Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-01-19
Otherwise.

The directors Of the General Elec-
tric company have declared n dividend
Of S11,60 on the preferred stock.
1t is understood that the Cincinnati
Northern road has made a longtime
lease of the Detroit, Toledo & Milwau-
kee, and that Supt. j. Il. Flanders of
Toledo will be put in active operation
of both roads.
That the system of %gratuitous gov
eminent relief to the poor in Cuba is
not Immediately to be abandoned is
evidenced by orders issued by the war
department to send the Comal back to
Havana with more supplies as soon as
she can land on reaching New York.
The imports of specie for the week
at New York were $16,:3SS in gold and
$50, 1856 in silver; dry goods and mer-
chandise, ~S9,Sby.259. Exports of gold
and silver from that port to all coun-
tries for the week aggregated $780,
200.
l.. l.. Owenthal Sons & CO., whole
sale clothiers at Evansville. Ind, have
failed. Assets are about 100000. The
company refused to give its liabilities.
IL tllpiDAtu oNCI AOO IN Nab11
of the assignment was inability to col
lect outstanding debts.
A combination Of chewing gum man
ufacturers of the United States was
practically consummated at New York
when the last contracts necessary to
amalgamation were executed. The
capital involved in this combination
| amounts to S15.OOO. 900.
c.. r. Perrin has fioated bonds for
100000 i'm the Watts Steel plant at
marlborough, KY, an4 the plant will
resume at nee. TITS is the largest
basic steel works III the South, and en-
ploys 700 worF1nen- 1t was built In
1893 and cos. $750,0OO.
Judge Wheeler, in the United States
circuit court at New York, has entered
a demurrer In the suit brought by u.
l.. Venner against Louis Fitzgerald
and other members OF the ~reorganiza.
ton committee of the Union Pacific
railway.
Advices received ut the San Francis
co custom house from officials in the
custom house at Manila, report that
trade in the city has received an i'm
petus since American occupation. The
receipts at the Manila custom house
during November averaged 100000 a
day in gold, and the report states that
shipping is on the increase and that
the possibilities of commerce are un'
limited.
The Wilmington Tin Plate company
has been incorporated by Joliet pro-
moters and will be operated independ-
emily. Wilmington is twelve miles
south of Joliet, Ill. The town has do
mated eighty acres of land for the new
plant. which is To consist of six mills
to cost S150,000. to have an annual out
put of 135, 900 boxes and employ four
hundred men. 1t Is expected the plant
will be in operation by June l.
Capt. james f. Graybiil, a member
of the Confederate Veteran Camp of
New York city, accompanies by Gen,
Joe Wheeler. an honorary member OF
the camp, called at the White House
and presented to the president an ad-
dress highly commencing the senti-
ments expressed by him in his recent
Atlanta speech favoring government
care of the national Confederate Gene
teries.
Mrs. Amos Rusie filed n suit at In.
~dianapolis, in the superior court
against the famous ball player for di
vorce and 5000 aliniony. alleging ex,
treme cruelty and drunkenness. She
says Rusie owns $1,000 worth of reaI
estate. has $1,i00 in bank and draws
$4,000 a year.
A dispatch from Alexandria says
that go men OF the Irish fusileers
have been ordered to Khartoum. rs
the Soudan has hitherto been guarded
only by native troops the step is yari-
ously Interpreted.