Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-07
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Robert Elder, aged 2s, eyas hanged at
Mays Landing, N. j., for the murder OF
his father, who was about so years OF
age.
A locomotive engineer stated at JEFF.
fersonsille, Ind, that there would be d
strike on all the roads of the country be-
fore March.
Advices from Durango, Mexico, state
there has been a riot in that city against
some bull fighters, who were stoned by
the populace.
AT Shelbyville, Ind, in a barroom
quarrel, William Burlieus, a gambler,
was shot and instantly killed by Thomas
Peeis, bartender.
Whites murdered a negro named Bad
Spears near Meridian, Miss, on the
ground that he was planning for an as
s%assination of the whites.
The murderers of Paymaster Mcclure
ated near Wilkesbarre, Pa, in October,
are believed to be in custody.
The people of Logansport, Ind, have
been terrorized for the past month by a
gang of safe-blowers, who have been do.
ing work in the neighborhood.
Five inmates OF the criminal insane
asylupe at New York made AN almost
successful attempt to escape, but were
secured again after a hard fight.
The Lincoln pulp mill, at st. Catha-
rines, Ont. was burned, John Boyle per
ishing in the flames. The financial loss
is $4,000, with insurance of SO, 800.
The chestnut horse, James c.. was
sold by j. /. Case of Racine, Wis. to A.
]. Teek of Syracuse, N. y, for So, 900.
The animal will be shipped to Germany.
Surgeon General Hamilton. of the ma.
rine hospital service, will leave Wash
ington to-day for Chicago, where he will
assume h editorship of a medical jour
nal.
The Chicago Carriage company's
works, operated at Hammond, Ind. by
an Oshkosh firm, We're destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of ST5, 5000. Insurance,
$20,0
George Jones OF Asherville, Ind.
while out hunting with Shelley Stagler,
which, Stagler claims, he thought was
unloaded.
Walter h. Warner, travelling salesman
for a sewing machine company, was re,
manded for trial at Beloit, Wis, Thurs.
day, charged with forgery and passing a
check for ST, $50.
George A. Baker, one of the original
stockholders Of the Standard Oil com
pany, and at one time a millionaire,
killed himself with morphine at Cleve-
land, Q. Dissipation was the cause.
Fire in the cotton cargo of the steamer
Chancellor, at Charleston, damaged
1890 bales. The cargo is being dis
charged. The loss is not as yet ascer.
tanned, but is covered by insurance.
Alice Fletcher. an inmate of a disrep-
utable house at Albany, N. Y, was
found dead in her room. A bullet
wound was found in her breast, and il
is supposed that she was shot by her
lover, an unknown Italian.
The subcommittee of the house com
mittee on Indian affairs has completed
the Indian appropriation bill. 1t APP.
propriates about So, 900, 900, which is "a
reduction of about $500, 900 from the
previous bill. 1t will be submitted to
the full committee.
MI. Charles NJ. Head, general freight
agent of the Philadelphia and Reading,
having resigned toaccept the presidency
of the New York, Susquehanna and
Western Railroad company, Mr.. B. H.
Hall, assistant general freight agent, was
appointed acting general freight agent.
The secretary of state has received a
letter from the United States consulate
at Cape Hayden announcing the cleo
ton of Hippolyte, as provisional presi.
dent of Hayti by a convention held al
Gonaives, and saying no particular dam
age was done by tae recent bombardment
of Cape Haytien.
The president transmitted to g
accommodation from the secretary OF
state recommending that an a%ppropria
ton of Si50, 900 be made for the relief o.
the families of those who were killed OF
the Japanese Island, Chisima, in March
1887, by the guns from the United States
steamship Omaha, while the vessel wa.
engaged in target practice.
The secretary of war has given in
%structions that the Indian agent at Uniol
agency, in the Indian territory, have til,
assistance of the military in driving GU
intruders from the lands of the Chicka
saw nation. A large number of intrud
ers have assembled there on the borde
of Oklahoma with the intention of tax
ing possession of the latter country.