The Dickinson press., 1884-08-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

st. Paul has population of l18, 600.
A leper has lived in Boston for
seven years.
A Mormon missionary has been
sent to Hayti.
Fifty Canadian papers declare for
independence.
Ipswich, Mass, celebrates August
l6, it's 250th anniversary.
The flax crop Of Dakota is esti. |
mated at 100000 bushels.
The Masons of st. Paul are talking
of building 100000 temple.
The total cost of the Greely relief
expedition is about 100000.
Texas droughts have injured all the
crops. Cotton is particularly critical.
Nearly the entire town of DEVILS
Lake was destroyed by fire Monday
night.
Officer Laughlin who was shot by
roughs in Minneapolis, died on Mon.
day night.
The Texas fever has broken out
among the cattle herds of western
Nebraska.
Judge Seward Smith was sworn in :
by Judge Edgerton at Yankton last
Saturday.
Wardwell, the treasurer of Penn
bina county, is defaulter to the
amount of $4,000.
Seven horse thieves stretched hemp
ut the mouth of the N[usselshell,
Montana, Tuesday.
Cleveland was officially notified of
his nomination for the presidency.
Tuesday, at Albany.
Mississippi has 444,l4l school child
rem for whom but 81 cents a head is
annually appropriated.
The losses to the crops from the
hail storm at Lisbon, Dakota, will
foot up over $5O,00O.
The cholera plague in Europe
seems to be abating it's force. Fewer
deaths are daily occurring.
Two Washington Territory China
men hacked another to pieces and
ran away. all samee Mclean man.
Lieut.. Greeley's wife has gone east
with her children to meet her hus-
band at Portsmouth, N. H., to-day.
Drouth is hurting crops in the Ohio
valley OH both sides of the river.
Corn is tasseling less than shoulder
high.
Fifteen members of the Salvation
Army were Jailed at Rochester, N.
Y, Sunday, for marching and singing
in the streets.
Congressman W. w. Culbertson,
of Kentucky, shot himself at his
room in Washington Wednesday and
will probably die.
The corner stone of the new Epis-
copal church was laid at Jamestown
Tuesday with imposing ceremonies
by Bishop Walker.
A cyclone passed over Kansas OH
Saturday, demolishing a number of
houses. The wind reached q velocity
Of eighty-seyen miles an hour.
A public reception will be given
the Greeley relief party on their re-
turn to Portsmouth, N. H., in which
the city and the state officials will
take part.
James Raynes, statistical agent for
Dakota, says the yield of wheat will
be twenty bushels per acre. making
Il total of 2O,OOO,O0O bushels in the
territory.
A railroad bridge over the White
river in Indiana gave way Monday
precipitating two coaches and pas
sengers into the river. Only one per-
son was killed.
The first commercially successful
electric railroad in America was
started in operation in Cleveland,
Ohio, on Saturday, by the East Cleve-
land railroad company.
Superintendent Thompson, of the
railway mail service, who has been
on an extended trip through the West
and Northwest in connection with
the service, returned to Washington,
Monday.
The following shows the amount of
grain in store at Chicago on July %:
Wheat, 9. eco bushels; co ID, 972 OGO
bushels; oats. 100000 bushels; rye,
$4,000 bushels; barley, $1,000 bushels:
total, 3,77l,GOO bushels: against 1885,
0C0 at the same date one year ago.
The visible supply of grain July 26:
Wheat, 1881, Geo bushels: CON, A.
l5l,C0O bushels: oats, 22l4,000 bush
els; rye 2l9,000 bushels; bailey, 25l,-
600 bushels. Wheat shows decrease
of 100000 bushels rs compared with
the same date of q year ago.
If the fountain is pure the streams
will be pure also. SO with the blood.
If that be pure the health is estab-
lshed. Parsons Purgative Pills
make new, rich blood, and taken one
a night will change the blood in the
entire system in three months.
Davis & Fowler, the Druggists, are