Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-01-06

list. and her home AT Bridgeport was a
station on the Underground raIifoaa.
She founded the first sanitary society
for soldiers during the civil war.
General.
The membership of the New York
Driving Club is now 301. The annual
dues amount TO $500
Dan Creedon has gone 10 New Or
leans with Benny Falk. and VIII WORK
for the bookmaker at the race track.
Oscar Ames has a yearling by Joe
Patchen which has shown a quarter III
351-2 seconds on the rot.
IT begins to look as il Critic Inc
"Kid" Lavigne would have 10 go East
70 get 4 chance TO box each other.
The banking and brokerage house OF
the r. Il. ward company nj 81 and IS
Broadway. New York. was closed by
the sheriff on an attachment
Parscn Thomas UZzell distributed
5000 jack rabbits among poor people
who applied for them at Denver
These animals were shot in the annual
hunt at Lamar, Col.
Bob FitZsimmons has bought another
lion. raging $1,000 cash for it, Bob's
first lion crossed the dark river on a
live electric light wire at Cleveland a
year ago.
Benjamin Jordon, the English feath-
er-weigllt who defeated Tommy White
has challenged Dixon, Solly Smith and
Pedlar Palmer 10 box at 40 pounds in
April for $3.50 a side.
T.. W. White & Co. and Frcnk W.
White, manager of the White Catering
company, proprietor OF restaurants on
Fourth and Fifth streets, Cincinnati,
assigned TO A. W. Goldsmith. Total
assets $4,000 total liabilities. $1,000.
During the last eight years twenty
Yale men, twenty-threa Princ-
ton, twenty-five Harvard. fifteen Uri-
versity Of Pennsylvania aud n Cor
nell man have been chosen on the All
American college football elevens.
Joe Patchen. 2:O11-4 trace record
2:011-2i. has paced sixty-six heats in
2:1o or better. He has taken part in
forty-seven races, of which he won
twenty-three: contested 196 heats.
winning nfenty-seven.
II is reported that Chicago parties
will soon establish a phonograph fact
CRY in Muskegon. Mich, capitalized at
100000. Philip ID. Armour is credited
with being of the principal invest
ors.
Princeton athletes have been forbid
preventative of any athletic club. Har-
ward was the first TO pass this rule, and
the other big universities are likely I
follow the good example set,
The owners of all the large and
prosperous mines i'm Cripple Greek
made a handsome Christmas present
TO their employees by alloy q full time
for an idle day. The gift in the aggre-
gate amounts TO about $4,000, divided
iIiohg several thofsand miners.
At New York William Gottzyzer and
Mrs. John Rice, dropped dead at mid
night while trimming Christmas trees
for their respective children. The G.
yeay-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Field of Keyport. N. j.. pulled a light
ed tree-over on himself the same night
and was burned to death.
Ben Jordon, the English feather
weight boxer who recently defeated
tfonal Sporting Club, is coming to
America. He has authorized San
Tommy White. of Chicago at the Nat
Austin 20 make a match for him with
George Dixon, Solly Smith or Frank
Erne, 10 take place in America some
time in February. Jordon viii leave
England UP on receitp Of information
that he is matched.
In the ring building of the breeding
barn on DIR. w. Seward Webb's extern
sive farm at Shelburne. VT, was held
saturday night Christmas celebration
unique in character and on a scale
never before known in Vermont. The
guests included all the employers of
Shelburne farm with their families. the
adults in Trinity parish, and other
friends In the village, making about
$50 in all.
Says a friend of the wonderful little
Welsh rider: michael never drinks
anything hut tea and ale. He is a
great tea drinker, but seldom touches
water: and he never smokes never has
smoked In fact "A cigar or cigarette.
He uses no vegetables, as they tend
to fatten. and warns off all highly sea-
soned foods-chicken, game. pies and
pastry. He regards coffee drinking as
also being bad"
They have queer ways Of running
college football at the University of
Michigan. Honey Stuart. the speedy
halfback and the best man in the uni
versity team, suddenly left Ann Arbor.
and on investigation il was found that
Stuart had never been a bona hde
student Mt the university. The fact
developed that while he had attended
classes, signed the usual pledge in re-
gard 10 non-prCfessionalism and was
to all appearances a regularly enrolled
student, he had never registered or
paid his university fees.
John s. Barnes. formerly of Minnea.
polls, now OF birmingham. Eng. has
abandoned the prospect Of opening n
boxing club at Paris as the project OF
police has refused to give him n II.
cense.