Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-21
Otherwise.

A boom Is promised on the Messam.
bria iron range in Northern Minnesota.
Arizona cowboys have deadly fights
with Mexicans.
An attempt Is making to constitute
Fond du Lac, Wis, a considerable rail-
road center.
A fund of $4,000 will be raised at
Chicago to secure the next Democratic
national convention.
A member of the industrial commits
sion testifies. placing the profits of the
Standard Oil company at $5OO,000,OOO
Returning fishermen say codfishing
on the Labrador coast is poor and that
the fishing this year has been almost a
failure.
Michael Duffy, who was one of New
York's Doodle aldermen in 1894, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabili-
ties, $303,67O.
The Hartman syndicate seeks to
join the Baltimore & Ohio, Illinois
Central and Union Pacific in a new
transcontinental system.
The executive committee Of the West
ern Union Telegraph company has rec
commended the declaration of the regu-
lar quarterly dividend Of IL per cent.
Peter Pearson, an Oklahoma man,
has invented a system of wireless tel
egraphy which he claims is perfectly
successful.
Col. Ohan Perry of Indianapolis tele-
graphed from Denver, Col, that he had
sold the Big Five Mining company's
holdings in Boulder county to a British
syndicate for 81 $500, 900 cash. :
Rain has improved the crop outlook
In Western India, and the fears of a
famine have been removed. The
weather conditions foreshadow more
rain.
A hearing in the action of the state
of New York to ecove 81, 900 in
penalties from Armour & Co. Of Chi
cago for violating the anti-oleomar-
garine laws.
Fires have been lighted in 2S5 indie
pendent pots, and the first window
glass of the season was blown at And
erson, Ind. on Friday. All the other
independent cooperative pots will
start this month.
A report via Mexico has 1t that the
United States Is to acquire territory on
the Amazon claimed by Bolivia, and
South Americans fear the Yankees
will get possession of the whole South
American continent.
Up to July 1 of the current year the
Mutual Insurance company Of New
York has returned to it's members
$500. $40, 1877, or over half a billion Of
dollars, and it's accumulated assets on
that date were $2SS, 536 All.
A programme for the repnion Of the
Society of the Army of the Cumberland
lip Detroit Sept. 26-27 has been adopted
by the chairmen of committees having
charge of the event. The principal pub
lie gathering will be addressed by ex.
Congressman Charles K. Belknap, and
the reunion will conclude with the So
ciety's annual banquet.
Prof. Campbell, through the great
telescope at the Lick observatory in
California. has definitely ascertained
that Polaris, popularity known as the
north star. is a triple system. Two OF
the bodies In this system revolve
around each other in a period of four
days, and at the same time move In q
much wider sweep around the third
body In much the same way as do the
stars and the noon around the sun.
The separate bodies which compose the
system cannot be seen with the tele.
scope, nor is it likely that they viii
ever be seer by any instrument.
Newspapers OF all nationalities joix
In condemning the Dreyfus verdict and
advocating a boycott Of the Paris eI
position.