Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-09-15
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Gen. Shafter has assumed command
at Camp Wikoff.
The Democrats elected a full state
ticket in Arkansas.
The q. A. Il. encampment at Cincin-
lati was 4 great success.
Gen. Brooke reports an increase of
sickness at Porto Rico.
The troops which will garrison Cuba
will be principally regulars.
The city of Pana, ILL.,, is under mar
tial law because of the strike.
Gov. Black of New York will make a
determined fight for denomination.
Surgeon Hurter reports thirty-five
yellow fever cases at Norwood, Miss.
The Eighth Ohio volunteers have left
Camp Wikoff, l.. l., bound for home.
Joseph Letter has cleared up his
wheat deal. Every creditor has been
paid.
Chaplain Mcintyre Of the Oregon is
10 be court martialcd for criticising
ADMIRAL Sampson.
The fifth peace commissioner has
not yet been selected. Senator Gray
Will not serve.
The United States transport Mime
waska has sailed from New York for
Santiago and Ponce.
The latest estimate is that the wheat
crop, which is the largest on record,
will not equal expectations.
Gov. Lord of Oregon has issued n
proclamation calling a special session
on Monday, Sept. %, to elect a United
States senator.
Col. James A. Sexton of Illinois was
elected commander-in-chief of the G..
A. X. The next encampment will be
held in Philadelphia.
Hall Game intends, when he arrives
In this country, to make several ad-
dresses urging the necessity of an
Anglo-American alliance.
Steps have been taken by the Lake
Carriers association for the abolition
Canadian canals.
State Health Officer Blunt Of Texas
has raised the quarantine against Gal
weston and the city was never more
healthy than at present.
The executive committee Of the in
ternational pressmen of America meets
in Chicago Sept. ) to decide Upon put
ting into effect a nine-hour day.
The United States gunboat Benning-
ton has been ordered to pago-Pago
bay. Samoa, according to Mare Island
reports. to make a survey for a coal
ing station.
The camp at Admission. Ala, in com
mand of Gen. Frank, has been named
Camp Shipp, in honor of Lieut.. Will
lam Il. Ship, Tenth cavalry WHO was
killed before Santiago. -
Gov. Holcomb's request 10 have the
Third Nebraska Organs regiments
mustered out has been denied, because
Nebraska's quota to be mustered out
had already been designatedss .
Rev. Or. Thompson, secretary Of the
Presbyterian home mission. board. has
received an anons nous donation of
500, 10 be applied To 1naugtnatfhg the
work of the board in Puerto Rico
The directors Of tile Chicago, MrWau-
fkoe & st. Paul railway have declared
the regular ~semi-annual dividend of
y IL per cent on its common stock and
3 II per cent on its preferred stock.
The seventeenth annual convention
OF the National Association of Station
AIRY Engineers began at Carnegie hall.
Pittsburg. Nearly 800 delegates from all
parts of the country are in attendance.
The stockholders of the Chicago &
Great Western held their annual meet
ing nj Chicago and reelected A. b.
St,ckney. Il. X. Weyerhauser and Ar
mold Kalman directors for the next
three years.
The members of the expedition
which sailed from San Francisco. on
the schooner Volcan in June Of last
year, to buy reindeer for the United
States government IN Siberia, have re-
turned.
The first annual convention of the
United States Masters association.
formed In Chicago last July, is being
held in Buffalo. The association rep
resents a capital of $50.OOO,O 900, and is
said 10 have a very large and wealthy
membership.
A report received at the marine hos
pital from Surgeon Hurter shows that
the total number of yellow fever cases
which have made their appearance Mt
Norwood, Miss, Is thirty-five. bur up
10 this time there have been no fatali-
ties.
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