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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07

The Oldest Bookstore in the territory.
We continue to offer to our many
patrons all the new and popular works
Of the day ut eastern prices. In this de-
partment may be found everything re.
quired Tin the stationery ine) in the
Office. store or chool house. Writing
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07
FOREIGN.
NOTHING AUTHENTIC.

NOTHING AUTHENTIC.
London, Feb. mo news was received
at the war Office regarding the rumored
capture of General Gordon. The report,
first posted in the window of the Daily
News Office, has since been removed.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07

Do not be deceived: ask for and take
only 3. H. Douglass 4 Sons Capsicum
Cough Drops for Coughs, Colds and
Sore Throats. u. 8. and Trade Mark on
every Drop.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07
The Weather.

Washington, February 7-The weather
indications for the upper Mississippi
valley are: Generally colder, partly
cloudy weather, with occasional light
SHOWS, northerly to easterly winds, rising,
followed in northern and central portions
by falling barometer.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07
Excelsior Book Store Wholesale and Retail

paper, envelopes snd blank books made
70 speciality. We also carry the largest
stock of eEWALL PAPERS, -&s
offered in the market. Our prices
will always be found reasonable. Third
street, bet. Cedar and Walnut SITS.
PURDY & BRECHT
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07
Lawless Young Nacabond.

Lawless Young Vagabonds.
st. Paul, Feb. IA gang of Jesse
James juniors at Minneapolis took o
lad named Johnny Nolan to neighbours
barn this morning and hanged him,
where he was struggling in the death
throes when found and cut down.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07

II housewives will make sweeter
lighter, and more dlgestlbie biscuits,
cakes, etc. with DR.. Prices Powder,
than can be made with other kinds, is it
not an incontestible proof of Its purity
and greater excellence? Give DR.. Pnce's
Cream Baking Powder trial in the
oven and we will warrant it to give per.
feet satisfaction.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH

NEW YoRK.
New York. Feb. ..
WHEAT-Opened higher, later weaker: No.
red. February. Sl!7lGl.G7I; March. sl.e.s@
l.Oyi; April, $lliH@ll2: May. $l,lSd0l.nA
CoRN-Better; quie,; mixed western. spot, 50
@8lc; future. B2i4VDGB1ic.
OATs-Stroger; western. SqQI47c.
PoRK-Quiet. strong; Sl6N0l6.75.
LARD-Higher; SQ.7O.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07
YanktOnPrices.
Yankton. February Z.

ECR SALE CHEAP ne fine improved piano
AS good as new-one marble top black
and hair mattress; one parlor suit-,hree pieces
sofa, patent rocker aud easy chair. also one
dining table; one willow baby carriage; one
good wood heating stove; two oil stoves, &C.. &c.
Enquire of Z. l. FLETCHER, corner of Wal
nut and Fourth streets, Yankton, Oak.
DR.. w. H. H. Brown
nENTIST, Union Block, Yankton. Dakoss
~ Fresh gas always on hand
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07

Store you will he convinced that you can
buy more FIRST T-CLASS GROCER
les for LEsS MONEY than
any place in the city.
See price list:
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07
HORsE-sHOE1NG,

A. specially: am prepared to do all kind.
Of d0hSE-SHOEING and +, give special and
effective attention TO bad feet. formerly
ing 70 work. Terms-JABH. II work Is not
safiafactory the money will be refunded.
g. l.. 4A30U.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07

In letter to citizen of Deadwocd,
Delegate Raymond conveys the informa.
tion that he has induced the secretary of
the interior to provide for an official ex-
animation Of the alleged coal lands on
the Sioux reservation. He says that
"the examination of the coal fields on
the Missouri river will be made by the
director Of the geological survey early in
the spring. and by the regular forces of
that department"
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07

Six hundred persons, of both sexes and
from all parts of the state, met at Boston
Tuesday in answer to call of the COM
mittee having in charge movement
looking to the prohibition of the alco.
holic drink traffic by constitutional
amendment. DR.. Daniel Dorchester SAID
the platform upon which the committee
works and proposes to work has one dis
tinct issue, constitutional prohibition,
to put IN. the constitution of Massaohu.
setts, q clause forbiddlng the manufac-
ture and sale Of alcoholic liquor for the
purpose of beverages. DR.. Dorchester
spoke of the spirit in the movement
among Catholics, and their promised CO.
operation with the committee, making it
q general movement of all creeds, the
objective point being to suppress liquor
saloons. A plan Of action was reported
to the effect that if the prayer of the
prohibitionists is not granted by the
present legislature then in 1885 a com.
paign will be inaugurated to secure as
large petition as possible. and then
the proposed amendment shall come
directly before the people for their vote.
and the home shall be protected against
the encroachment of the liquor traffic. A
contingent fund Of $4,000 will be
raised to carry out the prohibition
policy.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07
AND THE
Natl. Standard Dictionary

The WEEKLY EDITIONS Of
the above papers will be sent
for one year, together with the
Dictionary, for..... ..............". So OO
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO.
Chicago. Feb. z.
WnEAT-Firm; a3dc February; 94Mc,
March; $1,OOhc May.
CoRN-Firmcr, 5Sic February; s4l5c March !;
59hc May.
OATs-Firmer, s2Hct February; s2Ic March; !;
s7kc May.
WHISKY $l.l8.
RYEs59c
BARLEY-62c.
FLAxSEED-$1.5s. .
PonK-. Irregular; slzs5s7ss February, thlarch;
LAMP Higher $3.50 February; s9.s71. March;
90. 80 May.
Hoas-Receipts 10000; active steady; For
light 9to.6o; rough packing, So.lo1e.e5:
heavy packing and shipping, S. 76GI7.l5.
Cattle receipts-6, GOO. slow; exports. So 1lal
5000; cmomon to choice shipping, $5.UhG6 Is;
butchers. 2.40Q54.70; stockera, s. .5OI5LO; Texans
IS .OttD525.
MILWAUKEE.
Milwaukee. Feb. Z.
WHEAT-Easy; 93kc for cash and Feb;
$lOOls May.
CoRN-5Saic.
OATS -S2hc.
RYE-5stac.
BAhLEY-60c.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07

Remember the place-One door north of
Jencks Hotel, Capital street.
.N-All orders promptly filled and satisfac
ton guaranteed. Telephone No. So.
+. j. PORTER & co,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07
Daily gress mud d]xkatAiaa

There are under consideration by the
grand jury at Fargo some interesting
cases concerning land entries near James.
town, which it is alleged are fraudulent.
It is stated that indictments will be
found against prominent jamestown at.
torneys for completely in the matter.
Rec Valley Free Press: There is q
strong feeling in Dakota in favor OF the
appointment Of j. H. Teller, the present
secretary Of the territory. az governor OF
Dakota at the expiration of Gov. Ord
ways term. A movement is now on foot
to urge the president to appoint him.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07

The spinners' strike in ten mills at
Fall River, Mass, began Monday, three
of the concerns closing down entirely,
and the Metacomet mill being shut down
through the strike Of boys. The estab
lishments affected produced a, 600 pieces
of cotton cloth weekly, the payroll for
the same period reaching $4,000. It j.
stated that three other mills will close
to-day, when $3.50 persons will be ont OF
employment.
Representative Welleris bill fol the re.
lief of the Lady Franklin bay expedition
recites the consequences of the series of
unwise attempts to explore uninhabited
and unproductive regions toward the
north pole, the lives of number of
soldiers, sailors, and other persons being
in imminent peril; that previous at.
tempts of the government to secure per-
sons similarly imperilsd only resulted in
greater loss of life, and that persons in
private life are better fitted to undertake
such enterprises for rescue than United
States soldiers and sailors, and authorizes
the president to offer reward of $780,
600 to the master. owner and crew of any
vessel or ship that will, at any time dur.
ing 1884, rescue and restore to any port
of the United States. Lieut.. A. w. Greedy
and his party. the reward to be paid in
standard silver dollars.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07
The Chicago Inter Ocean.

The INTER OCEAN is q paper that.
next to the home Journal, ought
to be at every tireslde in Da.
kota. 1t is recognized
at home aud abroad
as the friend
of the
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-07
DAKOTA NORTHWEST !!
Aud an important factor in tho de.
velopment of this section.

For the business man, THE DAILY
INTER OCEAN il model newspaper,
containing oil the news while preserving
a dignity Of editorial opinion ana char
acter in keeping with the best spirits OF
a progressive age. THE INTER OCEAN
has it's own wires from Chicago to Wash.
ington and New York. and is in posi-.
ton to secure the latest and fullest news
of the National Capital and the east. Its
special correspondents cover the entire
country, for domestic intelligence. aud
it's foreign bureaus and special cable SER
vice secure the news of the old world,
embracing tide freshest political and
social gossip of European capitals.
Through its Dakota Bureau, THE
INTER OCEAN is kept fully Informed
OF all matters Of interest to Dakotanus
and concerning the progress and welfare
of Dakota
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-03
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the Senate on the 10th the bill passed
providing for sale of the Iowa Indian
Reservation. The pleuro-pneumonia bill
passed. The shipping bill reported by
Mr.. Frye is the next special order.
In the House the joint resolution was
adopted directing the President TO bring
the Wheelock claim to the notice Of the
Venezuelan Government. The debate on
the tariff bill was resumed and continued
through an evening session. The army APP
preparation bill was reported.
THE army bill appropriates $24, 259, 45).
OXFORD University has voted to admit
women to honorary examinations.
The steamer Falmouth burned off Port
land, Me-, on the Goth. Three lives were
lost.
A war in telegraph rates on Chicago bus
mess was inaugurated on the 29,h.
THE United States ship Portsmouth ar
rived at Newport ON the ooh with yellow
fever on board.
THE report that a proposition has been
made to annex Cuba to Mexico has been
officially denied.
THE number of victims of the railway
disaster at Cuidad Real, Spain, is placed
at 10.
The Postal telegraph bill will probably
make twenty-five cents the maximum
charge for twenty words.
A VAST amolnC of timber has been de-
stloyed by forest fires in the Blue Noun
tains near Lehigh Gap, Pa.
A COMPROMISE amendment to the cattle
importation bill has been adopted by the
British House of Commons.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY has failed to re-
spond to "a subpoena summoning him be-
fore the Springer Committee.
THE House Committee on Public Lands
has agreed on a bill 10 repeal the pre-emp-
ton and timber culture acts.
The troop ship Crocodile, from India,
has arrived at Portsmouth. Eng. She had
cholera on board during the voyage.
Four HUNDRED AND FIFTY chests of adul-
terated tea were SO zed in New York har-
Dor on the steamer France from London on
the 10Th.
A NEW pension swindle by attorneys is
| reported. 1t is worked through alse rep
reservations regarding bounty claims.
EX-SENATOR KELLoGG's trial began in
| Washington on the 10Th. He Is charged
with eceiving money to Influence the ex
| pediting of certain Star.routes.
NEAR Charleston, w. ", ON the night Of
the 2SIh, three burglars being discovered
in the house of John Woods, shot him aud
his son, the latter fatally. Woods daugh
ter wounded one OF the robbers with pts
| toll shot
NEAR Bloomington, Ind, ON the Goth, {
building caught fire containing a quantity
o bla ting dynamite. An explosion oc
cured, killing one man and woundinl
! thir,een.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

AT Luzenborough, Pa, four acres of the
surface above the working of the Black
Diamond Coliiery have settled several
feet. 1t is feared the mine is much dam.
aged.
In Brown e. Company's rolling mill at
Philadelphia, Pa, the laborers, shearsmen,
firemen and blacesmiths struck on the 18th
against ten per cent reduction, and the
mill closed down.
The furnace.men's strike at Newcastle
Pa, is over, and the men have returned to
work at all furnaces at old wages.
On the 9th, in his prayer, the Chaplain
of the House of Representatives invoked
Divine blessing OH the Greedy relief expe.
dition and Divine ard for the successful
termination of its mission.
ON the 26th the International EXPOSE
tion at Turin was inaugurated.
AT Barcelona several Spanish officials
have been arrested charged with revolu'
tionary plots.
CRIMINALS are getting the full weight OF
the law in Cincinnati nowadays.
DISPATCHES from General Millot say the
French hold all the positions necessary to
secure the possession of Tonquin.
THERE is opposition in the b itish War
Office TO sending any moro troops to
Berber before autumn.
BY change in the timetable fast
mail connection between Boston and the
trains west of New York is broken.
A POOL has been formed by the bolt and
nut manufacturers of the country to restrict
production and maintain rates.
The Egyptian troops in Upper Egypt
continue to desert to Ell Mahdi. The Khe
dive is threatened with assassination.
The whole Egyptian question, political
as well as financial, according to late re
| ports, will bs considered at the proposed
conference of the Powers
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-03

AT the close OF business on the 10Th the
New York bank statement showed de-
crease of $685., 900 in specie for the week.
The banks held s, 419,0O in sof legal
requirements.
AS reported to the House, the consular
appropriation bill makes numerous
changes in the diplomatic service in the
direction of retrenchment.
For the year ended March,s1 the imports
show a decrease of $50 ,25o, 1888, as compared
with the year preceding. Exports have
fallen off $l5, 1914, 371 in the same time.
THE Foreign Minister Of Holland states
that the Governments claims no sovereignty
over the Congo region but proposes to pro-
tect its commercial interests.
THE Secretaries of War and the Navy
are charged with the organization of
board to arrange the Government exhibits
at the New Orleans Exposition.
LATE reports indicate the certainty that
the Constitutional amendment increasing
the rate of interest ON the State bonds has
been adopted In louisiana
| ANARCHISTS are said to have placed dy.
| Mantle under the Germania statue, and
had arranged to blow IL up just at the time
when all Germany was present at the un-
yelling. Rain accidentally spoiled the ex-
plosives, and the plot was discovered later,
bat kept secret till now by the Government
officials. e
THE flood troubles in the South have not
| vet ended. The people living along the
| Sunfiower River have sent a petition to
Governor Lowry of Mississippi setting
forth most deplorable state OF affairs and
praying for aid. W
ITALY wants to take hand in Egyptian
affairs.
On the 10th national conference of coll
iored men met at Pittsburgh, Pa.
AT Beaver, Pa, five prisoners broke Jail
on the 18th by overpowering the jailer.
THE negotiations to aid the Mexican Ma
tional Railroad have failed.
On the 2Sth Spanish custom-house in
Navarro was destroyed by insurgents.
THERE are said to be. serious labor
troubles in the Cape Town diamond fields.
AN astronomer in Vienna has observed a
new planet in the constellation of Virgo.
THERE have been 6,s5s bills introduced
in the House during the present session OF
Congress.
| A SEPARATION of the consular and diplo.
matte services is urged by Secretary Ere
linghuyscn.
AT Irwin Station, Pa, two thousand
miners, who have been on a strike, went &c
work again on the 2Sth. their demands hav
ing been acceded to.
IT is thought that nearly twice as many
money order offices will be established In
1884 as in any preceding year.
ADvICEs state that the King of Siam has
notified Minister Halderman that he viii
send exhibits to the Worlds Cotton Fair il
New Orleans.
ON the 18th w. H. Lyle Post, of For
Scott, Kas., shipped carload of corn t.
r. E. Lee Camp at Richmond, Va, to aid
in building home for disabled Confeder
ate soldiers. ~
A MEMORIAL has been forwarded by
special committee Of the Philadelphia Com
mercial Exchange to Washington asking
Congress to enact such legislation as will
either redeem, retire or legalize the trad
| dollar,
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GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the 10Th two men we're killed by
boiler explosion at Liberty Centre, o.
On the 25th the steamer John A. Scudder
was disabled while making landing at
Bradford's Point, Miss. A portion of the
cargo was damaged.
ON the 26th two freight trains ran togeth-
er at Hoosac Junction, Mass, making a
bad wreck.
Mrs. AMELIA BARNETT cut the threats of
herself and her two children at Easton,
Pa, on the 26th, inflicting fatal wounds.
On the Gosh, fire in the premises OF Will
liam Whitley in London, Eng, caused loss
es to the amount of s., 200,00O.
GREAT excitement exists at Audubon, Ia,
and vicinity over the hanging of an old
man named Hiram Jefferson, which &C.
Cured just before daylight the morning of
the 28th. Cicero Jefferson and John
Smythe, the dead mans son and son-in-law,
have been arrested for the crime.
On the 9th the little town of jamestown,
Green County, o., was nearly wiped out of
existence by cyclone. Six persons were
killed and large number injured. Much
property in the track of the cyclone out
side the town was destroyed.
On the 2Sth a church, Opera-house and
fifteen or twenty other buildings burned
at Glens Falls, N. Y.
A SUPPOSED lncendiary fire caused the
destruction of $4,000 worth of lumber at
Cedar Springs, Mich, on the 2Sth.
On the 2s,h tbirty-eight corpses were
taken from the railway wreck at Ciudad
Real, Spain. Fifty soldiers were still miss
| ing.
| On the 2Sth number of convict work
men, employed in building Government
barrack at Portsmouth, Eng, were injured
| by the fall OF the structure.
On the 2Sth. Smith, son-inlaw, ant
Cicero, son of the deceased, were arrested
in Des Moines, Ia, on suspicion of being
murderers of an old man named Jefferson
on the 26ch. The son has confessed, impli
eating j. j. Wilson and John A. Smith.
On the 2sth, while two blocks of building
were burning at Panama large mob be
gan plundering, and were fred on witt
deadly effect by property owners. Loss
$4,000.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-03

DIR. GREGORY OF the Civil Service Com
examinations.
The firm Of Nelson Perrin 6; Co., Cincin-
natl, has been suspended from the Chamber
of Commerce for unmercantile conduct.
CHIEF NIMMo Of the Bureau of Statistics
reports that the tariff act Of 1888 caused
reduction of six per cent. in the average
ad valorem rate of duties on imports.
ACCORDING 20 Dublin report O'Kelly,
the correspondent of the London Netos,
has been arrested by the Egyptian author
tiles for aiding French intrigue with El
Mahdi.
RUGe, the murderer Of the Maybee fam
lily on Long Island, is to be hanged June g.
FRANK HArroN has retired from edi-
torial control OF the National Republican,
and is succeeded by Clinton A. Snow
den.
IT is reported that Moses Fraley, Of St
Louis, Mo-, Is a loser of nearly three
quarters of million on grain. He has
suspended.
THREATS are made by Osman Digna to
attack Abyssinia unless king Johns sub
jects embrace Mohammedanism.
ON the 2sth the case of Bill Jones, who
tried to kill Guiteau, was called at Wash
ington, and was continued. t,,.-
SAMUEL H. REYNOLDS, of Lancaster, Pa,
has been appointed special counsel for the
Government in the case against ex-senator
Kellogg.
ON the night OF the 2sth Pere Hyacinth
lectured in Salt Lake City, Utah, his dis
course being a review of ,polygamy, which
| be held to be state Of barbarism and te
lead to polytheism universally. lGs
ONE of the sailors of the Jeanette named
Jack Cole died at the Insane Asylum in
Washington on the 2Sth. He became in
sane as the result of hardships in the re
! treat to the Siberian coast after the Jean
nette was lost.
| A GALL has been issued by W. A
| Pledger, of Atlanta, Ga, for the meeting
of a colored convention in Richmond, Va.
July s, for the purpose of considering tht
material, educational and politicalinteres
| of the corbred race.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-03
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE Republicans of Dakota instructed
their delegates to Chicago for Blaine and
Lincoln. The Ohio delegates-at-large are
divided between Blaine and Sherman. The
Michigan delegation is uninstructed, but it
is supposed Blaine has a majority.
In the suit of Mark d. Hanover against
Walker N. Haldeman, President of the
Louisville Comier-Journdl Company to
recover 1000 damages for alleged libel,
on trial at Brooklyn, N. Y, the jury re-
turned a verdict on the oath of six cents
for plaintiff
COLLECTOR WICKER of Key West, Fla,
has been notified by the Secretary of the
Treasury of his removal by order of the
Senate, and Special Agent Hubs has been
designated to act temporarily in his place.
On the 25th Frank James was acquitted
of completely in the Mussel Shoals rob-
berry.
GENERAL Won MoLTKE will retire to his
estate in Silesia.
IT is reported that Representative Rea-
gan, of Texas, is dangerously ill.
BISMARCK is busy preparing a radical
revision Of the German Constitution.
THE general debate on the tariff bill will
probably close on May G.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL GRESHAM has
gone to Florida with his family.
THE name of Colonel M. R. Muckle, OF
Philadelphia, Pa, is mentioned for Minis
ter 10 Berlin.
A SUBPOENA has been issued for Walsh,
the Star-route witness, to testify before the
Springer Committee.
A REQUEST has been made for Con-
gressional investigation of the manage
ment of the Soldiers Home at Dayton, o.
General Patrick's treatment ofthe disabled
veterans is strongly criticised.
THE confession made by Rugg, the negro
arrested for the Maybee murders on Long
Island, was admitted in evidence against
him and he was convicted.
The Cuban filibuster, Auguero, is receiv
ing recruits from Hayti.
BEEcHER declares that Blaine's election
would be- a disgrace
CHARGES are made against Zebehr Pashf
of intriguing against Gordon in the Sou
dan.
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Extensive Fire at GIens Falls.

GLENs FALLS, N. Y. April %.
A fire broke out this morning and Is
raging fiercely, having already destroyed
the Music Hall building, Opera House and
Presbyterian Church, together with fifteen
stores and fully twice as many offices.
The Post office will undoubtedly be
reached by the flames. The employees are
now moving its contents. IL is estimated
the loss will exceed one hundred thou
sand dollars.