Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-14

81, 900 in drafts.
Bird is officially recognized as gov
ernor of the Chickasaw Nation, pending
decision of the court.
A saloon keeper at Waterloo, Ia,
named Bill Hunter, was shot and killed
Friday while resisting arrest.
The boiler in Bells mills at Pellston,
Mich, blew up, killing the foreman, the
head sawyer and one other man.
The Horticultural and Forestry society
which convened at Denver Thursday
concluded its labors and adjourned.
The annual report of Plymouth
church shows a falling off of so per cent.
in revenues since Mr.. Beecher's death.
Henry krusen, who shot Ward Nc
Manus, a prominent st. Louis capitalist,
committed suicide in a lodging house
Friday.
A defective fue caused a fire at Le-
land, Miss, that consumed eleven stores,
comprising most of the business portion
of the town.
F. Woodward, station agent for the
Iowa Central railroad at Sheffield, Ia,
has disappeared. His accounts show a
deficit of 81, 500.
Robert r. Shellabarger, only son of
Judge Shellabarger of Ohio, died at his
fathers residence in Washington, d. c.,
of typhoid fever.
Charles Spencer, a young man whose
home was at Fort Dodge, Ia, was found
dead near that city under circumstance
that suggested suicide.
Mime. Albani, with her concert troupe
specially engaged for her Canadian
tour, sailed from Queenstown in the
Cunard steamship, Etruria.
Joseph Fields, e~x-treasurer OF Wa
baunsee county, Kansas, and Joseph
Fields, Jr., the present treasurer, have
been held for embezzlement.
The Pennsylvania railroads traffic
department report shows that its traffic
has increased 10 to Is per cent. in all
departments over that of last year.
Coons, Croker, & Swasy, dealers in
hides and leather, Boston, have assigned,
Liabilities reported at 500, 600. Nominal
assets so or go per cent. of that amount.
Bond offering at the treasury depart
ment Friday aggregated 1851 900; $521,-
600 44s were offered and accepted;
$4,000 at 1.0Sf, and ss1, 900 at 1.089.
The Western Freight association has
decided to advance the rate on dressed
beef from the Missouri river points to
Chicago to a basis of 2S.S cents per 100
pounds.
The president has done a graceful act
in offering to make William A. Vincent,
whom he removed from the chief JUS
ticeship of New Mexico under mistaken
circumstances, associate justice of Mon
tana.
The Kansas City Glue and Fertilizer
company's works in ArmourdaIe burned
to the ground shortly after midnight.
The fire originated in the drying room.
Loss $50, 900.
Secretary and Mrs. Whitney held a
brilliant reception at their home on I
street. The occasion was made the more
conspicuous by the presence of Mrs.
Cleveland, Mrs. Folsom and Mrs. Brice
of New York.
The house committee on mines and
mining agreed to report favorably a bill
amendatory of the revised statutes re-
latlng to mines and INNINGS, so as to
limit to v the number of holdings Of
mining claims by any person or firm.
Advices were received of the death at
Nassan.N.H..o on December 31st, of the
death OF 2. l., White, liz Weti-a nown
journalist, who went to that place on
December 10th in the hope of regaining
his health. His disease was consump-
ton.
John Keyser deserted his wife in the
east. Mrs. Keyser traced her. husband
to st. Joseph, Mo-, thence to. Omaha.
and next to Pappillion, Neb., where she
arrived in time to prevent his marriage
to the daughter of a farmer, for whom
Keyser was working.
Mrs. William Molsberry, a grand
daughter by marriage of Gen. Nathaniel
Greene, of Revolutionary war fame, died
at Mason City, Ia, in her 93d year. She
had five children, nineteen %grandchild-
rem, twenty six great grandchildren, and
two great-great grandchildren.
The fourth annual exhibition of tho
Architectural league. of New York, at
the Fifth Avenue galleries, closed.
About 500 designs, including both archi-
lecture and decorative art, were exhib-
tied. The collection included nan
novel designs as well as many copies of
famous and beautiful ones.