Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-07-28

on Friday night and Sunday evening Of
a bloody fight. On Friday night a party
of drunken roughs went to the camp
about 10 o'clock and began the attack
with pistols, clubs and stones. They
were repulsed and VIM. Dickman, one
OF their number, shot through the abdo-
men. Sunday afternoon a party, said to
number 200, again attacked the camp,
and most desperate fight followed,
ending in the breaking up of the meet
ing. 1t is thought some of the colored
people were killed, but they dispersed
80 rapidly that the facts could not be
gathered. No arrests have been made.
New York, July 25.-The democratic
state committee doesn't propose to lose
at the coming election the votes of those
imported citizens who hold naturaliza-
tion papers Of 1868 if they can help it.
The committee announces its opinion TO-
day that every naturalization must stand
upon its own merit; that no wholesale
reputation Of the papers of 1868 such
as Davenport assumes to make can stand.
If there has been fraud which vitiates
them the fault must be shown in each
case, and until it is shown, Davenport
has no right to prevent the holders from
voting. The committee will insist that
each case shall be determined upon sep
arately, and to this end will engage the
assistance Of prominent lawyers to take
charge Of the democratic interests in the
matter.
Louisville, July 25.-The new steamer
H. L. Dexter, Capt. Jack Grammar, en-
route from Pittsburg to Evansville,
caught fire while under way, Just oppo-
site Jeffersonville, Ind, this afternoon.
The boat was headed for the shore, but
the fire got too hot for the pilot and he
had to back her into an island opposite
Jeffersonville, where she burnt to her
hull, when the fire was put out by the
Lanesville and Jeffersonville ferryboat.
She had no passengers on board, and all
the crew escaped, but lost all their cloth
ing, etc. She had fair trip of freight,
consisting of salt and glassware, of which
most will be saved. The Dexter was a
new boat, just finished at Cairo for the
Evansville and Cairo packet company,
and was on her first trip to Evansville.
She was valued at $4,000 and insured for
$4,000. The origin of the fire is sup
posed to be incendiary.
Washington, July 25.-Up to this
time the secret service agents of the
ASeNSAJ ~AS Go 44uS1 4A ullC uhi N Ofck
with respect to the plate from which the
dangerous counterfeit of 800 national
bank notes have been made. No clue is
discovered which is likely to lead to the
early arrest of the counterfeiters. OF
these notes the last one detected bears
the name of the title of the National
Exchange bank of Baltimore, and
although thetreasury officials have stated
positively that there are but thirty coun.
terfeits altogether in circulation, it is
believed that the number is much crater
Chief Brooks, though anxious to secure
the plate, admits that he does not see
how it is possible under the limited
appropriation allowed his bureau under
the democratic congress. The comp
troller still refuses to withdraw the notes
of this denomination from circulation
but he very careful in handling $lO(
notes, which will, he thinks, temporarily
restrict their circulation.