Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-07-16
General.

Shamrock III. startled every one by
a swift burst of speed in light winds.
Africander won the Realisation
stakes and made q new record for the
distance.
Suit has been begun in New Jersey
to ecure facts about asphalt trust or
ganization.
w. j. Bryan formally opened his
new home at Fairview, near Lincoln,
Neb., with 500 in attendance.
Charles Hathaway, widely known as
a builder of street railways, Is dead at
Cleveland, aged eighty-four.
President O'Connell of the Catholic
university says that Germans will fa-
vor the institution ~henceforth.
President Roosevelt sent the first
message over the new Pacific cable to
Manila and received a reply from Gov.
Taft.
F. A. Gault, president Of the Doriin-
ion Cotton company in Montreal, and
the so-called cotton king of Canada. is
dead.
The heaviest rains that have visited
the Trinity and Red river valleys in
years prevail. Much damage will en-
sue.
Miss Schlicimier, author CT a book
on Christian Science and a resident of
Chicago, died of ~peritonitis at the city
hospital.
American ORDERS for 5000 900 tons OF
steel rails, ingots and billets have been
placed In Westphalian Germany es-
adjustments.
The steamer Dolphin brought $685.
900 of Klondike gold. the largest ship
ment by any vessel during the season,
to Seattle recently.
Mrs. Carina Jordan, a playwright of
! some note and formerly IN actress, is
dead at her home in Mount Vernon
from heart disease.
The session of the American Rail-
way Master Car Builders has adjourn
ed at Saratoga after electing A. w.
Brezier of New York president
The United States Steel corporation
has declared the regular quarterly div
idend Of / per cent on the common
and Ia per cen on preferred stock.
Augustus e. p. Painter. aged sixty
years, one OF the most prominent iron
manufacturers and fnanciers of Pitts.
burg, died at his home at Allegheny of
diabetes.
The raising of muskrats and bull
frogs on a wholesale plan is a new in
dustry that will be started by A. T..
Carr. a farmer of Hamilton county,
Indiana.
Importations of precious stones to
the port of New York for the fiscal
year just ended we're the heaviest on
record, having reached a total of more
than s27, 300. 700.
The trustees of the will of Cecil
Rhodes have decided to hold the first
election of scholars under the provi.
sions of the will between February
and May, 1904.
In English, Ind, a fashionable club
OF young men KNOWN as lue Sel-
bates has been organized. The
members pledge themselves not to
marry any lacking those quail
ties which the celibates' mothers pos.
sessed and cultivated for the purpose
of makiag themselves perfect help
meets to their husbands.
President w. E. Stone of Perdue
university, Indiana's agricultural
school, that a number OF
young Filipinos will be among the
students next term.
The University Of Chicago received
a consignment OF relics which have
been dug up recently by the Egyptian
Exploration society, which has been
working in the Nile valley.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Story Motor and Electric company
of Harrison and New York. The com
pany was Incorporated In October,
1901. with a capital OF $4,000