Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-01-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Overflow From the wires in r
Condensed Firm.

me oVer.CN From the wires in n
Condensed Form.
"A mai pouch robbery was committed
at West Superior.
"A GAINESVILLE, Wis, man killed his
wife, son and himself.
Ex-Gov. Davis of Maine is thought
TO have committed suicide.
Miss Theresa Weinhandler Of st.
Paul Is dead as a result Of blowing out
the gas.
Miss Olga Nethersole, the actress, is
quite III at the Chittenden Hotel, 10
iumbus, with tonsilitis.
Col. Wright OF Newark, N. J., was in.
Jured in a runaway at st. Paul white
driving with Thomas Cochran.
The Oregon Short Line & Utah
Northern has been sold TO the rcorgan-
ization committee for SJ,447,5 500.
The Russian academy has elected as
honorary members Lord Kelvin aud
DR.. Simon NowCemb of Washington.
Harold Nj. Sewall, the Republican
son of Arthur Scwall, was elected q
member OF the legislature TO fll va
cancy.
There were two earthquake shocks at
CRAFTSMANSHIP, Sweden, accompanied
by n loud rumbling, and many houses
were shaken.
The Argentine senate has adopted q
scheme providing for the ISSUANCE of
100000 cedulas for the purpose of
advancing loans and promoting agri-
culture.
The Montpelier, Ind, sheet and tin
plate mills sold for $4,000 The pur.
cbasers, the American Tin Plate COM
pany. will start the mill Jan. Is with
$50 hands.
Martin Braasch, a middle-aged labor
CT, was found in the river at Milwau-
kee, having been murdered. When last
seen he had $500 On his person. lie
disappeared on Nov. 81.
Official advices received from Ma
Mia are that the Spaniards have again
defeated the insurgents at M~ontbataan
and sixty-two OF the Spaniards are re-
ported to have been killed In the en-
gagement.
Senator-elect II. ID. Money of Missis-
sippi returned TO Washington from
Cuba. Mr.. Money made q flying trip
TO the island with the object of ascer-
tanning for himself the condition of at
fairs there.
The thirty-frsr biennial session OF
the Arkansas Legislature convened at
Little Rock. Daniel w. Jones was in
augurateti rs governor. Senator J.. X.
Jones has no opposition for United
States senator.
The First National Bank Of Alma,
Neb., was closed by order of the con-
troSser Of the currency, and is now IN
the hands Of the bank examiner. Lila.
bilities are $4,000, with assets Of
about the ZANE.
The Rev. DR.. Kirkpatrick, pastor of
the Second T~niversalfst Church of
Rochester, ". Y, who was arrested
some day ago charged with impcrson-
ating an officer, has been unanimously
acquitted by jury trial.
A Montreal advice says IT is under
stood that the bishop will issue a col
lective mandate which will not only
put the newspaper Ia Patrie under the
ban, but also condemn all those who
support the Manitoba school settle
ment.
The work ON the batteships Mt the
shipyard at New York has been tenn
porariiy suspended on account of IN
order requiring that all plates used
must be first subjected 80 the longi-
tudinal and transverse tests. Several
hundred men have been laid Off.
Advices received at ConstantinopIe
from Marash that Mazhar
Bey, on trial, charged with the murder
of an Italian priest at Marash, has
been acquitted. But tie sultan, at
the instance OF the French and Italian
ambassadors. who insist upon Bey's
punishment, has ordered q new trial.