Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-06-14
Domestic.

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water plant.
Two military companies left Seattle
recently for Cape Nome.
Crops in the Northwest were greatly
benefited by the recent rain.
Col. John /. Martin says Kansas City
hotel rates will be reasonable.
The trade review shows that the
tendency Is toward lower prices.
The price of raw sugar has advanced
one-Sixteenth of a cent per pound.
Rev. Benjamin Kelly has been put
in charge OF the Virginia diocese.
For the first time. the Democrats
are in a minority in West Virginia.
A dress pattern trust. with a capital
stock of S12,O00.000, is being formed.
American park men at Chicago dis
cuss plans for municipal government.
Wharton Barton has accepted the
Midroad Populist nomination for presi-
dent.
A Kansas City coal dealer has been
awarded damages a~tGainst q coal com.
bine.
Officials of the Federal Steel compa-
ny are on a tour Of inspection of their
plants.
The wheat crop In Kansas is report
e6 the largest in the history Of the
state.
America crowds Germany for second
place in the struggle for foreign com
merce.
Arbuckle Bros. have advanced the
price of every brand of coffee IL cent
a round.
The It. b. Latouche department store
failed at Virginia, ILL.,, with liabilities
of $1,000.
156.0O4 school children in the state, an
increase of PAL.
George b. Terry of Dubuque. Iowa.
has been appointed United States mar
shall for Alaska.
The American Sugar Refining com
pany has declared a quarterly divi-
dend of 81 per cent.
Some Democratic national commit
teemen want to take the convention
away from Kansas City.
Cornelius yanderbilt's estate was ap-
praised ut S49.g26, 500. and will pay an
Inheritance tax of Si99.26S.
Fourteen surviving delegates to the
first Republican national convention
have been invited to Philadelphia.
Nathan Hale's school house, at East
Haddam, Mass, has been dedicated as
a museum of Revolutionary relics.
Gov. Tanner of Illinois has appointed
a committee to investigate the conduct
of the state grain registrars office.
William Waldorf Astor ana Bradley
Martin have filed in New York a re-
nunciation of American citizenship.
Count Leo Tolstoi has written a new
work depicting the life of railway la
borers. 1t is entitled .The New
Slavery"
Nearly 700 laborers. members of the
Foundry Laborers' union. struck at
Buffalo. \. Y, for Sits for an eight
hour day.
What Is reported to be the richest
jack strike yer made is reported by
the Combination Zinc Mining company
at Galena, Kas.
w. +. Hoyt, brother-in-law of Presi-
dent Cleveland, died at his home in
Beatrice, Neb., of inflammation OF the
bladder. He was seventy-one years of
age.
The striking section men on the Ey-
ansyille X Indianapolis railway have
accepted the company's offer to in
crease the pay 10 cents per day, and
will return 10 work.
The jury on painting of the Paris
exposition has conferred medals of
honor upon James Mcneil Whistler
and John Singer Sargent, the two
famous American painters.
Two million dollars, ii is said will ba
used 10 promote the beet sugar indus-
Try In the Kankakee valley. Over two
thirds will be subscribed by Chicago
capitalists.
The international executive commit.
tee or the Pan-American medical con.
gress announces that the mex, rrl,,,-
MEL meeting Will be held In uayana
Cnba. Dec. 26, %, % and %. 1900
Between 1000 and $500 car ranoir.
ers, .yardmen and freight handlers Of
the Erie, Lehigh Valley, Lackawanna
anu Western New York and PennsyI,
vania railroads. who quit work sjv
weeks ago, have reported for duty.
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