Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-01-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Overflow. From the Wire. In N
Condensed Form.

Condensed Form.
A maj pouch robbery was committed
at West Superior.
A GAINESVILLE. Wis, man killed his
wife, sen and himself.
Ex-Gov. Davis of Maine is thought
10 have committed suicide.
Miss Theresa Weinhandier Of st.
Paul is dead as a result of blowing cut
the gas.
Miss Olga N~ethersole. The actress, is
quite liz at the Chittenden Hotel, Co
lumhus, with tonsilitis.
Col. Wright of Newark. n. j, was in
Jured In "A runaway ut St Paul while
driving with Thomas Cochran.
The Oregon Short Line e. Utah
Northern has been sold Il the reorgan-
iZation committee for S5,447, 500.
The Russian academy has elected as
honorary members Lord Kelvin and
DIR. Simon Ncwcomb OF Washington.
Harold RI. Sewall, the Republican
son Of Arthur SewaIl, was elected a
member OF yho legislature 10 ell va
cancy.
There were two earthquake shocks at
Ch~ristianstad, Sweden, accompanied
by a loud rumbling, and many houses
were shaken.
The Argentine senate has adopted a
scheme providing for the issuance of
100000 cetlu'as for the purpose OF
advancing loans aud promoting agri-
culture.
The Montpelier. Ind, sheet and tin
plate mills sold for $4,000. The pur-
obasers, the American Tin Plate COM
pany. will start the mill Jan. % with
$50 hands.
Martin BraaSch, q m~iddle-aged labor
CT, WAS found In the river at Milwau-
kee, having been murdered. When last
seen he had 5000 on his person. He
disappeared ~ Nov. II.
Official adyices received from Ma
Mia are that the Spaniards have again
defeated the insurgents at Montbataan
and siSty-two OF the Spaniards are re-
ported TO have beet killed in the en-
gagement.
Senator-elect II. ID. Money OF Missis-
sippi returned TO Washington from
Cuba. Mr.. Money made n flying trip
to h island with tine object of aGcer-
tanning for himself the condition Of af-
fairs there.
The thirty-first biennial session Of
the Arkansas legislature convened at
Little Rock. Daniel w. Zones was in
augurated aS governor. Senator j. *.
Jones has no opposition for United
States senator.
The First National Bank OF Alma,
Neb., was closed by order of the con-
troeSer Of the currency, and is now in
the hands Of the bank examiner. Lila
bilities are $4,000, with assets Of
about the same.
The Rev. DIR. kirkpatrick. pastor of
the Second E~niyersalist Church of
Rochester, n. Y, who was arrested
some day ago charged with iupcrson-
ating an officer, has been unanimously
acquitted by jury trial.
A Montreal advice says it is under
stood that the bishop will issue n col
iective mandate which will not only
put the newspaper La Pairie under the
ban, but also condemn all those who
support the Manitoba school settle
ment.
The work on the. battleships at the
shipyaTd at New York has been tenn
porarily suspended on account of an
order requiring that all plates used
must be first subjected to the longi-
tudinal and transverse tests. Several
hundred men have been laid off.
AdvfceS received at Constantinople
from Marlsh announce that Mazhar
Bey, on trial, charged with the murder
of an Italian priest at Marash, has
been acquitted. But the sIDsin, at
The instance of the French and Italian
ambassadors, who insist upon Beys
punishment, has ordered "A new trial.