Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-11-28
president of the New York Press club.

Nc COOK, heb., was run over and killed
Tine Iowa auditors will meet in con.
~gention at Des Moines on Dee. 10 and 30
It is reported that Lord Tennyson is
writing a new play for Miss Mary Ander-
con.
The boat race at Sydney between VII
lam Beach and Edward Hanlon was won
by Beach.
.swanse Freeberg was fined 500 for
selling Intoxicating liquors at Missouri
Valley, la.
A freight train on the Maine Central
was derailed and precipitated into Lake
Maranacook,
Robbers entered q jewelry store at
Wilkesbarre, Pa. and carried OFF the
en- tire store.
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Viau, I.
t., which resulted in the death of four
Cherokee Indians.
Albert w. Thayer, a Detroit police
man, was found dead, having been shot
and killed by burglars.
Findlay, o., butchers are exercised
over the proposition of Armour to open
retail shops in that place.
Capt. @. S. McDade, formerly sheriff
OF Walton county, was assassinated in
his home at Galveston, Tex.
"Docn Stevens and an attorney named
Bell, Iowa temperance orators, were ar
rested at Council Bluffs for drunkenness
The United States supreme court rem
dered a decision declaring Minnesota,s
assignment law to be a valid enactment.
1t is reported that Jay Gould has
bought the telegraph lines of the Atch-
ison, Topeka and Santa Fe company for
$500. 000.s
The Nebraska Woman's Suffrage asso-
citation will hold its annual meeting in
Boyd's opera house at Omaha on Dec.
8 and 4.
Senator Quay, chairman of the Repub-
lican national committee, says the Re
publicans will have a majority of nine
in the next house.
c. w. Warner, a we'll known slack
barrel manufacturer of Button, Ind,
has disappeared, leaving numerous
creditors to mourn.
The Iowa Stallion company shipped
over the st. Paul road a car Of fine bred
stations, destined for Montana and
Washington Territories.
Frank Eich, a Minnesota farmer. was
shot and killed by an unknown man and
the body robbed of $40. Eich's team
was also taken by the murderer.
Jack AcAulitfe deposited 81, 600 with
The Police Gazatte as a forfeit for a
fight with Jem Carney and cabled a for
NAL challenge to the English light
weight.
Moses D.. Null Of Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, a clerk in the labor bu-
reau, was arrested at Washington for
forging d soldiers name on a 500 boun-
ty check. 4
About twenty five night s%witchmen
employed by the Stock Yards company at
Chicago went out on a strike on account
of the superintendent two yardmasters
outside their ranks.
Il. A.Holbrook, general passenger agent
of the Rock Island, has rendered his
resignation, to take effect Dec, /. He
goes to San Francisco to become general
agent of the Oregon Navigation COM
pany.
The United States grand jury at Pres
colt, Ariz., found indictments against
Henry Smith, Thomas Carson, and AT.
thu Ashton, of Apache county, for per-
jury committed in connection with pub
lie lands.
d. l.. Smith, the present deputy com.
missioner, has been appointed commits
sioner of public works at New York. city,
vice Gen. Newton, resigned. The ap.
pointment was rendered John Boeger,
the state engineer. but he declined.
An Indian territorial convention will
be held at Baxter Springs, Kas., Tues
day, the 18th of December, for the pur-
pose of taking active steps towards the
early opening of Indian territory to white
settlers, and the allotment of land to
Indians.
A steam engine connected with a
thrashing machine at Poinette, Wis, ex-
ploded, frightfully mangling and instant
ly killing Jack Tuttle and Charles York,
and seriously injuring Allison Cross, Ira
Hall, Warren Palmer and William Buck
ley. MI. Buckley has since died.
The New York Central Railway COM
pany have granted the request of their
switchmen for an increase of pay, and
from Dec. l the rate will be: Yard con-
ductors, day work, $65; night work, $40;
day brakeman, $50; night brakemen, s65
per month. Extra pay for Sunday.
Mr.. James r. Osgood, the Boston pub
Usher, gave a private banquet at the Re-
form club, in London, in honor of Mr..
Charles A., Dana, editor of The New
York Sun; Thirty guests were present,
including William Black, the novelist;
Alma Tadma, Bret Harte, and Mr.. Rob-
inson, editor of The Daily News.
James j. Kelso, prominently CON
neeted with the New York police from
1868 to 1878, part of the time as chief,
is dead. He was at the head Of the de-
tective force at the time of the Nathan
murder, and was in command of the
police during the Orange riot, when he
narrowly escaped death.
While hunting Sunday, Frank Dolef
of Norway, Mich, shot and killed his
~12-year-old son, When getting out of
the wagon Dolef lifted his gun from the
seat and it was discharged, the contents
passing through his Goa sleeve and into
the body of his son. The father is crazed
with grief.
The stern of the English gunboat
Scout has sunk considerably and the rear
frames show signs OF weakness. This
sign of structural weakness acquires i'm
portance from the fact that the new
g%unboats Yorktown, Remington and
others recently built for our navy, are
patterned closely upon the English
model which now shows signs of failure.