Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-11
very obnoxious 70 the insurgents on as.
coun. OF his many acts OF brutality.
MISCELLANEOUS.

.rhe cruiser Philadelphia. which
went down the Southern coast as far
rs Callao about three months ago on
n cruise, Is on her way back.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has decided 10
close up Tie estate Of her deceased
husband. Fgrst she will dispose OF
the lands and aftcrward personal prop
erty.
Herman Oerlichs, the well known so
ciety and club man and steamboat
owner, was swor in at New York city
as foreman OF the February grand
jury before Judge Cowing in part l OF
general sessions.
AT a meeting at Lincoln, Neb., OF
the state relief commission il was
found that there are now loaded Tor
shipment five cars of corn at Hastings,
one ut Aurora and IN at Wilcox IN
tended for the relief Of the poor IN
Chicago.
Woodson, agent Of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indians, has received a let
ter from Gen. Porter asking for a
number OF Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians TO march ia the inaugural pa
rade at Washington March 4. "A band
of fifty reds will lie sent to the capital
~ requested.
Gen. II. A. Alger Of Michigan has
purchased Of eX-United States senator
Warner Miller ard others the uontrOil-
ing interest in the Lauremtide COM
pany of Gardiner, u. O., Can. The
conlpany's plant includes n number of
hjg pulp mills and thousands of acres
OF timber land.
w. NJ. Chandler, j. S. Lathprs and
#. Y. Carmody were selected as Mich
igan ~university's debaters 10 meet
Chicago's representatives in the Audi
forum April 10. Chandler is a senior
law student from Texas, and Lathers
and Carmody are both senior literary
students from Michigan.
A twelve-year-old gray Mexican par
rot whipped a large Yorkshire terrier
in n pitched battle for $500 a side ut
Hawthorne, y. J.. The victorious bird
was ~unharmed, but the grip of its
beak upon the dogs snout was so pow
erful that the handlers had to pry it
open by fierce in order 10 release the
dog.
The county jail at Dayton was placed
under quarantine by Health Officer
Iddings. A prisoner named George
Stimmel has a V cas of varioloid.
He was sentenced to the Ohio reform
atory last week for burglary and lar
ceny, and would have been taken 20
Mansfield Tomorrow. He was ordered
TO quarantine instead.
The Butte and Boston Mining COM
pany's property, consisting OF fifty
three mining claims, and everything
belonging to the company. WIS., sold by
the receiver at Boston TO X. Rollins
Morse, chairman Of the Butte and
Boston reorganization committee. for
$2,5J0,0O0. The bid was $4,000, the
difference being represented by in
cumbrances on the property.
Truman r. Lawrence against the
Pullman Palace Car company, n ease
of unusual interest, was decided at
Port Gibson, Miss, the jury awarding
Lawrence $4,000 damages. afterward
reducing It, by order of the court, to
$4,000. Both viii appeal. Lawrence
claims to have been severely beaten
by q porter in the employ OF the com
pany on q train in Illinois.
The new Hamburg-Amcrican line
steamship Pennsylvania, said to be
the largest freight-carrying steamship
in the world, left Belfast on her trial
trip TO New York. The Pennsylvania
is 56S feet long, has 81 feet beam, is
AZ feet deep, is Of 10000 ions displace-
ment and her dead weight carrying
capacity rs nearly 1900 tons. She
has accommodation for over 200 cabin
passengers and for 1900 steerage pas,
sengers.