Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-15
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Augusta, Me. Dec. l2.-Judge Vergin
concluded 10 dismiss the petition against
the government for . writ of mandamus.
Omaha. Dec. 12.-An embsnkment caved
10 upon ten or twelve men yesterday. just
before noon. at Plsttsmouth, near the new
railroad bridge being constructed. Three
men we're taken nut dead, and seven badly
Injured. 1t IL feared others msy be buried
under the ruins.
Norwich, Conn.,. Dec. l2-While Father
Quinn. an ex.priest, was speaking on Cath.
ollcism in the Central Methodist Episcopal
church tonight, u volley of stones IVES
thrown through the windows, breaking the
glass and hurting the broken fragments
among the audience. One girl was cut
about the face, but the meeting was MOI
broken up.
Cincinnati, Dec. 12-President Refs OF
the board Of aldermen to-day introduced DO
ordinance prohibiting the sale of intoxica-
ting liquors in places where public theatri-
cal entertainments are given. II was re-
ferred to the city solicitor to report II IL lie
improper. The police commissioners to-day
voted to make no arrests for giving theatre
cal shows on Sunday until the pending ca
hes are determined.
Milwaukee, Dec. l2.-In July last a Mrs.
Vickers, living near Bunston, Cooper couu.
~, Mo was loully murdered. One James
M. Norvall, a farmer, aged so years, who
shortly after leftthe peighborhoOd, was sus
pected Of the crime. He was tracked t.
this city and to-day arrested on q requisi-
ton of the governor of Missouri, and an Of
fcer 10 charge Of the prisoner left on the If.
ternoon train.
Detroit. Dec. 12.-It is reported here tina,
two or three tons of nitro .clycerine exploded
on Fox island, in the river opposite Am
h%urslburg, twenty miles below. 1t 10 said
the shock was felt thirty to forty miles dis
tsnt. No particulars as to the extent of thu
damage can be learned tonight owing t.
the fact that no o will venture there unit
daylight. Fox island was used TO store nj
tro.Riycerlnc and powder used in blasting
rock IN the channel Of the river at a plac'
known as the lime kilns crossing.
New Orleans, Dec. 12.-Tbe Carroll Pal
ism, a conservative democratic organ, says
David Armstrong, a colored man living will
his family on Marceny place, near Mill
ken's bend, Madison parish, was taken gu
Of his house Sunday night last preceding tn
election, by twenty-five or thirty men. Owe
twenty shots we're fired and heard by per
sons on the place. Pools of blood and sheet
covered with gore were found near the banl
Of the river next morning, but no ,rac
whatever of Armstrong, who is reported t,
US as al industrious tenant of Moreno,
place, and raising good crops every year.
Baltimore, Dec. 12.-Abraham Annatta
a West Indian negro, and Francis Adam,
a Manila man, sailors, were arrested thi
afternoon by a deputy United States mar
shal. The warrants were issued by TIE Unite,
States commissioner on a charge of murde
on the high seas, destroying the schooner
NJ. .: Henderson, Of Philadelphia, boune
to Baltimore from Bull river. The vesse
went ashore November 30, near Kitty Hawl
and went to pieces. .Annatta and Adams
and another sailor not yet arrested, were ,h,
only ones who escaped from the wreck, and
as soon as they reached shore started Of
without waiting for aid. The bodies of nom
of the officers have been found, which LEI
to the theory that they had been probabl,
foully dealt with.