Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-03-09

secured KiaoNChiau, includes a de-
mand for the cession of three islands
OFF Chu-Kiang province and mining
and railroad rights in that province.
General.
Because four furnacemen were
dropped and their work put on the rest
of the force. 500 men struck at the
glass works at Alexandria, Ind.
The proposition for removal of the
state capital from J~effersonville, Mo-,
to st. Louis, was twice defeated in the
house.
The West Virginia legislature has
passed a bill to build three miners
hospitals in the state at a lost of $780,
O each.
Ernest r. Kraus has been appointed
receiver for the the Boston and Mon
tana Consolidated Copper and Silver
Mining Company OF Silver Bow, Mont.
George Loeffort & Sons, lumber
dealers of Sharpsburg. Pa, have filed
a petition In bankruptcy. Liabilities,
$4,000; assets, $4,000.
The Maryland Steel Company OF
Sparrow's Point announced IA 10 per
cent increase in the wages of all Its
employees.
The Lonsdale Company of Provi-
dence, Il. Il, employing $500 persons,
has decided to advance wages on
April 3.
Samuel Kahn, a cloak manufactures
Of New York, has filed a petition OF
bankruptcy. Liabilities, S11,357. No
assets.
The Rhode Island cotton manufac-
turers are likely TO follow the example
of the cotton mill owners in Fall River
and restore the '9S schedule of wages.
The Demar painters union has de-
cided TO strike March 1 for an increase
of wage from $3.50 per day of eight
hours to So, which the master painters
have refused to pay.
The commissioners of Golden Gate
Park have accepted an offer by Claus
Spreckles TO erect a marble or granite
music stand to cost lot less than $780,
600.
Ralph J.. Steen OF Philadelphia, a
university student at Princeton, is i'll
with a mild case of varioloid. Many
students, fearing the disease, are
leaving.
The mayors Of Illinois cities are In
session at Peoria for the purpose of
forming a municipal league. Among
the papers read was one by A. II.
Foote of Washington.
The Ellicott Square Bank at Buffalo
has closed it's doors. The bank had a
capital of 100000 and was organized
in 1891. The stockholders decided to
90 into voluntary liquidation.
Simon Maer, wholesale butcher. filed
his petition of insolvency in the United
States court at Los Angeles. The liz
bilities are given at $116,00S.95, and as
sets at $21S,S6O.5S The principal
creditors are the banks OF that city.
The Pennsylvania Steel Company Of
that. beginning April /, theye will be
a general advance of about 10 per
cent in wages. The advance affects
about 5000 employees.
Halsey c. Post Of Sandusky, Ohio,
filed n petition Of voluntary bank
ruptc, giving liabilities of 1925, 900 and
no assets except some stock in Toledo
enterprises which he says are Of no
value.
Upon statements and resolutions
filed by the Chicago board Of trade
the interstate commerce commission
has ordered an investigation of rates
on corn and other grain to New York
and other North Atlantic seaports on
shipments for export.
1t ;s reported that the Chicago Great
Western will not build from Hampton,
Iowa, TO Council Bluffs, but will con
struct an air line west from Peru. be-
tween the Rock Island and the Bur-
~lington.
The American silk Manufacturing
Company OF New London, Conn. has
| capitalized at $12. 100000. The com
pany has secured a special charter for
the purpose of uniting and consolidat-
ing the silk thread industry of the
United States,
Acting-Gov. Northc0tt OF Illinois has
signed the bill appropriating $4,000 for
a statute Of Francis Il. Willard, to be
placed In the rotunda of the capital
| building at Washington The statue
Of Miss Willard is the only one of a
Woman giyea a place in the rotnnda.
Representatives OF a number Of sew
err pipe manufacturers have been hold
ing in New York a series OF c%onferen-
ces. with the object OF effecting a con-
solicitation OF their respective interests,
and plans are.practicaily perfected for
| the organization OF a new company,
with a capital Of $25,00o.o00.