The Dickinson press., 1885-01-10

year. oullt. Year. built. Year. built
ls7e.......2,7l2 lsso........ 7,,l7it lss4......a.s7
1877. .......2,2S 1877. ....... 9,7S3j
1885,. ....2,6S7ilSS ........11.5 9Gl
Wash Conner figures out Jay Gould's income
at $6,NO,O00a year.
The total railway construction for 1884 was
$3.50 miles. the lowest since 1878.
The anthracite coal conference agreed on
3O,0W, Geo tons as the production of 1856.
r. Plat Carpenter, governor of Montana,
left his home at Poushkccl sic, N. Y. for Helena.
Henry Biswangcr Of Philadelphia dropped
dead while sitting at o table telling q joke to a
friend.
The Louisiana sugar crop is said to be very
poor, and planters are gloomy over next years
prospects.
Col. Wolf has been called to Washington to
tell what became of that $22, 500 of Cherokee
appropriation.
Miss ophclia Glover, of Bismarck, while
temporarily derangcd, committed suicide by
taking strychnine.
Now York newspapers are said to be in a
very hard-up condition, owing to sadly de-
SASS
Friends of the Blair educational bill say they
intend to push it to the front in the house soon
after the reassembling of congress.
A man who registered as Arthur Peter son of
Sturgis committed suicide at the Overland
hotel, Deadwood, by taking morphine.
Mrs. Camm ack of Washington found deeds
in an old trunk substantiating q claim to $15,-
100000 worth of property in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Lucia W. Roebling, widow of the late
John A. Roebling, the famous engineer, died
recently after q protracted illness at New York.
Gen. Woiseley has received q small piece of
paper with Gen. Gordon's genuine seal on the
back, dated Dec. IA, saying khartoum was all
right
Merrells g. Co, lumber dealers of Pittsfeld
are embarrassed Liabilities, 100000 to $780,
GC0, largely to Western lumbermen and in
dorsers.
Chester Holcombc, secretary of the American
legation at Pekin, asserts That the Chinese re-
gard the United States more highly than any
other nation.
Ex-Gov. Ordway has organized a Dakota
banking and investment company, with a
branch Office in Washington and headquarters
at Bismarck.
TIE Christmas club, o benevolent and char
table institution Of which Miss Nellie Arthur
is president, gave q Christmas dinner to quo
poor children.
Watertown, Oak, has made arrangements to
leave his extensive farms and return to Owa-
tonna to reside.
The newspapers of New York are said to be
experiencing o season of very hardtimes, nearly
all of them having suffered seriously from
loss of subscribers.
Cards are out at Gordonville, Va, for the
marriage of Master Willie Scott of Gordonville,
aged four years, and Miss Jennie Perry of
Charleston, w. Va, aged six years.
At lifin, Ohio, Young Man Buckley gained
the affections and the fortune of Widow Crom-
well, aged seventy-five, eloped with her, and
is now missing with her 100000.
Treasurer Wyman says that the department
at Washington is still able to furnish one and
two-dolar notes in any quantities desired for
the redemption of mutilated currency.
Miss Tiny Willer died at Papillion, Neb.
from an abortion produced b d,uys purchased
in Omaha. An effort is being made to discover
her seducer, who is supposed to live in Omaha.
1t is said at Omaha that Superintendent
Ravens, of the Union Pacific bridge division,
recently made q determined effort to commit
suicide with morphine. He has been sick for
some time.
In the Christ church cathedral, Berlin, re-
Gently, Lord William %Conyngham Plunket, lord
bishop of Meath, was cOnsecrated archbishop
of Dublin. The bishop ofLimerick performed
the ceremony.
Victoriano Nienez, o millionaire of Carmen,
Mexico, celebrating his golden wedding recent
ly, sent $780, 600 in a lump to the locust-eatcn
help pay it's debts.
Sylvester Marsh, protector and president of
the Mount Washington railroad, diedat Con-
cord, N. H., recently, aged cighty-one. He
was one of the pioneers in the pork packing
business i'll the west.
Gen. Fremont is going to Mexico to examine
the title to 1900, GOO acres of land purchased
by. an American syndicate. II is proposed to
bring over from Europe a colony of 1000 per.
Sons to settle on the tract
The tug Admiral exploded at Chicago. As
soon as the smoke cleared away a search was
made for the crew, three i'll number. They
were Capt Andrew Green, Engineer JOSEPH
ASoeA oAo IA A1OAS, AlCllluu.
The will of Rev. Henry De Koven, who died
in Switzerland last July, was filed in Chicago.
He disposcs of s25, Coo worth of real estate and
10000 worth Of personal property, and leaves
it all to his wife, Charlotte De Koven.
Prof. Doremus of New York says the Egvp.
tan obelisk in Central Park is steadily and
surely d~islntegrating under the influences of
American weather. He predicts that in 5l
years the hieroglyphics will be illeglble.
Building and other improvements in Furgus
Falls the past year were as follows: Business
blocks, s:2e5 900; residences, sS5, Geo; street
improvements, $4,000; churches, s4,WO; to.
tai city improvements testimated), 1924 600.
The deficit of the last worlds exposition If
Paris was upward of sG,0Oo,o 900, and that O,
Vienna in 1913, was over $4,000, GOO. The
Philadelphia fair i'll 1876, was the only one
since that of London, in 1852, that paid expen.
ses.
An important contract has been made in New
York, which calls for the delivery of abou
100000 pounds of Lake Superior ingot COP.
per. Deliveries are to be mado monthly 70,
tho five months next ensuing, beginning witt
January.