The Dickinson press., 1888-01-07


MIR Powdcrly's physicians forbid him
hearing anything of the Reading strike.
An elevator at Ada, Mimi, containing
10000 bushels of wheat was burned
Thursday, Loss, $25, 1000.
single sheet Of paper six feet wide
and seven miles long has just been fln-
ished at Il New York paper mill.
The South Bend Toy works were de-
stroyed by fire Thursday The loss is
about $40, 600; insurance. about $4,000.
The coinage Of the Mexican mints dur
ing the past year foots up in gold and
silver the handsome sum of *27,433,07
Unusually severe winter and heavy
SHOWS are reported in various parts Of
Europe In Austria railroad trains are
blockaded.
Small poX at san Francisco is increas-
ing at an alarming extent. The board of
health will take active measures against
the disease.
A mortgage Of $2,OOO,0 600 given by the
Minnesota Il Northwestern to the Metro
politan Trust company of New York was
filed with the recorder at Dubuque
Thursday.
Barnum has bought the great attrac-
tions OF the Paris hippodrome.
Mr. MARITIME thinks Gould and Sage
should be indicted for grand larceny
The London Times celebrated the Tooth
anniversary Of its foundation Sunday.
The first train out of the new union
depot ut Saltwater left Saturday fore
noon.
All the executive departments closed at
noon Sat lrday and will not be open
again for business until Tuesday morn
ing.
Mr. Harrington, the Irish agtator, in
an interview said that the league receipts
from America since 1885 had been very
small.
The coroner's jury in the Billings
Kingsley tragedy at Waverly, Iowa,
brought in verdict that Kingsley was
deliberately murdered by Billings.
A Minnesota Republican state league
is about to be organized.
Charges are made in the Chicago papers
that under the present postmaster the
mails are being tampered with regularly
The working force of the Gould system
cent. Jan. l, causing much dissatisfac-
ton.
AT n meeting of the Duluth Cemetery
association on Saturday leading members
were strongly in favor of building Gre
matory.
The total number OF ofpassengers carried
by the Minneapolis street cars during
1887 reached 13,073,O00. The gross
receipts were s653, ,652.85.
Roumania is increasing her military
equipments and can enter the field with
800, 600 men if necessary.
The Canadian Pacific's net profit from
Jan. to Nov, 80 were $3,!40,5 as
against 81, 423, 241 for the same period IN
1856.
Don NJ. Dickinson is daily at the post
Office department in Washington famil-
inrizing himself with the duties he will
soon take charge of.
Coal dealers in Chicago express the
opinion that the labor troubles Oh the
Reading railroad will not result in any
advance in the price Of coal in the West.
The coinage at the mints during De-
cember, 1887, was $5,762, ,G85, of which
81, 1885, 200 were standard silver dollars
Alexander Duncan, Yale 10, of Lon
don, Eng. has given Yale S75, 900 to be
used as the university authorities deem
best
The state of Alabama has let out all Of
its convicts on ten-year con tracts to work
in the coal mines near Birmingham.
They number 600.
a collision occurred between two
freight trains at Olympic, KY, Tuesday.
y brakeman was instantly killed and
several other persons seriously injured
Hon. John n. Ellis, a member of the
Dominion parliament, and also an edi-
tor, is threatened with impeachment for
advocating annexation in his paper, the
st. John Globe.
The st. Paul chamber of commerce
will celebrate the twenty-firs anniver-
sary of its organization on Jan. 10, by q
grand reunion of the members and busi-
ness men of the city.
The Omaha, the Manitoba and the Mon
tana Central roads have issued a through
freight tariff between Omaha, Neb., or
Sioux City, Iowa, and Helena, NJ. T.,
subject to Western classification.
The Calumet Mine Fire.