Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-08-19
General.

General.
Placer gold has been discovered in
the State of OaXaca, Mex, at the head.
waters Of Coatazoaooloos river.
The battleship Indiana has been sue,
c~essfully placed in dry dock at Hall
fax, n. 8.
Authority has been granted for the
Milliken National Bank of Decatur,
ILL.,, with a capital of 100000.
The Iowa Pain Manufacturing Com
pany OF VintOn has decided to move
its works to Fort Dodge.
Capt. NJ. f. Waltz, Twelfth infantry,
has been relieved from duty at the
Memphis institute Sept. Is and ordered
TO join his company.
1t is officially announced that trouble
between the Grand Trunk system and
their employees has been satisfactorily
settled, but the terms of settlement
have not yet been made public.
Acting Secretary Roosevelt has dealt
naval red tape a hard blow. He has
issued IN order that reduces at one
sweep the number of reports required
to be made by these officers from PIT
to 80.
Thomas Fl. lynch of Wichita, Kan,
has just returned from Ireland. where
he succeeded in establishing his claim
10 an estate valued ut 100000. which
has been in the family for twelve GEN.
turtles.
Mike Farragher and Joe Martin of
Youngstown, Ohio. fought q fOrty-five
round draw prize fight near Cleveland
this week. Martin is Farragher's old
trainer, and the match was made to
settle an old grudge.
The commissioners of public lands of
Wisconsin have requested the legisla-
ture to fix the minimum price of pub
lie lands at So per acre, to direct that
all be appraised, and that thereafter no
lands be sold at less than the APP
praised value.
An immense structure is in process
of construction near Easton, Pa, for
the use Of the Edison Concentrating
from dirt and rock by the Edison pro-
cess.
A general advance of 10 per cent,
benefiting every branch of the trade,
will be asked by the Window Glass
Workers association at the annual
wage conference with the manufac-
turers at Chicago next Wednesday.
The steamer City Of Para, from
Panama was Immediately sent into
quarantine at San Francisco. A.
Frerere, a French cabin passenger,
died at sea last Thursday of yellow
fever.
The record for the fastest trans-Pa-
cific ocean trip was made by the Royal
Mail steamship Empress of Japar on
her last voyage from Vancouver to
Yokohama. The time consumed was
ten days three house and thirty-nine
minutes.
A board Of officers headed by Capt.
Baird, Sixtieth cavalry, has been or
dered to meet at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan. Sept. 1 for the competitive ex-
animation of about twenty enlisted
men for promotion to commissioned
grade.
The building of the Siberian rail.
way has been of great benefit to the
lumber trade Of the Pacific coast. The
Glen Turrett, a new freight steamer of
3,026 tons net. nov at Shanghai, has
been chartered to take lumber and rail
road ties from the Columbia river to
V~ladivostock.
At a meeting of the supreme officers
Of the Catholic knights of America at
Vincennes, Ind, DIR. Z. j.. Brennan of
indianapolis was elected supreme med
ical examiner and DR.. j. A. Mudd of
Washington, d. c., was chosen editor
of the Bulletin, the official organ of
the order In this country.
The officers of the interior depart.
ment are preparing a public notice TO
be posted at point on the borders of
the forest reservation adjoining the
Yellowstone National Park, warning
all persons against trespassing ON the
lands, especially against hunting on
the reservation and shooting the game,
The announcement is made by min
ing experts that the macadam being
put down on Winnipeg streets from
the quarry at Weewatim is valuable
gold bearing quartz. Samples are now
being assayed, while parties have gone
TO inspect the quarry and the locality
in which it Is located.
AS a result of having sold goods
manufactured in the Minnesota state
prison, several merchants in Hudson,
Wis, are to be arrested O nthe charge
of violating the state prison labor law,
The arrests will serve as test cases
for tile new law, which demands that
all prison-made goods must be fully
labeled.
The Union Iron Works of San Fran.
cisco has telegraphed the navy depart.
ment asking permission to supply the
arnor for the bnttleship Wisconsin,
which they are building, just as the
Cramps have done in the case OF the
Alabama. In reply the firm hes been
notified that the department will enter
into correspondence with them on the
subject.