Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-10-23
General.

General.
Russell Sage is said 10 have decided
to retire, in part, from active life.
Principal Warehouse of Omaha has
forbidden mirrors and sweaters in the
high school.
Col. Theodore F.. Hoffman, a veteran
of the First Minnesota, is dead at
Scranton, Pa.
julius Porn of Syracuse, N. Y, aged
thirty-three, has married his mother
in-law, a woman of fifty.
Hiram Cronk of Rome, n. Y, the
last survivor of the War of 1912, is in
his 103d year and very feeble.
David B. Hill maintains that the tar
if should be materially reduced and
the coal mines owned by the govern
ment.
MI. B. G. Wright, the youngest nan
holding a majors commission in the
War of the Rebellion, died at Wash
ington, aged sixty years.
The Buffalo, with AZ officers and SOS
men, has arrived at New York from
Manila ard other Eastern ports, hav-
ing been gone since June 5.
M. Murnane, a Chicago lawyer, at
FL Paso, Tex, for his health, died after
witnessing a bull fight in which two
horses were gored to death.
Ex-Queen Liluokanalni will leave
Honolulu by the Ventura, Nov. IL, for
Washing con, where she will present
her claim for the crown lands.
Students Of the Kansas State normal
school cad the Presbyterian college
had a free-for-all fight during a foot
ball game. Many were seriously hurt.
H. Oeivichs has been notified that C.
L. Fair lett a child who is entitled to
a share of the estate of $4,000 600. The
claim is repudiated, and the matter
will be aired III the courts.
The English prison ship Jersey, for
which a search has been going on for
fifty years, was uneartheG at the
Brooklyn Layy yard under fifteen feet
of dirt and liz perfect condition.
Winnipeg and soany other towns in
the Canadian Yves, are shut off from
the wood and coal supply owing to a
shortage of cars. Winter has come
and the people are In a panic.
II the finding of Master in Chancery
Daniels in the case of the Chicago
Board of Trade against l.. A. Kinsey e.
Co. of indianapolis, is sustained, the
bucket shops of Indiana will be COM
PEELED to quit business.
Fl. Morris of Fort Worth, Tax, act.
ing auditor of the Rock Island system.
has been appointed superintendent of
transportation of the worlds fair by
President ID. r. Francis, Of the I.ouisi-
n Purchase exposition.
r. G. Leeds, the young son of w. B.
Leeds, president of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railroad, has arrived
at New York from Panama, where he.
had been seized by the American con
sui. He ran away to go to war.
Following the recent successful de-
mand for increased wages in Chicago.
the drivers and helpers employed in
New York have formulated demands
upon the leading express companies
operating In the Northern states.
The general opinion at the City of
Mexico is that the American capital
lists seeking to combine the cigar com
panies have met with iasuperable OBJ
stacles. One of the principal compa.
MES is doing a greatly enlarged bust
ness, and the shareholders appear IN
willing to sell.
G. III. Simmons, pastor OF the First
Beptist church at Peoria, III, has en-
gagged the coliseum, seating 5000 peo-
pie, and will introduce a band OF TWEEN
ty-seyen pieces, a ~stereopticon aud va.
rious similar accessories to a religious
drama based on The Book Of Job.
Senator Brrton Of Kansas says Bos-
ton missionaries went to Hawaii and
gave The natives certificates guaran-
teed to admit them TO heaven, in ex-
change for their lands, A number OF
the more ignorant natives have been
swindled In this way.