Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-29
Minnesota legislature providing for local

Minnesota legislature providing for local
option.
w. d. Harrington has been made col
lector at Halifax vice Mr.. Ross dis
missed.
Barry claims his faction is making
great progress, AMI has 300 organizers IL
the field
Two men have been thrashed and {
number warned by White Caps at Kings
ton, n. Y.
The worst snow storm of the season
prevailed Sunday in Maine. The snow
drifted badly.
The Standard says Paris never did q
more insane and ignominous act than
she has at this election.
The Nebraska senate passed the Lind.
say bill providing for submission of a
prohibitory amendment.
A bill to remove the capital from
Prescott to Phoenix passed the Arizona
house by a vote of IA to 10.
Vice President-elect Morton has leased
the Washington mansion of Prof. A.
Graham Bell, facing Seott-circle.
Rev. DIR. Tichener has gone to Cuba,
taking with him 500, 900 as the first pay.
ment on a 100000 church building in
Havana.
Mrs. William James, mother of ex-
Postmaster General Thomas l.. James,
died at her home in Utica, N. Y, aged
81 years.
Mr.. Roswell P. Flower and his brother
will build a church at WATERFOWL. N.
Y, as a gift to Trinity Episcopal parish
of that city.
The comptroller of currency has au
thorized the First, National bank of Car.
roll, La. to commence business with O
capital Of $50, 900.
A daughter of Paul Van Der Esch.
superintendent of the Astoria silk mills,
New York, eloped. with her fathers
coachman, William Sillers.
The Austrian consul general, Hugo
Frltch, died suddenly at his residence in
New York on Sunday evening. Death
was due to heart disease,
The funeral services of the late Con.
gresham James N. Burns were held in
st. Joseph, Sunday, and were attended
by the governor and all state officials.
Col. w. VI. Chiffon, who, during the
past fifteen years, has been financial and
commercial editor of The louisville
Courier-Journal was adiudged a ~lunatic.
Cashier John A. McGay, of the Park
National bank, Chicago, has been ar
rested for the embezzlement of 81. 500
while assisting the receiving teller some
weeks ago.
Gen. Boulanger will resign his seat for
the Department of the Seine, TO which
he was elected, and retain his represen-
tation in the chamber of deputies for the
81 Ilanortrnnp nf tho N~rl
Insulting and threatening ANONYMOUS
letters have been sent to members of the
Chicago Woman's Protective agency
who have interested themselves in the
defense of Mrs. Rawson.
The house committee on appropria-
ton has agreed to incorporate in the
sundry civil'bill an item to pay the Eads
heirs $500, 600 for keeping the South Pass
of the Mississippi river open.
Charles Henry Hurd, formerly super.
intendent of the Michigan Central Rail
road company, and proprietor of the
Well-known4 Hurd farm near Concord.
n. H., died Saturday, aged 10 years.
j. D. ~Critchfield, a lawyer, of Mt.
Vernon, o., has begun suit against his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Caroline III. Hen.
derson, of Erie, Pa, for 500, 900 for
alternating the affections of his wife.
Thos. Conway Of New Suffolk, N.
y, who disappeared Jan. IL, when he
was to have been married, has been
found insane and nearly dead in a barn,
where he has been living on cows milk,
1t is stated IN good authority that
Great Britain has asked Venezuela to ac-
cept Belgium as an arbitrator in the
matter Of the ownership of the Yuruari.
district and that Venezuela has declined.
Canada has stopped the issue of Ii
censes to American fishermen under the
.'modus vivendi,'' which came into ex.
istence after the negotiation of the fish
cries treaty which the senate rejected last
year.
Before the adjournment of the senate
on Friday, Mr.. Harris entered a. motion
TO reconsider. tie vote by which the pen.
sion bill was passed. This was done
with q view to Introducing some amend
ment to the bill.
The London Times says Englishmen
are anxious to know the value of Bis.
marck's assertion that Germany is ALSO
lutely one with England with regard to
the Samoan difficulty. The Standard
endorses the remarks of Bismarck.
A table compiled from dispatches to
The Boston Post from the managers of
the leading clearing houses of the Unit
States shows the total gross exchanges
for the week ending Jan. 20, were
81 ,016, 632 ,247, an increase of III per
compared with the co~rrespondinp