Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-18
east-D.una railways go into eneot to-

proofs Of Stanley's capture as insufficien
and believe him still safe.
The Chicago Tribune announces tina
the "Whitecapo stories of northern Obi,
are destitute of any foundation.
The annual boxing tournament of tn,
Scottish-American Athletic club 90
Cured at Payonia Park, Jersey City.
Fire destroyed a block of tenement
at Iyil mines, near Monongahela City
Pa, rendering nine families homeless
The report of the capture of opium
smugglers at st. Vincent Is denied b,
the deputy collector of customs at St
Paul.
Heaters immense tile works, nea,
Bloomington, Ills were burned Satur
day morning. Loss, $50, 600; insurance
$50, 900.
Charles Struble, assistant mail carrier
/ at Clinton, o., was arrested Friday OF
The charge of forging postal notes, ant
confessed.
The last herd of buffalo may yet re-
main In Canada. as the deal for thelr
sale to a Kansas firm has not been con.
summated.
Quinn and Nash have signed with the
Boston ball club for next season. Whito
Bennett, Radbourn and Sowders are still
holding off.
The Rev. Baxter Barbee, pastor of the
Cumberland. Ind, Presbyterian church,
has become mentally deranged from the
use of opium.
w. S. Jones of Aurora, Wis, was as
saulted in II saloon at st. Paul, Saturday.
Dick Moor and Bob Callahan have been
arrested for the crime.
A crowd of masked men took q woman
from her house near Birmingham, Ala /,
whipped her, II n 6yised her TO leave
the country within five days.
The Northwestern Miilers' conference
is being held at Milwaukee. Millers
from New York, Buffalo, Chicago. In.
dtanapolis. and other places, are present.
AT Hinsdale, Cataraguas county, Har-
vey Lunn, aged 10, threw a chair at his
father, f~racturing the old man's skull
and causing death. The boy wa ar
rested.
1t Is stated that an unknown friend of
Kflrain's will cover Sullivan's deposit
for a fight to o finish for $40, 900 u side,
the battle to come Off within six months
or not ut all.
A special from Lima, o., says that q
strike of brakemen on the Lake Erie and
Western railroad is threatened Jan. /.
An increase of pay has been demanded
and refused.
anne II. Jacobs, who was to have
been hanged Jan. 9 at Lancaster, Pa,
was respited to March IS to allow time
far q commission of lunacy to investil ate
his mental condition.
Tn announcement is made by the
London Standard that the Canadian Pa
ciic railroad had offered to sell to the
dominion government all it's Transports
ton rights in Manitoba.
Two masked ~highwaymen held up a
train on the Illinois Central neal Duck
Hill, Miss, securing 3d. 600 and making
thei: escape. A passenger was si1ot aud
fatally wounded by the robbers.
On attachment by the state, 100. bar
rels Of whisky belonging to James w.
Tate, the absconding state treasurer.
We're sold on the Louisville Board OF
Trade at an average of S0I cents per
gallon.
Forty thousand dollars of Pittsburg
money is lost, strayed or stolen, proba-
bly, the latter, and the Republican state
committee is threatening. under its
breath, to send two young politicians Of
inSiiaiii 10 the penitentiary,
A haudcar on the Cincinnati Northern
Narrow-Guage railroad, while runnirg
at high speed on a down grade al Gin.
%cinnati, struck u stone and rolled to the
bottom of the embankment. Jim Sull-
van. the foreman, was fatally inj,ired
and hvezothsrs We're badly hurt.
President Ingalls,, of the Big Four
road, states that managers of the trunk
lines have informed him that hereafter
they will endeavor to work in harmony.
and that rates will be restored. MI. IN.
gals says the outlook for the railways is
unusually bright.
Suits were begun Friday, In Toledo,
o., against Banker @. w. Waldron, oil
Hillsdale, Mich, for sums aggregatipg
$40, 00a, the First National Bank of Els.
canaba, Mich, and the First National
bank of Marshall, Mich, suing on prom
issory notes.
DIR. N. B. Hughes, for many years edit
or of the Alma News, and one of the
prominent newspaper men of Kansas,
was arrested at Topeka on the charge OF
embezzling 81, 900. The complainant is
Rhoda Mowry, and the case grows out
of the celebrated Mowry murder case.
Mr.. Horace G. Young will, Jan. /, as
sumo the duties as second vice president
of the Delaware and Hudson Canal COM
pany. He will continue to have the gen
eral management OF the several depart.
ments OF the company as heretofore.
The office of assistant president and gen
eral manager Is abolished.
The county sheriff made a raid on Elk
heart, Ind, Saturday and arrested ever,
saloonkeeper, gambler and a%bandone.
woman In the city, and several dru,
store proprietors who are charged Will !
violating the law. The Law and Orde |
league has commenced what promises to |
be a bitter struggle.
A mortgage of the Chicago South Side |
Rapid Transit railroad to the Knicker.
booker Trust company of New York, !
trustee, for 81, 400, 900, to secure bonds
for that amount issued to raise funds |
for the construction of an elevated road |
in Chicago from Van Buren, street south |
to Sixty.seventh street, was recorded at |
the office Of the secretary of state a,
Springfield. Ill.
The Holiday Recess.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE house this
afternoon agreed to the resolution intro
duced last week for the Adjournment of |
congress from Friday TO Jan. 4.
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