Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-08-12

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g~anization. M
sued his semi-annual statement OF the
condition OF the Iowa state and saw
ings banks. Ii shows a4slight improve
ment in conditions.
The first importation of Mexican cat
tie under the Dingley tariff law, Go
head of steers, the property of II. s.
Newman, brought a duty OF SI,296 over
the duties fixed by the Wilson bin.
Three hundred members of the Sew
enth regime IT, 1. n. g., at Springfield.
H., had trouble with citizens about
some kegs Of beer. One citizen had a
bayonet run into his eye.
Everett Ruggles has just discovered
that the lady whom he recently we'd
ded is an heiress. She will receive one
seventh Of a New York estate valued
at about S150,0O0.
Judge Sanborn arrived in Denver
and caused the decree of sale of the
Union Pacific railroad ordered by the
United States court to be duly re-
corded in that district.
The grand jury at Leadville, Colo,
has brought in two indictments against
4 pooSS OWVhc v Atbi " loi ttiC
laws against gambling and Sunday
opening. The sheriff is In the same
boat.
On the state railways in Germany
the carriages are painted according to
the cOlors of the tickets of their re-
spective classes. First class carriages
are painted yellow, second class green,
end third class white.
A part Of the now soldiers monu-
ment at Stamford, Conn, is a relic
that will be greatly treasured by that
town. Ii Is of the guns with which
the Kearsarge sent the Confederate
cruiser Alabama to the bottom.
Paris and Marseilles are now con-
nccted by telegraph lines entirely un-
foreground. They are placed in iron
pipes and buried four feet beneath the
surface, with manholes 1900 feet apart
and cost 81, 100000 to bury the wires.
The Golden Rod Silk company of
Paterson, n. j., has given notice of its
failure and q receiver has been ap-
pointed. Liabilities, $1O3, 600: assets,
about $4,000. The failure is due to a
strike.
The first summer school of instruc-
ton ever held in Dubuque is open. 1t
is a private enterprise gotten up by
Dubuque educators at an expense of
$1,000. 1t will last all the month.
Many eminent teachers are present.
Owing 10 new regulations in connec-
ton with taxes, a number Of manufac-
turers and storekeepers ia Madrid have
closed their premises and attempted to
create disturbances. They were sup
pressed"
A statue Of the late Vice President
Schuyler Colfax is TO be erected III
South Bend, Ind, his home and where
his family now lives. The decision
was reached 1T n meeting of the Com
mercial club, the leading business or
ganization % The city.
Two faded. decrepid but still intact
loan certificates for ) and 80 cents
respectively, issued by the city of Phil
adelphia in 1899 as parts of the $780,
600 loan, bearing interest at 1 per cent
per annum, We're presented at the city
t~reasurer's office there Monday for pay
ment.
a statue of a Gallo god has been
found in an old well in France. which
is believed to have been filled up at
the time of the invasion of the bar
barians. The image has the collar Of
the Gauls around rs neck and is two
feet high, s%quatdng like a Hindoo
Buddha.
Land Commissioner Hermann has
sent back to the Marquette land office
the contest between the Michigan
Land and Iron company and the set
tunY.o FNh;o xx,tll
contest fer $4,000 acres of land and
may ieopaIdie the title to nearly ten
times that much.
The Egyptian intelligence depart
ment has received word of heavy tri-
bal fighting up the Nile between the
dervishes and the Jaalons. The derv-
ishes, under one of the generals Of the
khalifa, defeated the Jaalons in a
pitched battle and occupied Metemnsh.
The Jaalons lost 1000 killed.
Albert and Clara Franks of Toledo
Were found in n Lake Shore stock car
ut Rutler, Ind, by a conductor, beating
had IN mems clothing and was good
looking. They had a large sum Of
money. but were beating their way to
EaNt ~ W phy thCii OhtLt " Tic SOfu
fields, which they expected to reach
early in the spring.
AT the request of Judge Owens at
Leadville, Colo, the district attorney
nolled twenty-seyen indictments re-
turned by the grand jury against the
city and county officers for failure to
enforce the laws. The judge refused
TO have the two indictments against
himself nolled. but this will be done
when another judge is sitting.
A recently patented swinging sofa
is designed TO take the place of a ham,
mock, and is fitted with spring steel
arms attached TO its base at each end,
and projecting upward TO hold the ends
of the strips which support the hang
ing soft, a cord being attached to one
end 10 rock the lounge when n person
is lying down.
The Osborn chateau. one of the finest
architectural triumphs OF the century,
will be opened soon as n Home for
Aged and Friendiess Women. Ii was
built by Charles Osborn, the New York
banker, and after his death was occu.
pied by his son, Charles, who was Wild
aCf known hocansn 80 his alopn,,ap<