Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-09-02
General News.

The Republicans have carried
Helena, Montana.
Henry Dewitt& & Co., London, have
failed. Liabilities 100000.
1t costs this government s15,5oo,-
600 annually to run the mails.
$40 counterfeits on the lst National,
Philadelphia, are in circulation.
General Sheridan reached Portland,
Oregon, on the evening Of the 31st
nlt.
Joseph Bowman, an old resident
near Minneapolis, died suddenly the
other day.
The mineral springs at Faribault,
Minnesota, will be the making of that
town yet.
Prof. Hayden denies that he has
gone into the stock business at Gree
ley, Colorado.
The Mennonites- Cottonwood
Falls, Minnesota, are buying up the
farms from old settlers.
Victoria Woodruff has resigned the
Presidency Of the universal associa.
tion of spiritualists in America.
The steamer Faraday has recovered
the eastern portion Of the direct
cable, and is in telegraphic commune
cation with London.
-Four hundred Mehnonites, in Cot
tonwood county, Minnesota, were
-naturalized last week. 1t was hars
vest time for the clerk Of the court.
The town Of Albion, Wright coun.
ty, Minn., votes to-day on the ques-
tion Of issuing bonds to build mar
row gauge railway to connect her with
the grain markets.
The heaviest yield Of wheat that
has been made public is that of j. K.
Jay, of Lawrence, Scott county, Mimi,
vino harvested, 456 bushels from
twelve acres.
a narrow escape from destruction
is reported of the passenger train
which left Sioux City for St. Paul
Monday night. The engineer discov-
cred washout just in time to stop
his engine on the very verge Of the
chasm.
Patrick Reardon went 10 his wife's
house in Saxonville, Mass, on Tues
day, shot her twice, then attempted
to kill E. J. Davis, who intcrfered,
and finally killed himself. The women
is living, but in precarious condi-
ton.
Job Bailey, the oldest citizen Of
Elk River, Minnesota, died at the age
Of 93 last week. Five generations Of
his descendants were represented at
the funeral. He was veteran Of the
war Of 1912.
The severe rains have washed away
the track on the river division of the
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad, be.
tween St. Peter Junction and Red
Wing, Mimi, and no train has gone
through since Sunday.
There have been two women travel.
ing through Mills county, Iowa, sell.
ling corsets at ruinously low prices,
but they have made it sine qua
non in selling, that their customers
should remove all their clothing, even
their last garment, in order to obtain
a better tit. 1t is painful to add
that the two agents have just been ar
rested for being men in women's
clothes, aud now there isn't woman in
that part OF theState who will acknowl.
edge having bought a corset for the
last six months.
A bold burglary and robbery occur.
red in Chicago on Tuesday afternoon.
Four men drove up to General An.
son Stager's residence, and two Of
them, under pretence Of looking at
some gas meters, entered the house
They then overpowered the servant
and demanded the key to the closet
containing the silver ware. They
threatened to take her life if she ref:
used to deliver up the key. Upor
being told that Mrs. :Stager had the
key in her possession in the East
they broke in the doors Of the close,
and secured the silver ware, the value
Of which is not known, and left the
premises.
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