Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-02-11
miscellaneous.

The cruiser Philadelphia. which
went down the Southern coast as far
rs Callao about three months ago on
a cruise is on her way back.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has decided 10
close UP the estate of her deceased
husband. FIRST she will dispose OF
the lands and aftcrward personal prop
erty.
Herman Oerlichs, the well known So
clety and club man and steamboat
owner, was sworn in at New York city
as foreman of the February grand
jury before Judge Cowing in part l of
general sessions.
AT a meeting at Lincoln. Neb., of
the state relief commission IL was
found that there are now loaded for
shipment five cars of corn at Hastings
n at Aurora and one at Wilcox in
tended for the relief Of the poor in
Chicago.
Woodson, agent of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indians, has received a let
ter from Gen. Porter asking for a
number of Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians to march iii the inaugural pa
rade at Washington March 4. A band
of fifty reds will be sent to the capital
~ requested.
Gen. II. A. Alger ~ Michigan has
purchased of ex-United States senator
Warner Miller and others the aontroli-
Ing interest i'm the Lauremtide com-
pany OF Gardiner, =. O., Can. The
company's plant includes q number of
hg pulp mills aud thousands of acres
OF timber land.
w rlNaHll.x, G. Y,4k,re .nJ
+. Y. Carmody were selected as Mich
igan ~university's debaters TO meet
Chicago's representatives In the Audi
forum April 1G. Chandler is a senior
law student from Texas, and Lathcrs
and Carmody are both senior literary
students from Michigan.
A tweive-year-old gray Mexican par
rot whipped a large Yorkshire terrier
in a pitched battle for $500 a side ut
Hawthorne, n. J. The victorious bird
was unframed, but the grip of IT'S
beak upon the dogs snout was so pow
erful that the handlers had TO pry II
open by fierce in order to release the
dog.
The county jail at Dayton was placed
under quarantine by Health Officer
Iddings. A prisoner named George
Stimmel has a sever case of varioloid.
He was sentenced to the Ohio reform
atory last week for burglary and lar
ceny, and would have been taken 10
Mansfield tomorrow. He was ordered
to quarantine instead.
The Butte and Boston Mining COM
pany's property, consisting of fifty. |
three mining claims, and everything |
belonging TO the company. We sold by |
the receiver at Boston TO II. Rollins
Morse, chairman of the Butte and
Boston reorganization committee. for
S2,5J0,0O0. The bid IA $4,000, the
being represented 10y in
on the property.
Truman p. Lawrence against the
Palace Car company, a case
of unusual interest, was decided at
Port Gibson. Miss, the jury awarding
$4,000 damages. afterward
reducing it, by order of the court, to
$4,000. Both viii appeal. Lawrence
claims to have been severely beaten
by a porter in the employ of the com
pany on q train in Illinois.
The new Hamburg-American line
Pennsylvania, said to be
the largest freisht-carrying steamship
the world, left Belfast on her trial
trip to New York. The Pennsylvania
56S feet. long, has 81 feet beam, is
II feet deep, Is Of 10000 tons displace-
mant and her dead weight carrying
capacity lis nearly $4,000 tons. She
has accommodation for over 200 cabin
passengers and for 1900 steerage pas,