Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-12-29
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g. J. Lani. assisrant superintendent
Of Tue rs,iwsy mail service, has teeignea.
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no ,tmasters will exoise IN January,
1887
San Francisco street car strikers are
placing dynamite cartridges under the
cable lines.
The thirsy.frst annual meeting OF the
Iowa state teachers association oesan
ct Dee Moines yesterday.
PresidentsC Cleveland was munh I'M
pr wed 10 health yesterday and roae
out TO Oakv,ew in the afternoon.
A boiler at the Armstrong mine at
Angus, Iowa. exploded yesterday after
moon killing three men and wounding
two others.
Owing to the illness Of Judge Pratt
The hearing OF the motion for q new
trial Tor ex.Alderman McQuade was this
morning postponed until next Thursday
Lemuel ]. Stanton, Of Iowa, has been
appointed special examiner in the pen
sion office. Jas. A. Lydsten, OF illinois,
has been appointed medical examiner in
the same Office.
The employees of the Consolidated
railroad had q secret meeting at Boston
Monday night at which it was decided
to strike January ! il certain grievances
were not abated.
The twelfth annual meeting OF the
Northwestern travelling mems assooia.
ton was held at Chicago yesterday.
The report OF the secretary showed a
present membership OF about 1892.
The general land Office has received
reports during the past week showing
ths removal OF fences from twenty in
closures, embracing over 274.ooo acres
OF land, principally in the Denver land
district.
Gladstone has written for the January
number OF the Nineteenth Century an
article entitled .'Locksley Hall, and the
Jubilee" The Article is o criticism OF
the poem by the light Of the events oil
the past fifty years.
In o saloon quarrel at Cairo Sunday
evening Thomas Spicer (colored) was
thrown to the floor by Henry Hayes
and Thomas Meahan, who covered him
with turpentine and set fire to his
ntokkrr~ The vfokSpa 1rad
Mrs. Haieht. wife Of the express rob-
bsr, arrested in Nashville Christmas
day, lett for ST.. Louis last night IN
charge Of . detective. She is though;
to have aided in planning the robbery
and to have $4,000 in her possession.
At Eau Claire, Wisconsin, yesterday
the prohibitioniats Of the eighth con-
gressional district nominated Hugh
Price for the short congressional term
@@.af.. Peter gg1=raszz c. Ess: Claire sc:-.he
long term. to succeed VIM. T. Price, de-
ceased.
IA Ht. Paul statement says there il
probably no wheat in Dakota west Of
the Jim river. Some elevator eompan'
les report their stocks as having been
reduced fully so per cent. since Decem.
Der lat. In Dakota all reports are
practically alike-76 per cent. marketed
Yesterday Lord Salisbury informed
the. British cabinet that he would not
attempt TO conciliate Lord Randolph
Churchill. and that il Lord Harrington
refused to accept Office, or to guarantee
the government adequate support from
the ~uniouists, he proposed to dissolve
parliament and appeal to the country.
After the violent gale and unusually
heavy snowstorm q rapid thaw set IL
through England. The storm did grea,
damage to the grounds around Bucking.
ham palace. In hyde Park, London,
trees were blown down, and al over the
country telephone and telegraph wires
we're destroyed and railway trains im-
peded.
The famous Andover trial began in
Boston yesterday. There were present {
full board Of visitors, the complainant
and respondents and counsel ON bott
sides. The large dining room OF The
United Estates hotel was filed, q con,
aiderabIe portion of the audience being
made ny of clergymen, but many lay.
men aud q number OF ladies were present
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