Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-11-23

Boston, Nov. 2O-G Gen. Grant has been
| elected an honorary member of the Mid.
dlesex club.
Chicago, Nov. 20.--Tho Tribune's Ell.
gin, ILL.,, special says: D. ID. Dorsctt
died to-day Mt his home in the suburbs
aged 100 years, months and 5 days He
was born in England, and had been here
thirty-seven years.
Washington. Nov. 2O.--Arrungements
have been completed for professional
single scull race, three miles, over the Po.
tomac river course, for Thanksgiving day
Davis, Kennedy, Lee and PIaisted are
entered. Negotiations have begun for a
championship race between Hanlan, Ross
and Laycock.
San Francisco, Nov. 2O.-Gov. Leland
Stanford's2 2-year-old stallion, Fred Crock
er, to-day trotted against his time of
2:28115 for a pulse and record. He was
allowed three heats, and OH the third ef-
fort trotted mile without skip or break
in 2:254; first quarter, 81 seconds; half
~ and the third quarter in 149. Gov.
Stanford presented Marvin, Crocker's
driver, with $500.
st. Louis, Nov. 2O.-A meeting of the
stockholders of the Wabash, st, Louis &;
Pacific railway was held at the office of
the company this afternoon, at which the
various measures and propositions relat
ing to the leasing and building of lines
and issuing bonds already agreed upon
by the directors were ratified. Three
hundred and fifty thousand out of 100000
shares of stock were represented.
Wichita, Kans., Nov. 2O-There was a
gathering here to-day of all parties inter
ested in Payne's Oklahoma colony. It
was arranged that the colony would move
in body from the Kansas, Texas and
Arkansas lines on the 9Th of December.
the day congress meets. They have
drawn up letter addeessed to the pres
ident and congress, asking that the army
be prevented from interfering with
them.
Boston, Mass, Nov. 2O-The financial
article of the Transcript to-day says it
has authority. for saying that at the
meeting OF railroad presidents in New
York, including Vanderbilt, Coolidge of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road,
and John M. Forbes of the Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy road, an alliance
was cOnsummated of the interests of the
New York Central, Lake Shore and At
1uuUlc ~ aCluC IallIOauS ana the roads
first mentioned, forming community of
interests in opposition to the Gould
roads, and accomplishing one of the most
gigantic combinations ever attempted,
This statement is not authoritative, but
the Transcript considers it's information
the most reliable.
st. Paul, Nov. 20-Workmen have been
delving in the ruins Of the insane hospi-
tai at st. Peter all day. Fragments Of a
human form were found, supposed to be
the remains of G. Renseheimer OF Scott
county. Peter Hogan, reported missing,
was found in pile of straw in pig,
stye. He had almost persisted from cold.
but may recover. Considerable criticism
is being indulged in throughout the
state because OF the hand the coroner
has taken against an official investigation
through his Office of the cause of the cat
astrophe. The officers of the institution
have invited an investigation, but the
coroner. who IS also hospital undertaken,
declined to d. so. Latest adyices from
the scene, and elsewhere, do not indicate
any other change in the record of the
dead and missing than has already been
sent