Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-03-04
NEWS In BRIEF.
Overflow From IA Wires In n Com.
dennetl Farm,

~'O" rom the wires In q Con-
dcnseI Form.
Henry G.. Payne, il is said will, s,c.
coed Mitchell OF Wisconsin In the SEN
ute.
M. Decrais. an ex-ambassador. has
Oeen elected from Bordeaux as a mem
Der OF the French chamber Of deputies.
Dr. ). Gratz Moses, one Of the Did
est anJ most prominent physicians In
81. Louis, died Of old age in his eighty
fifth year.
close friends in Pittsburg of Andrew
carnegie announce that an heir to tha
steel princes millions Is expected to
arrive ut an early day.
lin Hussey. who discovered III Tin,
cripple Creek district mines worth ST..
UOO,OOO, died penniless in the hOsDjtai
OF the great gold camp.
An officer Of Yale University. In a
position To know the facts, saws that
the Lampson requests will probably
to about $4,000.
L.. s. Metcalf will retire from the
management Of the Jacksonville Daily
FIorida Citizen, the paper having been
purchased by George w. Wilson.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Times. denies that any decision
has been given there by the Vatican on
d subject of the Manitoba schools.
The county infirmary, located two
niles south Of Warsaw. Ind, was to-
Tally destroyed by fire. The building
900.
The Reading Iron company, which
employees l,SO0 hands, has posted mo-
tices notifying their men that they
would have 10 submit 10 u reduction In
wages.
The Lima Northern railroad has
purchased sixty-three miles of new
steel rails to be used In building an ex-
tension OF the road from Adrian, Mich.
TO Detroit.
A telegram from Colorado Springs
announces the death there of John =.
Brigham, the treasurer of the Logan,
Swift &Brigham Company Of Worces.
ter. Mass.
The jury in the case Of Edward
Flanagan, charged al Atlanta, Ga,
with h murder OF Mrs. Allen and
Miss Ruth Slack, brought In a verdict
pronouncdng Flanagan sane.
A movement is being made in Kan
a to erect n marble bust of Charles
Robinson. first governor OF the state.
1t is proposed 70 place the bust in the
chapel OF the state university 1T Law
enc
The White Star Steamship company
has has ordered Il new twin-screw mail
and passenger steamer for the New
York and Liverpool service, which il
TO be larger than any vessel o In
service.
Lyman s. Burnham, one OF the
founders and the last surviving part
ner In the Brooklyn dry goods firm OF
Journay & Burnhlm, Is dead ut his
home in Brooklyn, aged e~ighty-one
years.
Rev. George f. P~entecost, ID. d., pas
tor Of the Marylebone Presbyterian
church in London, has ~reconsidered his
decision declining a call to the First
Presbyterian church of Yonkers, n. Y,
and cabled his acceptance.
The heirs Of the late Ann K. Allen,
who died intestate in Pittsfield, Mass,
a few weeks ago, have filed a suit In
the circuit cpur asking for an appOr-
ti0nment of the property. The estate
is estimated ut S10,O00,0OO.
Frank 4. Yanderlip, assistant man
aging editor Of the ReformiSt, a imam
cial magazine of Chicago, has accept
ed the position OF private secretary to
Lyman j. Gage when that gentleman
becomes secretary of the treasury.
During a thunder storm lightning
struck a Forty-third street electric car
al Chicago. The car was full of work
men on their way TO the stock yards.
All were badly shocked, and n man,
Zach Root. had TO be removed in an
ambulance. The car was badly lam
aged.
Ten New York oity lots worth $500
900 have been given under conditions
to the st. James Protestant Episcopal
mission in that city by j. s. Rhine
lander. The conditions are that in five
years the mission must accomplish
enough tangible good to satisfy the
donor, when the lost win become its
absolute property.