Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-28
Daily 9rtss aud pskstaias,
yANkToM. DAKOTA.
Friday Evening, March 20, 1879
LATEST 81 MAIL

Philadelphis, Msrch M.-Col. Thos A.
Scott was 70 elected president Of the Penn.
sylvania road.
Pttssbure, March e6.-The coal exchange
has dectded TO grant the strikipg miners
their demands. Work will begin 10 NOR.
row.
Little Rock. March 2e-The steamer
Hattie Newland struck q snag below the oil
mill spd was badly wrecked. She wasval.
ued Al $4,000 and 10 = total loss.
Keokuk. Ia, March 28.-The preliminary
examination VI Wm.fYouug TOR the murder
to-day, and the defendant was bound over
and sent to Jail.
Keokuk, March;28.-Giveo & Co.'S stock
Of hats aud caps was nearly Destroyed hy
Dire this morning. Loss on building, 81 500;
covered BY insurance.
Richmond. Va, March 28-The senate
concurred in the house smendments to the
senate bill providing for the settlement of
tbs state debt known ss the McCuilOch
compromise biz. II now goes toiho COVER
nor.
Fort Scott, Kansas. March 2G.-Yester-
day Bill Howard, the negro who raped
Clam Pond, IL years old, daughter of Geo.
Pond, was hanged to a lamp post BY Q par
" of thirty masked men. The body was
atterward burned by the mob.
Chicago, March 28.-Uoauthorized state.
ments having been made 10 the public
prints that w. B. Strong, general surveyor
Of the AtchinseD, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road, would soon be superseded, President
| Nickersou has authorized a denial Of the
truth of such statements and says Mr..
Strong has the entire confidence of the pre-
sident and board Of directors.
Chicago. March 26.-Ricbard Morton of
New York, e x-cashier OF the Atlantic fire
insurance company, who left New York
laet August with q shortage of $4,000 10
his accounts with the company, and who
has since then remained in Canada. ap.
peared on the streets here today and be.
ing recognized by a clerk of the Chicago
for q requisition. He refuses TO talk or
the matter.
San Francisco. March 28-At q larg,
meeting of the merchants protection asso
citation of the board of trade, held yesterday
afternoon, to consider the objection
to the new constitution, able arRumentl
mittee appointed to draw up resolutions 70
signatures. The officers of the several sus
pended savings banks state that the distrus
occasioned by the pending election throw
obstacles in the way of q settlement Of thei
affairs.
St. Louis, March GA Pueblo, Col
dispatch says four miles of the Leadvill
extension Of the Atchison and Santa F
railway west of Canon City was complete
tonight. The track is now laid q distanc
of a mile and a half in the grand
the Arkansas, work being pushed forwar
rapidly, and the Royal gorge will be reach
ed by Saturday night. A large quantity I
ties. rails, etc, are going to the front dali!
and Leadville will soon have railway col
%nection with the outside world.
Springfield, ILL.,, March 26.-The cover,
or to day pardoned Patrick Gaughap, VII
was convicted of murder in Cook county i
March, 1877, and sent to the p%enitentisr
for five years. j. d. McIntire of Pekil
known as the king Of the whisky RIM
plead guilty in the United States court I
all the indictments against him. He va
fined S $1,000 and his distillery forfeited, Of
two pleas, and sentence was suspended 0as I
the others on condition that he squeals o
the other rinnsters.