Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-10
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YANKToN, DAKOTA.
Monday Evening, Nov. 10. 1879.
LOCAL LAcoNtcs.

Mrs. Kate Brennan. q patient In the Ds.
kota hospital for the insane. was delivered
Of = bov Saturday.
There has been Considerable moisture in
the air to-day, and the clouds promise more
before they clear away.
There will be no meeting at the club
room this evening on account of Mrs. Eos.
ter's lecture at the Congregational Church.
The Springfield branch Of the Milwaukee
road is to be ironed to the Missouri river
this fall. The Yankton branch will be
iroued early in the spring.
The engineers Of the Sioux Falls road,
who we're running q line Lennoxward from
Sioux Falls. have changed their direction
and are now heading for old Finlay aud
Swan Lake.
The grade of the Milwaukee road from
Yankton to Jim river has been completed,
with the exception ofa short distance over
which right Of way can only b secured BY
arbitration.
A letter from Moody county informs us
that the election there vent ill one way,
and that was the good old republican way.
John simons, Dennis Jacobs, and ]. G..
Whalen were elected commissioners.
W. E. Wheaton, Of Big Stone Lake, wa
last night arraigned before United States
Commissioner Conglston, charged with cut.
ting timber on government lands. After a
hearing he was discharged from custody,
there being no evidence upon which to hold
him for trial.
Religious services were held at the in.
Sane hospital yesterdsy BY Rev. MI. Je-
we'll. 1t 10 the intention Of the officers Of
the asylum to have religious services q
often - practicable TO be held under the
auspices Of the various religious denomin,,
tions represented here.
The telegraph wire vas repaired at the
break near Vermillion this afternoon, and
it was then discovered that there was ,
break near Elk Point. The rspairsr re-.
ports that the wire appears to have been cut
and there il = suspicion that some maliciou,
party is tampering with the line.
There is more trouble on the TELEGRAPH
line. Yesterday the break near Vermilliou
was patched up and our Saturdays rspor,
came over. This morning the wire parties
near the ame place and no businsas ha
been transacted over the line to-day. Be
tween here and Springfield there il anoths,
break, which cuts of the upper country
It il runorsd that Captain Johnston, Q
the LIT infantry, who recently became in
sane. has been retired, bat We have no pos
tive information on the subject. His re
tirsment would make . captain of Quarts,
master Pierce. Of the 1t, . gentleman VII
has earned promotion BY close attention I
his military duties.
Mn. J. Ellen Foster delivered two ID
dresses In Yankton yestsrd.y, one in Ii
morning at the Msthodist church and On
in th~e3evsning atths Congregational church
Her subject was Temperance and Oh
handled it ably and effectively. In /,
warfare against strong drink she does q.
render herself obnoxious 70 the very seua
tive class rhe is attempting to reach, !,
candidly lays the whole matter before the
and asks them to draw their own dsdu
tons from her arguments. Mrs. Fost
will lecture nightly, ct the Congrsgadoa
church, upon t~hissubject during the mo
Of this week, and We have no hesitaucy
saying that the people Of Yankton will I'll