Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-06-22
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The skeletons of five cave jewellers
We're recently found in Montana.
The Wisconsin national guard has
been recognized on the regular army
basis.
The Northern Pacific will cut passen-
ger rates in Manitoba from 4 to 3
cents per mile.
The government report shows a re-
duction of % per cent in spring wheat
acreage. The condition is Ola, against
1909 last year.
Wage scales have been agreed upon
whereby the $4,000 iron, steel and tin
workers of the country get an in
crease OF % per cent.
The Afro-American council issues an
appeal to Southern governors, legis-
lators and judges to prevent lawless-
ness and lynching.
James G. Miller, who was formerly
in business at Sioux City, Iowa, filed
n petition in bankruptcy at Chicago.
Liabilities, $S4 900. No assets.
The Northern Pacific railroad reports
gross earnings for May, $2.031.I S1. a
decrease, compared with May last
year of S6,335.
General Greeley is in receipt of a ca
blegram from Maj. Maxfield, announc-
ing the arrival of the ecabie ship Hook
er at Ceylon, with all on board in good
health.
In a mass meeting at johannesburg
the Uitlanders declared that mo senti-
ment would be satisfactory which does
not provide for the recognition of equal
political rights for ALL
The North American saengerbund
celebrates its golden jubilee at Cincin-
natl June rs TO 80. A hall with a seat
ing capacity of 1850 has been erected
with a stage for a chorus of 1000.
Some of the most prominent physi-
clans and citizens of Chicago are ar
ranging to organize a society to be
known as the Illinois Society for the
Prevention of Consumption.
The Peoria Steel and Iron works of
Peoria, ILL.,, lately sold to the Republic
Iron and Steel company, will resume
| operations at once. employing 500 men.
The works have been idle since the
new year.
DR.. John S. Scott, assistant state vet
erinarian Of Illinois, has been ordered
TO proceed to Lincoln and other public
institutions to make tuberculosis tests
Oh the cattle furnishing milk to the in
mates.
The revival of business in the United
States has resulted in a large influx OF
the poorer classes from Europe, nota-
bly, Italy. The immigration authori-
ties are lenient when they know the
immigrants are coming West.
The survey for the submarine cable
which will connect Germany with the
United States, via the Azores, was
practically completed when the cable
lnying steamship Britannia came into
port.
a consul of n foreign power states
he overheard officers Of the late Cuban
army fabricating the dispatches re-
Gently sent to the United States, that
the Cubans had absolutely refused to
accept the American gratuity.
Capt. Weber's new ~1,200-foot chan
mel las relieved the city of Havana of
100 years accumulation of dumpage.
which was the principal yellow fever
breeder. Some 10000 barrels of lime
were used in the vicinity
The Afro-American council has is.
sued an appeal to governors of South.
ern states Ito prevent lawlessness and
TO secure to all citizens the protection
10 which they are entitled under the
laws"
J The McDorough est tie. which owns
the building In which the California
theater is Heated at San Francisco. APP
llied for a writ of injunction restrain
ing the production Of ''The Turtle" al
lcging that it is immoral.
The second annual reunion of the
Penbow family, with 4S0 members,
ended mt Muncie, Ind. after the cleo
tion Of officers. J. IL. Berkey of Mon.
roe. Wis. was elected recording secre-
tary.
Representatives. OF all vehicle wheel
manufacturing concerns west of Pitts
burg met at Chicago and adopted q
new graded price list to supercede the
old one as the latter had become i'm.
S lited TO present conditions.
Unsuitable grounds on which to pitch
their mammoth tent at Indianapolis
may be the cause CT sensing thu i'm.
ternational Epworth League ccnven
ton elsewhere. The capitol grounds
are considered insufficient. and nc
other site as yet seems available.
Judge Tuley OF Chicago has written
an open letter to the secretary OF the
Democratic league IN which hc says
that renewed prosperity has killed free
silver as a political issue. and suggest,
that Ii he dropped altogether from the
next national platform.
General Secretary Edwin a. Schell
of the Epworth League. denies the re
port that either the date or location OF
the biennial Epworth League conven
tion Is 70 be changed. The convention
will be held ait indianapolis. Ind. July
, Dob. and II Is said that fully '50,OO(
people viii he In attendance.