Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-17
General.

General.
The stockholders of the Edison Elec-
trio Illuminating company held their
annual meeting and voted to issue
$750.0O0 additional stock.
Joe Cans of Baltimore knocked out
Dan Mcconnell of Philadelphia at a
timore in the third round of a bout
scheduled to go eight rounds.
Members of the steel trust are be-
hind an electric railway which will run
from Benton Harbor to Grand Rapids,
Mich, bisecting the richest fruit coun-
try of Western Michigan.
A gold medal has been presented to
Former Mayor Abram S. Hewitt by
the New York Chamber of Commerce,
in recognition of his services in the
aus of underground rapid transit.
The strike at the wilkesbarre, Pa,
lace mills has bee ! settled. Both sides
made concessions. The discharged m
ployes were reinstated. The mills have
resumed operations in all departments.
A call has beer issued by Mayor Phe-
Ian OF San Francisco for a state con-
vention, to be held in that city Nov. Fl,
for the purpose of memorializing con-
BICSS W IC-CildIl lux iiiiSo
act, which will expire next May.
There was a notable gathering Of
Catholic clergy and laity recently at
GAINESVILLE, o., to witness the confer
ring of the degree of doctor of sacred
theology on Very Rev. l.. f. Kearney,
provincial of the Dominican order.
w. A. HUMPHREYS Of Waco. Tex;
Marcus and G. NJ. T. HUMPHREYS of
Admission, Ala, and their relatives
have begun suit for the possession or
| the oil fields at Beaumont, Tex, upon
which are situated fourteen oil wells.
Robert Fitzsimmons, the pugilist, has
made application in New Jersey for his
final naturalization papers. The form
err champion Of the ring was born in
/ Australia. He took cut his first citi-
zenship papers three years ago in New
Orleans.
The p~resbytery of West Chester, N.
Y, has accepted Rev. DR.. George F.
| P~entecost's resignation of the pastor
ate of the First Presbyterian church
Of Yonkers. DR.. Pentecost has under
taken Presbyterian mission work in
the Philippine islands.
All records for the collection of taxes
In New York have been broken, $15.-
900, 1000 being paid into the city treas
ury the first day. The first sum to be
recorded was the tax on the Wander
bilt estate. This was for $S1s, 900, paid
In five separate checks.
Mark Twain" II is learned. may
take the stump for Seth Low. That he
will do SO cannot be positively stated,
because the fusion leaders were 20
aware that Mr.. Clemens was a resident
of New York. Such. however, Mr..
| Clemens now considers himself.
An immense gold discovery is report
ed in the Gallurio mountains, seventy
| miles north OF Tucson, Ariz. An ore
vein over 200 feet wide has been found.
1t is cut by a box canyon 200 feet deep.
exposing an immense ore body esti-
mated to be worth over $4,000 0
The Russian universities have re-
sumed work quietly. There are no
present indications OF fermentation,
though the more stringent enforcement
! of the exceptional restriction of the at
tendance of Jewish youths in the inter-
mediate schools. the universities and
the other higher educational institu-
tons l. causing much heart-hurning.
The German Ievant line, according
to a dispatch to the Frankfurter Eel
tung from C~onstantinople, has made a
provisional contract for the purchase
of the vessels of the Aegean Steamship
company, the Curtgi line. for e150.0o0
(Turkish.l The Curtgi line operates
between ports On the Black and Aegean
seas.
Another aggressive move has been
made by the American Sugar Refining
company. in the campaign Ii has begun
aoainst the beet sugar industry. The
cut in the price OF graduated sugar to
all Missouri river points, which was
announced last week, has been followed
by a reduction In the price of beet and
cane sugar in all states from Colorado
to California.
Much interest has been excited in
Berlin by the rumor that IL is the en-
peror s intention to challenge for the
Americas cup, but nothing definite Is
known on the subject For two years
the emperor has been anxious to chal-
lerge for the cup. but his advisers dis
suaded him from trying until some
hnality was attained regarding the
building of the yacht necessary.
France is disturbed at present over a
deficient wheat harvest, a deficiency all
thv worse as the grain is OF inferior
quality. Wheat has risen As cents per
| 100 Kilograms i220.4s pounds). and the
Price Of q quarter-ioaf of bread has
been advanced rom les cents to 1876
cents.
Reports received from Cape Cerba
SPAIN say advices received there from
various points along the frontier h Y
that the Carlist proportions are near
~ completed. They have accumulated,
thrnogh s~mugglers, 10000 rifles, and
uniforms have been made at Perpig-
nam. France.