Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-27
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A Condensation of Interesting News Items
on Various Subjects.

TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A Condensation of Interesting News Items
on Various Subjects.
The Rhode Island Yacht club elected
William b. Law, Jr., commodore.
Nothing has been done yet toward Sc.
curing grounds for the New York Base
Ball club.
Russell Harrison is reported as having
said that mis- father has decided upon
the cabinet
1t has developed that the bandits who
robbed the train near Pixley, Cal, only
obtained $500.
George Dill of Carmi, Ills, wasfound
frozen to death under a railroad bridge
near that place.
White Caps are at work at Shelby
vile, Ills Several persons have bee
ordered to leave town
Almost every drug store keeper in
Plat county, Illinois, has been indicted
for selling liquor without license.
Architect w, w. Boyington of Chicago
is intiuentially proposed in Washington
for supervising architect of the treas.
ury.
At New York John Flynn, aged 10,
who killed his father with a penknife.
was sentenced to fifteen years in state
prison.
MIR. Window has become a very inter.
esSing person to New York politicians,
who take unusual pains to cultivate his
acquaintance.
Rome of the death of Cardinal Charles
SQe6ini of thu of 81 Hn ,u,a
seniorin rank Of the arainals, #
At Boston John S. Borr, the lawyer
charged with uttering a forged bond for
s2,ooo, falied to respond and a default
was entered against him.
The editors and printers of Warren,
Henderson and Mercer counties, lii
nois, held a convention in Monmouth.
A permanent organization was effected.
The parents of Engineer William F.
Darrell, of the United States steamer
Adam, at San Francisco, received a tele-
gram Announcing his death from pneu-
monia.
Joseph Kenworthy of New Bedford,
Mass, and Reuben Collins of Philadel-
phia signed an agreement fora wrestling
match for 500 and gate receipts on
March 2.
Warren A. Swift, the Old Colonial
railroad station agent at Marion, Mass,
has been missing since Wednesday, when
he left on awestern train. No cause for
his absence is known.
Thu lndlanana supreme court decided
that a person who ''rudely and reck-
lessly" rode a bicycle against a man
standing on a sidewalk is responsible
for damages for an assault and battery.
There is a misrepresentation regarding
the new office of secretary of agricul-
ture. While the bill creates a new de-
ment in one sense, it does not change in
any particular the organization of the
bureau
The only four places in General Har-
rison,s cabinet that are considered def
nitely fixed arethose of Blaine, Window,
Noble and Wanamaker. Rusk's APP
pointment is doubtful, but the south
will be represented.
The Chicago, st. Paul and Kansas
City railway has located a twenty-acre
park twelve miles north of st. Joseph.
at Savannah, Mo-. Excursion trains
will be run from st. Joseph every hour
during the summer.
The senate agreed to resolutions gu
thorizing the select committee ON irri-
CATION to take testimony at any place in
the United States, and authorizing the
committee on Indian affairs to continue
the investigation of Indian affairs gen
orally.
Maj. Alexander Mackenzie, in charge
of the Mississippi river improvements,
from Minneapolis to Des Moines Rapids,
has completed his plans and estimates
for work along the river during the
summer, under the SO, GOO, 900 appropri-
alton male by congress.
The Southern Society of New York
held its annual feast at the Brunswick
hotel, and Governor Fitzhugh Lee ere.
ated much enthusiasm by his speech, in
which he made the statement that God
made the races as distinct in customs.
habits and necessities as in color.
The senate committee on mines and
mining will probably make a favorable
report or the bill referring to the courts
for adjustment the celebrated Nc
Garaghn claim. McGaraghn claims
title in land in southern California, Of
which he says he has been deprived by
the government.
The directors of the national inaug-
ural ball have Just begun their work Of
transforming the great white court OF
the pension office into a beautiful ball
room, and shields, bunting, penants,
etc, lie in confusion on the tile floor.
The area of the marble tasselnted floor
10 be used for dancing is almost an acre.
The current of speculation in New
York during the week was directed al
most entirely by the conference at Chi,
cago, and there was a strong feeling OF
evaporation against the railroad man
ayers VINO have held out against the In
terest of capitol and investors. appar.
emily in utter disregard of the stock
holders.