Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-01-27
General.

Armor plate is nov quoted at $500 a
ton.
Jabez White. the English bantam, is
preparing for a visit TO America.
A 100000 fire destroyed thirty
buildings at Randshurg, Colo.
The referee has filed a report at New
York recommending that Mrs. Nat g.
Goodwin be given a divorce on statu-
tory grounds and S75 a week alimony.
A call has been issued for a pure
food and drug congress to meet ut the
day, March 20.
The Virginia senate committee on
public institutions has decided TO re-
port adversely the McCune anti-tIirta-
ton bill.
Fire destroyed Waters & Dennis
-four and feed store and Dickinson's
paper box factory at Dubuque, Iowa.
The estimated loss is $4,000.
The Washington Central railroad
has been sold at Spokane, Wash, for
100000 by Master in Chancery Wake
field. Thomas r. Sheppard of Seattle
bid it in for the Eastern bondholders.
n. NJ. Hough & Co. shoe manufac-
turers of Rochester. n. ". have made
al assignment to G.. A. HOLSTER. II
is said that the liabilities will reach
$4,000; assets estimated at $4,000
The Androscoggin cotton mills at
Lewiston, Me-, have shut down all de-
partments for an indefinite period
owing to the strike of a portion of the
operatives.
The directors of the Lake Erie &
Western Railroad company have de-
cIared the regular quarterly dividend
of / IA per cent on the preferred stock,
payable Feb. 10.
The Harvard club of New York city
has donated $25,O0O for the erection
of a new boat house for the Harvard
crew. Extensive improvements are
also to be made to Soldiers Field,
Boston.
Preparations for the golden jubilee
of California-the fiftieth anniversary
of the discovery of the yellow metal
are making rapid Roadway. The eel
ebration will begin On Monday next
and continue during the week.
Notices were posted in the Alice
rubber mill ar Woonsocket. X. L.. an
n%ouncing a shutdown for two weeks.
This mill is owned by the United
States Rubber company and employees
loo hands.
Henry Cyril Paget. earl &C t'ybridge,
and Miss Lillian Florence Maud Chef
wind, eldest daughter Of Sir George
Chetwind, Bart, were married. The
took place in the Roman
Catholic church at st. Marys, London.
j. A. Klinkert has disposed Of his
interest in the Klinkert brewery at
West Superior TO l.. Reuping and
Mayor Earhart of Fond du Lac. Gen.
Bragg. was here with the purchasers
as ,neir attorney.
Hon. J.. ID. vandeman was appointed
receiver for the Eleetrict street rail-
way company OF Delaware, Ohio, and
ut one gave bond in the sum Of $50
900. The road will be appraised at
and offered for sale.
Some of the admirers of John Brown
are urging the national association
which has charge of the John Brow
statue to have ii made by Elmort
Lewis, the colored sculptor now n
siding in Rome.
The Milwaukee Manufacturing com-
pany. a corporation engaged in the
manufacture of bicycles at North
Milwaukee, has made a voluntary as
signment 10 Jesse Il. Wllitnall. His
bond was fixed at $4,000.
William G.. Won Mier. an ex-lieuten-
ant in the German army and nephew
or retired Admiral William Wenzel. of
the German navy. is accused at San
Francisco of petty larceny by Leon
Lemos, a Market street tailor.
Tommy White and Billy Whistler
nave signed articles to box twenty
rounds at Toronto next month. When
the pair met before the verdict was a
draw. White is getting into shape for
the mill at Coney Island.
1t is rumored at Trenton, N. j., that
n syndicate of New York capitalists
has secured an option of about 90 per
cent of the general ware potteries In
that city and East Liverpool, Ohio,
the two principal pottery centers of
the country.
Fr1nk A. Leach superintendent Of
the mint at San Francisco, has been
elected by the Oakland NCal.) board of
trade as its delegate I the monetary
convention to be held in Indianapolis
on Jan. 25. Mr. Leach is now in
Washington.
At n meeting at Pittsburg of coal
operators favorable to true uniform
iy' conditions a committee Of five
was appointed 10 nominate a uniform
ity committee, after which the meeting
adjourned to assemble again at the
call Of the committee.
Joe Choynski has been appointed
boxing instructor of the new Ameri-
can Athletic association OF Chicago.
Mysterious Billy Smith wants to
box Dan Creedon, ami ia willing to
make a match for ten or twenty
rounds.
Henry Brakeman secretary Of the
Holland Home for the Aged at Ginnd
Rapids, Mich, recently wrote to Queen
Wiihelmina, telling her the objects OF
the home. He has Just received an
acknowledgment Of his letter, ana
with 1t 100 guilders about $40, to
help the work along.