Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-05-20


The Buffalo Courier has been sold
10 w. J. Connors. proprietor OF the
Enquirer.
Gov. Drake OF Iowa has signed the
new state liquor law Including the Sec
tons allowing manufacturing.
The annual convention of the Ep-
worth League of the Sioux City dis
trict viii be held at Sioux City June 5
and o
The American Medico-Psychological
association has decided TO hold the
next meeting in 81. Louis on the sec
ond Tuesday in May. 1898.
The state meeting OF the Kentucky
Mexican Veteran association was held
in Cynthiana, Ky. Fifty-five of the old
soldiers took part in the exercises.
Osceola county. Iowa. which has not
had a representative in the Legislature
for twenty years. has opened the cam
paign 10 ecu a member in the next
general assembly.
President John w. Thomas. OF the
Tennessee Exposition company, re
ceived n letter to-day from President
Mckinley stating that he would visit
the exposition oil Ohio day in June.
James Phillips. the original of
Jeems Phillips in Edward Eggleston's
"Hoosier Schoolmaster," has been
stricken with paralysis at his home in
Neyay. Ind.
The even days OF the Nashville eN-
position show an attendance OF 1850.
Saturday. the eighth day. more than
surpassed all expectations. Twenty
six thousand admissions Were regis
tered.
capt. Henry Romeyn viii not he fully
acquitted by the court martial NJ Ath-
ems. ia, but il will be held that the
current criticisms OF Mrs. 0'Brien's
conduct We're such as to justify the
structures passed on il.
The twenty-second general confer
enc of the United Brethren in Christ
convened AZ Toledo. Iowa. Bishop
Weaver presiding. The conference is
composed of 145 ministers aud o. lay
men.
The suit commenced At Chicago on
Tuesday by III. A. Thomas. the gen
eral manager for a receiver for the
California Fruit Transportation com
nany, was dismissed al his own re-
quest.
At Jelileo, Tenn. the coal operators
terminated their conference and an
bounced that al the companies had
gone into one big combine and would
hereafter bay all the output OF the Jel-
leo district.
At Crossville. Tenn. Chancellor
Smith finally passed on all the claims
filed against the Tennessee Central
Railroad and entered a decree order
ing the sale OF the road June 81, the
minimum bid TO be $4,000.
The Nebraska grand lodge. A. @. II.
w, has ex0nerated Supreme Master
Workman Tate from charges of NAL
feasance in Office preferred by his To-
cal lodge. The cas- had been on trial
At Omaha for two days.
Al Nashville. Tenn. in the presence
OF a large attendance there was IN
yelled in the terminal railroad build
ing at the exposition a statue OF PreSi-
dent John w. Thomas of the Nashville.
Chattanooga & ST. Louis railroad.
The bodies of the twelve unidentified
victims OF the Leona fire were inferred
i'm Mount 0liyet cemetery. New York.
the Mallory Steamship company de-
frayirg the expenses OF the burial.
The Iowa grand lodge OF the A. o.
u, w. in session at KeoSuk. Iowa, has
elected officers, headed 10y H. l.. Tilton
OF ottumwa. grand master workman.
Next years meeting will be held at
Waterloo.
The tw~enty-se.ald aaLua. meeting
OF the national board Of women's mis-
sionary association OF the United
Brethren church convened at Lisbon,
Iowa for a three days session with
sixty-two delegates from twenty-eight
conferences present
More than loo carpenters, joiners
and lathers in Newark, n. j.. quit work
ut the direction of Business Agent A.
". Wyatt. of the United Building
Trades council in sympathy with the
striking plumbers, tinsmiths and
painters.
The United States supreme court has
given a decision In favor OF w. III.
Zeigler OF Spokane. Wash, in his suit
against the Spokane Northern rail-
road. The suit has been in litigation
for ten years. II originally involved
$3.50, but viii now approximate S25,-
60
The ooroner's jury at Crawford.
Nch.. found Robert Walker. colored
soldier In the Ninth cavalry, guilty of
the murder of Sandy Tourange. also
a colored soldier. Julia Fuller. a
white woman in whose rooms the muir
der occurred. was declared an acces-
sorry.
Bishop Whipple OF Minnesota Is on
his way 10 attend the conference Of
Lambeth, which begins in London
July 3. This conference, which is at
tended by all the Episcopal bishops OF
the world. is held every ten years az
the palace OF the archbishop OF Canter-
bury.
Senator Mills has received a letter
from Minister Terrell. who says that
all the talk of the Turks expelling Mis-
si0nary Knapp from Turkey Is untrue.
He says that Knapp was frightened
into leaving his post at Bitlis. near the
Russian border. He was told that the
Turks could not protect him against
the Kurds.
Rev. DIR. Sutherland, Canadian sup
~erintendent Of the Methodist missions.
has received word that he has been Sc
iected by the theological faculty OF the
Vanderbilt university at Nashville.