Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-24
1857, left all her property to her dear


1887, left all her property to her dear
friend, Roland Reed"
AZ Rockford. Ills, Peyton Harrison of
Virginia, a distant relative of Gen. Ben
jamin Harrison, and Miss Lillian J.
Gorham were married.
Elias Jackson, on trial at Wabash,
Ind, for the murder, Thanksgiving eve,
of Curtis Jellison, who had estranged
his wife, was acquitted.
-Four men were locked up at Minneap-
oils who are believed by the police to be-
long to q gang of safe-blowers now oper-
ating through Minnesota.
The course of Sheriff Smith in repelling
the mob from the Jail at Birmingha am,
Ala, was commended by the IOWA Sher-
ifs convention at Des Moines.
AT Wilmington, Del, William j. Cal.
houn, convicted of criminally ~assaulting
a Young woman, WAS sentenced to DO
hanged on the 22d of March next.
The Chicago Bath Brush
with n capitalo of $50, 900, was incorporated
by John NJ. Hamilton, Canute II. Mat
son, Wiley B. S%cribner, and others.
A. B. Drunnell of Stevens Point was
awarded s., 13l damages against the
Wisconsin Central for personal injuries
caused by the negligence of its employees.
Thu Internal revenue collections in the
Springfield Ills. district so far this month
have amounted to s137 S60-something
unprecedented in the history of the dis
trict.
f. E. and w. J.. Murphy, sons of Fran
els Murphy, concluded their temperance
meetings at La Porte, Ind, over three
thousand persons having signed the
pledge.
ID. l.. Perkins. a school teacher near
La Fontaine. Ind, was acquitted by the
county superintendent of schools OF the
charge OF an assault upon one of his
girl pupils.
William Walker and John Matthews,
Missouri Bald Knobbers. have been re-
spited from execution from Jan. 10 to Feb.
10, on request of Judge Hubbard, who
tried them.
The public schools at Woonsocket,
OAK, were closed by an order of DR..
Schneider, president Of the board OF
health, on account of the prevalence Of
scarlet fever.
Orlando r.. Clark, treasurer of the
New York Brass company, who recently
gave a dinner with champagne accom-
pansments to street gamins, has been
declared insane.
Chauncy d. Depew and Gen. Curtis
delivered addresses at the eighty.third
anniversary dinner of the New England
society, which was held at Delmonico's
Saturday evening.
A quarterly dividend of but I per cent.
was declared by the Rock leland road.
1t Is said that its earning capacities have
been affected by paralleling and extern
stons of other lines.
The jury at Boston In the case of Mrs.
Prebel against Bates g. Valley, stock
brokers, to recover $50, 900 alleged to
have been lost oy her son in speculation,
returned = verdict for s34, f72.
The Grand Rapids and Indiana rail-
way company Thursday sold 4, 700 acres
OF pine land near Cadillac, Mich, estt-
mated to cut 1911, 900 feet, to John Tor.
rent of Muskegon, for $500, 900.
Director Billings, of the Boston base
ball club, was In Detroit and had a talk
with Catcher Bennett, who refused to |
Sign for less than ID, 900. Billings re-
fused to give that amount, and left for
Cincinnati.
Cardinal Taschereau of Quebec, has in
yfted provincial priests to a conference, i
to consider steps to be taken in connec-
ton with the various complaints he has
about hard times, resulting !
from short crops.
Arguments are being presented in tho
federal court at st. Louis In the cels-
brated case of the United States against
the Missouri Pacific railway, which Is
the first suit brought under the inter
state commerce law.
A party Of Rock Island railway engi.
neers left Liberal, Kan, THURSDAY TO
survey the proposed line from that point
to Ell Paso, Tex. 1t is also reported that
the Rock Island will also build from
Liberal to Trinidad, Col.
Ten deaths from twenty-five cases of
d~iphtheria have occurred at Unionville.
Tuscola county, Mich. Public meetings
OF all kinds have been discontinued and
no children under 10 years Of age are al
lowed to appear on the streets.
On the plea that she thought 1t was
but an engagement Jennie
Schelinsky, aged II, secured at New
York the annulment Of her marriage to
Abraham Schelinsky. She was but 10
when the engagement" took place.
The Old Doty tavern at Canton, Mass,
which In revolutionary days sheltered
Washington and Lafayette, and where,
as alleged, a rough draft Of the Declare
ton OF Independence was written, was
destroyed by fire.
An epidemic prevailing on the princi-
pal horse ranches on the Lower Yellow
stone region has become dangerous.
The disease affects the glands OF the
throat, and in a maj ,rity OF cases causes
the jaw to the brsa 6, making respira.
ton and eating difficult.
Suit will be began n Toledo, o., to re-
cover from the state tracts OF land OBJ
tanned for the Maumse and Erie canal.
long disused for canal purposes. ON
which account 1t is olaimed that the LAND
reverts TO the original owners. The pres-
ent value of the lane involved and the
is upward OF %, 600, QUO.
APLAcE FOR HAYES.