Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-02-02
Otherwise.

-Four hundred employees Of the Sus-
quehanna silk mill in Sunbury. Pa,
went on strike for higher wages.
The annual meeting of the Lake
Carriers association at Detroit, Mich,
elected Il. j. Firth president.
The American Tin Plate company is
negotiating for the purchase, it is re-
ported, of the Ohio Steel company's
plant in Youngstown.
Negotiations have been completed
by which the American Mailing com.
paDy eight of the principal
malt houses in the Eastern states.
w, FL. Lamb, a builder, has filed a
petition in bankruptcy in New York:
liabilities, $267, TBS, of which $212,4T9
is unsecured.
An earthquake shock was felt at
Richview, Ill. The vibrations lasted
for seven minutes. A roaring sound ac-
companied the shock.
John Maxwell, a Chicago newspaper
man, was, in the federal court, award
ed a verdict of $4,000 against Nat G.
Goodwin, the actor, for infringement
On MaxwelTs play of Congress"
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
the Addison Pipe and Steel company
of that city is negotiating to form a
combination of all the pipe and steel
companies in the United States.
or the $4,000, 600 of Pacific railway
bonds due Jan. /, all but $685., 600 have
been paid. The latter remain unpaid
hy rpaSn Of -nraSapfafinp mn 10
date.
A Chinese coming from Cuba to the
United States will be required to Sc
cure the necessary papers from the
military government and not the
Chinese consul.
Chicago has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy. He places his liabilities at
$4,000 and assets at 10000 shares or
stock in the Ward Colorado Mining
company. Mr.. Cullerton does not know
the value of the stock.
Gen. Boyer, secretary of the Colo
RADIO section of the Sons of the Revo-
luton, has received information from
General Secretary Whitcomb of New
York that it is decided to hold the
annual convention in Denver.
The convention will open April 10.
The Chicago Times Herald's Wash
ington special says: President McKin-
ley has consented to be present on the
occasion of the laying of the corner
stone of the new Chicago postoffice on
Chicago day, Oct. 8 next. 1t Is proba-
BILE that several members Of the cabi-
net will accompany him.
The London Daily Mail says: 1--WE
have authority to announce that be-
fore going to the United States Sir
Henry Irving will open the Lyceum
theater early in April with Miss Ellen
Terry appearing in a play Sardou has
written for him on the subject OF
Robespierre.
The directors of the Boston & Mon
tana Mining company declared a div
idend of 81, a 81 extra per share, and
made the same payable Feb. 20 to
stockholders of record Jan. 20. Last
year the company paid $40 all told,
and the present dividend is the first
for 1899.
A reduction of 6 per cent In wages
has been ordered at the stephen cot
ton mills ut Calais, Me. The carders,
who refuse to accept the cut. have
struck. The mills have been import
ing large quantities Of yarn and. ii is
said. will be able to run with one-third
the usual number of carders.
The North American of Philadelphia.
the oldest newspaper in American, has
been transferred to II. T.. A. Dorr. pub
Usher of the New York Mail and Ex-
press. and the firm of Clayton Me
Michael q Sons has dissolved. The pa
per descended from the Pennsylvania
Packet and General Advertiser, which
was started in 1T11.
Imports Of dry goods and merchan-
disc ut the port of New York last week
We're valued at SS.232,4iS. The ex-
ports of gold and silver from that port
to all countries, for the week aggregate
5000, 900 silver bars and coin and S1,0S6
gold. The imports of specie for the
week We're 81, 1G0,146 in gold and S123,-
99S silver.
The motion of Attorney General
Monnett for the removal of Master
Commissioner Brinsmade of Cleveland,
in the case OF the Standard Oil com
pany, was oyerruled by the Ohio SUI
preme court. The attorney general re-
quested his removal on the ground that
the funds for conducting such examin-
atoms in his department We're ex-
hausted, and ON the further ground
that the master commissioner had
granted unnecessary and needless de-
lays at the request OF the Standard Oil
company's attorneys.
Commander +. Longnecker has been
detached from the League Island navy
yard aid ordered to command the
cruiser New rleans, relieving Capt. w.
M. Folned. ordered 10 duty as general
Inspector OF the equipment of the bat
tlcship ekarsarge.
1t was learned that creditors hold
ing Judgments against the city or IA
vaIia would levy apon the public re-
ceipts, ard M~aj-tien. Ludlow issued
an order that receivers of city money
must not disburse 1t except by order
OF the governor.