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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

Ex-President Harrison is in favor OF
peace and arbitration, but in his letter
to the United Society OF Christian En-
deayor, Boston, he said: 1T would
have been in vain to suggest the pull
ing down Of blockhouses or family
disarmament to the settlers on a hos
tile Indian frontier. They would have
told you rightly that the conditions
were mo- ripe. and SO 1t may be and
is, probably. true that a full applica-
ton of the principle is not presently
possible. the devil still being I'M
chained" With Philippine rebels
shooting at American soldiers, and re-
sisting United States authority, ex-
President Harrison is not in favor OF
disarming or of ~retreating.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27
Otherwise.

The great lake shipbuilding combine
has been contaminated.
COMMUNICATIONS will form a ma
tional organization in opposition TO all
Anglo-American alliance.
Report has it that the Great North
ern will absorb the st. Paul & Duluth
railway.
The thirty-second general assembly
OF the State or Arkansas has adjourned
sine die, after a session of 101 days.
The last ballot for senator has been
taken in Pennsylvania, and the state
must stump along for a while with but
senator.
An enthusiastic welcome, on her re-
turn from the Philippines, where she
participated in the battle of Manila,
is given the Raleigh in New York.
Experiments in this country cause a
belief that the Marconi system of wire
less telegraphy will soon be in general
use.
come down from Mare island, and is
taking on coal, preparatory to her de-
parture for Honolulu.
The building and contracting firm OF
Marvin & Brown has begun suit for
$4,000 damages against the Chicago
Master Steam Filters association and
numerous officials and members of that
body. for alleged "blacklisting.'
The Ohio Tube works, at Warren,
Ohio, employing 45O men, and in which
Chicago men are interested, will start
Monday. The plant was closed a week
ago by a strike. Most of the old men
will be taken back.
The Missouri house has passed the
senate bill levying an inspection tax
OF 1 cent per gallon and two cents for
each package OF beer sold in the state.
The bill passed by a close vote of IL
TO 81, after a hot fight.
President Mckinley has accepted an
invitation to attend an encampment
of the G.. A. II, { o be held ut Youngs-
town, Ohio. the latter part of June,
provided other engagements Of an Off
cial character do not interfere.
The civil service bill. amended by
the assembly of New York, so as to
give preference Ia employment In the
public service TO veterans Of the Civil
and Spanish wars, has passed the SEN
ate.
The American Car and Foundry COM
pany at Jeffersonville. Ind. announced
an increase OF wages to it's employees,
TO go into effect at once. The increase
is understood to be 10 per cent. 1T af-
fects 1000 employees.
A letter has been received at San
Francisco from a resident of the island
of kusale. or Storg's island, as il il
sometimes called. of the Caroline
group. telling OF the reported desire OF
Germany TO buy the island as a coailng
station.
German officials at Washington are
not a little amused at the latest Chr
nese news, which ascribes to Emperor
William the intention to make his
brother Henry a German king on Chi.
nese soil. The report Is characterized
as a Wild and baseless invention.
The United States steamer Badger
has gone to the Union Works at San
Francisco for repairs. there being no
room for her at Mare Island. The re-
pairs vii, be rushed so that she can
sal. for Apia with ths samoan con-.
mission on the 18th inst.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

Tommy Ryan and Billy Stiff met at
Leonard's club, Davenport, Iowa, 8for
d twenty round so, Ryan getting the
decision.
At the National Sporting club at Lon
don, III coHtss. fcr the bantam-weighr
championship between Peddler Palmer
of England and William Rockford OF
Chicago for a stake of TOO a side aud
n purse of EG00, Rockford was disquaii-
fed in the third round for hitting low.
President Keenan,. OF the L. A. w,
has announced the appointment of w.
Il. Curtis as A. A. u. representative on
the racing hoard and Fred Gerlach as
l.. a. W. representative to the Interna-
iicnal Cyclists association.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27
FILIpINos WE'LL SUPPLIED
So Says n Spanish Prisoner Receu,-
~ Released.

London, April 25.-The Madrid cor.
respondent of the Daily Mail SAYS:
"A Spanish prisoner recently released
by the Filipinos says that the jnsnr-
gents have $4,000 rifles. plenty of am.
munition and 900 pieces OF artillery
some of them the latest pattern OF
guick-firing guns.
according TO his description of the
SITUATION they have established two
large cartridge factories, and as il is
impossible for the Americans to block
q such a coast as that OF Luzon. the
fihpinos can easily procure from
abroad everything they require.
The informant asserts that Chinese
European, and even American mer.
chants doing business In China are
helping the F1lipinos In this way.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27
CHINA LOOKING ron TROUBLE.
Heactfonary Policy Towar Foretpr
ers C1nnOt he P~rolanned

v's S"nnOt lie Prolonged
Peking, April %. - The r~eactionarv
policy of the Chinese to-
wards foreigners is creating for them
an intolerable situation which cannot
be prolonged.
Promises made by the tsung Ii yamen
tChinese foreign Officer are of no vaIne
unless approved by the grand council
a majority Of whose members are bit.
,erly hostile to foreigners and foreign
influences. Unless some change takes
place soon 1t is believed the powers
VIII demonstrate directly to the EN-.
press dowager.
AS an illustration of the intolerance
OF the grand council, that body has
gwen enthusiastic approval to q new
invention by the general commandiny
the troops In the province of Pe-chi-li
zen. Kangsu, Of a sharp shovel
SNAPPED instrument capable Of decap-
itating an enemy at n single blow.
There seems little likelihood that n
Hung Chang will return to power.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

Nothing is easier than ridicule; and
in nine cases out of ten where ridicule
Is used, it is resorted TO only because
il is the only weapon available. The
man of intelligence will use his rea-
son in the argument with his oppo-
nent; the man of knowledge will use
his knowledge; but the man who has
neither knowledge nor intelligence
u resort to ridicule. 1t is a poorly
furnished armory which supplies nc
better weapon.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

Gentlemen wno believe in correcting
their wives by physical methods will
naturally find much encouragement
and satisfaction in the decision OF
Judge Peabody OF st. Louis, who holds
husband is justified in chastising his
wife in moderation. The trouble is
that wives have lately developed an in
c~lination TO do the chastising them
selves. Two recent instances In the
daily papers illustrate this tendency.
One was that OF Mrs. Albina Chemlik
of Chicago. who, upon being reproved
by her husband, broke a stove leg
over his head. The other concerns
Mrs. Sarah Adams OF Camden, N. j..
who found her husband in a saloon
when he should have been at home
and proceeded TO spank him coram
publico. 1t is obvious that Judge
Peabody's ruling will afford little
comfort TO Messrs. Chemlik and
Adams, nor will 1t aid husbands whose
wives are expert in the handing OF
rolling pins and teakettles as weapons
of offense and defense. Judge Pea
body may decree that the wife should
submit to chastisement, but IL the lady
disregard the ruling 1t Is going to be
difficult to enforce it. We doubt II
the learned Judge will institute con-
tempt proceedings TO sustain his de-
cision.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

No other country has shown such
a rapid increase in the production OF
coal during recent years as the United
States. according to statistics just
made public by the treasury bureau OF
statistics. The quantity Of coal pro-
duced increased from 2,s63. $50 tons
in 1870 to f47. S6O.Ss0 tons in 1897.
while the total quantity exported in
creased from 227 .9ls tons In 1870 to
s.0Os 1896 tons in 1897. In the frst-
mentioned year the United States sup
piled hut IL per cert OF the worlds
total output; at present it furnishes
about 25 per cent thereof
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27
KILLED IN BATTLE
AMERICANS SUFFER- SEVERE Loss
AT aUINGUA.

Col. S~toItxenberg and Lieut.. sissoh
of the Nebraska Regiment anu
Five Enlisted Men Killed orts-
four Observation-Disclosures ihouSh
Successful Fight-Enemy Drive"
From strong Entrenchments-
Fiiiptnos. Loss Comparatively
small ON of Their safe
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Loss Is the
Sustained by Any heGi-
ment-PopuIarity OF Col stotzen-
berg.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

Cleveland. Ohio. Apr, 25..-Radwov
oficials report that the present car
famine Is the most serious ever experj-
enced. The situation seems to be grow.
Ing worse each day. The Lake shore
company cannot supply so per cent OF
the ears called for. and other lines ara
practically In the same position.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

Sioux Falls, s. D., April %. The
jury In the case OF II. A. Tubbs. NAV.
or of Alcester. indicted for sending oh
scene literature through the mails -.
turned a verdict of guilty on seven or
the eight counts in the Indictment.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27
At the Cost OF Her own ,a,.

Sioux Falls, $. d.. April 25.-As !
result OF attempting TO light n tire ~
her Kitchen stove with gasoline. Mrs
Frank BOYER was perhaps fatally
Durned n saved her two small
children. A
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

Since Spain has a prospect OF COM
Ing into possession of some real mon
ey. she has stopped the embassy that
was about starting to treat with
Aguinaldo for the release Of his Span
ish prisoners.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

1t is a perfectly safe proposition that
without the thoughtfulness. which is
otherwise named fact, no one can find
the fullest measure OF success and
pleasure in life.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

A st. Louis man claims to have an
umbrella that has been in his posses
sion twenty years. That's long enough;
he ought TO return il.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

The opponents CT the street railway
deal in Detroit will take the matter
into the court They ought to be
able. at least, to secure some sort OF
Injunction.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

Kindness is the sum of life, the
charm to caPtivate. and the sword
with which to conquer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

The recaicitrant Porto Ricans should
read the reports from the Philippines
and ponder.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

Rome. April *. A dispatch from
Palermo says the Kaiser Hausmann
bank has suspended payment with 4
deficit Of 100000 lire.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27
PITH OF THE NEWS
DIGEST or THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.

4 Comprehensive Review OF tbs
Important happenings of the
Past Week Called From the Tel
egraph Reports The Notable
Events at Home and Abroad That
Have Attracted Attention.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27
The action OF the Cuban assembly is
commended TO Aguinaldo.

Ambassador Choate is c~onvalescent;
he is almost ready for another speech.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-27

II a man has talent he can make
use OF another's genius.
Iron County register., 1899-12-28
TRAIN JUMPING AN ART.
II Is No Longer Practiced Much. But
Formerly FIagmen Were Com
PEELED to Do 1t.

Jumping from trains is rapidly be-
coming a lost art. One does not need
TO be very old in the railroad business
to remember when a fagman was not
considered half a flagman unless he
could tuck a lantern or flag under his
arm and let himself down to the ground
from the high step Of a caboose when
the train was running at 25 miles an
hour. Every man of the crew did it in
those days. It was not merely
an accomplishments; it was something
they had. to learn, for which they had
use in their business every day. In
those days a fagman practically had
no other duty than to protect the rear
Of his train. The books of instructions
were very explicit on this point, and
the word Immediately" was so prom
lnent that you could see it about as far
as you could see the book itself. The
moment the slack came in the train aft
er the engineer had whistled for brakes
the fiagman was supposed to jump off
and run back to hold up the next train;
and with trains running under five
minute limit man had to be particu.
larly nimble. While men were not
specially and officially instructed in the
art of jumping on and off moving
trains, still a brakeman had no chance
of being promoted to fagman if he
lacked nerve or was otherwise unfit for
the practice. There are sometimes fat
1agmen now; there were none then.
The block system has been chiefly in
strumental in doing away with train
jumping as a fine art. By this system
Every train is assured of an absolutely
clear track for certain distance. II
for any reason train comes to stop
between two signal points a fagman
must go back, but this is only in the
nature of additional precaution. The
flagman is no longer the sole protector
of a train in the rear, and the trains are
under better control on account of the
air brake and other appliances.
1t would be hard to say how fast
train man could jump from. In gen
eral it depended much upon the man
Men have jumped from trains running
at the rate of 35 miles an hour, and the
first step they took when they struck
the ground was about rail length, 3G
feet. Sometimes it was easy for them;
at other times depression or an ele-
vation of an inch under your foot
would be enough to make every muscle
in your body sore for a week. Nova
days, except in rare cases, a man has
no business, and is assuming an un-
necessary risk, in getting on or Off
trains running faster than IA miles an
hour-N. Y. Sun.
Iron County register., 1899-12-28
A Trip South.
DEs ARC, Mo-, Dec. %. 1899

DEs ARC, Mo-, Dec. %. 1899
Dear EdttOr-As have just return
ed from a visit in Texas and Arkansas,
thought | could interest at least some
of your many readers. left Des Arc
on the night of December 9Th, on train
No. 81, at z p. NJ. | reached Texar-
kama at 9 A. NJ. the next day. | visit
ed many business places in the city
during the day; among the number,
were the big saw and planning mill,
known as tbs Four c Mining and Lum-
Der Company. This mill manufactures
one hundred and forty thousand feet
per day. They run thirteen planers
under one shed. | never saw so much,
and as nice lumber as they have under
those sheds, ready to ship. The plant
covers twenty acres of ground; they
haul their logs on cars. | saw one
trains of forty cars pulled by one en-
giue. | saw the building of the Young
Mems Christian Union. Miss Helen
Gould donated twenty thousand dol
lars towards its erection. 1t is not
quite finished 1t is the finest build
ing | was ever in. 1t will cost one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
l left Texarkana on the Port Arthur
& Gulf Road at 5:15; reached Ashdown
at $50. There met my only sister,
whom | had not seen for fre years.
Here l spent two days. This is a
heavily timbered country, mostly pine;
the finest | ever saw-lots of it over
four feet through. Those trees will
make from three TO FIVE sixteen foot
logs.
From there l went to DeQueen. thir-
ty miles distant. Here Mr.. j. w,
Bowels and son have a saw mill. Here
met my son. J. E. Jordan; he is in
business with Bowels & Son. This is
business little town of some two
thousand inhabitants. The most of
this town was burned last October;
they are rebuilding rapidly. There
are three stave factories and one saw
mill. There is an abundance of oak
and pine timber The health of the
people seems good; some good farm
ing country; the principal crop is corn
and cotton. Vegetables of all kinds
grow in plenty.
While here | attended the wedding
of j. Il -, son of j. w. Bowels, to Miss
Maud May Meredith. They were mar
ried in the M f Church. which was
nicely decorated. 1t was crowded to
the utmost. They then repaired to
the home of the bride. where a nice
supper awaited them.
Having spent my allotted time here,
/ again took the train for Ashdown,
where we got hack and drove
through the timber and farming cOun-
try. There is plenty of the finest timber
to be found; we saw many fine farms;
saw lots of cotton baled ready to ship.
The land here is sandy loan, not a
rock to be found and the rivers are full
of the finest fish in the world. 1t
seems to be as healthy as Iron county,
and the people are neighborly and
kind. There are many negroes-some
OF them quite wealthy.
In the morning of the 18th I took
train for old Iron, reaching Des Arc
at l / A. NJ. the next day. So ends a
delightful, and ever to be remembered
trip. Anon. S. j. JORDAN.
Iron County register., 1899-12-28

into battle depending for inspiration to
do hard fighting on his gruely verse.
AS well might strong man try to get
hilariously inebriated on vermillion
hued pop or carbonated root beer.
As if his cOuntrymen at the front
were not sufficiently in the doldrums
already, this official minstrel to the
British nation had to turn his muse
loose again upon the already dispirited
and discouraged soldiers of the queen
in "A Node" entitled "a Call to
Arms" In it he tells them
"Shoulder to shoulder see them stand
wherever menace be,
To guard the lordship of the land, and
trident of the sea-
Now it is bumanely submitted that
the British soldier is tough and has
been subjected to no more than he de-
serves for trying to take honest mems
country away from them, but he is en-
titled to protection against such rot as
this, which is written supposedly for
his encouragement by the duly author
lied poetry maker for the British ma
ton
One o: the first things the new com
mander in chief of her majesty's arm
les in South Africa ought to do is to
lasso Poet Laureate Austin, and keep
him tied down out of reach of a print
ing office till the fighting is oYer.-K
G.. Times
Iron County register., 1899-12-28
He Saddens When He Sings.

In their attempt to thrash the Beers
to standstill and efface their govern.
ment, the British soldiers have been
terribly handicapped. They marched
into the ardent climate of Natal and
Cape Colony with their dress parade
uniforms on. They wore quilted coats
and bear skin shakos. many of them,
and their stomachs were plagued with
Indigestion caused by indulging in
the kind wives and sweethearts al
home.
This. added TO their being compelled
to fight in close formation. and trying
to dislodge marksmen. who rang the
bell every time their rifles went of, by
charging with the bayonet, were ele-
ments which assisted in their numer-
GUS discomfitures. But these were not
all they had to endure. They were ex-
pected to be inspired to .'deeds of der
ring do" as were the knights and bow
men of the good old time, by the songs
of their harpers-by such unssirring
strains as were struck to order from
the Tyre of Poet Laureate Alfred Aus
tin.
No wonder the Britishers were wal
loped to fare-you-well, if they went
Iron County register., 1899-12-28
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