Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-04
Brief MENTION.
Important Events of the Day Condensed
for the Hasty Reader.

for the Hasty Reader.
III. G. Reeves of Bloomington has beer
appointed by G~overnor-elect Fifer as his
private secretary.
Judge and Mrs. David Greenleaf of
Carthage, Ills, celebrated the sixtieth
anniversary of their marriage.
The American brig Atalaya was
wrecked at Renews, Newfoundland
Capt. Brown is the only survivor.
The cold wave which struck Burling.
ton Monday night revived the hopes O
the c e men. The river is now frozen
over.
Burglars robbed the postofice at South
Saginaw, a branch of the East Saginaw
p%ostoffice, of 500 and $500 worth OF
postage stamps.
The Midland college, the new institute
of Topeka, was opened Thursday under
the presidency of Rev. S. B. Barnitz OF
Des Moines, Ia.
Paul Bauer, the well known Coney
Island hotel proprietor. died at the
Bloomingdale insane asylum, where he
had been confined for some months.
DIR. Joseph L. Bodine, the most prom.
inent physician of Trenton, N. j., died
yesterday. He has held a number OF
positions uader the state government.
a case of mild smallpox and one OF
diphtheria have been reported to the
authorities at Chenoa, Ills. The public
schools will not open for the present.
The curling match at Central Park,
N. y, of the North VS.. South, under the
auspices of the st. Andrews Curling
club, for the Dalrymple medal, occurs
to-day.
DIR. w. Frank Paxton, who was re-
Gently stricken in the pulpit at Mason
City, Ia, with paralysis of the brain,
VIII be taken to Chicago for expert med
ical treatment.
The issuance of the emancipation
proclamation was celebrated at Keokuk.
Ia, by nearly 5000 colored people, with
a street parade and speeches at the
opera house in the evening.
While Policeman VIM. Schwartz of
Arcola, Ills, was attempting to quiet Al
Amos, a salookeeper, the latter shot the
officer, the ball SCATTERING his jaw and
producing adange.ous wound.
Col. Morris R. Hamilton, who has oc-
cupied editorial positions on leading
New York and Philadelphia papers, was
reappointed state librarian of New
Jersey for a term of five years.
Charles Banks, an old and prominent
citizen of Sherman, Tex, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
heart. He had been afflicted with nerv-
GUS diseases for several years and re-
Gently retired from business.
Ama1, na.ned Seangler. while travel
ing from Nebraska to Kansas with the
remains of his brother, changed cars at
Omaha on Monday and forgot to have
the coffin transferred. 1t was forwarded
to him at Atchison, Kan.
The New York progressive skating
championship Tournament began Thurs
day, to consist of fancy figure skating
and the following races: Two hundred
and twenty yards, l mile, 2 miles, 5
miles, 10 miles and % miles.
The saw and shingle mill of w. w.
Dnsh, at Dushville, a small village in
Isabella county, Michigan, was wrecked
by Ii explosion of a boiler. The poo
prietor, a pioneer and prominent resi-
dentof the county, and an employee were
killee.
-Four women escaped from the county
Jail at Springfield, Ills. Among the
number was Ella Lee, the colored woman
charged with the murder of her 6-weeks-
old a The women procured a key to
the door, and they We're not missed till
morning.
IL. G. Stackray of Chelsea, Mass, IN
the employ of the Chelsea Salt company,
asked his employer, C. L. Davenport, for
a check for $40 to send away. On being
given a check signed in blank he filed it
out for 1885 and left the place. He
has not been seen since.