Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-17
DAKOTA
1He NEW NORTHWEST.

There are five circus companies wirtering
in Knnras.
Tie Catholic fair In Was.ca. Minnesota.
rak.d in ST 900.
Helene, Montana, had a $l,G5O fire ON
New Years day.
The Iowa legislature convened at De.
Mnine-, Jan. 18th.
The Denver policemen get $50 per month
and a gray uniform.
Twenty.two 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. Z. Jones is reported to have
made $780, 600 through the sale Of a Colo
RADIO mine.
Des Moines and Council Bluff, 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 $40, 900,
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 cree
ton at the present time.
Rev. H. X Painter was installed on the
9Th az paster of the Congregational church,
at Mazeppa, Minnesota.
A Warren county Iowa farmer, raised last
year 376 bushels of corn on three and
five eighths acres Of ground.
j. M Hartley's store in Brainerd, Min.
nesota, was partially DESTROYED BY fire on
Christmas morning. Loss 800.
Sky boot bla ks and news boys took
inner at Temperance Headquarters il
Topeka, Kansas, on New Years day.
It is reported that an 18.year old boy and
a 4O-year-old married woman of DUBUQUE
fell in love with each other and eloped.
The annual meeting of the Dakota county,
in Pennington on Saturday, the 3lst inst.
Fo,ty.two members have been recently
inflated into the Good Templars Lodge at
Ellis, Montana, which is in a fourishing
condition.
Scarlet fever has broken out in the deaf
and dumb asylum al Olathe, Kansas, auu
to-day there is a regular stampede among
the inmates.
Thus far reports from towns in Winona
county, Minn-sota, show a decrease in the
number OF births and an increase in the
number of deaths.
Davenport, Iowa, physicians report a
larger number Of births in the pat seyep
days than they have ever known before in
the same period of time.
The merchants of Rushford, Minnesota.
say they have not had in three years three
months business equal in magnitude to that
of the last three months.
The body ofJohn McDufFey, ofChippewa
county, Minnesota, who was lost Ne.
Years day, has been found frozen aboul
twelve mite from Wilmar.
The hog cholera is raging in some Dor.
tim OF Des MONIES county Iowa The
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 neighborinp
towns. This is something unusual foI
January.
One Arson E. Losey, who married a wife
IN Crookstown. Minnesota, a few month.
ago, has now fled to Dakota, upon the dis.
covery that he had deserted a wife in
Michigan.
The Gallatin river in Montana has frozer
over with It's confluence with the Missouri
80 that 1t will admit OF trains crossing
This has not occurred but two or three timel
In eighteen years,
Farmers in Minnesota, who have Dor
rowed seed grain from the state are officially
notified that its value will be assesssec
against them. and the slate must have the
full amount nominated in the bond.
Seden Kansas Times: A man who's,
name we will not publish was fined twenty
five dollars last week by Squire Ross, 70
striking his five months old child 80 hare
in the face as to cause extensive black AM
blue marke.
Michigan capitalists have agreed to buile
at Duluth, Minnesota, this year, ready 70,
the wheat crop of 1880, large grist-milI
aud another Michigan firm has engaged Il
invest $4,000 in building this YER a larg
saw mill.
There has been a disastrous prairie fir
in Saline and Mcpherson counties, Kansa
in which J. Wadman, an old man, wa
burned to death. Mr.. Chilson lost a spa
of horses, and Mr.. Lewis, in the sam
vicinity, lot horses, wagon and harness.
The rumors of a scandalous nature whic
were atoat in Morris, Minnesota, last Sa
urday, eliminated Monday in the arrest
a prominent business man, Mr.. j, n
Moore, on a charge of IAN assault with il
tent to commit rape upon the person of Nj
Ellen Zimmerman" After a hearing befol
a justice the defendant was discharged, an
there are intimations that blackmail WI
the object in view.