Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-02-06
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Negotiations for peace in SoutS Afrt-
ca have been formally opened.
The f%fty-ninth anniversary Of the
birth of President Mckinley was cele-
brated generally throughout the coun-
try.
The American Poultry association, In
SESSION at Charleston, s. c., elected DR..
f. d. Kendall of Columbia, S. c., presi-
dent, and reelected T. f. Orr of Pitts
burg secretary and treasurer.
Barney Furey of Cincinnati knocked
out Kid Baxter of Chicago in the sec
ond round of a bout before the Young
Mems Gymnastic club at New Orleans.
The men weighed in at 1873 pounds.
Women medical students thrown out
OF the class room by the closing or
Northwestern university's medical
school for women are to be admitted
to full privileges in Rush medical col
lege.
Canton, Ohio, is to have a hotel
named the Mckinley. Announcement
was made by Austin Lynch, attorney
for Mrs. Mckinley, that she had con-
scented to allow the Saxton Hotel COM
pany to use the. name.
Assistant United States Attorney
General James M. Beck, as special
master commissioner has decided 10
sell the P%hiladelpht:t Record at public
auction at noon ~: May Ii next In
Philadelphia.
A conservative estimate of the mum
Der of horses shipped from Montana
last year is 100, 600. The British call
for mounts for South Africa has re-
suited In thousands of head OF stock
leaving the state.
DR.. Lachlen Tyler, son of John Tyler,
tenth president Of the United states
and brother OF the president or Wlllam
and Mary college, is dead In New
York from appendicitis. DR.. Tyler was
fifty years DID.
President Roosevelt was elected an
honorary member of h Union League
club. Chicago, at its annual banquet re-
Gently. AS a result of this action 1T is
thought that the president VIII WISH
Chicago next fall.
Maj. Ely Ensign, manager OF the
American Car and Foundry
plant in Huntington, w. Va, ana one
of the most prominent men In the state
died suddenly at his home there. MAJ.
Ensign was sixty-one years OF age.
According to the New York Evening
post. negotiations have almost peen
completed in that city and In Canada
Cor the construction of a bridge across
tho CT Lawrence river at Montreal, 10
he one of the largest Of its class IN tne
world.
uerhert d. Bennett, president Of the
American District Telegraph company.
the Tlinois District Telegraph COM
MANY and the National District Teie-
graph company, died suddenly at nl'
home In Columbus, Ohio. OF heart ois-
ease.
iftv-si persons who were about 10
.are their midday meal recently. were
ar~arantined at the Union hotel. Lepa-
- Do Mrs. wittle, wife OF the pro-
nrietor. having smallpox. There "ere
haven regular boarders, h rest peins
travelling statesmen.
rohn ". Gates, the Chicago steel
ms pnate. has just secured another OF
pembrandt's oldest and finest paint
,ngs entitled. est. Paul" which repre-
sents the apostle In prison, 1t was pur-
oh.sed OF a New York dealer, at a price
IN the neighborhood Of $4,000.
r p. pierce, consul OF the Orange
Free state. said In New York, In regard
70 the report that Paul Kruger mign'
come TO this country in April, In re-
snonse TO the many invitations ne nau
received, that 1t had been defini,eiy SCI.
lied that he would not come. he spohs
as n this decision was final