Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-12-21

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cheap parcels post.
President Mckinley has decided to
appoint Frank j. Thompson secretary
OF the Lafayette memorial commission
TO present to President Loubet of
France the first souvenir coin struck in
accordance with the recent act of con-
gress. ahe first coin will be struck
at the Philadelphia mint on the ami
versary of Washington's death.
Accidental Happenings.
At least 5000 people persisted in an
earthquake on Ceram, n of the Ma
lay islands.
Fire In A. f. Letherbee & Co.'S lum-
Der yard, on Albany street, Boston,
caused a loss of probably 100000.
Fire at Gloucester, Pa. destroyed the
Green Tree hotel and stables and the
Clifton house, killing David Young, a
laborer, and his wife.
At Cambridge, Ohio, in the Kinka
coal mine, four kegs Of powder ex-
ploded, and the mOtorman and three
miners We're fatally injured.
The Canadian steamer Niagara, Capt.
McGlory, ~foundered about eight miles
east of Long Point, Lake Erie, with all
hands, numbering sixteen persons,
Col. James Graham and William p.
CunEeen, two politicians of st. Mary's,
Kas. drank from a bottle containing Il
~disinfectant, believing it to be whisky,
and both may die.
The west-bound Union Pacific pas
samoan train known MS thn (Nplpro1l
Special, was wrecked at Grand Island,
Neb., and Engineer Myers and Fire
man Murphy seriously injured.
Albert, the seventeen-year-old son of
John Gardner of Atlantic City, Y. j.,
representative from the Second New
Jersey district in congress-, was run
down and instantly killed at Egg Har-
Dor city by the through New York
express for Atlantic City, known as
the nelly Bly," He was riding a
bicycle and attempted to cross the
tracks ahead Of the approaching train.
The Union Pacific may have an ORR
entail line.
Robert Cosman, IT., pastor of St.
Johns church, Boston, was chosen
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal do
cese of Maine.
The two great whisky interests OF
the country, the trust and the indie
pendent association, are about to unite,
it is said, TO gain a reduction of taxes
ON whisky.
A distinct earthquake shock passed
down the valley along the Wasatch
range in Utah. 1t was quite severe in
Weber and Davis counties, and was
perceptibly felt in Salt Lake.
The big miners strike at N~antichoke,
Pa, is ended. AT a meeting of strikers
they resolved to waive the demands of
the pump runners and accept the Sus-
quehanna Coal company's terms.
Another contribution to the naval lit
erature Of the Spanish war has been
published. 1t is a history by Admiral
Cervera of the fleet under his COM
mand, which was destroyed by the
American squadron.
The transport City Of Para has ar
rived at San Francisco from Manila
via Nagasaki. She came in ballast and
had but one passenger. After inspec-
ton she will probably be discharged
from the transport service.
The Chicago Record says that the
Democratic national committee is or
ganizing travelling men into antitrust
clubs. These clubs will be centralized
into an organization called the Demo
cratic Travelling Mems Antitrust
League.
A special to the New York Evening
Post from Boston says: THE rumor is
current in business circles that the i'm
mense pork packing business of John
Squire & Co. of East Cambridge will
soon be in control of Swift Bros, the
Chicago packers.
1t is announced from the Catholic
legation that the midnight mass Of
Dec. 81 Of this year does not signify
that Jan. /, 1900. is the beginning OF
the twentieth century, but hat it is
the beginning of tie Catholic jubilee
year of 1900.
AT Crown Point, Ind, Judge Gillette
decided that a n%on-union workman.
discharged at the behest OF the union
had no redress in law. The judge holds
that the union has a legal right to de-
mand the dismissal or any man not q
n ember Of the union.
G. A. Whyland, senior partner in the
firm OF G. A. Whyland & Co, promi-
nent in the board OF trade and the
stock exchange at Chicago, has been
expelled from'the latter Institution. He
is charged with violating the bylaws
in regard to bucket shopping"
Miss Clara Barton Of the Red Gross
society has received the following ca.
&egramss ssIne assembly profoundly
Secognizes. with ip6pite thanks your
work and that OF the genefous AIperi.
can govermneDtjn the liberation Of the
Spanish prisoners. Marquis yiilabos."
The opposition to Gen. Wheeler
taking his seat az a member nf the
house Of representatives from Aiabama
Is to he renewed by Representative