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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

Pekin, April 1.-THE reop...
return OF Emperor Kwany = n
having been ignored, Ii Hn
was yesterday told that 1ns
must give an immediate ars-sa1
The emperor was assured ~
courtesy would be shovvn ual
was pointed out that his ra,nul !,
the highest Importance 81
with the integrity of the eoaa1
was suggested that he brin, ~
10000 men with which to ass,s,
storing order in Manchurja
The Germans have cboa.-,
villages near here where Cant =.
was recently killed. They h,Ds
arrested three local officials
1t is reported that tba
Prince Tuan has not been 49,
the frontier as agreed uno.
still at large with Gen w.
Hsiang and a Mongol prince ~
relative of his, In the pror,.
kansu. The court has NJ, !.
whether 10
Insist on the P~unishm.,,
OF these people or to give un ann.
TO them. The court appears 10
stantly wavering in its policy
days it seems to favor foreipns, |
reformers, and on others II l,
them.
There was an explosion ~yeste,a,
the German military post near n.
idence of LII Hung Chang. EarITi
greatly frightened. The evDl
broke the. glass in the Windows +
rooms and some guests he was N
tanning He'd In terror.
The conduct of the ministers NJ
powers over the negotiations !
the Chinese plenipotentiaries ~
much adverse comment among
military authorities. Their Ss
tactics have prevented what n
have been accomplished two nd
ago. Even now the meetings 81
ministers are postponed for the !
trivial causes.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

The German army has furnished an
other terrible illustration of what duel
ing means. An infantry captain pres
emit at an officers dinner took ofense
at the innocent but rough horse-play
OF an army surgeon. and struck him.
He then retired to his quarters. In a
little while two of.cers representing
the surgeon appeared with a challenge.
Before they could deliver 1t a brother
OF the surgeon entered and shot the
captain dead. His excuse was that he
sacrificed himself TO save his brother,
the surgeon, who had a wife and chii-
dren. and could hardly hope to sur
yfve a duel with the offended captain.
q noted pistol-shot. Such an incident
must come home with peculiar force
to the emperor, who has frankly COM
mended dueling in tie army as the
proper way for a soldier to protect his
honor"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
WOMAN FLAGS A TRAIN.
Mrs. Anthony Roy Prevents Serfoux
Wreck by Heroic Act.

Louisiana. Mo-, April 15.-Mrs. An
thony Roy. living in the Snilbottom.
prevented a serious wreck on the Chi
cago & Alton railroad Friday. She
found that a bridge was on fire, and
waded through a pond Of water three
feet deep and tagged a freight train
with a red hood. She sent her daugb-
ter on the other side of the bridge with
a red skirt to flag trains from hat d.
rection. The bridge was destroyed ard
her action saved the train.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
OF the Week

yellow fever has made its appearance
at Port Royal, the entrace to Kingston
(Jamaica) harbor.
The eighty-third birthday of King
Christian was celebrated everywhere in
Denmark The king enjoys quite good
health, and received the c~ongratula-
tions of officials. diplomatic and other
dignitaries.
Count Won Waldersee reports that
after dispensing the robher bands 70
the northeast of Tien-tsin the troops
engaged in that work have returned
to their quarters. Twenty robbers
were killed.
The physicians employed by the SAN
itaTy authorities Of Leipsic. who re-
Gently went on strike in a body for
better condition of employment, have
beer supplanted by other physicians
in need of employment, from Berlin
ana other cities.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

lever SvindIer Makes a Heavy
Haul.

Toronto. Ont, April Is. - A clever
bank swindler made a heavy haul in
Toronto Saturday, the total amount of
which will not be known until the
tellers of the various banks check up
business to-day. A. stranger claiming
to live in Halifax opened an account in
the Imperial bank Saturday morning,
depositing $50. Shortly afterward he
presented a check for 500. which was
marked by the ledger keeper. Shortly
before / o'clock. during the rush pre-
ceding the close, this check, raised to
s2,4i9, was presented to the teller and
cashed. The same procedure was
adopted at the Bank of Commerce,
where a check raised from $50 to s., 900.
was cashed. II is believed several 9TH
er banks were similarly victimized.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
CARRIE NATION ARRESTED.
kansa City Police jug Her for OBJ
s%tructine the treets.

Kansas City, April 15.-Mrs. Carrie
Nation was arrested in this city last
night on the charge of o~bstructing the
street and hauled to the police station
in a patrol wagon. She was released In
a cash bond of Sc and will be tried In
the police court this morning. Mrs.
Nation lectured in Kansas City, Kan,
Saturday night and came over TO the
Missouri side yesterday morning. She
started on a tour of investigation
among the down town saloons in the
evening. A crowd of a thousand men
and boys followed her, and at Twelfth
and Walnut streets, where there are
saloons on three corners, h was ar
rested because the crowd following her
blockaded the street. h roundly lee
tured the saloon men whom h visited.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
PLOT
Sons of Wealthy C~IevelanderS Arc
threatened

Cleveland. Ohio. April l5.-It has de-
veloped that a plot was recently IN
foot to kidnap the sons OF two wealthy
East End residents. Letters of a
threatening nature have been received
by the families of the boys, and every
effort is being made To guard them
from harm. Two of the boys. Cyrus
and David Ford. are sons Of II. Clark
Ford, a lawyer and real estate man
who lives at 2f64 Euclid avenue. and
the third boy is the ten-year-old son
of b. +. Whiteman OF No. 2473 Euclid
venue Mr.. Whiteman is treasurer of
the East End Banking and Trust COM
pany. Both families are wealthy, and
it is thought that the boys were to be
held for ransom. Detectives are at
work on the case.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
DOUBLE LYxCHING LIKELY.
Result of the Murder OF n White
Wan in Florida.

Hastings, Fla, April Is. - Julius
Eskew, manager of the Armstrong
~Turpentine company. near here, was
shot and killed by Jim Kirby, a negro,
Saturday night. The motive was rob
berry. Kirby escaped into a swamp.
where he was captured with the aid Of
bloodhounds. While Sheriff Perry was
waiting in the depot with the negro TO
take him to st. Augustine unknown
parties fired through a window and put
five bullets into Kirby's back. He
thought he would die and made a con-
fession, duplicating Robert Lee. anoth-
er negro. B~loodhounds are now after
Lee. Eskew was well and favorably
known in Florida. The crime has
caused intense excitement in st.
Johns county, and there may be a
double Iynching.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

A recent importation Of foreigners
gainst which no one will be likely to
take exceptions. except, perhaps. the
natives they have come to destroy. has
been ~graciously received and welcomed
by the quarantine officer of the Cali
fornia State Board of Agriculture at
San Francisco. The newcomers are a
consignment of tachina flies from
the grasshopper tribe-their wholesale
exterminators, In fact, wherever found.
They came as cold storage passengers
and with them came a large number Of
ladybugs, for service In clearing the
orchards of red scale-the pest Of fruit
growers. The flies are to be released
in May. They will make short work
OF the grasshoppers. which swarm at
that time.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

The bubonic plague has reappeared
in Egypt. one case having occurred in
Alexandria.
On the occasion Of Count Won wald-
ersee's birthday Emperor William sen
him a fine clock. together with an ap-
acknowledgements telegram.
Emperor William. Empress Augusta
Victoria and the imperial princes have
lately INDUCED In equestrian exercise
every afternoon In the Thigarten. Ber-
lin.
Military officials In Algiers are anx-
ious over the absence OF all news from
Gen. Seryiere. operating on the Moroc.
can border. whose whereabouts is ut
terry unknown.
The British government a refused
10 entertain the idea Of raising the
marltime duties beyond the present s
per cent on the ground OF probable
interference 10 trade.
The leading members Of the Mace
DOMAIN committee at Sofia, Bulgaria.
including NJ. SarafoT. were arrested.
The building In which the committee
met has been sealed up.
The census OF the United Kingdom
taken last Saturday night indicates
the following results: The population
OF England. Ireland, Scotland ana
Wales In more than $1,000, 900.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
Che neWS


Attorney General Knox was formally
presented TO the United States supreme
court. The ceremony was both brief
and simple. consisting OF little more
than introduction.
Naval Constructor Richmond p. Hob
con has been assigned 10 special duty
fn the bureau of construction and re-
pair, navy department. He will as
sumo his new duties next Tuesday.
Information has been received by the
state department in Washington that a
| gigantic linen trust has been formed in
Europe, in which every large spinning
concern on the continent is interested.
The president has appointed Col.
Wallace Randolph chief Of the artillery
corps, under the provisions Of the arm.
reorganization act. He was formerly
colonel Of the First artillery. and was
stationed at S~ullivan's Island, South
Carolina.
The Spanish claims commission, APP
pointed TO carry into effect the stipula-
tons Of Article z of the treaty between
the United States and Spain at the
conclusion OF the late war, met In
Washington recently and adopted rules
OF procedure.
Commander E. S. Prime has been as
signed TO command the gunboat Pc
trel. to take the place OF Lieut.. Com.
J. III. Roper, who lost his life while at
tempting to rescue some of the men of
his ship who had been overcome by a
fire in h sailroom of the vessel.
The Mexican ambassador at Wash
ington has received from h secretary
"a - 40 mn - -,R 80
humane consideration and without ref
erence TO the question of liability, as
full indemnity to the heirs Of Florenti-
no Suaste, a Mexican citizen, who was
lynched in La Sale county, Texas. in
1909
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

A college professor. reading Lord
Rayleigh's Theory Of Sound a few
years ago. became particularly inter-
ested in that part which relates to the
vibration Of cords. He began to study
the waves which travel along a cord
when one end Is shaken. and then to
experiment with cords loaded at in
tervals with weights, and vibrating In
air or water. What could he hope to
learn from such investigations? What
practical results were to be looked for?
He could not tell. nor could any one
else have told. Yet he studied the sub
ject for five years. The facts he dis
covered make 1t probable that tele-
phone communication may take place
under three thousand miles of sea, and
the professor has sold his invention for
half a million dollars.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

Over One Hundred and Fifty Desert
Regiment at Leas~nwcrth, Kan.
Leavenworth, Kan. April 15.-Over
$50 newly enlisted soldiers OF the Four
teenth cavalry regiment, recruiting
here. have deserted. The only reason
assigned is they were disappointed, be-
lieving that since Aguina)do has been
captured the new regiment would not
be sent to the Philippines on account
of the possible termination of the war.
The missing soldiers are nearly all
young recruits and were all from com
panies of the new regiment, which now
numbers about sos men. Friday was
their first pay day and the deserters
came to the city. A number purchased
tickets to nearby cities and 1T was
learned several passed through 81.
Joseph, Nc. A detachment of regulars
has been sent out to bring them back.
1t is said the officers will promise not
to try the recruits for desertion IL they
return within ten days. The exact
number of the men missing is not
known, but it is known TO be In the
neighborhood OF 80. kilograms have
beer sent in every direction to locate
the missing men. 1t is believed all or
them will be found and returned to
the post.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

One OF the most prominent Baptist
preachers in the vicinity of New York
has made 1t a practice In all his pas
torates to write his resignation within
a week Of his entrance upon a new
field, sign, seal and deliver 1t to the
proper official with the remark:
There. now! Never ask me for my
resignation. Whenever you want me
to go just break open the envelope,
write in a date to the document and
offer 1t to the congregation"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
Famous Bandj, :. lied.

III City, n. Mex, April 15.-Red
Weaver, a we'll known border charac-
ter n a reputed member of the
famous "Siach Jack" gar.g OF bandits,
has been killed at Alma, a mining
camp seventy miles northeast of here.
Weaver had threatened to kill Tod
Holman who had previously called him
TO account for certain remarks against
a young woman's character. Later
they met again and fired at each other
simultaneously. Weaver fell dead
with a bullet through his head. Holi-
man was exonerated.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

The recent appointment of General
Chaffee as mator-general Is the first
instance OF a private attaining that
rank in the regular army OF the Unit
ed States. Il should know that Chat
fee was not educated at West Point"
commented a military visitor at the
review OF American troops in China
last summer. He is SO unused to full
dress uniform that he has his sash over
the wrong shoulder" 1t was true.
and all the more honor t. him for his
success.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

The nane OF Sing Sing, SO far as
the New York village is concerned. Is
no more, having been changed 70
Osining. Manufacturers brought about
this change, the impression having
gone abroad that all goods turned out
in the village were prison-made. This
village showed a decrease in the last
census of 1915 in population. though
neighboring places showed uniform IN
crease. Sing Sing was Incorporated
in 1918 and the prison vas erected
eleven years later. The prison IL still
within the village boundary lines.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
Rig Coal Con,,.i,at,on.

Springfield. Mass, April Is. - Lewis
r. OF this city has successful
iy engineered a big coal combination
with a capital of $1,000, 900. The COM
pany win control $4,000 acres of unde-
veloped coal land in southeastern Ohio.
George ID. Duy, New York city. has
MED an attachment of $3.50, 900 against
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis f. Newman in an
action OF contract TO recover a claim
TOT alleged services in connection with
the coal Combination.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
killed by a Deputy s.er,n.

Wallace. Idaho, April l5.-Jack Pow
ell was shot and killed at Mullen Sat-
urday night by Deputy Cherir Will
iains. Three men fired from ambush
az equity Sherifs Rose and Williams
ABOUT midnight, wounding Rose twice
IN the right arm N once in the right
thign. Deputy Williams fired six or
seven shots In the direction of the
nashes and fate'ly wounded Jack Pow
ell. Powell was seen running away
after the shooting and his body was
not found until yesterday morning.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
General.

Colorado Springs. Denver and Pu-
eblo will be Joined by a trolley line to
cost So 500 Oo.
In the opinion of a good many peo-
pie a strike OF engineers and flremen
is imminent on the Central New Jersey
system.
Bishop Henry NJ. Turner OF the At
rican Methodist church advocates the
Punishment Of negro criminals TO At
RIGA.
The demand for tin and terne plates
is unusually heavy, and next week will
find every plant of the American Tin
Plate company in fill operation.
Charles Dewitt. driver for a Kansas
City laundry, called on the police and
asked for aid in hunting up his parents.
He thinks ne is Charley Ross.
A bin has been introduced in the Ha-
waiian house for an income and land
tax, and another bill to levy a tax of
81 per ton on all sugar produced on the
island.
Nothing is known in America of a
report current in Tendon of a move
ment looking to a consolidation of all
the great packing interests In Chicago,
Omaha and Kansas City.
The journeyman painters ana decorat-
ors compromised on their strike, and ii
is announced that all the men will re-
turn to work. They demanded So cents
an hour, but agreed to accept 80 IL
cents.
BY the will OF Mrs. Ella Mcpherson
the greater part OF the fortune ac-
cumulated by the late Senator John r.
Mcpherson, estimated at about 81, 600.
600, is eventually to go to Yale univer-
sity.
Firemen of the entire system Of the
Lake Shore railroad have been granted
a material increase in wages and the
action taken by the management has
averted what threatened TO cause seri-
Gus trouble.
All the miners In the Springfield ull)
subdistrict have resumed operations,
with the exception of the North shaft.
where the drivers refused to work be
cause they were not furnished cotton
and oil free.
bishop Henry NJ. Turner. of the Az
rican Methodist church. who is con-
Quoting services among the negro
churches at Macon, Ca, openly advo-
Gates the Punishment Of negro Grim
inals to Africa.
A syndicate has been formed to con-
troll the FIVE leading wire grass compa-
MES in the United States. The COM
bined capital of the companies repre-
sents 81. 500. 600. II will be known as
the Mississippi Grass company.
The torpedo boat Perry. built by the
Union Iron Works of San Francisco.
failed to meet contract speed require
ments on her recent official trip. The
vessel will probably be accepted, sub
ject TO a slight deduction from the con-
tract price.
The failure of the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Perry TO attain the contract
speed of twenty-niae knots an hour
has led the Union Iron works to post
pone changes in the design OF the four
similalrl vessels now in the cours of
construction.
The United States court Of claims
has rendered a judgment in favor NJ
Admiral Sampson for So. $50 as a bounty
growing out OF the engagements al
Manzanilla and Nipa Bay. Cuba. dur
ing the Spanish war. The our also
rendered a judgment in favor OF Fleet
Capt. Chadwick. who participated 10
those engagements.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
Sins and sinners.

Twenty-Five Cinnamon were arrested
On the Canadian line north OF Malone.
n. ". trying TO make their way into
the United States.
Supt. L. F. Smith, of the Sandusky
county tohio) infirmary, was stabbed
by an epileptic patient named Winters,
and will probably die.
Linus Clawson, Jr., principal of the
public schools of Lindewald, a suburb
of Hamilton, Ohio, hanged himself to a
rafter in the barn. The deed was
caused by ill-health.
Mrs. s. r. Lyons, wife of the presi-
dent of the Monmouth (Ill.) college,
committed suicide by hanging herself
in the attic of her home. She had been
an invalid for some time, but there was
no suspicion of suicidal intent.
Jesse Way, one of the most notorious
counterfeiters in the country, died in
the p~enitentiary at Columbus. Ohio, of
old age. He was eighty-three years of
age. and had served nearly half a GEN.
fury Of his life behind prison bars.
Rev. C. W.. Pritchett, pastor of the
Christian church at Van Alstyne. Tex,
was found dead from a gunshot wound
IN the neck. he ndQ Deen SUFFERING
from grip for TIVE months, and is be-
lieved to have taken his own life.
r. L. Arlington, a well known young
man of Somerville, Ga, shot and killed
Miss Mamie Cleghorn. a prominent
young lady OF hat town, and then
killed himself. Arlington had been en-
gagged to the young lady, but, because
of parental objections. the engagement
had been broken.
John H. Wilson who. as a boy OF
eighteen. held up a train in Arkansas
with a glass pistol loaded with candy,
has had his sentence OF tw~enty-four
years imprisonment commuted to ten
years by President Mckinley, so that
he will be able to leave the Kings coun-
ty IN. " p~enitentiary, where he now
is. Nov. q, 1903.
The body of Willie Grossman, a four
teen-year-old Chicago 10y. was found
by his mother hanging from a bed-post
in his room. The Grossman parents
were very poor. and dependency over
this fact. which prevented him from
pursuing his studies in painting and
drawing. for which he had considerable
natural ability, is supposed to have
driven the boy to suicide.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
WHERE Is VIRGINIA LAKE.
Feared That Mishnp Eas Occurred
to Sailing

st. Johns, N. r., April Is. - It is
feared that mishap has occurred to
the sailing vessel Virginia Lake. which
sailed five weeks ago and should have
arrived before this, having secured a
good number of seals. Only two al
ternattves are tenable-either she is
frozen up at some remote point on the
northern coast, far from telegraphic
communication, or else she has been
driven ashore on some outlying island
as the steamer Hope was a fortnight
ago and is unable to wire details. The
Virginia Lake has on board 270 men,
largely from this place.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

Among the ruins of Pompeii have
been found chafng dishes of exquisite
workmanship, which give u~ndisputed
proof OF their use in the city, which
contained villas CT many wealthy Ro-
mans.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

Finds Treasure on Kaise. a.,aJs
Bremen, April 15.--lt Is hsr
ported that the three goia xsrb
from the specie room OF uns rs,sf
man Lloyd line steamer nat ID
helm der Crosse during . .asrs q
last trip from New YORK y. n
cred by a steward durins eatr
Of the ship near the seconu
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
Three Person. Kined.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, April ia party
~ four people while crossing the
tracks OF the Lehigh Valley railway ar
South Wilkesbarre were run down nv
the Buffalo express. Three OF the
party were killed and one injured
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

The w~atchfulness of members OF con-
gress is not always rewarded in a way
anticipated. Two resolutions recently
offered In the house requested the pres
fdent TO return to that body two pri-
vate pension bills. A member Of in
curing mind wished to know what
was the defect in the bills. There is
no defect" was the reply. The bene-
fciaries are dead"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
RUMoRs ABOUT BRIGER
One Report Says That ny
stabbed.

London, April 15.-There nav
unconfrmed rumors In circuiAus.
the past few days that an al'eu1'
made to assassinate Mr.. krussa.
story is that the man who ms (
kill the former president Oh Wv
African republic was arres'eu I
he could carry out his purpOse
other yarn. printed in ParS'
the attempt to kill Mr. hi1 49,
actually made. The PARIS ~,
says Mr.. Kruger was stapDeu
his assailant has been arres'e@
story is discredited.