Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-16

Wis. was arrested Charged with Illegally
mortgaging his stock.
There was a heavy snow at East Tawas,
Mich, and lumbermen are happy. Teams
are in great demand.
The directors of the Rochester Driving
Park association repeat the Flour City
guarantee stake of SO, 000.
John Morris, a colored barber, has con.
fessed to the killing of William Enrich,
at Ada, o., eight years ago.
Fire bugs are at work in Jacksonville,
His, making havoc among barns. The
motive seems to be pure
a fall ended a fierce fight between
Mathew Williams and William Nc
Carthy at Shamokin, Pa, of 102 rounds.
Ex-Treasurer Axworthy has turned
over his securities to settle up and gone
to Toronto, Canada, to reside in the
future.
Officers of Tower, Mimi, have been
arrested and taken to Duluth, charged
with oppression in the discharge of theiI
duties.
st. Mary's training school for boys, al
Fehansville, has been restrained from
charging the county S75 per capita for
dependent boys.
A broken rail on the Vandalia road
caused a freight train to be wrecked near
Vandalia. Several cars laden with grain
were badly damaged.
George STEINER, John Mcdowell, and
Sandy Rowen, the three men shot dur
ing a quarrel at Kirkland, His, are said
to be beyond recovery.
The condition of the three yellow fever
patients on board the sloop-of-war
Yantic has greatly improved within the
last twenty-four hours.
The Rev. j. B. Worrall, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Galesburg, Ills,
resigned to accept a call to the West.
minister church at Keokuk, lie.
J.. o. Hauser, jewelry, at No. 919s
Main street, Kansas City, made an as
signment to NJ. ii. Livingston. Liabil-
tiles, So, 900; assets, about 5 5000.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland were
entertained at dinner by Secretary of
State and Miss Bayard. The other
members of the cabinet were present.
Owen Gallagher arranged to jump
from the New Central viaduct, at CIeve-
land, a distance of 200 feet, but the DO.
lice interfered and the trial was post.
poned.
The Rev. Edward Wachtel, a Lu.
theran Clergyman of New Hampton, Ia,
was found dead by the roadside. 1t il
supposed that he was a victim of heart
disease.
Rev. DIR. Alex T. McGill, aged SO years,
emeritus professor of ecclesiasties and
pastoral theology in the Princeton Theo-
logical seminary, died at his home in
Princeton.
The contract for the new Merchants
bridge, which is to span the river at
Ferry street, has been let to the Union
Bridge company, of New York, fol
s 1920, 900.
The schooner Cotton, with a crew o.
eleven men, and the schooner Joseph O..
that sailed from Gloucester, Mass, or
fishing expeditions to Georges, are given
up as lost.
Eighty-six students resigned in o body
from the medical college of the Univer.
sity of New York, owing to the faculty
refusing to promote Professor Weiss tc
the chair of anatomy.
The Iowa board of railway commits.
sioners is collecting information regard.
ing shipments of packed meats, with a
view of defending Iowa packers against
siini;ar interests of Chicago.
The Delaware legislature, which con
sists of sixteen Republicans and fourteen
Democrats, will meet in joint session to
elect a United States senator. The
Democratic senate is anti-Saulsbury.
The Florida Tropical exposition was
formally opened at Jacksonville. There
were a large number of visitors present
and the exercises were Of the usual char
acter.
A number of bids were opened at the
war department for furnishing the
government eight 15-inch and one 10
inch pneumatic dynamite guns. The
coatract will not be awarded for SEGA,
days.
The United States land Office at Dead
wood, which was closed Dec. 81, by or
der of Land Commissioner Stockslager
vas reopened at Rapid City. The citi
zens of Deadwood are indignant at tn,
action Of the commissioner, and effort
will be made to have an Office establishe,
there again: