Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-08-24
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Naval Constructor Hobson raises
three of the Spanish ships sunk by
Dewey.
Spanish cannon, is to adorn the battle
ship Wisconsin.
The Order of Railway photographers
will step into new headquarters at st.
Louis, Sept. 20.
The Colorado smelters are starting
up again and 1t is believed that the
strikers will return to work.
Lieut.. Commander st John, of the
British navy, Indignantly repudiates
the report that he had criticised Gen.
Otis.
Peter Millett, Of Peter Millett & CO.,
warehOusemen. has filed a petition in
bankruptcy ut New York. Liabilities,
sol sol; no assets.
Natural gas in great quantities has
been struck on the farm of Robert Lee,
near Muscatine, Iowa. The vein is 1I0
feet below the surface.
Conditions at the soldiers home at
Hampton remain favorable, but the
quarantine against the town of Phoe-
bus will not yet be removed.
Reports that a combination of the
leading cigar manufacturers in Key
West. Tampa and Havana is being or
ganized. are current in New York.
Gov. Pingree has appointed a delega-
ton of sixteen to represent Michigan in
the antitrust convention in Chicago,
Sept. 1916. Gen. Il. A. Alger heads
the list.
The Anti-imperialistic league has re-
ceived from Andrew Carnegie a check
for $1,000 with which to press forward
their opposition To the administrations
policy.
At Jersey City the organization of
the Niles-Bement-Pond company. just
Incorporated in New Jersey with a
capital Of SS,000.000, was completed by
the election of officers.
The proposed automobile trip from
Chicago TO New York. TO. the purpose
of transmitting military correspond
n C from Gen. Anderson. TO Gen. Mer-
rift has been postponed for one week
or ten days.
Chambers has broken out among the
government mules and horses at Fort
Lcavenwcrth, Kan, intended for SER
vice in the Philippines, and there is
much CONSERVATION among the army
officials over the disease.
Sig. Marconi, in his experiments with
wireless telegraphy at Dover, Eng,
sages passing through several miles of
cliff upon which Dover castle stands,
twelve miles across the sea.
The first national convention Of the
Young Peoples Christian Temperance
union has been called to meet at Chi
cago Sept. p and %. organization to
be effected on Frances Wizards birth
day in honor of her memory.
Col. Charles Page Bryan, United
States minister TO Brazil, in an impor-
tant communication to the Argentine
and Brazilian press, asserts that the
United States wants nothing Of South
America but trade and harmony.
L. II. Leach & Son Of Chicago. who
bid S1IT,T59, were lowest bidders for
the heating and yentilating apparatus
and electric works Of the hospital
building for the United States immi-
grant station at Ellis island, N. Y.
As a result of the difficulty In obtain
ing iron and steel Cramp & Sons have
asked the Russian government for a
short extension of time on the cruiser
F~ariagano, also for an extension on
the battleship Retise, now building at
their yard.
An automobile gun carriage upon
which n Colts automatic rapid firing
gun will be mounted, Is now being
constructed at Peoria. II is being
made to the order Of Maj. Davidson,
Of the Highland Park Military Acad-
envy.
The stockholders Of the Illinois Tele-
phone and Telegraph company met at
Chicago and voted an issue OF $4,000
COO of 4 IL per cent thirty-year gold
bonds. and an increase In the capital
stock Of from $4,000 to $5,000.O0O.
Fonr more directors were elected, max
Ing a board of seven