Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-09-16
General.

General.
Ex-Congressman Lew Hanback, is
at Armourdale, Kansas City, Kan.
There is already distress in Ireland
as a result of the crop failures.
A company of Paraguayans seibed a
Bolivian town.
Six young men were drowned in
Lake st. Clair. Mich.
Canadians are greatly excited over
gold finds on the north shore of Lake
Superior.
The American line steamer ST. Louis
lowered the record from New York
to Southampton.
III. Clay Evans, commissioner of
pensions, is i'll with malaria, compli-
Gated with indigestion.
Sir Everett Millais is dead. He was
born May 80, 1856, and was a son of
the late Sir John f.. Millais, the paint
er.
Paderewski. while on his Polish es-
tate, neal that of the DE ReszkeS, has
cut his hair short and is practicing BIZ
cycle riding.
The Colorado Midland railroad, now
in the hands of q receiver, was sold at
auction at Colorado City, under order
of the court. There was but n bid
der, Chairman Olcott, of the reorgan-
ization committee.
The police of Providence, r. L., or
dered Emma Goldman, the anarchist
agitator, to leave Providence within
tw%enty-four hours or get three months
Imprisonment and she accepted the
first proposition.
Additional candidates have been adj
mitted TO the naval academy as fol-
lows: O. +. Cooper, North Carolina;
Frank r. McCreary, Kansas; j. X.
Rabcock, Iowa, M. G. Cooke, Kansas;
j.. A. Turner, Wisconsin.
At a meeting of passenger agents of
the Trans-Missouri lines ii was decided
to grant a rate Of one fare for the
round trip to Denver on the occasion
of the coming festival of Mountain and
Plain.
Mrs. Richard Milliken, widow of the
wealthy sugar planter, now at Sara
toga, has presented the charity hos
pital of New Orleans with $4,000 to
found a children's building, which will
include a kindergarten and other I'M
rrovements.
The Polish National Alliance cele-
brated the opening of its annual con-
vention at Philadelphia by presenting
TO the city portraits of Kosciusko and
Pulaski, the Revolutionary heroes,
which were placed in the Patriot"
gallery of Independence hall.
Lese majestic has sent a young en-
gineer of Liegnitz, in Silegia, to Jail
for six months. He expressed his
opinion of Emperor William at the
dinner table, and his loyal mother-in-
law at once denounced him to the po-
lice.
The almond crop in California will
be a larger one than last year. and the
nuts will be very large and fine. The
warm weather has cured them nicely,
and the harvest season will begin full
ly a week or ten days earlier than
heretofore.
Articles OF Incorporation were filed
at Trenton, N. j., of the Guayaquil
& Quito Railroad company. The COM
pany Is capitalized at So, $50 600, and
is organized for the purpose of operat-
ing a railroad in Ecuador, South
America.
Maj. j. Hoge Tyler, who was nom.
mated for governor of Virginia on the
Democratic ticket on the fifty-first an
niversary of his birth, is six feet tall,
straight as an arrow, with dark hair
and beard scarcely touched with gray.
He does not smoke or drink.
William Usher Parsons of New
York and Miss Katherine Corbin,
daughter of Lieut.. Col. Henry q. Cor
bin, u. s. A, were married in the
charel of st. Cornelius, on Governors
island. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. DIR. Morgan Dix, rector of
Trinity church.
Hillywood Inn, the new social club
for workingmen al Yonkers, N. Y,
was opened to the public by William
+. Cochran, whose gift the building
is. The corner stole mt the building
was laid on Labor day of 1896. The
club house site cost $4,000 and the
ediice $4,000.
Intense heat In the interior of Cali
fornia has injured many wine and Ia
BILE grapes. In the Sacramento valley
the loss on Tokay grapes, which were
largely supplied to the East, because
they stand transportation well, is es-
timated at 20 per cent.
All the rights Of way for the coast
railroad to be built from San Francis
co to Santa Cruz have been acquired.
Work will be commenced next .Janu-
airy, and the projectors, who are East
ern capitalists, guarantee the compile
ton Of the line in two years. The dis
lance Is eighty miles.
Delegates from Pennsylvania, New
York, Wisconsin and Minnesota were
seated at the Polish national conven-
ton In st. Paul. 1t was decided TO
amend the constitution so that twen-
ty years membership is necessary be-
bore beneficial aid can be extended.
The union also decided that the local
societies should not receive members
over forty-iye years old.