Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-13

the Commercial Bank Of st. LOUIS, COM
mitted suicide.
Mr.. Biaine's acceptance of the secre-
taryship is said to have been received
by Gen. Harrison.
seadock D. Spring, hardware mer-
Uniontown, Pa, has failed for
$780, COO; assets, $4,000.
William Brown & Co, of Boston,
wool dealers, have failed. Liabilities
about 500, 900; assets light.
Senator-elect McMillen of Michigan
has received from President-elect Har-
rison an invitation to call.
The railroad companies have combined
to oppose the Taylor railr Dad bill now
before the Wisconsin legislature.
w. ". Bussey, a teller in the Atlanta
Savings bank, embezzled $40, 900, but
promised to make good the amount.
Bond offerings yesterday at the treas
ury department aggregated $3.50, 600,
Ats, all offered and rejected at $l.094.
Mrs. Brookout's gin house on the
Shellridge plantation, near Greenyille,
Miss. was burned Loss, 10000; unin-
sured. =.
The taking of testimony in the Mudd
Compton congressional contest has been
adjourned sine die, Mudd claiming the
election.
1t is said at Indianapolis that John C.
New is not booked for the treasury
portfolio, but will be rendered the Aus
trian mission.
The general assignment of the Ohio
and Western Coal and Iron company to
James A. Hall, without preferences, was
filed in New York.
Congressman Mason, of the Third dis
trict, electrified the house with a speech
in which he explained the election
methods of the south.
The bodies of eight Mexican prospect
ors have been found at the mouth of an
abandoned San Salvatore mine in the
north part of Wyoming.
Sophia Kester, aged 25, a servant in
the Mansion house at Buffalo, N. Y,
stepped into an open elevator shaft, fell
three stories and was killed.
Jonathan F. Morris has been appointed
assignee of Caleb NJ. Talcott, dry goods
dealer, of Hartford, Conn, whose assets
are stated, at Sl20,291, and liabilities at
S65 1856.
1t has been ~ascertained that the in
%debtedness of Henry hickman, the abb
sconding member of the Merchants
Exchange of st. Leuis, approximates
$500, 000.
u. i. Smiths ceramic works at Menlo
Park, N. j., We're burned. Loss, $50, 600;
partly insured. Three men who were
in the building narrowly escaped with
their lives.
The Kansas delegation which went to
Indianapolis to urge the name of Sena-
tor Plumb for the treasury portable re-
turned licme confident that Kansas will
be represented in the cabinet.
Fire in the Gosham Manufacturing
comipany'B works at Providence, start
ing in the blacksmith shop and extend
ing to the carpenter shop, did $40, 900
damage, which is fully covered by in
| %sIrance,
At New York, Theodore Hamilton,
commissioner of accounts, was suspended
from Office on account ofpvidence given
in the West Washington market investi-
cation, charging him with receiving
brides from renters of stalls.
AT Bucyrus, o., two young sons Of
Eli Carpenter were shooting at a mark
| against a woodshed, when one of the
bullets penetrated the siding and struck
their M atler, who had entered the shed,
III .iie7siaa, isfiiiieting d fatal wound.
The suit against Rev. A. A. Lathburg
of New Haven. Conn. to recover posses
sion of Dora Doe, an illegitimate child
| which MIR. I.athburg had adopted in its
infancy, was decided in favor of Mr.
Lathhurg and against the woman who
| claimed to be the mother.