Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-30
plank walks, though they are yet but
an experiment..

"o SApetiuaeuts
General Hugh j.. Campbell, OF thi
city, will address q political meeting a
Woonsocket next Monday n
General Campbell is the only Yank
tonlan on the territorial central commit
tees list of campaign speakers.
A case for damages against the Mil
waukee road, involving the loss of q PAL
OF legs by q boy, now on trial at Mitch.
ell, is drawing witnesses from Yankton
Two engineers and one fireman has.
been summoned to the scene from bar,
to testify.
Rev. Q. u. Hager will preach 1T the
nj. h. church at IL a. m. tomorrow, til,
opening sermon OF this conference year
In the evening at 1880 he will addres.
the young people. The shnxch will BE-
properly warmed. all friends and
strangers will be hes4tiIy welcomed tc
the services .
Twelve street lamps for the use Of the
city baveI been received by Wynn &
Buckweitey. They will be SO disposed
OF as I shed their radiance upon severa
dark spots and it is fondly hoped will
Compensate the public for the absence
{of the electric light which was once SC
near and now SO far.
Tomorrow the political picnic resB
will HE themselves to the prairie and in
the shadow of the secretive hay stack
will uncork the historic Jug and draw the
bubbling amber from the gleesome ex.
port bottle. After tomorrow will come
repentance and the church pew will re-.
claim its prodIgals.
One poor %friendless tramp with moth
ing to do on earth except aid his fellow
tramps III doing nothing, fell a victim
to the vigilance of Yankton's city
marshal to-day and this afternoon he
took the Milwaukee for the east. Walk
ing is good and he has lots of time, so no
one need worry about his future,
The Royce and Lansing musical
comedy company INT Swiss bell
ringers come endorsed by press, pulpit
and public. Their unqualified success, is
the fact that aside from their artistic
worth, the company is composed str,ctly
Of ladies and gentlemen whose social
and moral standing is beyond question.
AT the meeting of the literary society
OF Yankton college last evening, Messrs.
| Rerle.sh and Laird, of the affirmative
1 GIHq nf n lobofn art.f1al spoclrol
That at Waterloo Napolean displayed
greater generalship than Wellington ,
were awarded the honors against Riggs
and Quincy, who chose the negative side
of the question.
Our German citizens are much exer.
cised over an affidavit, announced
through the Freie Presse and on exhibi.
ton in that office, charging Otto Peemil
Ter, democratic candidates Cor the leglsla.
ture, with an attempt to procure an ex-
orbitant fee from Jacob Auch, of Dor
Homme county, for drawing a deed. The
affair creates excitem ant.
The shadow of a storm rolled up from
the west this forenoon and for q time
hung its threatening pail in the skies
The wind sprang up briskiy and the
prophets gave warning of a coming
change. After a few Intellectual efforts
the clouds rolled away and balminess
was restored. 1t was merely one Of ole
9!nter's skirmishers GENT ont as a re.
hinder of coming unpleasentness.
Austin Decker, from Hutchinson coun
ty, says the republican legislative tioke'
will go through all right in that county
but there is no telling whore the county
ticket will land. He is of the opinior
that Eisenmanp, Daboll and Winter, in.
dependents, will be elected and that the
regular republican ticket will be con
siderably cut into. He says politics were
never in such a condition of demoraliza
tion as they now are in Hutchinson. :
Ell. N. Crosset and Frank Church, twe
of the leading division officers of thu
United States express company, were il
Yankton last night, on business con
nected with the removal of the com
pany's Office to their new quarters ant
the preparation of the interior OF tn,
same. The gentlemen expressed them,
selves as very we'll pleased with the new
location, which will make for Agea
Davis commodious Office rooms.
". B. Dean has the contract this yea
for supplying the insane asylum will
coal. It calls for six hundred tors, NOR,
or less. Last year the Northwestern
fuel company had this contract, whicl
is designed to ell the coal used q
asylum, hence the wide latitude givel
by the contract term, s,six hundred toni
more or less" Under competitive bid
for this yearly contract the asylum i
supplied with the very best coal at 10,
rates.
There is great uncertainty regarding
the election in this county next Tuesday
80 far as it pertains to the county ticket
Both sides are claiming victory in I'D
vance and neither side seems to hav
any settled conviction Of the fuleilmen
! of its hopes. 1t will be close, whicheve
way The election goes, and probabl
3 there will be success upon both tickets
It is conceded that the head Of the n
publican ticket, Judge Clifford, will b
given q good majority.
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