Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-07-08
General.

The United States steamship Adams
has been ordered 20 Seattle. Wash,
TO take part in the Fourth of July cell
ebration.
'"The First Born" the Chinese play
by Francis Powers. that has been
running for the past two months at
San Francisco is soon to be produced
in eastern cities and in London.
The Terre Haute, Ind, Electric
Light and Power company, of which
Andrew J. Crawford is president, has
failed with liabilities of $4,000. AS
sets probably $4,000 or 100000.
Edith, dowager countess of Ayles-
ford, Is dead at London. She was a
daughter of the late Lieut.. Col. Poore
Williams, NJ. p, and married in 1871
the seventh earl of A~ylesford, who
died in 1886.
The Sandwich Enterprise company,
manufacturers Of wind mills, cotton
planters and farm machinery. has
made an assignment to ID. X. craw-
foot of Sandwich, Ill. The liabilities
are placed at 100000.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Hudson Iron Company Of Hud-
son, N. Y, whose plant has been closed
for three years. The assets are more
than $4,000 In excess of the liabili-
ties.
The work of consolidating small out
lying postoffices with a large adjacent
one, making a single postal district
with modern facilities, will be pushed
vigorously by this administration in
all sections of the country.
The Grain Dealers National associa-
ton. comprising members In fifteen
states, has begun a two days conven-
ton at Des Moines. The programme
contains addresses by a number OF
prominent men in the middle states.
Orders are received to resume work
at the Buffalo mines at Negaunee,
Mich. Three hundred and fifty men
win be put to work at once and the
force increased as sales warrant.
Secretary Long has issued an order
outlining a trip Of six Of the recently
completed torpedo boats to go up the
Mississippi ihcr OF a cruise. They
win be in ST. nj In July or August.
The recent rise IN the price of straw
board has been explained by the state
ment that the American Strawboard
company Of Toledo, Ohio, is being re-
organized under the name of the
Standard Strawboard company.
Ex-Gov. Goodell of New Hampshire
is president Of the Law and Order
league Of that state. and has Just sue.
ceeded in having five saloons In Man.
chester closed. He hopes to have ev.
cry saloon in the place closed.
Mrs. John Bradbury, wife OF a we'll
known millionaire of Los Angeles, and
III. Russell Ward,a young Englishman,
have eloped. 1t is said their destina-
ton is Australia. Ward has aban-
doned his wife and two children, who
are now touring in Europe.
Gen. Rosecrans, president of the So
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland,
authorizes the statement that the next
annual reunion of the society will! be
held at Columbus, Sept. % and "a next.
The grafton will be delivered by Gen.
James III. Wilson Of Delaware.
The leaders OF tie See Yup society,
San Francisco, are jubilant over the
news received from China announcing
the release Of seventeen of their rela-
tives who were imprisoned some time
ago on account Of differences between
the See Yup and Sam Yup societies.
Miss Catherine Moses has entered
her nOvitiate as a member Of the Or
der Of Sisters of Mercy of the Roman
Catholic church at San Diego, Cal. She
is handsome, accomplished and an
heiress. Her father is worth a million
dollars. She was formerly a society
belle of st. Louis.