Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-11-30
General.

There is a shortage at II head Oh
the lakes of $4,000 tons of soft coal.
Isthmian canal commission is not
likely to report for two or three years.
Congressman Boutell wishes 10 force
prompt action on pension claims.
Senator Allison says there will be
early and adequate financial legislation.
What was callel Dewey arch" in
New York is to be known as navy
arch"
The gas wells of Indiana are rapidly
failing and coal is being substituted IL
factories.
The public schools at bethany, ILL.,,
have been closed during an epidemic
of scarlet fever.
Sister Maura of st. Mary's, La Sale,
Ill, inherited a fortune, renowned her
vow and married.
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse made a
! record Of 3 days, II hours and - min
utes from Cherbourg.
John H. Havlin of New York has
acquired a half interest in the Grand
opera house at st. Louis.
Miners at New Athens. H., made a
demand for state scale Of wages, end,
being refused, struck.
Admiral Dewey favors the plan Of
the Philadelphia Times to bring home
the body of John Paul Jones.
Nearly all the glass workers in Rich
mond, Va, have gone into the union
formed in that city recently.
Shirt factories in Delaware report
the busiest season in their history,
with a shortage in operatives.
Tremendous business has been trans
acted in wool. tffe sales of the week
a~ggregating 100000 pounds.
The National Bottle Manufacturers
association has decided TO advance the
price Of their product 10 per cent.
Fifty-four apprentices and five filters
joined the striking employees Of
Cramps Philadelphia shipyards.
The Continental Sugar Company OF
Cleveland, Ohio, was incorporated In
Ohio with a capital stock of 100000.
Nearly eight inches Of rain has fallen
at Ell Reno, O. T., since Saturday. All
wires are down and traffic is blocked.
The Women's and Young Women's
Christian association viii hold its next
biennial conference at Cleveland, Ohio.
A mad dog at Plattville, Ill, has
caused the abandonment Of beef as n
table diet. Many cattle have been bit
ten.
At st. Joseph, Mo-. the Western Fed
Grafton Of Chautauqua considered dates
and attractions for next years assem-
blies.
An American League club will be
located in Chicago next spring and
Charles Comiskey will be owner and
manager.
The Republican League Of Pennsyl.
vania has started out 20 have the next
national Republican convention held in
Philadelphia.
At Marion. IL armed guards have
been posted to arrest all persons ex-
posed 10 srNallpox, which exists in
Williamson county.
At Buffalo. n. Y, the strike of the
building trades was terminated, as was
the strike Of the machinists of tho
Lehigh Valley shops.
st. Louis is struggling with a typhoid
fever epidemic. In this connection It
may be we'll to state that the Chicago
drainage canal Is not yet in operation.
More than 400 machinists and helpers
of locomotive works Of the New York
Central railroad at Depew, n. Y. Quit
work because union men were dis
charged.
Iowa will present Speaker.to-be Hen.
derson with q rosewood gavel, made
from wood taken from Admiral
Monte1o's flagship, sunk by Dewey i'm
Manila bay.
Typhoid fever at the state normal
and industrial college ut Greensboro
n. c., has made necessary the CLOSING
of the school until Jan. 1. Eighty OF
the girl students are Ill.
Norton IL Co., New York bankers
nied a petition at Lima, Ohio. for the
appointment or a receiver for tbe
columbus, Lima & Milwaukee Railway
company.
AT P~ittsburg, Pa. the iron and steel
sheet manufacturers and their work.
men decided that the prices of the LAST
two months did not warrant n change
IN Inc rate of wages. The scale affects
5000.
The Minneapolis. Little Rock e. GuIf
railroad was chartered in Missouri.
with a capital stock of $2.250.OOo. The
road VIII be built from Bowling Green
10 west Plains, n distance of 225 miles
ana is considered an extension of the
Chicago and Alton.
Col. Joe Hickey, of the Kincdor %
oanaway, anu a Capt. Wheeler. a man
aoout New York town, got into n fight
a, n NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and both were
Elected together with baggage, pos
s.piy some people have done worse
.nan nght In that establishment vet
permitted to remain in its confusion.