Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-03
,enea TO-DAY,

Littlewood promises to break the
record in the walking match at New
York.
The Yale Cambridge University boat
race will be rowed in England about
April 10.
Citizens of Coldwater, Mich, ban
quoted Gen Parkhurst, the minister to
Belgium.
Jacob Jackie & Co., planning mill
owners at Buffalo, have assigned. Liza
bilities large.
J. III, Snowden, deputy postmaster at
Center Ridge, Ark. was arrested for rob-
bing the mails.
The Union Pacific Railway company is
unloading material for a roundhouse at
Valparaiso, Neb.
furnish ore that assays all the way from
$40 to $40, 600 a top.
No new cases of yellow fever, and no
deaths, is the cheering report that comes
from Gainesville:
The McClary Stove and Tin works at
Ottawa, Ont, were damaged to the ex-
tent of 300, 600 by fire.
DR.. w. B. Boyd, a wealthy citizen of
Bloomington, Ills, committed suicide by
shooting. Ill health.
Senators Allison and Spooner nave
called on Gen. Harrison. Both say the
enate tariff bill will be pushed.
Rev. A. Wright, chaplain of the United
States army, died at his home at Platts-
mouth. Neb., of kidney trouble.
August Linke and John Albin, miners,
were crushed to death in Al5in's coal
mine, at Quincy, Ills, by a cave-in.
v. s. Wolf secured the endorsement
of Patrick Brown Of Nebraska City, to
n check for $3.50. The man was a forger.
Representative Oates Of Alabama be-
lieves the disfranchisement Of the negro
is the only way to break the s'solid
south"
The number of Protestant churches in
New York City, in proportion to the
population, has declined 30 per cent.
since 1S40.
Lawrence Barrett denies that there
has been q rupture of the friendly re-
lations existing between Edwin Booth
and himself.
A wholesale robbery Of the mails
reaching Ottawa, Ont, from the United
States, over the Grand Trunk, has just
came to light.
A dispatch from New York is to the
effect that the secession from The Grand
Army is meeting with little success out
side of Indiana.
AT Ozark, Ark, John w. Watson, q
planter. gave his sick wife a dose of car
bolic acid by mistake, and she died after
an our of agony.
Nineteen of twenty-one Chicago min
listers interviewed believe in a hell of
some sort, one was skeptical and one re-
fused to give his belief.
Col. Thomas p. Graspy, a well known
newspaper man, embraced religion at
Louisville, and will spend the remainder
OF his days in the ministry.
There have been no developments in
the Des Moines river land evictions for
several days. Many of the settlers are
making terms with Smell.
The steamer Domingo. from st. Iago,
for Philadelphia, is a week overdue, and
it is feared she has f~oundered, with all
OH board, t~wenty-three in number.
John Robinson attempted to shoot
Kilrain and Mitchell who were exhibit
ing at Washington. The ball went wide
OF Its mark. Robinson was locked up.
The marriage engagement is an
nounced of Prince Henry of Pless, an
attache of the German embassy at Paris,
to a Baltimore lady now sojouring In
Paris.
The Reading company, after stating
its plans for q heavy curtailment of the
coal output, announces that 1t will make
no change in the price of anthracite for
December.
A number OF mail agents on the
through runs across Iowa, who were dis
charged for offensive ~partisanship just
before b election, are resuming their
old positions.
AT S~pikerville, Ind, Elias jackson
mortally shot Curtis Jeilison, q widower,
owing to his alleged intimacy with Mrs.
jackson, who is now said to be nursing
the wounded man
Willie Goodwin, the 11-year-old son d
G. S. Goodwin of Mason City, Ia, wa
blowing into the muzzle of a shotgun,
when it discharged, blowing off a large
portion Of his face.
Earnest Wunsch, a button manufac
turer Of Newark, N. j., committep sui
i eide from dependency over the elope
mcnt of his wife with a SON of the Hon
Joseph Chamberlain.
One of the warehouses Of Meyel
Bros. & Co., wholesale druggists at st
Louis, was damaged by Are to the ex
tent Of about SAC, 900; fully insured
The business of the house Will not b.
interrupted.
The store of Gallinger & CO., OF th,
Mutual Glass company of New York anS
Pittsburg, has been seized by the sheriff
to satisfy executions. Total liabilities
are estimated at $3.50, 600.
Ten years ago A. ]. Simmons killed
man named Higdon in Jefferson county
Cal. He fed, changed his name, mar
ried and was living an upright life II
Arkansas when he was arrested Thurs
day and taken back to Alabama.
The Golden Gate Special on the Tn
ion Pacific road will leave Chicago mex
Monday ut 3 p. M, en route to Council
Bluffs owe the Chicago, Milwaukee an,
st. Paul railroad, and commence its reg
ular trips between Council Bluffs ant
San Francisco Dec. o. FIX
Joseph ID. Steven, at one time q prom
ineut q prominent man Of Wilkesbarre
who was convicted of ,defranding hi
creditors in New York and PHILADELPHIA,
to the extent of $40, 900, and fed pending
sentence, has been captured at Portland
Me. He had been to England.
ALABAMNs GOVERNOR.
Hon. Tho,aas seay Again Fakes the oatl
of ONCE.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. f.--Thoma
Seay, governor OF Alabama, begins
new term to-day. Mr.. Seay is a nativ