Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-21

St Paul burned. There was several mar
row escapes. Loss, $4,000.
AT an election of officers of the Erie
and Pittsburg railrord Thursday, w. H..
Scott of Erie was made president.
M. De Lesseps has beer elected presi-
dent and his son Charles vice-presidenl
OF the new Panama Canal company.
The annual convention of the Inter.
Collegiate Base Ball association was held
at the Parker house, Boston, last night.
Hugo Gollmer, secretary of the, exec
dtive committee of the North Amer
lean Turner Bund died at st. Louis, aged
50.
Governor j. B. Foraker passed through
Cincinnati on his way to Hillsboro to at
tend the funeral of his uncle, William
Elliott.
Martin NORM has sued The Pittsburg
Leader for S25 600 damages for charges
against him as superintendent of police
of Buffalo.
At the second days meeting of the
Iowa Horticultural society the Hon.
Silas Wilson Of Atlantic was elected
president.
Two freight trains collided at Kent,
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chandise We're wrecked and Engineer
Washner was killed.
The Western Chair Manufacturers as
ISOLATION, at their semi-annual meeting
at Chicago, slightly advanced the prices
on cane goods and rockers.
The navy department and Union Iron
works of San Francisco have agreed
upon the conditions for a contract trial
Of tho ,r,,..a.l ltlN al otn.,
AT Poteau, l. T., two men named
Webb and Harris, shot each other to
death, and a bystander who witnessed
the fight was fatally wounded.
A trust has Deer formed in New York
by dealers in wooden ware, and an at
tempt is being made to crush a firm
which refuses to enter the combination.
This is the twenty-tifth anniversary
of the Knights of Pythias and members
of the order all over Kentucky are en-
gagged in various ways celebrating the
event.
w. Fl. Bonapart, n leading colored
politician of Hampton, Va, was arrest
ed, charged with a~ssaulting a l2-year-old
white child, the daughter of a merchant
of that town.
w. j. Lloyd, chief operator of the
Western Union Telegraph company at
Chicago, has been promoted to the posi-
ton of assistant superintendent of the
First district.
1t is said the mobin Birmingham, Ala.
lynched the wrong man when they
hanged Meadows for a~ssaulting Mrs. KEEL
!um. Louis jackson, said to be the real
culprit, is in Jail.
C. G.. Kendall, a real estate agent at
South Boston, left the city about two
weeks ago. Since then nothing has
been heard of him. There are many
rumors of financial irregularities on his
part,
Patsey Cardiff of Minneapolis and
Paddy Mcdonald of Duluth engaged in
a siX-round contest at the Peoples thea.
tire at the latter place. Mcdonald was
knocked completely out in the fourth
round.
The collectionssof internal revenue for
the six months of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1889, were $63, 312, 565, an in
crease of. 1858, 957 as compared with the
corresponding period of the previous
fiscal year.
j. b. Cox, assistant supervisor of the
g York division of the Pennsylvania
railroad, and w. A. Howell, supervisor,
have been arrested for misapplying the
company's funds raised by disposing of
stock. The defalcation is expected to
prove large.
The Georgia Southern and Florida
railroad has been completed from Pella-
con, Ca, to Palatka. a distance of 2e5
miles. The road is fifty miles shorter
than any other road running into Flor
ida. 1t run through a great undevel-