Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-09
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A Wisconsin man drilled a we'll and
struck a geyser.
The car shortage in the West be-
cones more serious.
Seven American soldiers were killed
by bolomen in SaTar.
Merger suits have been brought.
against several railroads in Ohio.
B"adstreet's annual review of trade
says thai 1901 is a record-breaker.
Rev. James A. Heath of Kansas City
has been deposed from the ministry.
The conference of governors in Hele-
ma adopted resolutions and adjourned.
A Kentuckian claims TO lave per-
fected a scheme for wireless telephony.
Prof. Loeb Of Chicago has discovered
a means of arresting the progress OF
death.
The preferred stock of the Northern
Pacific has been redeemed and cam
celed.
South Dakota teachers nave adopted
a resolution favoring a national uni
versity.
Receive rs have been appointed for
the NdllpllIi A9piAdlN OOAiP"J
America.
An Iowa farmer proposed to and was
rejected by flfty-six Omaha girls in
two hours.
A boy jumped from the Brooklyn
bridge recently, out of pure Vad
and survived,
Fillpinos who accept service under
~,.t, - rNarSapntad IN their
fellow countrymen.
Judge Lochren dissolved the tempo
rary Injunction against the retirement
of Northern Pacific preferred stock.
Owing to an outbreak of smallpox in
some of the Philippine Islands the clVit
commission has prepared an act Tor the
compulsory vaccination OF all persons
in the islands. r.
In accordance with the firms custom
at the close of a prosperous year, >. L
Morgan a. Co. made a cash New year 5
gift to the employees of the firm. Inc
gifts amount to about 100000.
Mrs. Lonce Hanson, who has lived in
Montgomery, Ala, and who has been
in straitened circumstances for many
years. has been notified by ex-Gov, Jo-
seph Johnson that a fortune has been
left her in Germany.
Oklahoma farmers say that the high,
cry winds of the past few days nave
done greater damage TO the winter
wheat crop than all the cold waves
combined. Wheat on the uplands has
suffered greatly.
II has been learned at Copenhagen
upon the best authority that the treaty
between the United States and Den
mark for the sale of the Danish west
Indies will be signed in spite of the agi-
tation against such action.
A great American packing house Is
to be established In the state :!
Micheacan, Mex, near the town VI
Uruapam, and will soon be under ac-
tive construction, a capital OF $l'ooo,ooo
In gold having been subscribed In Chi-
cago.
The Milwaukee Merchants and Man
u~facturers' association has made a
tender OF a banquet to Henry z. Payne
in partial recognition Of the honor De-
slowed upon the state and city by the
anpointment Of Mr.. Payne as postmas-
Ter generals
William Jessup & Sons OF Sheffield
have placed contracts for the erection
of new steel works at Washington, "a
The initial plant win. II is stated, CON
sist OF three main buildings. a cruciple'
smelling shop. a rolling mill and a pow
er house,
The Cherokee Indians are to DC
given another chance to be enrolled as
citizens in order to secure an equai ois-
tribution of the tribal lands n funas.
For this purpose the Dawes commits.
sion viii sit at Muskogee from Jan.
to April 4. 1902.
A package said to contain bones y
dried blood of st. Magnus, q Roman
centurion, and st. Bonosa, a roman
virgin. who were, martyred In the -
of Nero, has arrived at Louisville Ircln
Rome. The relics will be placed unusl
the altar of st. Martins
church.