Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-18
LOCAL LAcoRics.

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YANKToN, d. T., June IL, 1875;
LOCAL uc0Nics.
The designs Of the council for the col
struction Of sundry sidewalks were knocke
in the head last night by the protests
property owners.
Again thu gates Of paradise have bee
left ajar, and this time the escaping cheru
found refuge in the household of Leighto
Wynn.
E. r. Paige has written that he will be i
Yankton on the 26th inst. and will on tbs
date deliver his lecture on the telephon
and phonograph, at the Methodist church
The old dance house on the Rhine, in tn
northern part of the city, is to be rc,openes
with a full stock Of the kind ofgoods usually
employed, in establishments of that kind.
The council last night authorized a com
mittee consisting Of E. G. Wheeler, S. L
Sphinx and I. E. West, to codify the city or
dinances, agreeing to pay them $75 each 70,
the job. d
The Springfield Times says that Nose
McGurk, who escaped from the United
States Jail in Yankton on Monday evening
last, was a guest at the house of Tom Tate,
west of Emmanuel creek, Tuesday night
last. AZ
The county commissioners have made ap-
plication for the appointment of a guardian
for the children Of Mrs. Morgan, a woman
whose drunken habits incapacitate her for
their charge. The case will be heard before
Judge Congleton tomorrow.
Gardner Brothers will give a public
trial of the Adams & French harvester and
seli-binder in Maj. Stones rye, just east of
the race track, on Tuesday, the 25,h inst
weather permitting. All dealers in self
binders are invited to go in and exhibit
the merits of their machines.
The Yankton Tuyn-Verejn has decided
to celebrate the 4th with a procession and
picnic. G. +. Rossteuscher, A. Schandein,
John Satori, John Becker aad L. Freiden.
stein have been appointed a committee 10
make all the necessary arrangements:
Sheriff Baker has been selected as marshal
Of the day.
the indications Of the weather for the up
per Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys
are falling and stationary, followed by rising
barometer, winds mostly from east to south,
and generally warmer, clear or partly cloudy
weather, possibly succeeded in the northern
portions by occasional rains.
Bishop Ireland will visit the Catholic
church at Tabor tomorrow. We under.
stand tha! a large delegation of the people
of that section will meet the bishop about
midway from Yankton and escort him into
Tabor. On Thursday the bishop will ad-
minister the ordinance of confirmation to
such as may desire to become connected
with the church at that place.
John w. Bramble met with an accident a
day or two ago, which has caused more at
tention to be attracted to his nose than to
add to the attractiveness of that organ. He
was assisting in unloading a threshing ma
chine from a car, when one Of the wheels of
the machine dropped off the car, by which
Mr.. Bramble was thrown violently to the
ground, striking his face against the tongue t
Of the machine with such violence as to
break bis nose. Otherwise his injuries were
trifiug.
Gene Cutting came down town early this
morning, on horseback, after some meat for
breakfast, and o. his way home the horse
stumbled and threw the meat off into the
mud. Gene got off about the same time,
onI fop a xnSn,,ta m frro - -oe lorJ - Ill
which was the meat and which was Gene,
but they finally got separated, and the hor-
ror stricken witnesses of the affair were
grati6ed to see him emerge from the pile of
hash sound in wind and limb. +.
The father Of NJ. P. Loberg, a young man
of twenty, residing near Childstown, came
to Yankton to-day in search of his son who
away last night. Sheriff Baker tele- {
graphed to Sheriff Macdonald at Sioux
City, who found Loberg there and arrested
him. It seems that the misguided young
man is in love with q girl somewhere east,
and the stern parent is trying to keep them
apart. With this object in view the young
man was placed upon a Turner county ranch.
Love was too strong, however, and last night
he got away and fled.
A rough and tumble fight took place yes
terday afternoon on the levee between three
employees m a wood boat, in which fists,
feet and clubs were deity employed, and a
murderous knife exhibited, but not used in ]
the melee. When the officers appeared
upon the scene, one of the belligerents sprang ,
into the river with the intention of escaping 7,
by swimming, and it WAS some fifteen min
ute, before he was secured and brought to