Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-28
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The National Irrigation congress
meets at Missoula, Mont, Sept. %.
The national Colored Baptist conven-
ton has selected Richmond, Va, as the
next meeting place.
r.. T. Reams has been elected nation
nj agent of the Chicasaw Nation at
Ardmore, Ind. L.
G. C. Ryan of New Goshen, Ind,
has found copper ore on his farm and
is investigating further.
Leading Odd Fellows are assembling
in Detroit, Mich, for the seventy-fifth
anniversary jubilee of the order.
Mayor Jones of Toledo. in his annual
message to the city council, advocates
municipal ownership and free baths.
The Dewey home fund has reached
the $4,000 mark, and is expected TO
pass the $4,000 mark in a few days.
Canadian Pacific railway earnings
for the week ended Sept. IA were $545,-
600, same period last year, $4,000.
The viii of the late Cornelius Wand
erbilt will not be probated until the re-
turn Of Alfred Vanderbilt from Europe.
Work on the extension OF the In
diana. Southern railway into the union
station a. Terre Haute will begin at
once.
The Steger & Singer Piano company
of Chicago has taken its $50 employees
into partnership on the cooperative
plan.
Gen. John b. Gordon has declined to
allow New Orleans confederate veter-
ans to rebuild his home recently de-
stroyed by fire.
The International Brotherhood OF
Stationary engineers, In convention at
st. Louis, has decided to meet at Pc
oria, I'LL, next year.
Rock Island, Ill. officials offer re-
wards of $50 for the arrest OF horse
thieves. SO for cattle thieves, and SIS
for poultry thieves.
Lake Manawa, the Omaha resort,
has been acquired by a st. Louis SYM
dictate, which will Conduct it next year
on an extensive scale.
The Association OF Iron and Steel
Sheet manufacturers las advanced the
price of sheet from $40 TO $3.25 q
ton. to take effect at nee.
Gen. FL. v. Boynton is in Chatta-
nOOga as representative ~ the govern
ment to accept the Indiana monument
to be dedicated at Chickamauga.
Sixteen copper mines In Houghton
county, Mich, have been assessed for
taxation at S149. 100000. while the
county is assessed at only $42.O00,000.
The appraisal OF the personal prop
erty of the late Roswell p. Flower
puts its value at $3.TS1,969 on the
basis OF what stocks were worth May
II last.
The British steamer Angalo cleared
from New Orleans with 16S.IT2
bushels OF corn and 100000 bushels or
oats. This Is the largest cargo Of grain
eve taken from that port.
The United Railways company has
filed with the secretary of state Of
Missouri a certificate OF increase OF
it's capital from s.. 100000 to $4,000
600. The fee paid was $20.0o0.
An order temporarily restraining the
enforcement OF the department store
law, enacted at the recent session OF
the Missouri state legislature. was
issued by Judge Zachritx at ST. Louis.
The National Steel Company OF
Youngstown. Ohio, has let contracts
for four furnaces 10 be erected at once,
one at Youngstown. one at Newcastle.
Pa, and two at Mingo Junction, Ohio.
The proprietors of the new Madison
hotel at Toledo, Ohio. which il to be
one OF the largest in the West. an
nounce that the plan includes free au-
tomobile service. the first hotel EN-
Iloyfng the machines
Prof Swingle, OF the agricultural
department has gone to California Tor
the purpose OF giving the fg growers
OF that state who are attempting to
propagate the Smyrna variety OF figs,
the benefit OF his information on this
subject
The Standard Oh company has fled
It's answer TO the petition OF the attor.
ney general OF the State OF Nebraska
I'm the case brought under the antitrust
Law to restrain the company from do
ing business in the state. The company
in its answer denies that 1t h In any
sense o trust