Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-07-22
General.

The Nebraska National Bank, at
YoIk, Neb.. failed. Capital, $4,000:
liabilities, $4,000.
Fred L~.onghead. the Canadian cycler,
defeated Tom Cooper in the match
race ut Port Huron.
Another branch of the Eugene V.
Debs social Democracy has been
formed in New York.
The wool clip in Ransom county will
average seven pounds per fleece, and
the average price is 10 cents ner pound.
The board OF police commissioners
Of Baltimore dismissed City Marshal
Jacob Frey, the actual chief of police,
as a result of an investigation.
Five thousand wrought-nail workers
in South Staffordshire and North Wor-
chestershire, England, have struck for
g 10 per crnt advance i'm wages.
Judge Fish of Grand Forks decided
that Normand must stand trial upon
the second Indictment, and fixed July
ID as the day of trial.
Jim Watts of Louisville, who fought
n draw with Joe Walcott at the Broad
way A. G., has deposited 500 TO meet
Tommy Ryan or any other welter-
weight.
Tie Great Northern road will begin
work this week on n new passenger
staten and freight depot in the heart
of tie city of Fergus Falls. The inn
p%rovenlcnts will aggregate about $780,
600.
John Jones, a laborer about seventy
five years old, was shot through the
right lung and left hand by Policeman
Fontanna at the home of the latter at
Fond du Lac, Wis. His wound is
thought to he fatal. The cause for
the shooting is unknown.
Judge Alden Chester of New York
has vacated the orders granted by him
upon the application OF the attorney
general-in June last. compelling the
presidents Of the various anthracite
coal road companies to appear before
a referee as witnesses in a procedure
under the new antitrust laws.
Charges have been preferred against
Michael &. Scully, collector ut Mar
quette, Mich, by j. B. Eddy, a dis
charged employee of the Sault Ste.
Marie custom house. II Is quite likely
that Mr.. Scully will be removed to
make way for some one in sympathy
with the present administration.
The location Of the Icelandic college
will not he decided until next January.
There are five directors who are au-
tliCrized 10 name the location of the
college, and three of them live in
North Dakota and the others in Mani
toca. Park River has offered a bonus
Of $4,000, bnt has been asked To make
II $1,000, which will no doubt be done.
Ambrose Ellington, an elevator con
ductor in the Omaha Bee building, has
issued q challenge to w. III. Williams,
champion elevator conductor OF the
world, for a championship contest at
an early date. Williams is making a
trip Of the West and is now In Den
YER. Ellington has started for that
point and hopes to secure a contest
tlcre.
The Des Moines city council has APP
proved n contract for the construction
of a boulevard up the Des Moines river
to Union Park, along the west bank.
Work is to begin at once. Material for
the drive will be secured by dredging
the river. The drive will be q mile
and a half long. and is an advance step
for the city of Des Moines In harmony
with the improvement Of the city
parks.
In the trial of ex-Bank President G.
w. Spalding at Chicago, Prof. S. w.
S~hattuck, of the University Of Illinois,
created a sensation by declaring that
there was enough money in the gem
eral fund of the university TO meet all
warrants drawn up to the date the
bonds were h~ypothecated by Spalding.
Sralding contended that he hypothe-
Gated the endowment bonds in order to
secure money with which to meet war
rants.
A large colony Of Northern Indiana
Dunkards will locate In Ransom coun-
ey, N. d., where negotiations are pend
ing for he purchase of q large tract
of land for colonization. The exodus
to the West will take several hundred
families TO North Dakota where, IL
prospects are favorable, several thou
sand Dunkards will follow and take up
land for settlement. Northern Indiana
Is rapidly being depopulated Of these
quaint but thrifty people.
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