Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-19

of the new we'll into the tank. Til
result of this work will be watched witt
great interest.
The city marshal will begin shooting
untagged dogs on the afternoon O
Monday next. In the absence of Git,
Treasurer Blatt, the CITY clerk is actin.
as treasurer so far as the dog business Il
concerned.
Arrangements are being made by thu
celebration committee for getting tn,
Santee agency band, of nineteen pieces
composed entirely of Indians, for Yank
ton the Sd of July. This, besides the
many warriors.
W.P.Howard, agent in Yankton of the
Singer sewing machine company, 10 hall
owner of the nursery and fruit farm
located neal Tyndall, from which nearly
all the strawberries now consumed in
Yankton are brought.
A Yankton business nan has two sons
both of q tender age. He also has water
from the street mains in front of his
store. Yesterday he gave the younger
boy the nozzle of the boss and told him
to sprinkle the older one, and when the
kid turned the hose on the old man
there was q great howl by the father.
A bount.;ul rain descended upon this
section last highland that it was genera!
is reported by a large number of farmers
who were IN town to-day and by per,
SONS who came in on the last evenings
train. This information is for the bene-
fit of people outside of Yankton, as
those at home were conscious of q fall
of moisture.
During last nights storm q bolt OF
lightning descended from the clouds and
struck the telephone pole which stands
in front of Bunker's block, on Third
street. The crowd which was gathered
in the p~ostoffice lobby heard the light
ming strike and the democrats who were
in the room, who have been waiting to
be struck since C~leveland's election all
ducked their heads.
The third quarterly meeting of this
conference year will be held in the III.
e. church OF this city to-day and to-mor-
row. Preaching tonight ut SIS o'clock;
love feast Sabbath morning at ten;
preaching ut eleven, followed by the
sacrament Of the Lords supper, and a
sermon in the evening at the usual
hour. The presiding elder of this dis
tyiot, Rev. l.. Hartsough, will be present
and conduct all the services. The gen.
eral public is invited.
The Omaha Republican says that the
Chicago & Northwestern company,
induced by the agitatiou of the Omaha
and Yankton railroad project, will build
q road from Kennard, on it's Sioux City
& Pacific line, into Omaha, giving to
that city better connection with the
Fremont & Elkhorn valley line. Such
a connection would give to Omaha only
q small portion Of the business to be
secured by pushing through to Yankton
and tapping the Dakota systems.
Major Cox will begin Monday the con-
atruction of q rear addition to his Third
street block twenty-five feet deep and
two stories high. An arched opening
is to connect the store of COX, Odiorne
Il Co., with this addition. This will
give the firm q store 100 feet deep on the
ground floor and q carpet room sixty
five feet deep in the second story. The
space gained on the ground floor is to
be used as a shawl and cloak room and
will be filled with a large and choice
stock. Cox, Odiorne & Co.'S, rapidly
increasing business renders necessary
this extension.
John Nelson, a young Nebraska
farmer, was to have been married on
Monday evening last, but his intended
gave him what is known as the scientific
shake and by SO doing broke Johns
heart. John sent a letter to his father
hat before he (his father would
get it he (John) would be with
the angels. But John missed
his guess, for last night his
pa received another letter from him
from some point south and John was
still in good health. The stories about a
young man having committed suicide in
Nebraska recently were oil based upon
the absence of this particular John, 1t
was presumed that he had jumped into
the Missouri.
When last nights STORM doomed up in
the murky distance there were many
anxieties abroad in the minds of the peo-
pie. The spectacle was not %reassuring.
An inky cloud curtained the northern
sky and out OF it came the thousand
forked lightning. The mass rolled slowly
down upon US, grand, gloomy and full of
cellar fraught suggestions. 1t was
drawn along by a tolerably vigorous
gale, but the people generally were dis
appointed in the blowing capacities of
the visitor and after the first blast there
was a disposition to deride the fears
which had previously inclined the inten-
tions of the populace towards under
ground apartments. In the departments
of electricity and moisture the skyward
Ambassador accomplished a signal
success. Fire and water predominated
for an hour and the brillisncy OF tie
scene was equalled only by the down
nonr which accompanied it, It was or