Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-06-22
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The skeletons OF five w dwellers
were recently found in Montana.
The Wisconsin national guard has
been recognized Oh the regular army
basis.
The Northern Pacific will cut passen-
ger rates in Manitoba from 4 to 3
cents per mile.
The government report shows a re-
duction of % per cent in spring wheat
acreage. The condition is Ola, against
1908 last year.
Wage scales have been agreed upon
whereby the $4,000 iron, steel and tin
workers of the country get an in
crease OF % per cent.
The Afro-American council issues an
appeal to- Southern governors, legis-
lators and judges to prevent lawless-
ness and %lynching.
James G.. Miller, who was formerly
in business at Sioux City, Iowa, filed
Il petition in bankruptcy at Chicago.
Liabilities, $S4 200. No assets.
The Northern Pacific railroad reports
gross earnings for May, $2.O31,7 S1, a
decrease. compared with May last
year of S6,33J.
General Greeley is in receipt of a ca
blegram from Maj. Maxfield, announc-
ING the arrival of the ecable ship Hook
er at Ceylon, with all on board in good
health.
In a mass meeting at Johannesburg
the Uitlanders declared that mo senti-
ment would be satisfactory which does
not provide for the recognition of equal
political rights for ALL"
The North American saengerbund
celebrates its golden jubilee at Cincin-
matt June % to 80. A hall with a seat
ing capacity of $3.50 has been erected
with a stage for a chorus of 1000.
Some of the most prominent physi-
clans and citizens of Chicago are ar
ranging to organize a society to be
known as the Illinois Society for the
Prevention of Consumption.
The Peoria Steel and Iron works Of
Peoria. H., lately sold to the Republic
Iron and Steel company, will resume
operations at once, employing 800 men.
The works have been idle since the
new year
DIR. John s. Scott, assistant state vet
erinarian of Illinois, has been ordered
TO proceed to Lincoln and other public
institutions to make tuberculosis tests
on the cattle furnishing milk to the in
mates.
The revival Of business in the United
States has resulted in a large influx OF
the poorer classes from Europe, nota-
bly, Italy. The immigration authori-
ties are lenient when they know the
- - re, nto mo cot,a;nn Mast
The survey for the submarine cable
which will connect Germany with the
United States, via the Azores, was
practically completed when the cable
laying steamship Britannia came into
port.
\ consul of a foreign power states
he overheard officers of the late Cuban
army ~fabricating the dispatches re-
Gently sent to the United States, that
the Cubans had absolutely refused to
accept the American gratuity.
Cant. Weber's. new 1.200-foot chan
mel has relieved the city of Havana Of
ice. years accumulation of dumpage,
which was the principal yellow fever
breeder. Some 10000 barrels Of lime
were used in the vicinity.
The Afro-American council has is
sued an appeal to governors of South.
efn states ito prevent lawlessness and
TO secure to all citizens the protection
TO which they are entitled under the
laws
The McDorough eststc. which owns
the building in which the California
thaater Is lccated Mt San Francisco. APP
Piled for Il writ of injunction restraint
ing the production of .'The Turtle" al
lcglng that it is immoral.
The second annual reunion of the
Penbow family. with 4S0 members,
ended ut Muneie. Ind. after the cleo
ton Of officers. j. IL. Berkey of Mon
roe. Wis, was elected recording secre-
tary.
Representatives Of all vehicle wheel
manufacturing concerns west of Pitts
burg met nj Chicago and adopted a
new graded price list 10 supercede the
old one as the latter had become I'M
5 ,ited to present conditions.
Unsuitable grounds en- which to pitch
their mammoth tent at Indianapolis
may be the cause CT senling the in
tcrnational Epworth League conven-
ton elsewhere. The capitol grounds
are considered insufficient. and no
other site as yet seems available.
Judge Tuley of Chicago has W. itten
an open letter to the secretary OF the
Democratic league IN which he says
that renewed prosperity has killed free
! silver as a political issue, ana suggests
that IL be dropped altogether from the
next national platform.
General Secretary Edwin A. Schell.
OF the Epworth League. denies the re-
port that either the date or location of
the biennial Epworth League conven-
tion Is 10 be changed. The convention
will be held mt indianapolis. Ind. July
DOB. and 1t Is SAID that fully > ,0OO
people VIII be In attendance.