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

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densed Form.
The Rel@iansg government has decided
that Americans residing in RelgiuTn
VIII hereafter be exempt from service
In the civil guard.
Alonzo s.. Kimball. professor Of
physics ~ the Worcester, Mass, Poly
technic institution since 49,. is dead
at the 9 of 90 years.
Mrs. Matilda Delilah Shields. a
granddaughter Of Richard Henry Pot
ofnax, an Indian chief. died at Wash
iugten. aged f13 years.
1t Is said that Oscar Wilde has ar
ranged to publish In London and New
York city a poem entitled .srhe Bal
lad of Reading Jail by C.. 81"
Alfred Howe, son of Edwin Al.
Howe, a letter carrier of Lowell.
Mass, has been arrested. charged with
murderously assaulting his father and
mother.
The cruiser Brooklyn, although
ready TO leave the New York dry
dock, may be detained until the new
year by some slight changes which are
contemplated.
George W. Temple will be appointed
postmaster at Spokane, Wash, In lieu
of Fred Hopkins, who declined. An
appropriation for five additional mail
cdrriers and two clerks has been So
cured.
0 Pifgree of Michigan has de-
termined to effect a rigid enforcement
of the state law against the manufac-
tire and sale of colored oleomargarine,
n will cause dealers to be vigorously
prosecuted.
A Paris cable SAYS that according 10
the official returns the last vintage
amounts to 3 1000. 900 hectoiiters. This
Is a falling off of 1900, 900 from the
vintage of 1896, and about 100000 I'M
der the average ST the previous year.
James Mcneil Whistler of Paris,
the painter, has been sustained in his
appeal from n judicial decision order
ing him TO return 10 sir William Eden
a portrait of Lady Eden which ne had
painted, and 10 pay Sir William 1000
damages.
The conference of citizens from
various parts 90 the United States II
TO be held I'm New York next week or
the week after i'm the interest of uni
form primary elections. The confer
ence is to advocate the enactment Of
laws bring primaries under state SUI
pervision.
Emile Clark, consular agent Of the
United States ut paria. Peru, has
been asked for his resignation. On
April - hast, Clark was ousfed from
his quarters. 1t was stated at the
time that the consulate had been
sacked, bnt the fact was he refused TO
pay his rent.
Mary Pnshnan az Butte. Mont. con.
victed of nanSiaughtar. and who
served n short term IN the penitentiary
for numbering her baby by feeding
pins to II and sticking its body full of
pins, is again I'm jail and is charged
with attempting TO kill another child,
a baby thirteen months old.
BY direction of the secretary OF the
navy the special board of officers at
Indian Head made a final test and IN
spectfon of the new s~ix-pounder auto
matte gun. This Weapon has been
fired ut the rate of I'll rounds per min
ute, and In use dispenses with the ser.
vices of a man at each gun.
The farmers of Colorado are kicking
themselves for being inveigled into n
trust that wits designed to cover the
production of potatoes In that section,
The headquarters OF the trust are al
Greeley and the chief market for the
crop has been In Texas and Southern
points. The Minnesota farmers are
now supplying the Southwest.