Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-03-04
Miscellaneous.

miscellaneous.
Cleveland, Olney & Uhl Is said TO be
a proposed law firm.
The Episcopalians will meet ia New
Orleans in November, 1897.
Creameries are to be built at Alex
andria, S. D., and Newcastle, Neo.
The fight in Kansas for resubn mis-
sion of the liquor question was lost In
the state legislature.
railways at Galveston, Tex, ave gone
on strike for increase in wages.
Annie S. and George 5. Redhead of
Des Molnes, Iowa, made an assign
ment for the benefit of creditors with
out preference.
Rev. John ". Murdoch, ID. d.. IL. d.,
honorary secretary of the American
Baptist Union, is dead at Clifton
Springs, n. y.
By a decision of the secretary Of the
interior the great tract of swamp land
in Florida known as 1.-THE everglades"
is conveyed to the State OF Florida.
The New England Emigrant COM
pany, at an adjourned meeting at Bos
ton, voted to transfer all property be-
longing to the company to the Univer-
sity of Kansas.
Albert r.. Griffith. aged 81, said to be a
cousin of Gen. Uiyssis S. Grant, was
found floating in the Ohio river at Gin
cinnati. His pockets were turned in
side out when found.
The National Educational associa-
ton, department of superirtendents.
will hold its annual session i'm Indian
apolis, beginning next Thursday and
continuing three days.
Thomas w. Haynes and Lorenzo J..
Cutler, who comprise the firm of L. w.
Haynes & Co, manufacturers and
dealers in straw and felt goods, New
York, have assigned.
The Jackson Company of Nashua,
n. H., has decided to add extensive i'm
proyements 10 its cotton manufactur-
ing plant and the number of employees
will be increased.
The Iowa senate. without amend
ment, has passed the Brant house bin,
bringing special charter cities under
the Mulct Law. The bill now goes to
the governor.
The State National Bank of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, capitalized at half a million
dollars, will go into voluntary liquida-
ton, the present officers remaining in
charge to wind up the banks affairs.
At Galesburg, H., Knox college Gel
ebrated the sixtieth anniversary of it's
founding. The chief addresses were
by 8. ). Mcclure of New York city
and DR.. Willard Robinson Of Chicago.
Count de Licheiveid, the newly ap-
pointed Belgian minister, escorted bv
Secretary Olney, presented his Gre
dentials to President Cleveland. and
the usual felicitous speeches were ex-
changed.
The Eleanor Iron works at Holii-
~daysburg, Pa, which have been idle
for six months, resumed operations
to-day. The striking puddlers accepted
the company's terms of $2.75 per ton.
About 100 men and boys are given em-
ployment.
The receivers of the Baltimore Il
Ohio railroad, seeing an opportunity
to buy steel rails cheap, have placed
an order for $4,000 tons to weigh so
pounds to the yard. OF this 10000
tons is for immediate delivery.
#. r. Kirkendall, manager Of the de-
partment and grounds of the Omaha
exposition, received a telegram from
Genera Superintendent Dion Geral
dine, of the worlds fair at Chicago.
accepting a similar position here in
1898.
BY the death Of William Lampson.
a banker of Leroy, N. Y, and a neph-
ew OF the late Sir Curtis LampsOn,
Bart, London, Eng, the bulk of a
large property said to be valued ut
about a million dollars. has been be-
queathed to Yale university.
Because she was quarrantined with
her family for scarlet fever, and her
daughter, aged ten, died, together with
all the cattle, hogs and horses on the
place, from neglect, and she nearly per-
ished herself, Lena Sturh Of Webster
City, Iowa, has brought suit against
the trustees for $4,000
Mrs. William Swan of Elkhart. Ind.
Is dying. Last summer q bug lodged
In he- cal. Her suffering was intense,
but physicians could not dislodge the
insect. A council Of physicians has
now discovered a large quantity OF
larvae In her head, the Interior Of
which Ii alive with insects. Mrs
Swan became deranged from pain.
but VIII sosn be relieved by death.