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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 81, SOC, 900.
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 mex 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 he is Charley Ross.
A bill has beer 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 London of a move
ment looking to q consolidation OF all
the great packing interests In Chicago,
Omaha and Kansas City.
The j~ourneyman painters and decorat-
ors compromised on their strike, and It
is announced that all the men will re-
turn to work. They demanded 35 cents
an hour, but agreed to accept 80 1-2
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, 000,-
0e0, 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 fll)
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-
mics in the United States. The COM
bihed capital of the companies repre-
rents 81. 500. 900. 1t will be known as
the Mississippi Grass company.
Tho 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 o n
tract price.
The failure Of the torpedo boat de.
stroyer Perry TO attain the contract
speed OF twenty-nine knots an hour
has led the Union Iron works to post
pone changes in the design OF the four
similairl vessels now IN the course of
construction.
The United States court OF claims
has rendered a Judgment In favor of
Admiral Sampson for 80. $50 as a bounty
growing out OF the engagements at
Manzanilla and Nipa Bay, Cuba. dur
ing the Spanish war. The court also
rendered a judgment In favor OF Fleet
Capt. Chadwick. who participated In
those engagements.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
sins md sinners.

Twenty-Five were arrested
on the Canadian line north of Malone.
N. Y, trying 10 make their way into
the United States.
Supt. r. +. Smith, Of the Sandusky
county (ohio) 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 barr The deed was
caused by ill-health.
Mrs. s. r. Lyons, wife of the presi-
lent of the Monmouth lll.) college.
committed suicide by hanging herself
in the attic Of her home. She a 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 penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, of
old age. He was eighty-three years OF
age. and had served nearly half a CEN
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
III IHS Itth. 4 Idu DtSh SulLCi 'hS
from grip for two 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 that town, and then
killed himself. Arlington a been en-.
gagged to the young lady, but, because
OF parental objections, the engagement
had been broken.
John II. Wilson who. rs q boy of
eighteen, held up a train in Arkansas
with a glass pistol loaded with candy.
has had his sentence of twenty-four
years Imprisonment committed to ten
years by President Mckinley, so that
he will be able to leave the Kings coun-
ty IN. " penitentiary, where he now
Is, Nov. q, 1903.
The body Of Willie Grossman, a four
~teen-year-old Chicago COY, 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
- RAW RECRUITS RUN AWAY.
Over One Hundred and Fifty Desert
REGIMENT ut LeavenwOrth, Kan.

Regiment Mt Leavcnw0rth, Nan.
Leavenworth. Kan. April l5.-Over
80 newly enlisted solaiers OF the -Four
teenth cavalry regiment, recruiting
here, have deserted. The only reason
assigned is they were disappointed, be-
lieving that since Aguinaldo 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 St.
Joseph. Mo. A detachment Of regulars
has been sent out to bring them back.
It is said the officers will promise not
to try the recruits for desertion II they
return within ten days. h exact
number of the men missing is not
known, but it is known to be in the
~neighborhood of 100. kilograms have
been sent in every direction to locate
the missing men. 1t is believed al 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

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 we're 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 it probable that tele-
phone communication nay take place
under three thousand miles of sea. and
the professor has sold his invention for
half q million dollars.
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 offense
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 officers 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 chill
dren, and could hardly hope to sur
yive a duel with the offended captain,
a noted ristol-shot. Such an incident
must come home with peculiar force
to the emperor, who has frankly COM
mended dueling in the 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

A recent importation OF foreigners
against which nc n 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
PLOT.
Sons of Wealthy CIeveIanderx Are
Threatened.

Cleveland, Ohio, April LIT has de-
veloped that a plot was recently on
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
II David Ford, are sons of H., Clark
Ford, a lawyer and real estate man
who lives at 2i64 Euclid venue, and
the third boy is the ~ten-year-old SON
OF h. f. Whiteman OF No. 24I3 Euclid
avenue. Mr.. Whiteman is treasurer of
the East End Banking and Trust COM
pany. Both families are wealthy, and
il 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
Famous Bandit, :. lied.

Silver City, n. Mex, April 15.-Red
Weaver, a well known border charac-
ter n a reputed member Of the
famous Back Jack" gang 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 rema KS 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. Holt
man was exonerated.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

Pekin. April l5.-The -.
return of Emperor Kwanaass
having been ignored. IT, ~ ~
was yesterday told that ~
must give an immedia.a Ms
The emperor was assurs sIs \
courtesy would be shoun
was pointed out that his aa
the highest importance s.Ur
with the integrity Of ths
was suggested that he mir
10000 men with which 70 Is.
storing order in Mancbpr,s
The Germans have chs.
villages near here where Car, !
was recently killed. Tbsv |.
arrested three local oficial.
1t is reported that ~
Prince Tuan has not hear ~.
the frontier as agreed
stiil at large with Can
Hsiang and a Mongol princ.
relative of mis-, in the -
kansu. The court has ~.
whether TO
Insist On the Punishn.,I
Of these people or to give nm !.
to them. The court appears : /
stantly wavering in its nol,s. /
days 1t seems to favor ~forelr,1
reformers, and on Others h !
them. II
There was an explosion ye,,.,l
the German military post nea, \
idence OF Ii Hung Chang. Ea1
greatly frightened. The ~
broke the glass In the wipdov,
rooms and some guests he ~,
tanning He'd In terror.
The conduct of the mlnistsr
powers over the negotiation
the Chinese plenipotentiarie,
much adj arse comment auoJ
military authorities. Their A
tactics have prevented what
have been accomplished two \
ago. Even now the meetings |
ministers are postponed for M
trivial causes.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
DOUBLE LYNCHING LIKELY.
Result of the Murder of n White
Man 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. Bloodhounds 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 lynciiing.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

The name OF Sing Sing, SO far as
the New York village is concerned, is
no more. having been changed TO
Osining. Manufacturers brought about
this change, the impression having
gone abroad that all goods turned out
in the village were prison-made. The
village showed a decrease in the last
census OF 1919 in population, though
neighboring places showed uniform in
crease. Sing Sing was Incorporated
in 1913 and the prison was erected
eleven years later. The prison Is still
within the village boundary lines.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
CARRIE NATION ARRESTED.
KANSAS City Police jug Her for OBJ
s]tructing the Streets.

Kansas City, April 15.-Mrs. Carrie
Nation was arrested in this city last
night on the charge of obstructing 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 his morning. Mrs.
Nation lectured in Kansas City, Kan.
Saturday night and came over TO the
Missouri side yesterday morning. She
started on a o of investigation
among the down town saloons in the
evening. A crowd of a thousand men
and boys followed her, and at Twelfth
and Wa. 1T streets, where there are
saloons on three corners, she was ar
rested because the crowd following her
bIockaded the street. She roundly lee
tured the saloon men ', HON she visited.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
Killed by a DEPUTY sheriff.

Wallace, Idaho, April l5.-Jack Pow
ell was shot and killed at Mullen Sat-
urday night by Deputy Cheriff Will
Jams. Three men fired from ambush
az Deputy Sheriffs Rose and Williams
ABOUT midnight, wounding Rose twice
IN the right arm and once in the right
thigh. Deputy Williams fired six or
seven shots In h direction Of the
flashes n fata'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

One OF the most prominent Baptist
preachers In the vicinity Of New York
has made it a practice In all his pas
torates to write his resignation within
a week OF his entrance upon a new
Held, 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 &c just break open the envelope.
write in a date to the document and
offer ii to the congregation"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
TORONTO BANK LOOTED.
Clever windIe Makes n Heavy
Haul.

Toronto, Ont, April 10. A clever
bank swindler made a he1vy 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 $50, which was
marked by the ledger keeper. Shortly
before l o'clock, during the rush pre-
ceding the close, this check, raised to
s2,44f. was presented to the teller and
cashea. The same procedure was
adopted at the Bank Of Commerce,
where a check raised from $40 to 50, 900,
was cashed. 1t Is believed several 9TH
er banks were similarly victimized,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
Rig Coal Combination.

Springfield, Mass, April Is. - Lewis
+. Newman of this city has successful
ly engineered a big coal c%ombination
with a capital Of 5000, 900. The COM
pany will control 10000 acres OF unde-
yeloped coal land in southeastern Ohio.
George ID. Duy. New York city. has
hled an attachment of $3.50, 900 against
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis +. Newman in an
action of contract to recover a claim
Tor alleged services in connection with
the coal combination.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

The recent appointment OF General
Chaffee as major-general Is the first
instance of a private attaining that
rank in the regular army OF the Unit
ed States. II 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 10 unused to full
dress uniform that he has his sash Owe
the wrong shoulder" 1t was true,
and all the more honor to him for his
success.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
WOMAN FLAGS A TRAIN.
Mrs. Anthony Roy Prcyent Serfou.
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 daueh-
ter on the other side of the bridge with
a red skirt to flag trains from that di-
r%ection. The bridge was destroyed and
her action saved the train.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
WHERE ~ VIRGINIA LAKE.
Feared That Nishap Eas Occurred
to Sailing

st. Johns, ". T.. April 10. - 1t 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
ternatiYes are tenable-either she is
frozen up at some remote point on the
northern coast, far from Geographic
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 27O men,
largely from this place.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
Casualty.

The transport Rawlins. loaded with
forage for United States cavalry horses
I'm Cuba. was partially destroyed by
fire at New York. The damage to the
transport is estimated at $50, 900, and to
the cargo $50, 900.
At Henderson. KY, fire destroyed the
large factory of the Gallaher company,
limited. two new residences and the
grocery store of Charles Kriei, the loss
~aggregating 1852. 600. covered by insur-
ance.
The wholesale drug house of Gilpin.
Langdon & Co, Baltimore. was totally
destroyed by fire. The roof OF the ma
chinery establishment of Thomas Ba-
shor & Co. was also burned and the
contents Of the latter badly damaged
by water. Losses, 5000, 900.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
RuMoRs ABOUT BRrGEi'
One Report Says Tna'
stabbed.

London, April l5.-There aa,s
unconfirmed rumors In clrcula..
the past few days that an a''sns
made to assassinate Mr.. hruss,
story is that the man who inaa
kill the former president OF ~
African republic was arres'ss
he could carry cut his purp0s.,
other yarn. printed In pars. ]
the attempt to kill MI. hrv -,
actually made. The Pans - !.
says Mr.. Kruger was staopeu =
his assailant has been arres''-
story is discredited.
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
ident 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-
ficiaries are dead"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
To Sncceed mo-.

Rome, April 15.-Marquis c. Carbon.
ara al Malaspina, envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary TO the
Argentine Republic, has been offered
the post of Italian ambassadors ar
Washington, to succeed Baron Faya
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

Memphis. Tenn, April Ii. - c. A
ROSS or 81. Louis shot and fatally
wounded James Redmond OF New
York last night. The two men are fol.
lowers OF the races. The shooting re.
suited from a heated argument.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

Quite az remarkable as the wrecking
of the Pacific Mail line steamship Rio
de Janeiro just at the entrance to San
Francisco harbor on Feb. % is the to-
tai disappearance Of the wreck. Divers
have explored large areas of the bot
tom OF the sea at the point where the
wreck is supposed to have occurred,
but not the slightest trace of the i'll
fated ship has been found.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
r,.a. r-e..ure ON Kaiser w

ohftD
Bremen, April 15.-it - Nan
ported that the three go,u Nad
from the specie room Oh 'p vslss
man Lloyd lire steamer .sst {
helm der Crosse during ~. .nss. !
last trip from New YORK ~ ~ d
cred by a steward during ~ ~
of the ship near the Sew
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
two Men AsphyxiS'sss..,

New York, April 10, ~
of the Delaware, Lackaw,r u
ern railway. who arrived o,n Y u
Saturday night were sshlapll
gas asphyxiation at the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

Northern Indiana farmers are ex-
p~erimenting in the domestication OF
quail. During the winter the birds are
fed regularly, and on some of the farms
they have become SO tame that they
roost with the barnyard fowls.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
BRITISH VITAL sTATIsrI!
Nearly 4O,010 H1egitimate i
Recorded in One Year


Recorded in One Year
London, April l5.-Some lnle1
points are found in the annual
Of the registrar general Oh !
Deaths and marriages OF the I
Kingdom. In 1899 the man
reached the highest number ~
since 1876, aggregating 2S2,ss4 !
per thousand. The births Dun
,2S, 646, equal to 20.3 per un'
There were 37,12i illegitimae y
born; the deaths numbered
equal to 1873 per thousand, ana
were 2,S44 suicides. This . as
year or record that not a sinyt
from hydrophobia has been Tspa
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

Among the ruins OF Pompeii have
been found chafing dishes OF exquisite
workmanship, which give undisputed
proof Of their use in the city. which
contained villas OF many wealthy Ro-
mans.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
RENoUNCEs HOME FOR sToLsroY.
Dftertx, Whose Sister Is
Wife of Writer'S Son. Gives Up Ma
i~onality and Religion.

Paris, Apri! 15.-M. Diterix. an ex-
captain of the Russian army, whose
sister is the wife of Count Leo Toll
stoy's son Andrew, has Writer an
open letter to NJ. Pobiedonostzeff,
chief procurator of the Holy Synod.
which will be published in the Aurora
OF Paris. In this letter NJ. Diterix says
he lis religion and national
ity on account of the accommodation
of Count Leo Tolthoy. NJ. Diterix Is
now residing in England.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18
CARNIVAL OF CRIME.
Reply OF the Malta in Sicily|
Threat of the AutboriueJ

OF the AUTHORIZED
Rome, April 15.-At the begind
the year word was sent from
that the Malta and other s0sd
Sicily must be stamped out Il
cost, and the local authortis
threatened with degradation ii
should any longer ignore Their
rhe Malta promptly took up ths|
lenge, with the result that tha1
been a carnival of crime in the \
full island. Since the beginnl
February no fewer than fourtal
have been murdered and each
has been found with a paper thru
tween his teeth bearing the I
Thus the Mafa Furnishes Its q
Jus members" The victims vs1
pected OF having given informal
the police.