Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-03-16

General.
Steel billets have advanced to $500
per ton in Chicago.
The new postal laws, which saves
thirteen days between San Francisco
The annual convention of the Jour
neymen Bakers and Confectioners'
International Union began in Chicago.
The Sugar trust an agree
ment to guarantee sales of refined SUI
gar for from thirty to sixty days.
Plans for the formation of a man.
moth soap trust Were discussed at a
ers.
The transport Valencia, for Manila,
carries, in addition to $50 soldiers,
stores and supplies, S1,5O0,O0O to pay
soldiers now in the Philippines.
The national council OF the knights
of Columbus of the United States as
sembled in New Haven, Conn, for it's
annual meeting.
The dominion government has de-
cided to construct a telegraph line to
connect the Yukon territory with
British Columbia.
A combine to be known as the Ma
tional Tube company, with S5O,OO0,W1
capital, is TO be incorporated under
the laws of New Jersey.
The directors of the Chicago, Mill
waukee q st. Paul railway declared
the regular semi-annual dividend of
, 1-2 per cent on the common and
& IL on preferred stock.
j. Iierpont Morgan denies the story
that he has secured the assent Of the
Readings English stockholders to a
consolidation of all the great Eastern
coal interests.
Edward NJ. Harley, formerly a fur
rier of Toledo. Ohio, has filed a petit
ton of voluntary bankruptcy, the Pc
tition showing $4,000 abilities and
$50 assets.
A monster mass meeting of German
Americans TO protest against an ALI
aEce Of the United States with Eng
land or any other power, will be held
in the near future in Chicago.
The strike at the Schoen Press Steel
Car works mt Pittsburg was without
exciting features. There were no ar
rests and quiet prevailed about the
plant, which is still guarded by police.
In consequence Of the cut in rates
for the transatlantic passage the
Hamburg-American line has reduced
the fare for first-class cabin passen-
gers from Hamburg to $50.
The Bethlehem Iron Company of
Bethlehem, Pa, announced a rise of
wages of 10 per cent, affecting the
common laborers, of whom more than
800 are on the pay roll.
There has been another advance in
tin plate OF 10 cents per box, making
the price $40. a net advance Of 30
cents since the trust was formed. The
market is excited.
The strike of the employees of the
Schoon Pressed Steel company of
Pittsburg, Pa, is still on. An advance
Of 10 per cent in wages was made, but
the men were not satisfied with it.
Gen. John McNulta has been put in
possession of the American Brewing
company's plant, i'm pursuance Of the
iniul elton granted by the federal
court.
Manufacturers of knit goods in the
Utica. y. Y, district. have been invit-
Ell TO a meeting at the Waldorf-Asto-
ria. New York. March 155, to form a
combination of knit goods manufactur-
ers.
Negotiations for the purchase of the
Schoenberger Steel company's proper.
ties by the American Steel and Wire
4 company have been formally closed
Ii FHl,n v.t.ina Y,ai1 ratNrnyirnatg GO nnA
We.
At the request Of William and 10.
seph Borschiz of Buffalo, n. y. the
st. Louis police are searching for Mi
chael Borschiz. their father. "A for.
tune of 100000 has, ii is claimed
been left him.
The secretary OF the treasury has
received from Supt. Pritchett, OF tho
coast and geodctic survey. a protest
against the arrest of two CT his of
ficlals for pickpockets at the New Or
leans mardi gras.
The Whitingsville. Mass. cotton mil
AMI the cotton mills at Linwood ant
Saundersville. have announced an ad
vance in wages. to take place April 3
About a thousand operatives are af
fccted.
The Twenty-third Kansas yolun
teers fcclored) arrived at Newpor
News from Santiago.
A Chicago financial bureau says it Il
the purpose Of the independent straw
board manufacturers. who wish 10 or
ganize the outside plants into a stron,
company. to capitalize the association
at $5,0U0,OOO.
The comet which Prof. Louis Swif
discovered March 3, at TIE Lowe Oh
~servatory on Echo mountain In South
ern California Is growing fainter. l
in moving Ia a n~ortheasterly direc
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