Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-29
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near jackson, Miss, burned yesterday.
It was only partially insured.
Nearly the entire business portion OF
| tile town Of Auburn, OAK, was de-
s.royed by fire Thursday night.
The spinners' asrike at Fall River,
Mass, Is ended, the manufacturers hay-
ing conceded the demands Of the union.
The Rev. DR.. Boyce, chairman of the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,
is reported to be dying at Pan, France.
The MITCHELL iiratn party struck q
nest OF Sullivan sympathizers In CleYe-
land, O., and were rather roughly used.
Bishop Borgess., Of Detroit sent ST., 900
to the Very Rev. Father O'Brien to aid
in establishing a hospital at Kalamazoo,
Mich.
In Minnesota and Dakota elevators
wheat, against 81, 851, 00D bushels a year
ago.
Canday Bros, confectioners at Colum-
bus, o., failed. Assets, e17,0 600; liabili-
ties, s25,OOt. Business depression the
cause.
At meeting al tins Flankingtol, Oak,
board of trade, funds were raised for the
erection Of q large Sioux Falls granite
hotel.
Leonard Gundel1 OF Cleveland, o.,
was as ,aulted by three men, who robbed
him OF o weeks wages and a Christmas
goose.
The Hibernian Rife Armory associa-
tion of Chicago was Incorporated
Wednesday, the capital stock being
$40. 600.
Christian Neubauer, n prominent
young man of Owensboro, KY, celebrat-
ed Christmas by firing q cannon, which.
burst, killing him.
Six persons, under Indictment for lar
| ceny, escaped from the county jail at
Lafayette, Ind. by making . rope of
mattress coverings.
The -four production at Minneapolis
last week was 59;480 barrels, against
~, 500 barrels the preceding week. The
market continues duh.
A rear-end collision on the New Lon
don Northern railroad smashed up six
cars and an engine, delaying travel sew
eral hours. No one injured.
Herman Gillicker, the New York COT.
fee Exchange broker, who recently as
sailed Joseph ]. O. Donohue's veracity,
has been sued by the latter for 500, 900.
The Trnckee Gal country is being
secured for the robbers who plundered
the overland train Monday night, but
nj trace of them has as yet been discoy-
cred.
The Southern Base Ball league has
been organized. New Orleans, Mem
phis, birmingham and Mobile have en-
tered, and four other citiea will be So
lected.
The late Sylvester bowman OF New
ton provided by will that upon his grand
son 3 death the Massachusetts General
hospital and Tufts college shall receive
500, 600 each.
ZIIRsa5a iiiiiIiii, 3 fireman On tiic Norfolk
and Western railroad, and q brother Of
Allen Hull, general passenger agent of
the same road, committed suicide st
! Ynchburg, Va.
The efforts of the friends of Hartley
Clifford, the slayer of Capt. Pugh at RAJ
Feline In May, 1882, ia secure his pardon
or communication of his life sentence, have
proved unayailing,
John Briscoe, q colored rough, was
killed by Officer Waggoner, who was
crying to arrest him, 10 Harrodsburg,
KY. In the fight Briscoe, his mistress,
and two policemen took part.
Mrs. Della Parnell, mother OF the
Irish leader, IL In Strengthened circum.
stances, and has placed her furniture
under the hammer preparatory to leaving
"Old Ironsides, !" at ~Bordentown, N. J.
At Boston Edward A. Noble pleaded
guilty of receiving tickets stolen by
Clerk y. w, O'Brien from the Old Col
ony railway, and WAS sentenced to two
years In the house of correction and $40,
fine.
Bishop A a.. Kimbasl, sentenced to
eight months imprisonment In thu dis
trict court at Washington last Septem-
Der, was pardoncd by the president.
Kimball is In an advanced stage OF con.
sumption.
An attempt was made to burn the
Office OF the Tacoma Ledger 1T Tacoma,
w. 7. The paper has been making a
fight on the gamblers. "A reward OF
l 1000 has been offered for the detection
Of the incendiary.
Leonard Gnndell's employers at Cleve-
land presented him with a goose Mon
day night. On his way home three men
stole the goose and his weeks wages
after severely beating him. Christmas
night he dropped dead.
Gen, Ordway, commander of the Me-
tional Guard Of the District Of Column
bfa, has, at tho request of the senate
military committee, submitted to the
committee a plan for an armory for the
National Guards, to cost 1900. 900.
William Coins OF Lima, O., who was
convicted OF murder in the second de-
gree and given q life sentence by Ii jury
whick drew cuts to arrive at a verdict,
! Was Arafnsed aMnAR trial by Judge
Hughes wednesday,. The case will be
taKeu to tAe4supreme court.
Bond offerings at the treasury depart.
msns yesterday aggregated slTt,00k
$33, 090 As were offered and rejected AZ
s1.2s55S and si.2sN; Wis, COO AIS wers
offered and accepted at $1.OS9s and
$1.0S 4.10, and a25 900 offered at $1.0SIS
were rejected.
The examination of James Currar,
charged with smuggling opium from
Canada into the United States, has boon
closed and Curran held. Curran nc-
knowledges having shipped 4,0DU pounds
of opium to Denver. tits believed the
examination will lead to the exposure of
many wealthy men who have been
smuggling opium from Canada for sew
eeal years.
The Illinois State Teachers' associa-
tion met at Springfield Wednesday, and
drafted a new law on compulsory edu-
cation, which Will be presented 10 the
Legislature for its approval aud adoption.
Oklahoma Boomers Captured.
PURCELL, ]. T., Dec. 2a-The Indian
scouts under Lieut.. McComb visited Ok
llahoma station "Wednesday night. and