Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-17
Shs Daily gress aaa 3alstatss
vANkroN DAKOTA
Saturday Evening, Jan. ", 1880.
THE NEW NORTHWEST.

There are five circus companies winter;ng
in Kansas.
The Catholic fair Ia Was.ca, Minnesota,
rak,d in 81, 600.
Helena, Montana, had a $l,650 fire on
New Years day.
The Iowa legislature convened at Des
Mojne-, Jan. 18th.
The Denver policemen get 500 per month
ana Il gray uniiorm.
Twenty-Five persons died Of Typhoid fever
in D,nver lat month.
There is talk at ST. Paul of founding a
college to be in control Of the Presbyterians.
Mrs. Burnett's new story will he Of
American life, and will be called "Louisi-
ana"
Senator J. p. Jones is reported to have
made $780, 600 through the sale Of a Colo
RADIO mine.
Des Moines and Council Bluffs, IA miles
apart, are placed in communication by
telephone.
Fayette county, Iowa, has a Farmers
Mutual Insurance company with a capital
of 100000
Salina, Kansas, has organized a coal
stock company, with a capital of $4,000,
at $40 per share.
Population in Colorado increases in a
ratio of ten to one, as compared with anv
other western state.
There are over 400 new dwelling houses
in Portland, Oregon, in the course of erec-
ton at the present time.
Rev. H.. K Painter was installed on the
9th az pastero Of the Congregational church,
at Mazeppa, Minnesota.
A Warren county Iowa farmer, raised last
year $40 bushels Of corn on three and
five eighths acres Of ground.
jim Hartley's store in Brainerd, Min
nesota, was partially DESTROYED BY fire on
Christmas morning. Loss $500.
Sixty boot bla ks and news boys took
Inner at Temperance Headquarters in
Topeka, Kansas, on New Years day.
It is reported that an 1S.year old boy and
a 4O.year-old married woman of DUBUQUE
fell in love with each other and eloped.
The annual meeting ofthe Dakota county,
Minnesota, agricultural society will be held
in Pennington on Saturday, the 31st inst.
Fo,ty-two members have been recently
initiated into the Good Templars Lodge at
Ellls, Montana, which is in a flourishinp
condition.
Scarlet fever has broken out in the deaf
and dumb asylum al Olathe, Kansas, anu
to-day there is a regular stampede among
the inmates.
Thus far reports from towns in Winons
county, Minn-sota, show a decrease in tn.
number OF births and an increase in the
number of deaths.
Davenport, Iowa, physicians report 8
larger number of births in the part sever
days than they have ever known before il
the same period of time.
The merchants of Rushford, Minnesota
say they have not had in three years thre,
months business equal in magnitude to tha
Of the last three months.
The body ofJohn McDufey, ofChippew,
county, Minnesota, who was lost Ne.
. Years day, has been found frozen abou
twelve mile from Wilmar.
The hog cholera il raging in some por
Il, rs OF Des MONIES county, Iowa Th,
: disease does not seem to affect the fat hogs
but Is killing of the young ones.
|, The Janury thaw cleared the river entire
ly of Ice, so that at Davenport the small
steamboat made trips to the neighborin,
towns. This is something unusual 70
January.
One Arson E. Losey, who married a wifi
in Crookstown. Minnesota, a few month
ago, has now fled to Dakota, upon the dis
covery that he had deserted a wife il
Michigan.
The Gallatin river in Montana has frozel
: over with its confluence with the Missouri
. 80 that it will admit Of trains crossing
This has not occurred but two or three time
in eighteen years,
Farmers in Minnesota, who have boz
rowed seed grain from the state are ~oficiall
notified that its value will be assessse
against them, and the state must have tn
full amount nominated in the bond.
Seden Kansas Times: A man who's
name we will not publish was fined twent,
five dollars last week by Squire Ross, ft
striking his five months old child so har
in the face as to cause extensive black an
blue marks.
Michigan capitalists have agreed to bull
at Duluth, Minnesota, this year, ready f.
the wheat crop of 1880, a large grist-mil
q aud another Michigan firm has engaged
invest $4,000 in building this yer a lari
S saw mill.
There has been a disastrous prairie Fl
in Saline and Mcpherson counties, Kanss
in which j. Wadman, an old man, W
burned to death. Mr.. Chilson lost a sp,
Of horses, and Mr.. Lewis, in the san
vicinity, lo.t horses, wagon and harness.
d The rumors of a scandalous nature viii
were afloat in Morris, Minnesota, last S
urday, eliminated Monday in the arrest
a prominent business man, Mr.. j.
Moore, on a charge of Fan assault with
tent to commit rape upon the person of NJ
Ellen Zimmerman" After a rearing befo
a Justice the defendant was discharged, a
there are intimations that blackmail "
the object in view.
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Thirty Years Experience Of an old MUIR