Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-08-17
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The brickmakers' strike at Chicago
Is practically off.
Cyclone cellars are being dug under
schoolhouses in Oklahoma.
There is a large surplus of money in
the financial centers of the West.
The report Of grasshopper ravages in
Nebraska is pronounced exaggerated.
w. w. Astor, recently naturalized as
a British subject, was hung in etfigy
in New York.
The Society of the Army Of the Ten
nessee will hold its next annual meet
ing in Chicago, Oct. 8, 10 and IL.
Joseph II. Choate, United States am
~bassador, says there is no danger of a
war over the Alaskan boundary
trouble.
Maurice Flynn, a shoe manufacturer
of Lynn, Mass, has filed a petition in
bankruptcy. His liabilities are $4O,-
ia; assets, S23 ,440.
Moses A. Ludington, q solicitor,
filed a petition in bankruptcy at Chi
cago. scheduling liabilities Of S92,0o6
and assets of 1901.
A correspondent Of the London Times
saws the report that Wellington island
without foundation.
In Indiana it has been held TO be IL
legal for faith curists and Christian Sci
entists to assume the title Of doctor
and attend sick persons.
The building trades lockout in Copen-
hagen, by which 10000 workmen were
kept in idleness two months, will be
settled by compromise.
IT is announced that A. j. Drexel, a
Philadelphia millionaire, will soon fol
low the example of w. w. Astor and
become q British subject.
The encouragement Of Illinois holds
that stocks and bonds of the Illinois
Central railroad held by individuals
are liable to taxation.
The Western General Passenger as
ISOLATION held a meeting in Chlcago
10 give each road represented a snare
of the returning soldier business.
The audience at a Chautauqca meet
ing at st. Joseph, Mo-, refused TO listen
TO an anti-expansion TRADE by Con-
gresham Cochran and left the fall
In a body.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Postmasters VIII
he held III Washington Nov. Z to III, IN
stead of the earlier date originally
fixed upon.
buchanan & Lyall of Brooklyn MED
articles of incorporation. ms cum
pany will prove a rival to the topacco
trust. The company has a capltai
stock of 100000. !.
John r. Smith, formerly in the real
estate and building business, a Hleu
n petition In bankruptcy AT Nv
York. Liabilities, S136,494, OF witch
500 TOS is unsecured; available assets
SOS. 307.
pone Brown delivered an address on
Tho negro question at the meeting Oh
tho Georgia State Agricultural society
ut Ouitman, Ga, saying Wnh
sbouId aid the negroes In their ehoi's
TO leave the country.
Tbe transport Hancock is at inc
rotor iron works at a francisco
,-ndaryoing extensive repairs, TO cost
ahout S5O.OOO. The hospital snip he
lief is also to be repaired at al eApense
of $4,000.
The Republican and Socialist parties
love agreed TO organize a campaign
dsnanding the expulsion from SPAN
~ ali religious orders. Senores sai,
meron Ingleses and other SOCIALISTS
are prominent in the new movement;
oaicial figures show that kansas is
makiny n steady, healthy van III
nonulatiop. The enumerating mace Dy
assassors for March, 1899, compiled py
the state board OF agriculture, gives
.ntai of 1.425.112 inhabitants, when Is
q net increase over 1898 OF 3i,l43' OF
OK ner cent. OF the net increase, q
ner cent has been made IN wen'y
counties.