Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-19
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YANKToN DAKOTA
Monday Evening, May 10, 1879
LATEST " MAIL.

Albany, May l6.-The assembly hes pass
ed the bill making 6 psr cent. the legal rate
Of interest in this state.
New Orleans, May l6.-The Times Pla-
quenine, Ibsrville parish, special ssys Rob!
ert Cheney, coiored, was hanged here to-day
kr ravishipg Amelia Weight IN June, 1873.
The execution passed of quietly.
Washington, May 16.-The house com.
reports 10 be made to the house. Among
ment of . special committee to take charge
suffrage.
Indianapolis, May l6.-At Brazil. Ind,
the striking miners surrounded the Norris
coal shaft this morning and tried to prevent
the miners from going to work. The shaft
being inside the corporation the police
board swore in extra police and escorted the
miners inside. The police arrested 'seyeral
strikers who attempted to interfere.
.Philadelphis, May 16.-1n the Suffolk
park . special purse of $1,000 for Hopeful
to beat 2:l7, in three trials his time was
2:2l3, 2:18 and 1:19s. In the second trial
hopeful went to the quarter in 1874 seconds
and to the half in 1:07l.
Hanover, N. H. May 16.-In consequence
of the request Of the faculty of Dartmouth
College to allow public reading in the col
lege church, last Friday evening the stu
dents assembled before the residence OF
President Bartlett and Prof. Lord, blowing
horns, greaning and singing. Saturday
morning there was an uproarious demen-
s~tration at prayers. Since then the faculty
have been making an investigation, result.
ing to-day in the expulsion Of two member
of the minor class.
Raleigh, N. g, Nay 16.-Henry AL
phonso Davis, white; Henry T. Andrews
white, and Lis Carleton, colored, burglars
were to-day hanged at Hillsborough, tn
county seat of Orange county, where thei
numerous crimes were committed. Each q
the prisoners proclaimed their innocence I
the last. The hanging took place at 2:3t
and was badly botched. The ropes aroun
the necks of DAVIS and Carleton were to
long, and their feet rested on the grount
They we're raised land the ropes re-tie.
causing death from strsnkulaiion.
Springfield, May 18.-The. secretary
state to-day issued 4 license to organize ii
, Northwestern Associated Press, with . cal
ital stock of 500, 900. The object is to pr
, cure and distribute telegraphic and 9th,
? reports, and for the protection of the int
ests of the newspapers whose represeu
ativss may be stockholders, aad 20 aid On.
newspapers in procuring labor and materi
and in such other vayS Is may from time
time seem advisable The Incorporate
are VIM. T. Dowdal1, Walter johnson, a,
John P. Cadagan, Of this state, and othel
Provo, May l6.-Wallace Wilkereo
who shot Baxter in Timbie about ty
years ago, was executed here to-day at
n. He evinced great nerve, and sat in
chair facing three guns distant about thir'
feet, without either bandaging or closi,
his eyes. His wife spent last night and
to within half an hour of the execution vi
him. The scene of parting was livery
fecting. Wilkerson made . speech, than
. ing the officers and others. AT a sign
from the marshal three copcealed mark
men fred. He leaped from the chair, e
claiming o God and fell forward on
face and continued breathing q few gas
/. for t%wenty-seven minutes, when the ply
clan pronounced him dead. About twent
five people we're in the Jail yard and pro
ably two hundred outside the in~closure.