Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-12-29
General.

Kid Mccoy makes it very lively for
Joe Goddard and gets the decision in
the fifth round.
BY n vote of S,316 out of 10000
shares the stockholders of the Nation
al Revere Bank OF Boston voted TO go
into voluntary liquidation,
Gen. Henry, commanding in Porto
Rico, has telegraphed the war depart
nlent hat Sergeant Thomas ID. Marley,
Company C, Eleventh infantry, died
o. typhoid fever on the 18th inst.
]. L. McKenna, owner Of the steam
whaler Fearless, presented 4 petition
in bankruptcy to the United States
court at San Francisco, his liabilities
being $4,000.
The imports of gold during Novem-
Der amounted to S5.26.2o1, and the ex-
ports 1913, 467. The silver imports
amounted TO S2,25S,635 and the eX-
ports to S4,023,0T9.
Sir Herbert Murray, governor of
New Foundland, has received a dis
patch from Joseph Chamberlain, i'm
periai secretary of state for the colo
MES, in London, declining TO disallow
the Reid railway contract.
Fer the eleven months ended with
November, 1858, the exports Of the
United States amounted to $1,11T, 6S1,-
1919, exceeding the imports by S537.-
S37,646, an increase over the same Pc
riod OF 1897 of $143, 026, 115.
Judge Scott has assessed fines, pen
alties aud premiums in excess of $780,
600 on the officers of the Omaha expo
sition, and disbarred for all time Car
roll Montgomery, attorney for the ex-
position company.
The United States court OF private
land claims at Santa Fe, n. Mex, has
restored TO the public domain the
Estina land grant made in 1915 and
claimed by Joel Parker Whitney. 1t
contains 100000 acres.
Gen. Manager Hayes, OF the Grand
Trunk system, has recognized the COM
nittee of the telegraphers organization
by announcing that General Superin-
tepdent Quiggan has instructions TO
discuss the settlement with them.
Julius and David Rothschild filed vol
untary petitions of bankruptcy at New
York. the former with Liabilities of
S119,900 and the latter with liabilities
of $116,1 100. Neither party has any
assets.
A cablegram from Capt. Baker an
nounces the arrival of the Oregon and
Iowa at Valparaiso. Chile. They will
continue northward TO Calloa, their
orders to Honolulu remaining m
changed.
In the French senate a stormy dis
cussion took place over a bill increas-
ing the penalties for espionage and
treason. There were frequent refer
ences to Dreyfus. Eventually the bill.
which provided death for staff officers
who are guilty of treason in time Of
peace, was adopted.
Judge Taft, at Cincinnati, has issued
an order for the sale of the Wheeling
& Lake Erie Railroad company On the
claim of the Metropolitan Financial
and Industrial company. The sale
will be for $1,000, 00O. subject TO mort
cages of $6,000,0G0, and must be made
within three months.
Capt. Gen Casteiinnos has Informed
Brig. Gen. Clous that the evacuation Of
Havana would be completed on or be-
, fore Jan. / next. Fourteen transports
are due to arrive from Spain during
the next ten days. There are 5000
Spanish troops still in Havana. and It's
environs, but the last few thousand
will embark simultaneously.
The American Missionary associa-
ton has appointed n Of its secre-
taries, the Rev. A. Il. Beard. ID. d..
and Lucien NJ. Warner of Bridgeport,
! Conn. as a special delegation TO visit
Porto Rico and investigate concerning
the Initiation of religious work there
i'm behalf of the association, Which rep
resents the Congregational churches
of the United States.
Judge Blodgett, In the second jury
session of the superior court ut Boston,
/ directed the jury in the $4,000 action
brought by G.. w. Norton against VIM
A. Neville, VIM. II. Martin and John
| Ballard, of California, 10 return a YER
diet for the defendants, and the jury
did SO. Thesuit was to dam
ages In that sum for an alleged breach
! OF contract by defendants.
The North German Gazette. referring
TO Senator Mason's resolution intro
duced in the United States senate,
calls attention TO the promise or Couni
Observation-Disclosures, secretary of the
interior, in the reichstag, that an impc'
rial law be introduced providing gen
eral regulations for the importation OF
American meats. which, ia is hoped,
would avert a possibility of a conflict
on claims upon the part OF the Omitted
States, and adds that q law on TINS
subject is in course OF preparation, but
has not yet been submitted to the
bundesrath.