamental canon
OF political economy
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

According to a medical writer. blush
ing IS a nervous disease, and an anti
toxin for it will be discovered some
day by doctors. But the medicine will
never be used to any great extent by
young women WHO wish to charm.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
Now TINT the end-of-the-centuiy wo-
men are turning burglars. we suppose
that even the most radical wearcr CT
boomers, will be satisfied.

Carson" and The Kiss Of Delilah'
are currcnt theatrical attractions in
London. Between them they ought to
have no difficulty in bringing down the
house.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

The tone Of the German press, in
their comments on the Withdrawal of
the exemption of German vessels from
tonnage dues by this government. in
dlcatcs that they d. not like to be done
By rs they have been doing us.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

A man in Indiana, who was chas-
tised by his wife, killed himself. 1t
would appear that there are still some
husbands who take such chastisements
grievousiy instead of with meckness.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
-Dcuberrte suicide.

Toledo, Dec. 14.--Edmund u. WAN
the son of Thomas III. wright, = pom aon.
inent insurance man OF this Guy, RIM.
mitted suicide to day by shoo'ins - a
self In the heart over the gra'e ,set.
Mrs. Osborne, supposed to be q Sssth
heart Of his. He prepared I TOT
by going to communion this Inorh's
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

carney Barnato has OF his new
est and most palatial houses in London.
But he has earned it, Fifteen years
hard work in picking up diamonds by
hands, entities a man to all the lux
uries.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

Laureate Austin having been res
cued from q watery grave, might de-
scribe for us In his next poem how he
FELT when he thought he was drown
ing. The narrative could be made
much more exciting than those verses
about "Jameson's Ride"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
To Fight spnniards.

Larned, Kan. Dec. IA man -
resenting himself tn be a r~ecrui'.nss M
flcer for the Cuban army, u 10 y
from st. Louis, has enlisted n'. spd
twenty young men In this "m aod
county, under promise OF gooo -
free transportation to New ofic'
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

Mother and Daughter Decshs
Indianapolis. Dec. 14.-Mn ~
Inc Corbett, aged seventy, an Sonn1
daughter Mary, aged forty, veI. dcre Z
dead IN their home to-day. Al w.
gas was strong Ia the kcuse.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17

a Baptist minister in Cincinnati has
dropped 119 members from his church
for being ''too worldly" In some cities
it would be difficult to close up the
gap.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-17
Grimes and Criminals.

Maria Barberi, the New York girl
who killed her recreant lover. has been
acquitted.
Charles Scott was fatally shot by his
wife at Lincoln, Neb. They qnarreled
and Scott started toward his wife with
a knife. nne secured q revolver and
shot him m the eye.
The Ohio Htate board CT pnrdons has
refused ~ make q Recommendation for
clemency In the ~ OF Tierney, the