Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-02
BRIEF MENTION.

Important Events OF the Day Condensed
for the Hasty Reader
The Connecticut legislature convened
Tuesday.
Gov. Luce of Michigan took the oath
Of office Tuesday.
Yale's boating crew has gone into its
regular gymnastic training.
The convention of colored Catholics
convened at Washington Tuesday.
The bridge over the Hudson river at
Poughkeepsie has been com pleted.
There was a grand demonstration of
the Order of Tonti Tuesday at Chicago.
The time of competition for models for
Gen. Grants monument in New York
has expired.
The Blue Valley bank, of Manhattan,
KY, has failed. Liabilities, $104, 900; as
sets, $500, 600.
Doncgbue. Americas champion skater,
win make his first appearance at Amster-
dam, Holland, to-day.
The annual bench show of the Me-
riden Poultry association opened at
Meriden, Conn, Tuesday.
w. ID. Schiefer, retail boot and shoe
dealer of TT. Wayne. Ind, failed. Liza
bilities, S13, 200, assets not known.
John Matthews, one of the escaped
Bald knobbers, was captured a few
miles out OF Ozark, Mo-, and returned to
the Jail.
Congressman Springer says lie will
substitute the house omnibus bill for the
senate bill for the admission of the terri
tories.
IT is said that DR.. Alexander McDon-
aid, general superintendent OF the insane
asylum on Wards Island, N. ", has be-
come insane.
Spandauer & Co., mems furnishings.
Baltimore, assigned. Assets Sc, Rose
q Spandauer, dry goods, also assigned,
with assets Of 81, 1000.
ID, q. Edwards Of Cincinnati has been
appointed general passenger and ticket
agent Of the Queen and Crescent route,
iaEihg effect Jan. LIST.
e. F. Osborne g Co, plumbers, of st.
Paul, are in financial difficulties, with
liabilities aggregating 500, 600, but will
probably pull through.
Jack Bolan of Cincinnati and Lewis
Bezenah Of C%ovington, KY, fought fifty
nine rounds near Cincinnati, the fight
DelnE ueclAreu a draw.
Simon Bolinger of Decatur, Ills, who
took three doses of arsenic with suicidal
intent, died in great agony, leaving a
widow and four children.
AT Derinda, DO Davies county, John
Burk was killed and Michael Steinbeck
fatally injured by the caving in Of a wei.
IN which they We're working.
James MeNabb Clark, a railway pro-
moter of New York, who was arrested
on the charge of extortion made by Mrs.
Janet G. Conger, was heldsin the sum OF
81 500 for examination.
The London papers, reviewing the
events of the year, express satisfaction
for the past and augur well for. the fu-
ture. All are agreed that France alone
menaces the peace of Europe.
1t is alleged the political controversy in
New York has been settled on the basis
of Warner Miller receiving q cabinet
portfolio and Thomas G.. Plat becoming
collector OF the port of New York.
Solomon Reinman, who has been con-
ducting a clothing establishment on a
large and e~xtravagant scale In Trenton.
N. j., failed for about $25, 900. Sheriff
Robinson took charge of the store.
6oiuolSFtiie iuAHA., HIS AH epluefnlC
OF diphtheria. Sixteen cases and three
deaths are reported. The public schools
have been closed anu fourfamilies have
been qtaarantined by the village board.
A collision on the Mississippi river be-
tween the steamer Sarah and the pro-
peller III. G. Yarmouth, resulted in The
sinking of the Yarmouth and the drown
ing of Sarah Gabriel, a coiored passenger.
At . meeting OF the American Econo-
mic. association Of Philadelphia, Profess
sor Thomas Elliot Thompson, of the uni
yersity of Pennsylvania, read an ex-
haustive paper III the condition of the
Irish people.
e. G. Walters, superintendent Of the
Yellowstone Park, has been spending
sone days in Washington laying before
the Interior department his plans for
improvements to be made in the hotels
of the parks.
AT Dover, N. H., George E. Pray, a
special policeman, was killed at the
house Of John B. Huskins, six miles out
of this city, where he had gone to arrest
Charles II. Tanner and take him to an
insane asylum.
AT a banquet at Chattanooga, Tenn,
in honor OF H. Clay Evans, a Republican,
cOngressman-elect, very striking letter
from Gen Longstreet was read. in which
he spoke in eloquent terms of the future
of the new south.
The Rev. DR.. Charles o Rielly, treasurer
of the Irish League, said there was no
danger in the Times being able to ex-
haust the of the league, that its
financial condition is more healthfuls
than at any previous time.