Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-11-20
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"A seal IN the New YORK STOCK EX-
change was sold recently for $76, 900.
This represents a drop of $4,000,
Twelve students of the Blooming
ton high school were expelled by the
faculty for being the leading spirits
in a fierce class rush.
Net earnings of s751,450 are shown
by the annual report of the American
Mating company. A surplus is shown
of 1923, $50, bringing the previous de-
felt down to $6SS, 500.
Daniel w. Healy, unsuccessful Re-
publican candidate for sheriff of Chi.
cago, claims that the vote for that
Office was 10000 in excess of the total
number of ballots cast.
Prof. Nicholas Rood, of Columbia
university, died in New York of pneu-
monia. He was head of the depart
ment Of physics for thirty-eight years.
He was seventy-one years old.
Charles l.. Fair. who, with his wife,
was killed in an automobile accident
recently in France, left personal prop
erth in the State of New York valued
at nearly $500. 900, according to the
official report Just made to the court.
The pupils of the Garfield school,
Chicago. struck for a longer recess.
The police of the Maxwell street sta
ton, who. were called to quell the
childrens' disturbance, used their
clubs freely, and the strike was soon
over.
A consolidation of leading manufac-
turers in this country of axes and Ger
tain lines OF edge tools is in prospect.
The new company will be known as
the international AK and Tool compa-
ny, and will have an authorized capital
of $50, 200, 900.
B. H. Howell, Son & Co., selling
agents for the National Sugar Refining
company, have reduced the price of
hard sugars 10 cents per 100 pounds,
bringing their price list for fine gran
ulated to 4.45 cents per pound. A SUI
gar war Is expected.
Engineers are being sent from Bos-
ton to Tacoma and Seattle to begin
work on a project which has for its
chief aim the Harvesting of the waters
of the Puyallup glacier on Mount Ia
coma, State of Washington, for com
mercial purposes.
A letter written to a Hiawatha
(Kan.) paper states that an old man
who recently died in Seattle, Wash.
left an estate worth $1,000, 900 to a
Lizzie Boyce of Brown county, because
she had had shown him kindness
when he was in sore need years ago.
Receivers were appointed by Judge
Colt, in the United States court at
Boston, for the yariously.named con-
Germs which conferred around Freder-
lex E. Belts and John M. Fisher, and
which, it is claimed, were used to car
ny on a stock brokerage business to de-
fraud.
Uncle Lige Bledsoe, believed to
have been the oldest man in the
world, died at H~arrodsburg, Ky. He
was a colored man, and claimed to be
1873 years old. He acted as servant
for Lafayette when he visited Har-
rodsburg in 1924, and also served
Aaron Burr.
Interesting side lights on high life
In a fiat were brought out In the case
in Chicago against William A. Pike
for separate maintenance. brought by
Mrs. Josephine Motif, who claims TO
be his common-law wife. Neighbors
testified that the couple were dis
g%ustingly loving"
Mayor Harrison Of Chicago has re-
ceived his crayon portrait OF Prince
Henry of Prussia. The picture was
due In Chicago Sept. l, but. owing to a
mistake, the portrait intended for Har-
ward university came to Chicago and
the mayors picture went 20 Harvard.
The block fronting on the EAST side
OF Fifth avenue. New York, between
Twenty sixth and Twenty-seventh,
has been bought by a group of New
York and Boston capitalists. who will
Improve II with a twenty-story hotel.
The property includes the site of the
old Hotel Brunswick, after which the
new hestelry will be named.