Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-20

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suicide.
, Frank Selee has been re-engaged b,
the Omaha management to look after
the ball team of 1889.
a panther, supposed to have escaped
ron a menagerie, is preying upon stock
in southern Wisconsin.
Emil Sequest, while hunting near ROCK
Island, Ills, was killed BY the accidental
discharge OF his gun.
Ferdinand Caroiin of New York was
found guilty of murder in the first de,
gree for the killing of his wife.
The 1900 quarrymen employed in the
Ligonier district, Pennsylvania, struck
against o 10 per cent. reduction.
A family at Findlay, O., has been
twice poisoned within q week, and no
clue can be found as to the cause.
The National convention of the Re.
publican League of the United States
will convene in New York City to-day.
The police of Detroit rescued a would
be wife murderer from the hands of the
excited %populace just in time to save his
neck.
The Straight Fibre Iron company's
works at Chicago burned, Loss, $50, 900.
Six hundred men are thrown out of en-
ployment.
The Susquehanna river is higher than
at any other time for ten years. Many
bridges have been swept away and much
damage done.
The annual meeting of the directors
of the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad is being held at New
Haven to-day.
Mrs. Henry Jolme hanged herself ut
Sandysville, Warren county, Ia. She
was the third member of her family to
commit suicide.
There will occur a match for points at
the Criterion club, Providence, to-day
between Arthur Upman and Maurice
Laae, middle-weights.
Elias Jackson, who killed Curtis Jelli-
son Nov. %, for alleged intimacy with
Mrs. Jackson, who left her husbrnd, is
on trial at Wabash, Ind.
The house committee directed an in
y~estigation into the district commission
ers method of purchasing school sites in
the District of Columbia.
Miss Hope Glenn, the we'll known Lon
don contralto, who has been singing in
concerts through the country with NJ me
Teresa Carreno al pianist, sailed to-day
for Europe.
Col. James f. Casey, at one time rev.
enue collector of New Orleans, and a
brother in-law of Gen. U. S. Grant, lies
dangerously i'll at his home in West
Washington.
r. N. Rath of the st. Nicholas, at Gin
cinnati, has obtained q Judgment for
S542.75 against Henry S. Ives, debt con-
tracted while the latter was flying high
as a railroad magnate.
The Southern Express company lost
but $4,000 by the robbery of their car
Saturday night, near Duck Hill, Miss.
The express car of the train which fol-
lowed carried s139, 600.
The scale of wages for 1859 of the
American Flint Glass Workers. union is
ready for presentation to the manufact-
urers' committee. 1t is thought the
manufacturers will sign it.
Harry Holden. nominal proprietor of
the Holden comedy company, was dis
charged from the troupe at Columbus
Ind, owing to q disagreement on the
non-fulfillment of q contract.
At Philadelphia, Pa, Chief, one of
At1Sy=S I!l=AA1@cS
come u~nmanageable and dangerous, was
executed. A moose was placed around
his neck, and two other elephants,
hitched to the rope ends, were the execu-
TONERS.
The statement is made that Charles
iPettigrew, assistant superintendent and
general manager of the Joliet Oils. Steel
company, has received the appointment
of superintendent of large steel works
in Pittsburg, and is to be succeeded by
his present assistant, Francis II. Treat.
Frank Walcott, suspected of being the
'1nformer" who caused the expulsion
from Oberlin college of u number of
Students on charges of Gambling and
carousing, was tarred and feathered by
masked men. Several students have
been arrested on suspicion.
Jack Hickey, released from Joliet peni-
Tertiary after serving a sentence of one
year for counterfeiting, imposed by the
United States court at Chicago, was ar
rested at the door of the prison on a req
uisition from Tennessee, charging him
with a Nashville bank robbery.
A meeting of the Nineteenth Century
club of New York will be held tonight.
The meeting will be addressed by DR..
bauieA ". brlutuH OIL HllaQe1pnla, upon
1.-THE Aims and Traits of a World
Language Discussion will be par
ticipated in by Prof. Charles B. Sprague
and Prof. Alexander M. Bell.
The annual election at Meridian re-
suited In a Democratic victory by largely
reduced majorities. Wallace A. Miles
ifDem.) was elected mayor by 200 plural
ity over D. S. Williams (Rep.). The Re-
publicans elected nine out of the sixteen
councilmen voted for. A majority of
Democrats hold over, making the body
Democratic,
The first annual report of Mr..
John $. Bell, chief of the Sc
cret service division Of the treas
ury, says: During the past year the
agents service caused the arrest of 4G.
persons for offenses against the laws
governing counterfeiting, etc. OF these,
138 were convicted or plead guilty, 1b5
were discharged, and ninety SIX cases
have not yet been determined.
Almost Roasted Alive.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Dec. 1e.-An explo
sion of metal in a furnace Mt the Edpn,