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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
From Warrington.

Former Maj. Shields of the Thirty
third infantry. u. S. W, has been APP
pointed purchasing agent at Manila,
vice Lieut.. Massey, deceased.
The postmaster general has issued an
order formally placing the American.
postal service in China on the same
basis as before the outbreak.
Gen. Hughes cables the news OF the
first surrender of insurgents in the Is
land of Samar, 500 men, with two field
guns. thirty rifles and seventy bolos,
giving themselves up to the authori-
ties.
Capt. G.. A. F1agler has reported to
the chief OF engineers that he has COM
pleted the work of removing the wreck
of the Cristobal Coon frCm the en-
trance to San Juan harbor. Porto Rico.
where she was sunk by the Spaniards
In the spring of 1893, with the intention
Of closing the harbor.
! Mark Alfred Carleton, cerealist OF
the department of agriculture, who has
spent much time in Russia in h study
of the hardy wheats, says that both the
soil and climate OF Russia are remark
ably similar to those of u Great
Plains, and he has found the wheat OF
Russia specially adapted to the semi
arid conditions of that part OF our
country.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
II COST HIM HIS LIFE.
Two Men Try to Reach the Surface
by Unusual Means.

ny Shheuut Iteuhk.
Scranton, Pa, Aug. 6. - Men were
lowering steam pipes into the oxford
mine of the ~Lackawanna company by
means of the air shaft. At the bottom
was a force of men TO care for the pipes.
These included James Mclaughlin and
Anthony McNulty. At noon. instead of
going out by means of the cage at the
main shaft, Mclaughlin and McNulty
proceeded to execute a deed of daring by
ascending by means of the chain by which
the steam pipes were lowered. They at
tached a plank 20 the chain and astride
of it began their ascent, unheeding the
warnings of their companions.
The brother of Mclaughlin and a com
panion remained at the bottom. positive
that one or both Of the reckless fellows
would be killed. In a few minutes a body
came crashing down the shaft and
dropped almos at their feet. Bending
over, Mclaughlin locke into the face of
his brother. The man was already dead.
Half way up the air shaft M~cLaughlin's
head struck a platform and he fell. Nc
Nulty saved himself by holding on to the
chain. When he reached the top he was
so dazed and terrified that IT was fifteen
minutes before he could be induced to
relea je his grip on the chain
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
Resume OF the neWS.
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Emperor William will personally at
tend to the handing over of the re-
mains of French soldiers exhumed at
Metz to the French authorities on the
frontier.
Germany's pig iron production for
June was 63S, 046 tons. as against 69l.ll7
tons for the corresponding month last
year. The output for May vas &c.,
ga tons.
Germans pig iron production for the
month of June was 633, 046 tons, as
against 69l III tons for the correspond
ing mon last year. The output for
May was G76, 773 tons.
Surrounded by a brilliant cortege and
in the presence OF the diplomats corps,
President Romano opened the Peruvian
congress. He was enthusiastically
cheered upon his arrival by an inn
mense assembly.
A dispatch to the Neue Freie Presse
from Co~nstantinople says that Cherif
Sagda Pasha and twenty-six guests
have been arrested at the formers
house on the charge of conspiracy
against the sultan.
Commemorative services were held
all over Italy on the first anniversary
of the assassination of King Humbert.
All business was abandoned for the
day. There was a magnificent state
service at the Pantheon.
A German imperial decree
that an antarctic expedition under the
leadership OF DR.. Drygalski will leave
Kiel in August to establish obserVa-
ton stations at Kergulen island and at
the farthest attainable south.
Maria Pia, queen dowager Of Portu-
gal and mother of the present King
Carlos, has had a narrow escape from
assassination at AK les Bains. Her
majesty was taking a course of the
baths there, but was so perturbed by
the attack upon her hat she left AIN
hastily for Rome. Details of the at
tempted assassination are not obtain
able,
"El Menebhi, who recently visited
London and Berlin as a special envoy
OF the sultan of Morocco, is reported to
have been arrested at Mazagan," says
a dispatch from Tangier to the London
Morning Post. because the sultan dis
approved of the concessions he granted
while in England and of his expendi-
ture of G2, 000,G COO in London and Ber-
lin"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
kRUGfR'S CHAN
ArRocIrIEs OF coscr,,. !,
CAMPS WOULD c,u.,'RsA
TO sHuDDER.
MOVE NATIONS TO NM.
Beers Are Defending rh..-
says Mr. Kruger, and W..
Granted They win l.,
Their Arms-Conr. y
Prot.ctorate Tb;,,
VIII Grant What Il. n,s,.

Paris, Aug. 4-The F,s.,.
a long interview. TO-DAY ~;,u PUN
ger. After denying tba y I
charged against the Bos,, ef'sa
kitchener's report, Mr. N
clares that the atrocities auser
centration camps were ue 1
worse than had been states 4
Hobhouse in Great Britain !, \
when fully known, thew wo' ala Y
the world to shudder with Sosa. 4
move the nations to intervons
We are defending n ,ibas...
tinues Mr.. Kruger, and ~. 1
granted we will lay down on'
Great Britain known our eonSi,,.s
Is not for me to repeat them ~
never renounce our flag and :.
accept any protectorate 49,
WINGED that the hour viii conn y
Great Britain will grant wba, : !
right. Moreover, l am coraSa.
God is with us and will NJ, =.
US" aoa1
Mr.. Fischer. who was pressr,
interview, said nothing had ", 4
decided regarding Mr.. Krugeys ~
America.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
TO STAND OR FALL
FATE OF UNIONIsM To BE DE-
CIDED by THE GREAT BATTLE
NOW ON.
IT WILL BE A FIGHT TO A FINISH
All Union Men in the Emplo vol the
United states Steel Corpora'io"
VIII BE Asked to Join the strike
Eve Peaceable Means VIII lie
Employed to Win n N~ictory-No
More Conferences.

Pittsburg. Aug. 6.-"Within a week
every union man and every union mar
at heart in the employ of h United
States Steel corporation will be asked
to ioin in the strike now being waged
by the Amalgamated association. We
must settle whether unionism is TO
stand or fall. There will be no
conferences with the United Steel cor
poration unless the meeting is asked
for by the officials of that corporation.
The AmalGamated association Will not
request a peace meeting.
This and several other significant
statements were made last night by
President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
workers, upon his return from the
fruitiess conference with j. Pierpont
Morgan and others in New York.
1t is now a fight to a finish between
the great billion-dollar steel trust and
OF ganized labor. Mr.. Shaffer says that
he is ready to employ every peaceable
means within the power Of man TO win
q victory. No quarter is to be given
and none VIII be requested. The entire
management of the battle has been
placed in the hands Of President Shaft
err. He has absolute power to call out
every man who is connected with the
organization and he intends to do it.
He is satisfied with the progress Of the
fight to date. He finds that none OF his
battle lines nave been broken. Prom
Use is made by -fr. Shaffer that the
trust will find the Amalgamated asso-
citation is strong in many of its mills.
Mr.. ShafIer. Secretary Williams, Z.
]. Davis, NJ. F. Tighe and John Chap
pelle of Wellsville, came from New
York last evening. The president and
advisers did not appear to be the least
cast down.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
People Talked About.

Rt. Rev. Brook Fish Wescott. bishop
of Duham, England, is dead. He was
born in 1926.
DR.. Bosse, the former Prussian min
lister of public instruction, who has been
Ill for some time, is dead.
T. NJ. Plat, for forty years a leading
clothing merchant of Dubuque. Iowa,
died on a train near Warsaw, ILL.,, of
apoplexy.
Richard Croker will sail for the
United States early In September, and
will take an active part in the fall cam
paign.
Rear Admiral John Irwin, retired.
died at his residence in Washington.
after an illness of several months, due
to a complication of diseases. He was
sixty-nine ears Of age.
The council OF the University of Bir-
mingham IA appcinted William James
Ashley, professor of economics at Har-
ward university. to be the incumbent of
the first, or organizing chair of the fu-
ture faculty of commerce.
James H. Fuller, head of the firm OF
Fuller & Delano, the leading architects
of Worcester, Mass, is dead, aged for
ty-six years. He had been for a num-
Der of years supervisor for the govern
ment in the erection of public build
ings.
Col. John O'Day OF Springfield, Mo-,
died in Baltimore from paralysis. He
was formerly first vice president and
general counsel for the st. Louis q
San Francisco Railway company, and
served as chairman OF the Democratic
state central committee In 1884. He left
a large estate.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08

No fair-minded landlord can any
longer advance the old argument that
wretched tenements are inevitable be-
cause the poor prefer filth TO cleanli-
ness and that good tenements will not
pay. The City and Suburban Homes
Company of New York has disposed OF
that insufficient excuse of the parsimo-
NOUS landlord. This corporation APP
preached the problem with the idea OF
combining business and philanthropy,
1t has built excellent tenements in the
poorest parts OF the city, and rents
at prices as low as those of the miser-
able novels about them. Its holdings
represent an investment of two mil
lion dollars, on which 1t has just de.
clared a dividend of 4 per cent. The
landlord who pretends that good tene-
ments will not pay is usually a mar
who wants fifteen per cent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
Foreign.

The Chinese government has made
concessions satisfactory to all of the
powers.
The latest dispatches from Germany
on the subject describe the Rhine WHIT
age as IL a most excellent condition.
The French police have unearthed an
audacious gang OF race swindlers and
card sharpe. practicing under up-to>
date methods.
The tea growers OF Japan are about
60 organize a trust which will seek to
contro, the market for japanese teas
by limiting the supply.
lose Martin Duemas has filed with
the Spanish treaty claims commission
a claim for $110,6 3s for property de-
stroyed by Cuban and Spanish troops.
The British Antarctic ship Discovery
has sailed. bound for the Solent. King
Edward will inspect the vessel prior to
her final departure on her trip OF three
or -four years exploration in the Ant
arctic circle.
The North China Daily News declares
that the Re~actionaries have no inten-
ton of allowing the court 40 return TO
Pekin, and that the imperial DEGREES on
this subject are mere blinds, n that
the Pekin officials are leaving for Sian
Flu.
Newspaper reports received at Kings
ton from Panama asserts that the in
surgents are operating in large num-
bers in that vicinity. and an order has
been issued by the government calling
upon the citizens To concentrate, in or
der TO repel attacks and TO protect
property. Panama Is guarded from the
sea by a gunboat.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
HER MAIDEN VOYAGE.
h Celtic, the Largest ship I'm the
World. Arrives I'm Now YnrL

The Celtic, the Largest Ship I'm the
World. Arrives In New York.
New York. Aug. 6.-The biggest ship
In h world, the Celtic, of the White
Star line. reached her dock here yester-
day on her maiden voyage. Her time
from Liverpool vas eight days and
forty-six minutes. AS she Is berthed
her steerage deck is higher than the
entrance TO the pier. After she was
worried In the iron doors aft the cabins
had to be opened to land the passen-
gers. The u deck towers above the
roof of the pier. Three hundred and
forty-five cabin and 26s Storage pas
sengers came over on the Celtic. 1t
vas not intended that the big liner
should make any marvellous time on
this trip Her average speed was 1895
knots, although she is able to log ls IL
knots an hour.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
Accidental Happenings.

The Manistee (Mich.) Iron Works
burned. The loss is estimated at $780,
600, with an insurance of two-thirds.
At Keene, N. H., a fire in h build
ing of the Holbrook Grocery company
caused a a loss of about SIS, 200; insur-
ance, 100000.
Fire destroyed a bridge on the Gale
ma Qll.) division of the Illinois Central,
completely tying up all traffic pending
a rebuilding of the structure.
IT is believed that Perck Proctor, Jr',
nineteen years of age n student IN
Cornell university, was drowned in
Cayuga lake. Young Proctor was the
son OF Percy Proctor of Cincinnati.
Fourteen families, comprising seven
ey-two PERSONS, were made homeless,
two women were seriously hurt and
two others were rescued from oath in
a fire that O. stroyed three cottages in
Eighteenth Place, Chicago.
The News-Tribune, a naptha launch
used TO deliver Detroit newspapers to
residents of the Lake st. Clair flats,
| caIs.zed about two miles north of the
lightship during a sudden squat. Miss
| Maud Randall, of Detroit, n of the
four passengers, was drowned. The
captain and the other passengers were
rescued.
A carriage containing w. @. Matson,
his wife, son and two daughters, was
struck by an Erie train at Old Forge.
Ohio. The vehicle was wrecked and
the horse killed. The boy. aged two
years, was killed, and the girl, aged six
years. had her skull crushed and is
probably fatally injured. Mrs. Matson
is seriously hurt. Mr.. Matson escaped
comparatively unhurt.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
In the nresence Of a large numher .

In the presence of a large number Of
oficersfrc the garrison and neighbor-
hood, the famous Tower of Remem-
brance" erected at Gravelotte by the
Germans in 1895, at a cost of more
than 100000, was blown up recently
by the military engineers. Originally
intended as a post Of observation over
the neighboring country, it was after
wards found that the existence Of such
a watch-tower was incompatible with
the safety of the new fort outside Metz,
which is completely dominated. All ac-
cess to the monument has been prohib-
tied for some time past by the military
authorities.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
General.


Interest In the fate of Explorer And
re has been revived.
Medical men Of all nations agree that
consumption is durable.
Chicago has a food scare that may
develop into a real panic.
An Ohio town was besieged by count
less millions of winged ants.
A gigantic swindle has been exposed
by Mr.. Phillips, the corn king.
Dun's weekly review reports business
In a very satisfactory condition.
An East ST. Louis woman seeks her
fourth divorce from the same man.
The head of an alleged band of rail-
road ticket forsers was arrested IN
Chicago.
Young Robert Fosburg was acquitted
at Pittsfeld, Mass. OF the murder OF
his sister.
Events show hat Porto Rico is more
prosperous than 1t was a couple OF
years ago.
Three men engaged In a duel on the
streets of Denver, and three bystand-
ers were injured.
The government crop reports show
that the spring wheat yeield is even
better than anticipated.
Babies. boarded out for a mere pit
lance. were found TO have been starved
to death, In Kansas City.
Five masked robbers held up a train.
but mistook the express, and got only
the engineers watch for booty.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
HER GRIP.
Russia Freezing Onto All She Gets
in China.

Russia Freezing Onto All She Gets
in China.
London Aug. 1.-THE Times publishes
the following dispatch from Pekin, dated
Aug. 2:
The draft OF the protocol proposes that
the new tariff shall come into operation
Oct. /.
In Manchuria and is strengthening her
grip on Niu-chwang. II is expected that
Ii Chen Fong, son of Ii Hung Chang.
will be appointed Chinese minister to
Russia to continue the baneful policy in
augurated by Ii lung Chang.
1T Is reported that the French intend
to build a railway from P~aoting-fu to
Tien-tsin direct, with or without Chinese
consent"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08

In East Oakland. CAL, is to he tried
a plan for helping homeless girls
which seems almost ideal in method
as well as in purpose. A rich and gen.
erous-hearted woman has declared her
intention Of building ten cottages, each
of which will accommodate ten girls
and be in charge of a "house-mother."
The cottages will stand In a beautiful
park, with trees, lawns and flower
gardens about them. The inmates OF
each cottage will constitute a separate
family, the older girls helping to care
for the younger n All will attend
the public schools as other girls do,
and will have their own outside diver
sionsa and friendships. Meantime they
will also have in the home a thorough
training in Homework. AS they reach
a suitable age, each will receive spe-
ciaI education in whatever trade or
field OF work she may select-teaching,
dressmaking, millinery, typewritingr
art or music-so that when she leaves
the home each girl will be equipped
10 earn her own living. One OF the
most attractive characteristics OF the
undertaking is its lack of institutional
restraint and the large individual free
dom which IL permits.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
Speaking Of the summer and wi

Speaking of the summer and win
ter journeys wealthy people make to
various resorts" here and abroad, a
shrewd observer Of city life remarks
that "the finer the house on the
avenue, the less 1t is occupied" In SO
far as that Is true, it Is to be regretted.
At every season, in some favored re-
ever architect devised; but We may
leave paradise behind III when we set
out to find a better place than home,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
n.fcnJcr Selected.

Chicago, Aug. 4-Cadiliae = 4
has been officially selected ~,
the Canada cup against Inc .a
challenger Invader. The a 1s'ass,
reached yesterday by lhe sc
the Cadillac had won ano,ns' Z,
victory over the Mtlwauhss, 49,,
her over the line by apou
uteS.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08

In conversation with a newspaper
correspondent. Arab Pasha has stated
that he is in a difficult financial posi-
ton. He got an allowance of $50 a
month from the Egyptian government,
which was scarcely sufficient to supply
The wants of his large family, which
includes sixteen children, aged from
three to thirty-eight years.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08

The Newberry library at Chicago has
secured the Prince Lucien Bonaparte
collection of 10, 900 volumes. said to be
among the best pathological Libraries
in existence. The prince spent a for
tune in getting it together and his
heirs offered it for sale at 100000, but
the Chicago institution is said TO have
bought 1t for a much lower figure.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08

Doctor Voges, the director of the
Buenos Ayres National Board of
Health. reports that during a recent
trip to Paraguay be accidentally dis
covered hat napthalene is an excellent
remedy for mosquito bites. 1t neutral
ICES the poison, he says, even when the
bite has caused considerable infiamma-
ton, and IL a fresh bite be rubbed with
n~apthalene no swelling follows.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
A 100000 pI,.c

Dallas. Tex, Aug. 8. The plant of
the Max Hahn Packing company was
burned last night. The loss. $50. 900.
was total. Nolan Brothe-s, wholesale
butchers. had the use of one of the
cooling rooms. which was full of meat.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
AND ROBBED.
Young Man Given Knockout Drep,
I'm n Questionable House

Charlotte. N. c., Aug. 6.-Last Friday
afternoon Newton Lanier vas found
lying by the roadside two miles from
here in an unconscious condition. He
was brought to the city hospital where
he died an hour later. The coroner's
inquest has developed a case of murder
and robbery. Lanier was given knocl--
out drops at a questionable house here
and was afterward s~andbagged AID
robbed OF his watch and $50 in cash.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
ITALY ACTS UGLY.
Chimes Uneasy Regarding Moye-
mcnts of Italian Warships.

Chimes Uneasy Regarding Moye-
mcnts of Italinn Warships.
Shanghai, Aug. 6.-The movements of
the Italian warships in San Nun bay,
Province Of Chekiang, continue to af-
ford grounds for speculation regarding
their intentions. The provincial Chi
nese authorities have made extensive
preparations to oppose any aggressive
move by Italy. and they have raised
800. 900 taels for this purpose.
If Italy presses her claim to the ex-
tent of a hostile demonstration the
consequences would be disastrous to
the general peace, and would give rise
to another movement like that Of the
boxers. Peace is especially important
at the present time, when the Province
of Chekiang is suffering from floods
such as have not occurred in a hun
dred years. 1t is %contended here that
a small country like italy should not be
allowed by her selfish action to en-
danger all foreign interests.
Watching the French.
Hongkong, Aug. 5.-The British war
ship Glory, which sailed hence a few
days ago for Annoy, has returned. She
reports that everything Is quiet at
Annoy. One of her officers stated in an
interview that the presence of the
French flagship at Annoy and the fact
that the French cable lands there in
duced the British admiral to order
three vessels to proceed to that port.
AS the cruiser Eclipse, one Of the
three, neared Annoy, she passed the
French vessel leaving. The Eclipse, to-
gether with the cruiser Daphne, is still
at Annoy.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
BIG PLANT.

Twin City Rapid Transit COMP
Credited with a scheme
New York, Aug. L. A Torona
patch says that the Twin City y
Transit company has started ts
struction of a big hydratlie 7,
plant on the Mississippi river. :
rumored that the company VIII =,
get a contract to light the two ciu'
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08

Z. A. Martel, the French explorer
Of caverns, whose discoveries under
ground have attracted much attention.
reports that he has found in the de-
partment of Hautes Alpes a cavity in
the form of a natural WELL" whose
depth exceeds that of any other known.
He has sounded it to the depth of
about 1,027 feet, but the actual bottom
has not been reached.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08

Seven of the largest sugar reineries
in ST. Mary Parish, Louisiana, have
decided to discontinue the use OF coal
in the manufacture OF sugar. and Will
hereafter use oil as fuel. These re-
6neries use $4,000 worth OF coal an
nuaIly, and they get 1t largely from
western Pennsylvania. 1t win cost
ss5. 900 to adapt their furnaces to the
use of oil. but 1t is estimated that less
than $50. 900 worth Of fuel oil viii DO
the work Of $4,000 worth of coal.
IT Is probable that next season all the
sugar plantations in Louisiana will be
usinC Texas oil instead OF coal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-08
pe,.,,ed Light Bond Propo. =,

,Casselton, N. D.. Aug. II 4
cial election for the purpos - ,I
on the issuing of $500 ooha rrorcs
the electric light plant ,ne orsr.
was defeated by a vote Oh O,sn Ii
Very little interest was snow
election.