Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-07

at North Adams, Mass. have been at
tached for claims. Liabilities, about
S65, 900.
Mrs l.. Toughiin, aged l0S years, the
Oldest woman in northern New York,
died at Beekman. She was in good health
until a week ago.
Frank, Charles and Albert Vine,
butchers and drovers, of st. Catherine,
Ont, have left that town and their cred
itors do not know where they are.
l.. A. Croll, vice president of Gettys-
burg college, and professor Of mathe-
mates and astronomy at that ipstitu-
ton, died of consumption, aged 50years.
Judge Lambert Tree, recently trans
ferred from the American legation at
Brussels to that of st. Petersburg, was
received by Prince Bismarck at Berlin
yesterday.
Barrett, the milkman, has been rear
rested at Bradford, on the strength of
the verdict of the coroner's jury, which
charges him with the murder of the boy,
John Gill.
The old city market-hall at st. Paul,
MINI which has been remodeled into
a theatre and called the Newmarket,
was opened by Margaret Mather and her
company.
Sunday night Nolan Elkins, a young
man of Columbus, Ind, attempted sui
eide by taking poison, because OF the
opposition to his intended marriage. He
may recoyer
Some twenty-five naval cadets at An
napolis, Md, failed to pass satisfactory
examination last week, and will either
resign or be dropped. One of them was
a first class man.
1t is stated that new trust company
is about to be organized, among those in
t%erested being Secretary Fairchilds latter
his term eXpires), Daniel l.. Lamont,
and Roswell F. Flower.
A reward of $500 has been offered for
the discovery of the would-be murderer
of Editor G. G. Mandt of Mt. Horeb,
Wis. MI. Mandt continues to improve
and ~iA probably Cow
The secretary OF the navy and Mrs.
Whitney entertained the president and
Mrs. Cleveland, with members of the
cabinet, and others. Governor Hill Of
New4ork was also present.
1t is understood in Berlin that the
American government has consented
that the conference between the United
States and Germany regarding Samoa
shall be continued in Berlin.
In the Pan-electric telephone case
Attorney General Garland has prepared
an answer to the subpoena requiring
the defendants to bring into court the
books and papers of the company.
Mrs. Burnett, wife of the Mexican
voodoo doctor, called on the mayor at
Hammond, Ind, stating that she feared
mob violence and requested that protec-
ton be given her, which was granted.
The indications are that the Illinois
senate will refuse the joint submission
resolution. A careful canvass shows
twenty-seven senators in favor of it,
which is seven less Than the necessary
~two-thirds.
The individual operators have Joined
with the large companies in curtailing
the output of coal at Mount Carmel,
Pa. There is but one mine in operation.
The five suspended collieries employed
almost 5000 hands.
William Fosser, who was bitten by a
mad dog at Palatine, Ills, six weeks ago,
is diving of hydrophobia. A maidstone
was applied to the wouJ,t u few hours
after he was bitten and it was thought
that all danger was past.
The Home Gas Fuel company, of
Youngstown, o., has run short of
natural gas and has made arrangements
tor a supply of crude oil from the Lima
oil fields with which to manufacture
gas to supply its demands.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Olson and three
childred are reported to have been
drowned fifteen miles north of Bis
marck, ID. T., while attempting to cross
the Missouri in a wagon. The team
broke through the ice and dragged the
wagon and its occupants with it.
An appeal has been received by the
Iowa state board of health asking it to
compel the stoppage of a religious
revival meeting at Tama City, where
scarlet fever is raging. 1t is thought
that the meetings serve to spread the
contagion.
Representative Baker of Illinois pre-
sented in the house a petition asking
that steps be taken to set forth at the
Paris exposition the value of the corn
crop of the United States. The petition
bristles with statistics showing the won-
derful yield of this crop and its immense
value.
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