Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-24


kept in the open sir Sunday after.
noon. From Wards Island the civic
authorities will view the explosion.
Gen. Newton has plblished re
ply 70 the communication OF the
Sabbath commission. He says:a az
WAS well aware of serious objections
to appointing Sunday as the day Of
firing the nlines At He'll Gate, but
that necessity which | considered
urgent compelled the step. Neither
myself or any of my subordinates
would take the responsibility ON ac-
count of certain probable conse-
quences OF delaying the explosion one
day alter all il seady, aud this alon,
should preven, our action being con-
sidcrrd BY any one Is desecrating the
Lords day. 4
---~-.-4e BANK STATEMENT.
Reserve decrease, e4,4l9,O75.
+ The reserve of the suspended
Mechanics and Traders SArines. insti,
tnt,on has made statement Of the
condition OF the bank to the deposit
tors, which show deficiency in
assets OF f$343,Sl6 Ha.states that il is
nov we'll known that humber Of the
trustees have been insolyent for years
past. All neglected or mismanaged
their trusts, and several for alleged
services have Withdrawn large sums
Of money Tor their own use He-fur-
thar charges -lhA. the accounts r.ye
been wilfully faIsi6ea for nearly
twelve years. Many Of the invest
ments. amounts to hundreds OF thou
sands Of dollars, were made in direc.
violation Of lsw.
FLooDlAND DEATH.
A dispatch from Reading, Pa,
gives an sccom,t Of q terrible dl-
laztsriin Fores, county, Thursday LIST.
lsFhe mountain strea1ns bseom ing
greatly swollen, from recent storms,
the water flooded .be partly settled
valleys near Preston, newly opened
numbering hamlet. Two cabins, oc-
cupied BY George Psrks and Daniel
Cooper, woodchoppt.s, werc washed
dogn the monnssls into The strcsn
at an early hour in The morning
Parks family consisted of seven per-
sons-father, mother, and Ave chill :
dren. There were nine members Of
Cooper's family-Cooper. his. wife,
bix eh,lden, and Mrs. AdAnS moth
&C OF Mrs. Cooper. Sixteen persons,
in all, were drowned aud their bodies
carried away aud j,mmed between
| the boom OF logs'in Forest creek,
and houses completely wrecked. Two
persons were drowned near Smith.
port, Tega county. Three lives are
known to have been lost, aud four
| persons were drowned At Ail1port.
wHIsKEY CROOKS sRrrIING.
Chicago, Sept. 23-ln the United
States district court, this afternoon,
the cases against Jacob Benjamin
and Geo. F. Ffeisinger, distillers, in.
dicted last March, were dismissed.
Colonel J. N. Beardsley, OF Rock
Island, WAS counsel for the defendants.
Ex-Alderman Hildreth came into
cour. and paid $500, the amount Of
his fioe. The zines amounting in each
case TO $1,000, Of Burroughs, Dickin-
son, and Able, were also paids and
District Attorney Bangs issued Or
ders for their discharge. The 6nc Of
A. z. Hesing, amounting to II 900,
WAS also paid. aud his release WAS or
dered. ;@
The Post pubaishes al the docu-
ments relative TO the petitions for the
pardon Of A. C. Heslng. Judges Dick
ey aud Rogers, OF the United States
cour, ,e1presssd the opinions in ktters
to Attorney General Taft that the
sentence of Hesing should be greatly
| mitigatcd, and prominent democrats,
like representatives Harrison, Le-
mpyne1 1Csul6Gld, Morrison, Eden and
lSpr,nger, joined with equally p.oai-
nent republicans, like representatives
Fort aud Cameron, with Mayor
Heath, and sone thirty city aldsf-
men, and with an extensive list Of
prominent business men Of Chicago.
and yicibYy, r reoon neNdin6 exscs-
tiyA aeoGcJ. ne peeaioas is ssch
case were non-partisan, and signed
by men ofevefy political party, as
well IS by AL classes Of citizens. i ii,
Ne&house and Nattefn win pay
their fines Monday, which will com
plete the punishment Of tho second
batch Of Hbaiey, prisoners. Tho paI
| pers have not yet arrived from
/ hU. U.sb;no,.1,,, ~, n;.t.;a4 A,......
Bangs took the responsibility of al
lowing these proceedings on the
strength Of his certainty OF approval.
4 TWEED. s sts
i Washington, Sept. 23-Orders
have been telegraphed 70 CAp,A ain S.
i r. Franklin, Of the United States
steamer Franklin, to proceed to New
York with Tweed, instead Of going
to Hampton reads as he wsa 1t 6rst
! directed before it WAS determined to
bring Tweed home on that sesssl. On