Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-16

", Maryland, died at Dayt or o., at the
age of 100 years.
Mrs. Eliza Hargrove. livifg near
Marietta, Ga, was murdered at her
home. No arrests.
lie CRron, the informer, is known ii
Springfield, O., by Capt. Jonas Drury
as a forger and a thief.
AT Water Valley James jenkins
throat was cut from ear to ear by Viii
Harris, a saloon keeper.
Robert Jones. a Kansas City dealer in
hats and furnishing goods, assigned.
Assets, $50, 900: liabilities not known.
Baloit, Wis, has secured the Williams
Compound Tandem Engine works plant,
a concern backed by Chicago capital.
An epidemic of measles, chicken-pox,
and scarlet fever at Belvidere, Ills, has
caused the closing of the public schools.
The testimony of LIE Caron before the
Parnell commission Continues to be coz
tradicted from all parts of the west.
The Illinois Press association, in SEES
sion at Danville, His, voted down a
resolution to visit President Harrison in
q body.
Meyer Brothers, clothiers OF jackson,
Mich, We're closed upon an attachment
for 81 900. Other debts will bring the
failure up to $780, 600.
Some excitement has been caused on
the lsthmus of Panama during the past
ten days by canal rumors from Europe
and by local questions.
The Illinois Central stock train went
through a bridge at Delaware Junction,
La. Ten cars were demolished and a
number of cattle killed.
There were thirteen mills which
ground at Minneapolis last week, and
they got out tho largest output since
November, 90,4S0 barrels.
The Rev. lack T.. Sweeney, pastor OF
the Christian church at Columbus, Ind,
has been chosen chancellor of Butler
university at Indianapolis.
An old man at Keokuk, Ia, is charged
with having assaulted three young girls.
He claims it is either a case of black
mail, or of mistaken identity.
The funeral of Thomas NJ. Nichol, who
conducted the literary bureau for Presi-
dent Garfield, took place in New York,
only immediate friends attending.
John w. Huston, president of the
Hancock County Ohio Agricultural
society, was instantly killed on his farm
in Allen township by a tree falling upon
him.
Judge Brown, of the United States
circuit court, has decided that the arms
shipped On the steamer Carondolet were
not illegally shipped, and ordered the
vessel discharged.
Peter Rooney, a blacksmith of Chi
cago, was shot and fatally injured by
Ferdinand Vecchionc, an Italian black
smith, who caught Rooney climbing
through his shop window.
The Civil Service Reform Association
OF Maryland has issued a call to reform
ers to attend a conference in Baltimore
for a discussion with reference to the
past AMI the future administrations.
A salute of thirteen guns at sunset at
Key West announced that Rear Admiral
s. b. Luce had struck his flag from the
masthead of the "Galena.n He sailed
on the steamer "Olivett' for Tampa.
Great interest is felt by the Baptists of
the country in the proposed establishing
OF a Baptist university in Chicago by
some of the wealthy members of the de-
nomination throughout the country.
Roy Ryder, a schoolboy at Youngs-
town, O., died Wednesday from infiam-
mutton Of the stomach, caused by paper
wads which he was in the habit of
chewing and swallowing while study
ing.
William L. Porter, the retiring treas
erer OF Vermilion county, Ind, has
been disc, " red to be $12,0 00 short in
his The shortage will be
made good by his bondsmen, to whom
he has turned over all his property.