Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-01-10
Domestic.

Senator Quay has secured control of
both houses of the Pennsylvania legis-
lature.
BENJAMIN odell has taken Theodore
Roosevelt's place as governor of New
York.
Aaron T. Bliss Of Saginaw was in
augurated governor of Michigan at the
state capitol building.
Ex-Bandit Frank James is a leading
candidate for the house of representa-
tiyes' doorkeeper at st. Louis, Nc.
-Four hundred employees of the Ma
tional Steel company at Sharon, Pa,
have had their wages cut 10 per cent.
A great strike has been made at
Tanana, Alaska, and prospectors are
taking out gold at the rate of $14 per
pan.
Miss Helen Gould gives authoritative
denial to the report from Denver that
she invested in mines at Two Bit
Gulch.
DR.. William r. Brooks, director of
Smith observatory, Geneva, n. Y, an
nounces the discovery of three small
planets near Eros.
Chief Pakeekamaque Of the Sac and
Fox Indians at Tama, Iowa. has
brought suit against II. NJ. Robeck,
former Indian agent, for $780, DOC.
About 1900 people employed in the
stemmery of the Continental Tobacco
company in Louisville went out on a
strike for an advance in wages.
A conference of representative clergy
men and laymen was held in Philadel-
phia for the purpose of i~naugrating the
movement to suppress vice in large
cities.
A Pullman car with sixteen passen-
gers and three trainmen is quarantined
in the mountains near Denver because
a California woman on board has
smallpox.
Wesley Dugan, a public school teach
er neal Petersburg, Ind, was the VIC
tim of a hazing at the hands of his
pupils. which came near costing him his
life by drowning.
The Nebraska legislature met on the
first The Republicans controlled both
houses M selected C. f. Steele as
president of the senate and w. G.. Sears
speaker of the house..
Rev. T. c. Stackhouse of Lexington,
KY, a assigned. He is one of the
most noted preachers in the Baptist de-
nomination In Kentucky and has been
for years a breeder OF fine trotting
horses.
Samuel Riddles Sons, wooden manu-
facturers, with mills located at Glen
Riddle, Pa, have presented a petition
~, ,aI,rtr, 10 ~ 49,.
are said to be 1924, 242 and the liabili-
ties 1901, 900.
One thousand structural iron workers
In Pittsburg struck for an advance of
6 cents per hour in wages and a nine
hour day. Not a single man is working
and a number of important contrcts
are tied UP.
F. X. McIlwaine, a member of the
American chamber of commerce in
Paris, is now in Philadelphia closing
negotiations for the sale Of coal to the
French government. The order, he
says. may reach 200, 900 tons.
The Hartford sailed from Curacao to
La Guira, Venezuela. 1t will remain in
Venezuelan waters looking after Amer
lean interests. Capt. Hawley cooper
ating to that end with Minister LOOMS,
probably until relieved by the L~ancas-
ter. a training ship.
William G. Whitney and a number OF
his fellow New York ~millionaires pur-
pose the establishment in the Adiron-
dacks of the largest game preserves in
the world, rivaling in extent of terri
tory and variety and size of game the
imperia1 praSerya of RuSSia
The resignation of Bishop II. M. Tur-
ner as president Of the College Of Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal Bishops was
announced on account of a disagree
ment. The trouble leading up to the
resignation is said to be due to dissat-
isfaction in the college, certain bishops
objecting to assignments which Lad
been giYen them.