Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-04-05

consolidation of his Lansing and
Northern AMI the West Michigan rail,
loaGs = 10 dhiu.
AT [ i%noiunati Edwin s.. Conger found
his wife in a house of ill-fame and
stabbed her to death.
Fire at Des Moines damaged the dry
goods house OF the Capital City Wcoien
Mills to h extent of s.. 900.
The Grand opera house at St. Joseph,
Mo-, was burned, the Claire Potter
opera troupe losing all their effects.
The celebrated steamer "Havtien Re.
public was sold Tuesday to William
Lewis of New Bedford, Mass, for
S41, 900.
w. S. Brock, the late chief clerk of
the pension Office. has been aDnointed
assistant chief of division in the same
Office.
The mounted skin of Jumbo" pre-.
sented TO the Museum of Natural His
tory at Tufts college, Boston, by 2. T.
Barnum, has been placed in position.
1t is expressed that if the report of
the death Of kirg 5olH of Ahyasinia is
true, that trouble viii ensue in the
matter OF succession, as the king had
no heir.
At Denver the stocks of the Golden
Eagle Lry Goods company, and T. s..
GrGke, carpet dealer, were ruined by
fire. Loss about S50, 600; partially in
sured.
The New York assembly judiciary
committee viii report favorably the bill
making it a misdemeanor TO use any
substitute for barley malt in the manu-
facture of ale or beer.
The Russian police have discovered
and seized a large establishment devoted
to the printing and dissemination Of
Nlhilist literature and made numerous
arrests in connection Herewith.
Arrangements have been completed
for Il great Parnell demonstration az
Memorial hall, Toledo. The leading
clergymen and the most prominent citi.
zens will act as vice presidents.
The Interstate commits
sloners are investigating tine charge that
the Grand Truhk has violated the law
by granting rebates on traffic and charg-
ing less thanit published tariff of rates.
Robbers broke into the old state house
at New Haven, Conn, entered the
rooms Of the Historical society, and car
red off Admiral Foote's sword. which
is studded with gems and valued at
Sc, 900.
Queen Victoria, attended by her re-
tlnue, left Biarritz for Cherbourg, where
she will embark on the Victoria Albert
for Portsmouth. The queens trip in
VOWED considerable expense to the
country.
h American plan of monopolizing|
the production and sale of marketableI
commodities has spread to Ireland, AMI
enormous whisky trust having beenI
formed in Dublin. ii is understood that
the capital involved in the pool is all
Irish.
The state railroad commissioners held
another meeting at jefferson, Mo-, for
the further discussion of the carriage of
live stock by weight. This session the
commissioners deemed necessary, as
they claim their action at the meeting
last February had been misconsUrued.
The central committee formed for the
relief OF tile sufferers by the floods inl
east Prussia last year, has distributed
the balance of the funds raised for that
purpose, to relieve the needs of the vic
rims of the recent food, and a call for
additional contributions has been made.
An adjourned meeting of representa-
ives of coal companies interested. in the
western anthracite business was held in
New York. at the Fifth Avenue hotel.
Although the proceedings were con-
Quoted secretly, it is known that the
general sentiment favored an advance
prices.
In the reichstag the naval secretary
referred to the loss of the German war
vessels at Samoa. He said that although
hellves and property of Europeans at
Samoa did not appear to be n danger,
the United States was about to send
three cruisers there, Germany would
her lost war vessels as soon as
possible