Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-12
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Small Items of Importance from An Pa

Mimi.
A street car strike is imminent at
Brooklyn.
The Galesburg Evening Gazette office
was closed by the sheriff.
Gov. Buckley of Connecticut was
formally inaugurated Thursday.
Fire destroyed nine buildings and
caused a SIS, 900 loss at Shreveport. La.
John Palmer, aged "a, one of the early
settlers in Wabash county, Ind, dropped
dead.
Shelby NJ. Cullom has been renomi-
mated to succeed himself as senator from
Illinois.
Wiley & Poor, leather manufacturers
at Peabody, Mass, have failed. Liabili-
ties heavy.
Oscar Mcbride of Berwick, Pa, cut
his throat and will die. Cause, unre-
Quilted love.
George B. Swift, commissioner of
public works of Chicago, has handed in
his resignation.
The total loss of the town of Niagara
Falls by the storm of Wednesday night
was 81 900, 900.
An English syndicate is negotiating
for the purchase of a number of Balti-
more's largest breweries.
The public school building at Jeffer-
son, Ia, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, 81, 500.
James Collins was killed by the ex-
plosion of four pounds of giant powder
at Spokane Falls, w. I.
The National Farmers Alliance is in
session at Des Moines. Two hundred
delegates are in attendance.
George Mulholland and Billy Mahan,
hght-weights, fought eighty eightrounds
to a draw at San Francisco Thursday.
John Ross was on Wednesday elected
president of the GaIena, Ills, National
bank. with Enos C. Ripley as cashier.
A dividend of 2t per cent. on its pre-
ferred stock has been declared by the
Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western
road.
y. Moedford, the Iowa Central's sta
ton agent at Sheffield il. has 5disap-
peared. His accounts show a heavy
shortage.
In an interview Sir Francis De VIM
ton said he doubted very much that the
letter received at Zanzibar for King Leo
pold was from Stanley.
At Fall River, Mass, fifteen weavers
at the American linen mill struck for Ice
per u on certain goods, instead of 17f.
Others say they will go out.
The constitutional convention. of Yer
mont has formulated an amendment
prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
al lntoxicants except cider"
The Ponce De Leon and other prin-
cipal hotels at st. Augustine, Fla,
opened for the season. The a
ments are in excess of last year.
Robert DAILY of Boston, a member of
the DAILY family, we'll known in the
atrical circles, died Thursday night at
his horae in Charleston, aged "a.
s. A. Brown & Co., owners OF the
Kalamazoo, Mich, stock farm, refused
an offer Of $50, 600 for the trotting horse
Ambassador, with a record of 2:21t.
Miss Augusta King of Beloit, Wis. has
sued Fred Luhm, a shoemaker of that
place, for SANDER, claiming of him S1O,-
900. Luhm is in Jail awaiting trial.
Mrs. Sally Jump, a widow, now an in
mate of the poor house at Coldwater,
Mich, will celebrate her 1G0th birthday
next Monday. She has buried four
husbands.
Cooperative companies for the trans
action of business are being formed by
the farmers in several sections of Iowa,
Members of the associations are to pur-
chase goods at cost.
Mr.. A. Kidder of Marquette. Mich. is
in the east closing a deal by which he
and several eastern parties will become
proprietors of the Palmer iron mine in
the Negaunee range.
The cotton exports from the United
States during December past aggregated
SOS, 100 bales, vauled at $3.50 GIT.
against 658, 9s7 bales in December, 1887,
valued at S81, 2S1, 25S.
The residence of DR.. PEBBLES, a prom
inent West Side dentist of Cleveland,
was entered by a burglar Wednesday
night, who criminally assaulted the
doctors adopted daughter.
Larry Leonard, who was crippled for
life by a fall in the cage at the Neatic
mine at Decatur, in the fall OF 1885, and
sued the company for damages, was
paid the Judgment of the court, 81, 600.
Pitkin s. Waugh, Chicago printers,
began suit against H. Conrad, now with
the Kings Fool" for 81, 900 on a bill
for printing incurred last year by Con-
rad as the manager Of the Conrad Opera
company.
Governor-elect Hovey OF Indiana has
left for Indianapolis. He expects to
hand in his resignation as a representa-
tive of congress to Governor Gray to-
day, SO that a special election may be
called to fill the vacancy.
Rasalvo Sage, a veteran at the Sol
diers' home, Marshalltown, Ia, was
stricken with paralysis while at supper,
dying Immediately. He was a full
cousin to Russell Sage, the Wall street
millionaire.
The Chicago Times continues to assaiI
the private and official integrity of Bon
field and Shack and the latter file new
libel suits against the paper daily, the
last n having just been filed wherein
plaintiffs claim SiO0. 600 damages each.
A meeting of wool growers was held
at the Ebbett house. John Mcdonald of
California was elected president, j. Fl.
Kirkpatrick Of Pennsylvania secretary.
and E. H. Wallace Of Missouri treasurer.
Fifteen states were represented. A com
mittee "a appointed to present the
views Of the Organization before the
Of finance.
A party of Dakota Democrats reached
Washington. They are headed by Chief
Justice. Bartlett Troop, Associate Justice
Spencer, Surveyor General Mans and NJ.
II. Day. These gen jemen are the dele
gates chosen by the Iitchell convention
to secure the necessary legislation to
carry into effect the desires Of the. CON
Sention,.an they express an intention
OF remaining here until that is accom-
plished. If it is not done by the Fifaietl, |
congress they will urge the calling Of