Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-13
DELAYED TeLecRAms.
THE q. r. n. R.

, voted that Mr. Throckmorton has succeeded
to the chairmenship under rules ofthe house
and that the committee declines to excus
him from the house.
MEXICAN AWARDS.
The foreign affairs committee to day
agreed to the bill prepared by the sub-com
mittee, providing for the immediate distri
button, by the state department, Of the frs
installment received from Mexico, on &C
count Of awards of mixed claims, the com
mission excepting those for We'll and La
obra claims, which the president is author
lied to suspend for the present, in order to
make them the subjects Of diplomatic cor
respondence, or possibly investigation, il
such course shall be found desirable.
NOMINATIONS.
The president nominated j. C. Bancroft
Davis, Of New York, Judge Of the court Of
claims, vice Loring retired; William A.
Brand, this morning at Urbana, Ohio. and
F. G. Gibbs at Portsmouth, Ohio.
SECURING THEIR RIGHTS.
Providence Dec. 12.-The creditors of A.
and A. sprague, representing S4,250,000 of
Indebtedness, met to-day to take action to
protect and secure their rights. An associ-
ton was formed for the payment of IS per
cent Of principal to depositors.
IN DERINGER.
Pittsburg, Dec. PA special from Dean
City. Pa, in the Clarion oil district, says a
fire originated in the Beringer City hotel,
Beringer City, Pa, at 2o'clock this morning,
occupied by John Armstrong, of Sharon.
The hotel burned to the ground with the
contents. The building and goods were in
sured for 1000. A man named A. B Nc
Cartney, Of Mercer, Pa, guest of the hotel,
was burned to death; others narrowly es-
capped being burned. The fire spread very
rapidly to vacant bulldog owned by Mr..
Dhrea, thence to Kilroy & Crowley's New
York store, burning the building and con-
tents. Insured. Four other buildings
burned, three being occupied by families.
ELECTED UNANIMOUSLY.
Quincy, ILL.,, Dec. l2.-Rev. S. L. Harris
D. D., rector of St. James church, Chic go
was this morning elected unanimously on
the first ballot, bishop of the new Episcopal
diocese Of Quincy.
NOT GUILTY.
Philadelphia, Dec. 12.-In the court quar-
ter sessions to-day, JOIN S. Morton, Samuel
P. Hexhn, John r. Nagle, and George NJ.
Nickers pleaded not guilty to nine indict-
ments charging them with embszzing funds
Of the West Philadelphia passenger railway
company. The trial begins on the ooh.
FAILURE.
New York Dec l2.-The Post announces
the suspension of the old dry goods jobbing
house.of Adriance, Robbins & Co, Of this
city. General causes assigned for the fail
ure are losses by bAd debts, and shrinkage Of
values. The recent death Of Robbins also
added to the troubles Of the firm. 1t was a
very old house and very respectable, but has
not been for several years leading house,
at least SO far as the volume Of business
would give it position. Liabilities not
large
FRAUDULENT ELECTION.
New Orleans, Dec. 12.-The Times says
that the reports which have been current
for weeks past, of crookedness in the Darral
Acklen contest, in the Third congressional
district, have at last developed into some-
thing more definite than mere rumors. The
United States district attorney has fled q
criminal information in the United States
circuit court against George B Loud, charg-
ing him with inducing an officer, by illegal
means, to violate his duty in regerd to a
Certificate, as to the true result of the cleo
ton in the parish of Iberville, tor represen-
tative in congress, in the third congress
ional district. 1t seems according to evidence,
on which the information is based, that Geo.
B. Loud was instrumental in having about
one thousand ballots on which was the name
Of Darral, abstracted from the ballot boxes
of the parish of Iberville, and about that
number with the name Of Acklen upon them
placed in the boxes, thus changing the re.
suit Of the election. 1t is claimed that this
change was discovered when the ballots were
recounted under the order ofthe congression.
al committee to take testimony. Two OF three
Of the parties, who it is said assisted in this
transaction, have made statements of the
part which they took in it. Loud was under
Kellogg's administration district superin-
tendent of education.
QUARTERLY MEETING.
New York, Dec. PA quarterly meeting
Of the directors of the Western Union tele.
graph company, to-day report was sub
mitted showing that up to Oct. lat, there
was a net surplus ofS90,s65, and that the ne'
pro6ts for the quarter ending Dec 3lst,
was $3.50, ,l3s, making a total Of $S41 ,004
The usual dividend Of 1a per cent. va,
declared, and the executive committee was
chosen, consisting of Alex Tannum, Nelson
Waldrich, James NJ. Kimball, jesse Met
calf and VIM. B. Weeden, and instructed tc
rake nromnfly snch atena as in their iudoe