Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-12-09
General.

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The New York legislature viii be
asked to pass a law legalizing Sunday
base ball.
Dividend payments have just been
made by the Silver King. Swansea.
Mercur and South Swansea. in all.
$4,000.
John S. Barnes, formerly Of the Min
neapolis Western League Base Ball
team. is now matchmaking for a box
ing club IN Birmingham. England.
Pitcher Lewis. of the Boston club. is,
like Billy sunday. "A religious worker.
4 few days ago he preached a sermon
at the Boston Y. NJ. C. a.
The total product of the Harrisburg
district. in Southern California up 10
the present time is about $Go0.000. The
monthly product is now averaging
100000.
George A. REYNOLDS of Saginaw.
Mich. grand secretary of the order of
Elks. announces that the annual con-
vention will be held in New Orleans in
May. 1888.
Leslie Washburn of yermillion. $. ID,
died of consumption. lie was a jock
ey Of national reputation. and was also
known in Venezuela, where he rode
last year.
Letters of administration on the eS-
tate of the late John Il. Liggett, the
millionaire tohacconist. were taken out
mt ST. Louis by his widow, who was
made %executrix. The estate al val
ued at S3,50o,000.
Persons in from Utica report n small
stampede to Upper Sage Greek and
Indian Butte, Mont. A gold ledge, is
SAID TO be discovered. some of the
quartz ~assaying 500 TO the ton.
Many claims have been staked out.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give
the last $4,000 of the $1,000 600 needed
10 build n suitable home for the Ginter
Mechanics institute at Richmond. Va.
The S10e,noo is being -2ised by sub
scription. to supplement $4,000 be-
queathed the institute by Maj. Ginter.
The outlook for a successful winter
meeting of the Crescent City Jockey
club at New Orleans is very ~encourag-
ing. Notwithstanding the postpone
ment of the opening to Dec. 4, on ac-
count of yellow fever. There are al
ready about 400 horses at the track.
Mrs. Matilda Delialan Shields, n
granddaughter Of Richard Henry Po-
tomax, an Indian chief. died at Wash
ington aged 113 years. She leaves one
SOL and two daughters, thirty grand
children and thirty-iye great-grand-
children.
Chief Justice l.. G.. Kline will re-
tire from the Iowa supreme bench on
tA~ H. I-a r.I L.,
ship in Des Moines with j. G. Hume
and Charles s. Bradshaw and expects
to go into active practice. He went on
the supreme bench in 1891.
DIR. George u. Horn, who for n num-
Der of years was secretary of the
American Philosophical Society, died
in Philadelphia. aged 80 years. He
was president of the American Ento-
mOlogical society.
III. L. Lewis of Greensboro. Ga. has
been appointed a judge Of the sunreine
court of the state, to succeed Jgl-c
Spencer X. Atkinson, who fc igiled 10
accept a place OF the Georgia State
railroad commission
Mai. Geo. s. Merrill. until recently
insurance commissioner of Massachu-
HtNtN. 10 ~ bt tOIhItCltd Will tLC IL
surance departments of a number of
states, not including Massachusetts, as
an expert adviser.
The Union Pacific has made another
record for fast running. A mail train
has been shot across the country from
Cheyenne to Council Bluffs. $40 miles,
in 800 minutes. This is actual elapsed
time, and includes all stops.
! The president has appointed George
III. Harris of Washington, ID. c., TO be
b%rigadier general of the militia of the
District of Columbia. TO succeed the
late Gen. Ordway. former commanding
officer of the District National guard.
The M~oosehead Pulp and Paper Com
pany of Scion. Me-. has gone into in
solvency with unsecured claims
against 1t aggregating 100000. Plans
are being perfected 10 reorgariZe the
company and reopen the mills which
have closed since last spring.
Dr. Nansen is aid to have asstrong
dislike TO all the teas and receptions
10 which he has been treated in this
country. and would prefer, instead. to
being lionized. 10 keep his lecture en-
gagements and to live quietly and pri-
vately.
There is in Chicago a young Japan
csc girl who Is attracting attention not
only by her brightness and cleverness,
but as well by the literary ability she
possesses. Onoto Watanna Is the
name she is known by among her home
folk.
The dry goods firm OF Hilton, Hughes
4 Co., New York. which failed in '96,
to-day notified their smaller creditors
that their claims will be paid. The
larger claims, ii is stated, have been al
most all bought up by Judge Henry
Hilton, father of Albert Hilton.
Melvin Il. Church has begun O mill
ion dollar damage suit at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, against the Anti alsomine
company, otherwise known as the
Plaster trust. Mr.. Church. several
years ago, turned over his wall-tinting
patents and plaster properties to the
trust for operation. Recently he began
suit for $25O,0O0, alleging the trust had
not accounted to him properly, and had
withheld profits.
Hugo Wolf, the Viennese composer,
has developed such eccentricities that
his friends have been obliged TO put
him in an asylum. A society formed
In Vienna to spread his works. made IL