Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-07-01
General.

The Pickwick hotel is burned ar
New Orleans.
Western Reserve college OF Claye-
land has made President Mckinley an
Ii. ID.
The Masons of Detroit formally dedi-
Gated their new temple with impress
siye ceremonies.
The president has nominated VIII
fred w. Montague to be postmaster
at San Francisco.
A treaty for the provisional union of
the five republics of Central America
has been signed by Guatemala.
The directors OF the Steel Barge COM
pany OF West Superior have author
lied Capt. McDougall to procure esti-
mates of cost for q second stationary
dry dock.
The Georgia State Papulist conven-
ton met at Atlanta with about 200
delegates. A platform was adopted
denouncing fusion and reatfirming
Populist principles.
The San Francisco & North Pacific
railway has established a Matching for
trout in Gibson canyon, neal Ukiah.
These ~hatcheries have a capacity for
several million eggs.
An international chess congress for
women players has begun in Masonic
hall of the Hotel Cecil, London. Some
twenty ladies, representing nine differ
emf countries, are playing.
The Tennessee Central railroad was
sold to the highest bidder by Master
Dunbar. Col. Jere Baxter bought the
property for himself and a~ssociates(Sr.
Louis and Chicago parties) for $685.
GOO.
The big South works Of the Lacka-
wanna Iron and Coal company OF
Scranton, Pa, has been forced to
close down and about $500 are aut OF
employment because of a dispute over
a reduction in wages.
About fifty cadets at the United
States Military academy have been ap-
pointed for the next class year, among
them being Philip III. Sheridan, son of
the late Gen. Phil Sheridan, who is ap-
pointed a cadet at large.
The Rio Grande Western railway
has purchased the Utah Central rail-
way. The price is near 1926 600. The
Utah Central Is a narrow-gauge road
TuulIllS ITOEu SAT- Lake W IdIk lily,
the famo is silver camp.
The Free Methodists have begun a
camp meeting that Is to last until af-
ter the Fourth of July. They have a
large tent capable of holding 500 peo-
pie, and they will have many able
preachers from all parts of the state.
The statement that Bishop Fitzger-
aid will be removed from Little Rock,
Ark, to New Orleans on account of
the death of Archbishop Janssens Is
denied by high Catholic authority.
Bishop Fitzgerald is senior bishop Of
the diocese.
u. G. Burleigh of Augusta, Me-, was
elected to congress from the Third dis
trict to succeed Seth l.. Miliken. de-
ceased. The victory was an easy one
over Frederick w. Plaisted. the Dem
ocratic candidate. The Populist vote
was meager.
Another naval relic of the Japan.
China war in the shape of the ship
Pathan has reached Seattle, Wash.
She is entitled to the distinction of be-
ing the only vessel captured by China
during the conflict so disastrous to the
Flowery Kingdom.
In response to n resolution of inquiry
in regard to the foreclosure proceed
ings against the Union Pacific road
the attorney general says he knows of
no suit to procure a judicial declara-
ton of forfeiture of the rights, priv
ileges, franchises, etc, of the Pacific
Railroad companies based on section
IL of the act Of 1873 or otherwise.
David Foutz and wife Of Sara toga,
Wye, were expelled from the Dunkard
church because his coat and vest were
not cut just right, and because Mrs
Foutz did not wear a handkerchief
around her neck while cooking and had
lace curtains at her windows and a
framed picture Of her brother ON the
wall.
F. b. Maltby, In charge Of a govern
ment corps Of surveyors, has zone out
to take a look at the big basin five miles
west Of Laramie. The basin IL pro-
posed al q site for a government reser-
voir, and Is probably the greatest natur-
al basin on the continent, as It Is two
miles wide and ten miles long, with per.
feet natural walls. 1t viii. hold over
20,0O0,00o,0o0 cubic feet Of water.