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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15
PeonIe I'm Print.

Capt. Stephen ID. HILBERT, a retired
naval officer, is dead at Media, IA.
Ex-State Senator Whiteman of Du-
luth is In trouble again, having been
arrested in New York on the charge OF
defrauding a bank.
]. Walter B~landford, who has been
private secretary 10 Secretary Olney,
has been selected to act in a similar
| capacity for Attorney General McKen-
ma.
Ex-Judge James Bredin of Pitsburg,
| appointed TO inquire into the matter or
the contest of the late municipal cleo
ton. went before Judge Kennedy n
made a formal application for an order
to open the ballot boxes.
Richard T. Games, for nine years
manager of the Helena. Mont, office
of Dun's, is dead after an illness of a
few hours. He was well and favorably
known throughout the state. He came
here from Nashville, Tenn.
Lawrence Hutton of New York has
presented the new library of Princeton
university with his valuable collection
| of death masks. This collection is the
most nearly complete and by far the
largest of its kind in the world.
Mrs. Annie Besant will arrive in
New York early this month. She will
remain in America six months and
visit all the largest cities, lecturing on
theosophy and on some of her expert
ences on her journey through India.
whence she is now returning.
Lieut.. j. G. Gilmore, Fourth artillery,
hoe haon lotnfInI oc n tnt,1napa r,y no
cial aide to President Mckinley. The
young officer is thoroughly used to
handling crowds, having acted as a
master of ceremonies at the White
house receptions and great functions
under the last administration.
Galen II. Hit, a noted criminal law
yer and an ex-member of the state leg
islature, was found in an unconscious
condition on the floor of his room at
his residence at Albany, y. Y, and died
without having regained consciousness.
The cause was apoplexy.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, the well known
actress, is seriously III at the Shore
ham hotel, Washington, with acute
laryngitis, brought on by the strain put
upon her vocal chords as the heroine
of David Belasco's ''The Heart of
Maryland"
Robert G. Blaine, a brother of James
G.. Blaine, died liz Washington. He IA
siXty-five years of z and leaves a
widow and six children. Mr.. Blaine
has resided there for a number Of
years. and for some time was en-
ployed in one of the executive depart
mentS.
Henry +. Thurber. who is now in
Princeton. n. j., to which place he es-
corted Mrs. Cleveland when she left
the White House Thursday, will go 10
Detroit. Mich, in a few days and re-
sumo active connection with the law
firm of Dickinson & Thurber in that
city. Mr.. Thurber leaves behind him
in Washington a well deserved reputa-
ton for fairness in his dealings with
all who have been brought In contact
with him at the White House.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

The six-days' bicycle races which
We become features OF recent exhibit
MS are reprehensible in every sense
the word. The w strain has In
arly every case resulted in fatal in
Ties to the contestants. Joseph JEFF
son, commenting recently on undue
lletic training, said that some years
B he met Laurence Barrett on a street
..ner in Boston, and Barrett said he
IS waiting for a street a to take him
a gymnasium. Why not walk?"
'xed Jefferson; that is better exer-
,e than you will get at the gym
sum, and you win save the trouble
I going there"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15
From Foreign shores.

The Spanish government has decided
TO send 1900 marine forces to the
Philippines.
Emperor William of Germany has
been ordered by his physicians to take
more outdoor exercise. The emperor is
growing stout and his blood is bad.
The decoration of Marie Van Zandt,
the American singer, by the French
government, as an officer of the acade-
my. is not connected with the so-called
"lmmortals."
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Berlin says hat Prince Bismarck
is suffering from neuralgia, and that
the attack is so serious that he is una
bic either to sleep or 10 walk.
Thomas Q. Seabrooke. the well
known actor. is lying seriously i'll at
the Greens hotel in Toronto, suffering
from grip.
The pope has decided to send Mgr.
Merry del Val as apostolic delegate 10
Canada. BY sending one so closely at
tached TO his person the pope gives eX-
ceptional assurance OF his special per-
mai interest in the welfare of Can
ada.
The parliamentary secretary for the
indian office in the house of lords said
that DIR. Yersin, the French expert. be-
gan the incubation of plague patients
at Bombay on March q. The effect on
the fresh cases was surprisingly good,
but it was of small benefit in cases of
long standing.
The construction of a trolley car line
from Cairo TO the pyramids has now
been followed by the placing of a
@teamboat On the river Jordan. which
makes the journey from Jericho TO
Tiberias-that is to say. from the Dead
Sea TO the Lake of Galilee-in about
sever hours.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15
miscellaneous.

An international trotting horse ESQ.,
citation has been formed at Chicago.
Several hundred miners employed in
the Citizens Coal and Coke company's
coke mine at Baldwin, Colo, have
struck for higher wages
The Bundesrath has selected ex-
President Frey. formerly Swiss min
lister at Washington, to be director Of
the international telegraph bureau.
The Cedar Rapids Times. the oldest
newspaper in that part of Iowa, has
been sold to John S. Saul of Pontiac.
ILL.,, and w. +. Hoker of Milwaukee.
The Canadian Pacific railway earn
inss for the week ending March Z
were $325,OO0; for the same period
last year, $345.OOO.
Mrs. Clara Oma, a "Western cowboy"
who claimed to have killed five men
during her career, is dead at her home
at Peoria, Ill, aged fifty-six years.
The annual convention of the Texas
Cattle Raisers' association closed AZ
a Antonio after electing Fort Worth
as the next place of meeting.
Two hundred employees of the Will
iams " Clark Shoe company. LYNN.
Mass, struck by order of the executive
board of the boot and shoe union.
Al London in the fight between
Whatley and Tom Williams. the latter
was badly beaten and completely
knocked out in the fourth round.
The Boston associated board of trade.
composed OF representatives OF leading
business firms, voted down a resolution
indorsing International b~imetallism.
The Erie conference of the Eyangel.
zeal association, embracing Ohio. Penn.
sylvania and Western New YORK
opened its ann Ial session in Cleveland
The road and other property of tho
South Jersey Traction Comnapv Of
~Bridgeton, y. j., has been sold to
Aaron Fries of Philadelphia. president
OF h company, for 100000.
Plllsbury and ShowaIter PLAYED tho
eighth game of their match al chess
az the Hamilton club, BROOKLYN. and
AFTER twenty-five moves ShowaIter
o
IT. Gaudens' equestrian statue of
John A.. Logan in the Lake Front marx
aI chicago will be unveiled ,Julv 2o
Inc WORK OF the noted sculptor Ia now
pelng east In bronze in New York.
The Missouri oenate passed the
ous resolution instructing Missouri
congressmen to vote for the recognition
OF CUBA. 1T also passed resolutions
expressing sympathy with the Cretans.
Inc orders from department head
quarters to remove intruders FINN m.
uncompshgre reservation IN JItah
nave not yet been received ana Inn
dreds of settlers stin remain and da
clare that nothing but q military forca
Will move them. A"1
MISS Gertie Tressler of Webster Citv
Iowa, dreamed that a deceassd nnny.,
came TO her and told her OF S6OO which
was buried In the rear Of the v.rd
under a shade tree. In the morn,n.
went TO the spot and found the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15
,na, no died from pneumonia and alco-

that he died from pneumonia ana aico-
holism.
Hugh Smith. aged seventy-five years.
Of Madison, Pa, has been arrested Oh
tho charge of numbering Matilda Sly
der. an eighteen year-old girl, In 1851:
No suspicion attached to smith untii
recently. when, il is said, trouble arose
between him and the man who assisted
him in disposing Of the body.
Elizabeth Gibson. alias Lizzie Henry,
aged twenty-eight, was arrested AT
cleveland by st. Louis officers, on the
charge Of being n fugitive from justice.
She is accused of completely ~ tne
murder Of William Stewart. and aged
and wealthy man of st. Louis, on the
night of Feb. Z.
Expert diamond nippers who are
probably en- route from the East 10
Carson TO relieve the sports or their
levels during the big fight, remained
at Los Angeles long enough to accu-
muiate s 1900 worth of gems among
the crowd that went 10 a Pedro 10
celebrate the decision of the harbor
board.
viii p. Halliday was returning TO
the MuIlOH bHu'' NNNt WINS "'
S1,4OO he had drawn Cor the pay roll,
when a man, who approached him
from behind, pushed a revolver in his
face and demanded the bag OF money.
Halliday handed out a sack that had
in il $500 in silver, retaining $1,000 in
bills and gold that he had in his over
coat pocket.
A poisoning case which promises to
become celebrated has been brought TO
light in Kemper county, Miss. DIR. w.
III. Lipscomb. a well known physician,
and Guy Jack, a wealthy merchant of
Scooba, have been indicted by the
grand jury for the murder of G. Il.
Stuart for the purpose of obtaining the
value of insurance policies on Stuart's
life, aggregating $4,000, held by Guy
Jack.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

States Consul-General Knrel,
st. Petersburg, has furnished the
tie department with full particulars
the conditions under which the
ms for the Siberian railway were
nged so as to run the eastern por-
a of the line through Chinese terri
y. He says IL was found that the
'ginal plan would be hard of execu-
II. owing to the great technical diff
tiles encountered. Thus on one
asion of 1,105 miles the cost per mile
hid be $46,260. 1t was this fact
ch first led to the consideration sof
chinese section, and investigation
wed that, by running the line
spugh Manchuria, not only would the
struction be cheapened, but the line
lid be shortened and other advan-
Is be secured. Negotiations were
iun and the Chinese government
se a concession to the Russian-C Chi
y bank, which formed a new COM
", the Eastern Chinese Railway
.pany, capital $2,57o, 900. to con-
ct that part Of the road in Chinese
STORY.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15
Washington Talk.

The president has reappolnted Wnt-
lam Sinclair as steward of the Whi'e
House. which place he held unde Tue
preceding administration.
The navy department will call Tor
bids on 5000 tons of Harveyized steer
armor plate in a few days. The maxi
mum price allowed by law is $500 a
ton.
Ellis Mills. United States consul gen
eral at Honolulu. has furnished the
state department with h results OF Il
census inst taken in Hawaii, showing
a total population Of 10000. The la
waiians head the list, with 31,Ol9; Jap
anese next, with 24,407: Chinese third,
with 1915, and the Portuguese fourth
with 1871.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

he rainfall at the Oklahoma Ex.
ment station for 1896 was s1.4
pes. This is an abundant supply.
fortunately 1t was not well dis
nted. Nineteen inches fell In May.
D and July. and over ten inches In
days In June and July. Had
OF been for the great evaporation
use of high temperature and
.Eg, hot winds the rainfall of Au-
Y, 1.64 inches. would have been suf-
'Dt to prevent injury to crops.
iary. February. April and Decem-
I were the only months In which
/ rainfall did not reach one inch.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15
Accidental Happenings

The Park theater, formerly the Met
ropolitan, the oldest theater in Indian
apolis. Ind, was destroyed by fire.
BY the explosion OF an oil well boiler
on the Hartman farm near Gallery
Junction, Pa. John Dunlap. engineer.
was killed and William McKeever, tool
dresser, fatally injured.
\ snowslide on a mountain near
Park City. Utah, struck one of the DAILY
mine bunk houses, in which nine men
sleeping. Five Of them were rescued
alive, three bodies were recovered and
N nan is missing.
While Taylor Stivers and John Bailey
We're working in one of the mines at
Altamont, Laurel county. Ky, a huge
block Of slate fell upon them. MASKING
them fiat against the floor of the room.
The bodies are still beneath the slate.
Henry Nall, a well-to-do young farm.
er, living near Ramsey. Ill, met with a
fatal accident while bracing the second
floor of his barn, which was heavily
laden with corn. The floor gave way
and fell upon him, crushing his TO
death.
Four children and their nurse walk
ed out on the big railroad trestle near
Terre Haute, Ind, to view the wreck
caused by the recent rains. The fast
knickerbocker passenger train from
st. Louis to New York dashed around
the curve and knocked two Of the chill
dren into the water, instantly killing
them.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

Identification lies along many lines.
i'd forgeries of manner and speech are
patent as those of handwriting. At
recent convention in Edinburgh a
Seaker attributed to Gladstone the
Iying that a speech which reads well
be a very bad speech" NO."
piled Lord Rosebery. Fox said that.
d | can prove it. Fox said not very,
4 a word beginning with ID" and I
! sure you will agree with me that
Us puts Mr.. Gladstone's having said it
Il of the category of human possible
1s."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

The San Francisco Chronicle says
lat the new charter Of San Jose will
that no man be retained as
n employe of the city who does not
ay his debts. This provision is a
tactical way OF saying that without
rivate integrity there cannot be pub
efficiency, measuring service as 1t
light to be measured. A man untrue
i himself, as is a shiftless or criminal
ebtor, cannot be expected not to break
iith in some way with the community.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

IL nothing more serious than
weather shall ever gather about to vex
The United States navy the boats will
De all right and the country will be in
uck.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15
pITH OF THE NEWS.
EVENTS JF THE PAST WEEK IN a
CONDENSED FORM

A General Resumc of the Hoss ~"
portout News of the Week, From
all Parts of the Globe. boiie"
Down and Arranged In ION
venfent Form for hnpiu e
usai 10y Busy People.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

The
old" has struck st. Louis in the dila-
DRY course of human events, and nov
: is to be expected that the Missouri
metropolis will fall under TIE belated
pell of the chain-letter fakir and the
irship boomer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

From the way some of the mothers
acted at a White House reception we
ire led to the belief hat a chiidren's
ongress to discuss ways and means OF
controlling the old folks would be a
cod thing.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

People who are thoroughly engrossed
In their business seldom find time to
label themselves so as Il attract atten-
ton.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

The man who has no interest In the
contents of a safe always has the most
to say when 1t is being moved,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

Witticisms that contain no personal
illusions lose much of their pungency
In public taste.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

II q sick man will perform unneces-
sary work, he should not complain IL
told ii is not well done.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

Those who climb the highest have
the greatest distance to fall when age
weakens their grip.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

We are all apt to fail TO discriminate
between what We believe and what we
hope for.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

! 1t is a self-evident proposition that
those who pay the fiddler are entitled
to have the kind of tunes they desire
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15
There is not always a high boundary
fence between fun and disgust

Women are in advance Of men when
It m to a dislike for the laws of the
land.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

Generally when a mans acts return
to plague him, he whines around that
ne Is prosecuted.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15
Crimes and Criminals

The north bound express train No. 4,
ON the Louisville & Nashville, was
held up by six masked men near
Calera, Ala. They got considerable
money.
Silverio Martinez and a woman
named Sandoval were shot and killed
at Coyote, Bernadillo county, N. NJ, by
the woman's husband. who returned
home Unexpectedly and found them ia
a compromising position.
1t was thought for a time that ]. NJ.
Oakley, the Pittsburg millionaire who
died In San Francisco last week, under
peculiar circumstances. had been pois-
oned, investigation prove, however.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15
List of Bills Which the Recent Legisla-
ture Enacted Into Laws-Some
Important Measures.
THERE ARE NINETY. SEVEN IN ALL
rhs Total Number Of Bills Introduced Was
About T00-Read the List Carefully
and Then Paste 1t in
Your Hat.

The following is a list OF the bills
which became laws, as compiled by the
Sioux Falls Argus-Leader:
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-15

The officers of a number of the
ties and townships in the state are
completing arrangements TO have the
bridge-ties anchored that they may
not be carried away by high water this
spring.
Trip is figuring on reviving her fire
department. She has a fine flowing ar
tesian well which furnishes plenty of
water, and, in view Of the coming en-
campment at Yankton, the boys would
take hold with a rush.
The sportsmen are having great luck
spearing buffalo fish in the Vermillion
river these days. There Is any quaint
ty OF the finny tribe. There is a strict
law, as every one should know, against
spearing pickercl, bass, and nearly w.
cry kind Of fish except buffalo and cat
fish. j. w. Russell, fish warden, has
posted several notices along the river
bank warning fishermen to be more OBJ
servant Of the law.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-12-18
NOT A LOTTERY
Nickel-in-the- Machine a Gam
bling Device

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17.-Judge
Carroll Cook today decided the nickel
in-the-slot machine is not q lottery and
in consequence does not come within
the provisions of section $40 of the penal
code. By this decision the conviction
and sentence in the police court of Isaac
Deutsch, a cigar dealer, was reversed,
and the case was ordered dismissed.
In his decision Judge Cook designed
lottery in brief as gambling device
provided for the apportioning Of money
in which more than ten persons are con-
cerned. Such a condition does not ex-
list in the manipulation of the slot ma
chine, as only the party who drops the
nickel is at the time directly concerned.
No other persons who might chance to
play the same machine afterward could
be hurt or benefited by the other play
er's success or ill-fortune. This opin-
ion is substantiated by several decisions
which the judge quotes, and all tend to
show lottery was one thing, mere
gambling device another.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-12-18
THE KID WINS
And Is Now MiddIeweight
Champion
HIS SCIENTIFIC sLUGGING
PLEAsEs THE PATRONS OF THE
MANLY ART
Bar Fitzsimmons the Lanky Hoosier
Has No Peer as Jolter Of
Jaws
Associated Press Special Wire.

ASBociateQ ftesS Special WHes
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.-Norman selby
Of Rush, Ind, better known in pugilistic
circles as kid Mccoy" is undoubtedly
the middle weight champion of the
world. He met Dan Creedon of New
Zealand tonight in the arena Of the
Puritan Athletic club at Long Island,
and after fighting fifteen lively rounds.
made the foreigner throw up the sponge
and acknowledge the Hoosier's supe-
riority.
Long before the big event took place
the frame building In which 1t was held
was crowded to excess and bets were
freely made, with Mccoy the favorlte at
10 to,S. The Kids wonderful science and
self-possession We're always in evidence,
and this, combined with the advantage
of height and reach enable him to OUT
point his more stocklly built antagonist.
From the moment the men put up their
hands in the opening round McCoy's
stock began to ascend. and at the end Of
the sixth round McCoy's hackers were
Offering to l on their man.
Mccoy is wonder" was the univers-
al comment when the fight was over and