Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-15

James Barber, a prominent farmer of
stein bull which lie was leading to the
barn.
AT New York, s.. A. Every. q con-
ductor of the elevated road was crossing
the tracks when he was struck by an en-
CINE and killed.
Mrs. Caroline Starkey, a widow, was
murdered Friday night at her home near
Seaton, O. She lived alone with her
son Elmer, % years of age.
Gen. Hovey was inaugurated as gov.
ernor with the usual ceremonies. There
will be a banquet at the executive man.
sion tonight to celebrate the event.
The grand jury has indicted Charles
Tinker, the young forger who got $15.-
600 from three banks on forged checks,
and he will plead guilty when arraigned.
James Crowley and Will Madin were
killed while ex~cavating a ditch on San
Miguel river, Colorado, by accidentally
discharging sixteen pounds of giant
powder.
Alexander T. McGill, ID. d. LII. D.,
professor of ecclesiastical homilectic and
pastoral theology at the Princeton Theo.
logical seminary, died at Princeton in
his SD year.
An unknown woman, with her head
cut off by a car wheel, was found at the
freight depot of the Kentucky Centarl
at C~ovington. Ky. She was about As
years of age.
Henry Schleibaum, a 1~4-year-old boy
at Baltimore, found a railroad torpedo
and took it into the cellar to try it. He
struck it with an ak and it exploded,
tearing him to pieces.
Twenty-Five men in the lumber camp
Of Thurbe & Wapes, neal Saginaw,
Mich, became ill after eating a meal
prepared by & cook whose dislike they
had incurred. He was threatened with
lynching.
AT Marlborough, Mass, the Phoenix
block was burned, causing $50, 600 loss
to George IA. Guest, furniture; SIS, 600
to w. a. Dudley, dry goods, and some
smaller losses, all well covered by in
surance
The season for the fishermen at Glou-
cester was not SO severe in loss of life as
some years past, Notwithstanding the
great November storms. The schooners
Carlton and Joseph o., which sailed in
November, are given up for lost.
The annual meeting of the Reading
Railroad company was held Monday at
New York. OF the $40, 600, 900 of cap.
ltal stock the n of all but $545, 900
vested the voting power in trustees. All
the ! officers were reelected.
Daniel Doughe=1y, Tie silver
orator of New YorI., who nominated
Cleveland at the st. Louis convention,
lectured at Central Music hall, Chicago,
on 'The Stage" under the auspices of
the Young Mems Catholic union.
The Arkansas legislature convened at
Little Rock. The most important bust
ness of the session will be the election
OF a United States senator, but even this
is not exciting much interest, as the se-
lection of James FL. Berry is conceded.
Governor Oglesby has committed the
sentence of Sanford Murphy, convicted
of murder at the May term, 1880, of the
Jefferson county circuit court and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary at Chester for
twenty years, SO that his term will ex-
pire Jan. Is.
A wreck was caused at Xenia, Ind,
by the starting of a freight train that
had been s~idetracked and u%ncoupled
from the engine. The cars slid on the
main track. where a passenger train ran
into them, completely wrecking the
passenger engine and several freight
cars. Tile damage amounts to $40, 900.
Rats driven from the banks o,
the canal at Ellensville. N. Y.
by high water, attacked a baby in the
house of Mr.. Simpson, and the mother
attempted to defend her child. When
help came in response to her screams
hundreds Of the hungry rats were jump