Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-06-03

ot the bdltlC ana the bIatk sea anutile
Pacific coast. The law will not go
into operation until 1900
The queen regent of spain has u
manageable daughter on her hands.
Mercedes, princess Of the Austrias. is
now seventeen, and propositions for
her hand have already been consid-
cred at the Spanish court. For SIX
months before the birth of the king.
Mercedes. who was named for the first
wife Of her father. was queen OF Spain.
But Alfonso XIII. appeared oil the
scene and she was given a back seat
Otherwise.
The Gold Standard Democrats are
holding a state convention ri Des
Moines, Iowa
George Green defeated Charles Nc
Keever at San Francisco in fifteen
hard fought rounds.
The st. Joseph (Mo) Furniture Man
u~facturing company has failed for
something over $4,000.
The Harvard college crew defeated
the Boston Athletic association crew
In a mile race by one length.
The Lutheran Women's Mission So
ciety at Dayton, Ohio, has elected Mrs.
A. v. Hunter of Indianapolis presi-
dent.
Gaudaur defeated Rogers by three
lengths in the C for the sculling
championship at Orilla, Ont The
time was slow.
The 800 weavers in the Ashley 4
Bailey silk mills az Paterson. n. j.,
Uhn havn haan ON cJvtEa have fq-
turned 10 work.
There is said to be much scale on
the citrus fruit trees near Los Ange-
les, and prompt action is required 10
check the pests.
Tom Williams of Australia has
signed articles for a twenty-round con-
test with Tommy Ryan at the Empire
Athletic club, Syracuse. June 21.
The Uruguayan revolutionists. ac-
cording TO the statement of Leader
: LanfaS. have obtained fresh supplies
and are about to resume operations.
The sixty-eighth session of the Re
formed Presbyterian Church of North
America. otherwise known as 'Coven-
anters," convened in the Reformed
Presbyterian church in Beaver Falls,
Pa.
The Curd & Sinton Manufacturing
Company of Louisville, Ky, wholesale
dealers In harness. saddlery, etc, one
of the largest mercantile establish
ments IL the city. has assigned.
Tom Jenkins of Cleveland. Ohio, de-
feated w. L. Malone of Chicago. the
heavyweight champion wrestler of the
Northwest at Cleveland, best two out
of three.
About 200 electricians are on n strike
at Milwaukee because contractors re-
fuse to grant their demand of 81 IA
cents al the minimum wage scale per
hour, eight hours to constitute a days
work for journeymen.
In the first event of the fistic carni-
valat Woodward's Gardens, San Fran
cisco. under the auspices of the Ma
tional club, Ryan of Cincinnati was
given the decision over Elmer of San
Diego in the tenth round.
on Lumber island, a mile below La
Crosse, by a party of boys who We're
playing ON the island. The skeleton
was partly covered by sand, but was
intact. There is no clue to- the identi-
~.
The seventh annual convention OF
the Association of Railway Claim
Agents was called to order at st. Louis
in the Southern hotel by President w.
Il. Jones, general claim agent of the
Missouri Pacific. Ninety delegates are
present.
The twelfth annual meeting Of the
American Institute of Civics was held
In Washington, Senator Hawley pre-
siding. The object of the institute is
TO promote n higher standard of citi-
zenship through education and by 9TH
err means.
A ten-rsdnd go at Louisville, Ky,
between Jim Watts. colored, of Louis
vile, and Peter ePterson, the Terri
BILE Swede," Of Chicago, was stopped at
the end of the fifth round by the police,
who declared it too brutal. The ref
cree gave the fight to Watts.
The president expects Mr.. Calhoun
will have completed his mission In
Cuba and be on his way back to Wash
ingtCn in the course of a week or ten
days. 1t will take a little more time
to reduce to form and embody in an
official report the conclusions he has
formed as to the conditions in Cuba.
The board of directors of the Ma
tional Board of Trade of Cycle Manu-
Alcturers,; has decided that no national
or local cycle exhibitions shall be held
of sanctioned between June 1, 1897,
and June 1. 1893, and designating Feb.
- as a general opening day through
n the country.
One thousand miners at the Milford,
Fraser and Lehigh coal camps, within
a few miles of Boone, Iowa, have
struck because of an attempt to
change paying by the Frazer by Civ
ing them 90 cents a ton for mine run
coal instead Of so cents for screened
coal, as has been the rule.
Andrew Anderson, Il miner formerly
in the employ of the DAILY Mining com-
pany at Park City, was made the DOS
SCISSOR Of the modest fortune OF $4,000
by an opinion that was handed down
by the supreme court of Utah. Ander-
sued 10 recover for injuries sustained
through "A premature explosion of giant
powder in the con pany's mine.
Judge Woolson, in the federal court
ut Des Moi as, has instructed the Jury
10 return Il verdict for the defendant
in the case of Hattie Warford VS.. the