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

uSCatlne Iowa, Is 10 HaNe IT'S o"h
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 n capital
stock of ST.. ,0o0, is being formed.
American park men at Chicago dis
cuss plans for municipal government.
Wharton Barton has accepted the
Midroad Populist nomination for prcsi-
dent.
A Kansas City coal dealer has been
awarded damages against 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
ed 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 II. b. Latouche department store
failed at Virginia, ILL.,, with liabilities
of $4,000.
The Indiana school census shows
156.04 school children in the state, al
increase of 241.
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 / "a per cent.
Some Democratic national commit
teemen want to take the convention
away from Kansas City.
Cornelius V~anderbilt's estate was ap-
| praised at 1926, 800. and will pay an
Inheritance tax of $499,26S.
Fourteen surviving delegates to the
first Republican rational convention
have been invited to Philadelphia.
Nathan HalG'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 and 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 TOO laborers. members of the
Foundry Laborers' union, struck at
Buffalo. n. V, for $1,I5 for an eight
hour day.
What is reported t. be the richest
jack strike cver made is reported by
the Combination Zinc Mining company
at Galena, Kas.
w. b. 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-
ansyilla & indianapolis railway have
accepted the company's offer 80 in
crease the pay 10 cents per day, and
will return to work.
The jury on painting of the Paris
expoS'Iion has conferred medals of
honor upon James Mcneil Whistler
and John Singer Sargent, the two
famous American painters.
Two million dollars. il is said will be
used to promote the beet sugar indus
try In the Kankakee valley. Over two
thirds will be subscribed by Chicago
capitalists.
The international executive commit.
tee OF the Pan-American medical con
gress announces that the mex, men.
MEL meeting will be held In Havana.
Cuba. Dec. 2G. 81, % and %. 1900.
Between 1900 and $500 car repair,
ers, yardmen and freight handlers OF
the Erie, Lehigh Valley. Laekawanna,
and Western New York ana Pennsyl.
vania railroads, who quit work six
weeks ago, have reported for duty.