The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1883-08-18
NEWS IN BR1EF.

IfeQ0le GeDll5Iu HIS stl luCOLAo VI
$50, 1000 year.
The public debt was reduced $4,000
600 during July.
The experiment of cultivating oys-
ters in Devils Lake is to be tried.
Tower City, d. T. is to have new
railroad from that place to st. Louis.
Seventeen men were injured in the
Bozeman tunnel recently by thu stag
ing giving way.
It is reported that the wheat crop
of California will be twenty per cent
less than last year.
Two hundred men will be at work
on the capitol building at Bismarck,
within two weeks.
Fish Bros. & Hall, lumber man,t-
facturers of Duluth, Mimi, made an
assignment Tuesday.
st. Paul is to have % million dollar
hotel. 1t is designed to rival the
Palmer house of Chicago.
Post.offices have been established
at Duncan, Buffalo county, and Prior,
Roberts county, Dakota.
There was almost a panic on stock
exchange in London Tuesday in
American railroad securities.
The centennial of the incorpor-
alton of the city of Charleston, South
1oI a1
A British mail boat has sailed for
the Congo, carrying 5000 carbines
for Henry NJ. Stanley, the explorer.
Leprosy has made it's appearance
among the Scandinavians of eastern
Minnesota and northern Wisconsin.
A fire in Fargo, Saturday night de-
stroved the planning mill of Johnson s.
Nelson. Loss $1,000; insurance
$4,000.
From reports it is probable the
northern states of Mexico will be in
a state of revolution before the year
is out.
G. X. Grant, one of the old pioneers
of Montana, was shot and killed by
an Indian near Depuyer, Montana,
Wednesday.
Theodore Tilton is HOW i'll Europe
and Mrs. Tilton is said to be some-
where in central New Jersey taking
in sewing for living.
A fire broke out at Vineyard
Haven, Mass, Saturday night de-
stroying the whole village, and great
suffering is the result. An appeal for
aid has been sent out.
The mutilated remains of four men
were found in a camp on the Cincin-
land falls, Tenn, Monday. They had
fought over a game of cards.
Mrs. Garfield has given the horse
that Gen. Garfield rode at the battle
of Chicamauga to o. G. Moore of
Kent, who assisted the general to
mount it the first time he rode it.
A collision of trains near Bergen
tunnel, New Jersey, Monday resulted
in sevetely scalding David Halbutter
a passenger, and doing considerable
damage to one locomotive and several
cars.
Charles B. Wright, the ex-president
of the Northern Pacific road. has
given $4,000 toward the establish
ment of a boys college, and a like
sum for a girls college at Tacoma,
Wash. T.
Senator Allison's wife committed
suicide by drowning herself in the
Mississippi river, at Dubuque, Iowa,
Sunday night. Her body was re-
covered about mile below the city
the next day.
A fire at Atlanta, Ga, Sunday
morning destroyed the Kimball
House and several other buildings.
A number of guests were in the
hotel but all escaped. The loss is
over 81, 100000; insurance 100000
The Palestine Exploration fund has
indirectly recovered from Bedouin
tribe east of the Jordan. pieces of
skin containing portions of Deuter-
onomy and the Commandments, made
about 300 years before Christ.
! A man named Charles Henderson
stole an OK from farmer near Wah-
peton, d. T. and sold it to a butcher.
He was suspected and in an attempt
to arrest him he SCOT Anton Werder
in the groin, probably fatally wound
ing him. He made his escape.
The subcommittee of the United
States senate committee on labor and
education has been in session i'll New
York this week. The special subject
of investigation was strikes and labor
movements. Several witnesses, MEM
bers of the Brotherhood of telegraph
ers have been examined.
The general freight agent of the
Northern Pacific railroad has issued
a circular giving rates per carload
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