Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-24
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Mobile, Ala.
The Florida state fair will he held at
Jacksonville Feb. 18th.
There are five hundred and seventy mine
convicta in the southern prison of Indiana.
The Detroit and Milwaukee railroad COM
PAW about to build stock yard at Grand
Rapids.
Horse-racing has been poor business in
Michigan this fall. On the whole the asso-
Citations have lost money.
The commissioner of Montgomery county,
Indiana, have offered reward of SlOO for
every horse thief captured
The government has advertised for nine
hundred thousand pounds of hay, to be de.
livered at Fort Walla Walls.
There are three sisters living at the same
house in Barbour county, Alabama, whose
ages are, respectively, go, Sc, and 65.
Nineteen homesick Irishmen we're sent
home to the old sod last week by the Massa-
chusetts board of state charities.
The governor Of Texas estimates the
amount of taxable proper in the state at
$3.50, 100000, against $500, 100000 last year.
A man named Ferguson was arrested in
Cedar Rapids the other day for splitting
bills and making ten dollars out of five
and one.
A Delphi, Ind, jury gave the widow of a
man drowned in the canal at place where
bridge should have been $4,000 damages.
There are six hundred children out Of
school at Danville, Ill.,, because their parents
are too poor or too stingy to buy them school
books.
The moral people of Washington territory
will try to have bill prohibiting the en-
ployment of females in saloons passed by
the present legislature.
Mrs. j. w. Kinney, Of Alden, Iowa, upon
breaking an egg, the other day, found with.
in the shell living snake four inches long.
1t lived several days
The Chicago and Northwestern railroad
ticket-office was robbed Monday of about
$40. An entrance was effected through the
window.
An indianapolis girl made an appoint
ment to meet her true love at Atlantic,
Iowa, and there be married. Going as far
as Omaha, she found him not, and found
herself penniless A kind-hearted railroad
man got her pass back home.
Horace D. Babcock, of the Syracuse
Medical college, has been arrested upon the
charge Of resurrecsing the body Of Franklin
D. Hubbard, q prominent citizen, who died
Of peculiar disease on Monday. The body
was recovered.
Frank Schockey, who was arrested ir
Terre Haute for stealing Alexander Bald.
wins horse, near this city, and for stealing
a fine set Of harness in Chicago, was bount
over in the sum of $500, on yesterday, fo
his appearance at the next term OF the cir
cult court. He was committed to Jail il
default Of bail. H. Kelding, arrested fo
forgery, was also committed to Jail in de
fault of bail.
A graphic description of the joys Of lif
in the Black Hills is given in few word
BY the letter of miner there to his brothe
in Nevada, He is anxious to get home
but wants $500 to take him to Cheyenne
But how to get that sum is the qustion. t
get it by his own work is impossible; if i
is sent by the stage the Indians or road
agents are sure to steal it; if by mail. i
might lie in the Office for months. for th,
postmaster is of on big drunk half tn
time and can't read when sober; if b,
draft on the bank, that institution is likel,
to 90 to pieces before it arrives.
Mrs. Gilman, wife ofthe convicted forge
Of insurance script, has been removed to re
treat for the insane, near Hartford, and tn,
children, two girls and boy, have beer
placed under the care Of Gilman's sister, a
Norwich. Before entering Auborn prise,
on Saturday night, Gilman spoke Of his re
cent position as treasurer of the prison MS
sociation, and said that in his present con
! dition he could gain practical experience
for improving the prison system. He sait
that he could have been in Europe now
! ouS Nc eCOEucu tIc 1Otc VI IuXlllNe iron
justice.
| The explorers have resumed operations a
tho first pit. They report forty corpses ly
ing at the foo: Of the shaft. They are At
tempting to reopen communication from tn
other mine. They have penetrated abou
half mile, but have still $50 fathoms Il
clear, 30 they cannot possibly reach tn
men who are supposed TO &c imprisoned be
fore morning. 1t is feared by that tim
'cw, If any, will be alive.
The latest particulars from High Bl.n
tyre show that 233 men descended into III
mines this morning, and none Of these
except one who was working near the n,out
ofths shaft at The time Of the explosion, hs
been rescued up to late hour this svenin
Very little hope Of rcscuins tho men 10 en-
tertansd, - the explosioo occusVd st