Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-05

roar can be heard a mile.
The Brown murder case at Mason City,
Ia, was brought to a sudden halt by
the illness of of the jurors.
The thirty-seventh anniversary of the
Baltimore Brotherhood of Episcopal
churches was celebrated last night.
George Perkins, a young man of Bed
ford, Mich, was instantly killed by ac-
cidental discharge of his gun while hunt
ing.
Charles Dease of Bay City, Mich, an
extensive dealer in pine lands, was run
over and killed by a Michigan Central
train.
The rumor that Lord Sackville had
been appointed British ambassador to
Constantinople is entirely without foun-
dation.
Fire destroyed the big malt house at
tached TO the Anheuser-Bu brewery
at st. Louis Sunday. Loss, 5000, 600; in
%suranee, 800, 600.
AT the animal election at Toronto,
Ont, of the st. Georges society, Gold
win Smith was defeated for the presi-
dency of the organization.
The murderers of policeman Eliice of
Scranton, Pa, have not yet been cap
tNIGu. oeNtlul lHhtTloH IlpEl nave
now joined III the search for them.
The mail room of the Mississippi
steamer Sunbeam was robbed between
Hayes and Ben Lomond landings. Four
registered packages were stolen.
The fire that has been raging for two
weeks in the jackson coal mines at Daw-
son, Pa, has at last been extlnguished.
Mining operations will be resumed.
The last ballot for senator in West
Virginia resulted: Kenna, IS; Goff, 80;
S. p. Hawer Union Labor, ); Judge
Brannon, l.. Necessary to choice, Al.
An Indiana man named George Heidel
played the ghost racket on a negro, and
the atfrighted black split his head open
to the shoulders with an ak he way car
rying.
Judge Baker denied the application of
Bontield and Setback to have their libel
cases against The Times advanced on
the calendar SO as to secure a speedy
trial.
President-elect Harrison is said to
have completed his inaugural address,
and the last paragraph was copied on
the Typewriter by Stenographer lib
belts late Saturday night.
Out of 10000 mine laborers in the
Luzerne(Pa.) district, only 5000 obtained
steady work during January. The fall
ing off of wages as compared with the
same month las .year@i is 800, 235.
Leonard Volk has delivered to Mrs.
Smell the marble bust of the dead mil
lionaire, A. j. Smell, on which he has
been at work for nearly a year. 1t was
put into Carrara marble in Italy,
The record for pig-iron making by a
charcoal blast furnace was beaten by the
Ashland, Wis. furnace, which made
100 tons, OF twenty-five tons more Than
any furnace ever made in one day.
Henry S. Christopher, land and pas
senger agent of the Missouri Pacific rail
road, died suddenly in bed at A o'clock
Sunday morning, at the residence of Jo-
seph B. Shepard, Chicago, from heart
disease.
The sales of leaf tobacco in the Dan
| vile. Va, market for January aggre-
gated 2 1896, 20S pounds; for the first four
months of the new tobacco year, 6,7IS,-
al2 pounds. a decrease of nearly four
million pounds compared with last year.
Buel Keeny, aged 50, of East Meadow,
Mass, went home drunk one night a
| week ago, and on being demonstrated
with by his aged father, attacked the
old man and pounded him SO bad that
! he died a few days later. The muir
derer was arrested Saturday night.
Judge Acheson filed AN opinion in the
proceedings of the government to con-
denim the locks and dams of the Monon-
gahela Navigation company. He allows
the United States district attorney to
move the appointment of viewers, and
says the question of theconsritutionality
Of the act can be pressed in later proceed.
ings.