Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30
LOCAL LAcos1cs,


Getting out Of bed tomorrow morning
will 30 the last ross Of summer.
Messrs. Wilcox 4 Williams will ship on
the steamer Gen. Meade three and q half
car loads Of fax seed,
a special meeting Of the city council will
% held this evening. The regular meet
ing cccurs on Monday evening.
A child born to james and Nora Law.
renee, today expired shortly after it, birth
n was buried At five o'clock this a~ternooa.
The trustees Of the insane asylum will
soon discharge Uncle Billy Cofey and send
him back to Lawrence county, from which
county he was received. Billy's head s level
and his residence at the asylum is no longer
necessary.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are
Clear OF partly cloudy weather, warm south.
erly veering to cooler northwest winds, and
generally higher barometer. The Ohio
river will generally fall.
Dave Mercer. the man arrested at St.
James by Deputy Sheriff Wallace on the
charge Of horse stealing, and whom he
oroughtt to Yankton and put in Jail, has
been discharged and permitted to return
home. II appears that in making the AZ.
ieet Wallace exhibited more zeal than good
judgment.
Last Sunday morning lightning struck the
house of John Noonan in the WEIGH settle.
ment, badly damaging it. Two of MI. Moo.
mans children were severely shocked, one
OF them being seriously burned across the
breast and lower part Of the body, but have
completely recovered from the effects. I,
was a narrow escape.
Inc Swan Lake New Era says: ut is
reported that an attempt is being made bv
stockholders in the Southern Minneaot.
railroad to break up the sale of that proper.
y to the Milwaukee and st. Paul company.
If this story is true a probable legal contest
indefinitely prolonged will retard the com.
pletion Of the transfer"
we leara from G. B. Valentine, who re-
turned from Tnrner county yesterday that
the surveyors on the Lennox line reached
. point just beyond the Vermilliou river on
lhursday evening, and that they expected
to complete the preliminary work to Len.
nox last evening. The line cresses tho
Yermilltoc river a short distance east and
south Of the town of Turner.
One Of the horse thieves recently arrested
IN Cedar county, Nebraska, charged with
stealing horses at smithland, Iowa, belong
60 to Middleton's gang, and is kno IN "a
"Black Bill" His companion Wa .voun.
man named Church, the son of a respected
woodbury. county farmer, who had, it an.
pears, just started on the road to the bad.
n former is 1S and the latter 20 wears old.
Master Mechanic Moulton, of the Dakota
southern road, is perfecting plans and pro.
curing bids for brick shops and ! round
house to be built on the compauy,s sround
below the Rhine. It is the intention Of The
company to erect these buildings and . brick
passenger depot this fall, provided Yankton
procures the right of way through town and
out OF town. This action would render per.
manent the shops of the company and a.
the country develops and the road increases
IN extent and importance, they will form !.
va,oable adjunct to Yankton's progress.
Yesterday, at Yankton agency, Mrs, Chs:
took passage on the ste.mer ~,
Meade for Yankton. When the boat reach.
Cd sprinsdsldE Wood, the clerk, sent
the following dispatch to Mr.. W.mbol..
Meet the General Meade OF her ~.rriv.l..
It's . girl-all WE'LL" The Meade arrived
in sight of Yankton early this mornipe.
abe found solid Judgment on :. sand
oar' and-hss remained in that position all
DAY. As a consequence Mr.. Wambole has
exhibited great deal Of nervousness. but
has fully made up his mid that the little
girl shall be known as Alede Wambole.
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