The Dickinson press., 1888-02-04
NEWS IN
Interesting Items Briefly Chronirlsd for
Our RoRders.

Intercstins items Briefly Chronirled for
Our Readers.
The president has approved the postal
convention recently concluded between
the United States and Canada.
The senate has confirmed the nominA-
lions Of y. w. Mcconnell, chief justice
of Montana, and S. DeWolfe, associate
Justice of Montana.
The captain of the schooner j. Ken
nedy, which arrived at Newport, r. L.,
Thursday night, reported about fifty ves-
sells in the ice on the shoals.
II is runore that the st. Paul q Du-
luth road has leased trackage from the
crossing over the river into Minneapolis
and is now arranging for terminal facili-
ties in that city.
The Chicago g. Northwestern railway
started out its new rotary snow pillow
Thursday morning On the Winona s. st.
Peter division. A number Of general
officers of the company accompanied the
pillow on its trial trip.
The Albert Lea city council has de-
clnred its electric light contract void.
4. monster mass meeting was held at
Kansas City to urge the carly opening Of
Indian territory to settlement.
The Eastern lines have referred tho
matter Of meeting the Soo's flour rate to
Chairmen Fink and Blanchard. The cut
will probably be met.
The New York Democratic state COM
mittee adjourned sine die without having
made Il choice Of state member Of tho
national committee.
Tho tnry,c of ap1iotp,op$ oS f,,,,~or-
II, First regiment, located at ~Iitchfield,
will expire in February. Enough new
members will he secured to continue the
organization.
A full-blooded Chinaman's name ap-
pears Oh the registry lists Of Duluth.
The Standard Oil company's tank to be
built at Duluth will be the largest in the
world.
The eclipse of the moon Saturday was
successfully observed at several points in
Dakota and Minnesota.
An order has been issued by the Mon
tana supreme court providing for q re-
districting of the territory.
The commissioner of agriculture
charges that the crops of Minnesota and
Dakota are Systematically overestimated.
$. j. Dean has sold the Huron Herald
to the Free Trade Democrat pro-
prietors. This leaves only one Demo-
cratic paper in Huron.
The announcement that the Illinois
Central Railway company will build ex-
h, tensively in Dakota this year makes
Mitchell feel confident Of securing one Of
their lines.
Citizens of Mitchell, Oak, are raising
funds to buy a carload Of corr to he
shipped to the governor of Kansas, in re-
spouse to his appeal for aid for the suff-
erers of that state.
AT Brookings, OAK, it is estimated
that more than 100 head Of cattle per-
ished il the county during the late
storm. Some farmers are losing their
cattle from a disease similar to blackfoR.
a new creamery with a capacity Of 2O0
pounds u day is to be started in Alexan-
dria: OAK, April 1.
A snow pillow was thrown from the
track at st. Johnsbury, VT, and one ma
was quite seriously injured.
a caboose jumped the track at Housa.
tonic, Mass, and fifteen men were in
jured, though mont fatally.
Senator Stanford reported favorably
bills for public buildings at Omaha,
Neb., $4,000 QUO; Portland, Ore, $500,
600.
The Bankers Mutual Relief associa.
ton, OF Aberdeen, has been notified tc
show cause why it should not be sup.
pressed.
1t is said that Mayor Hewitt, of New
York, is getting a small presidential bee
in his bonnet and he may yet have quite
a boom.
Albany, n. Y, has twelve cases O
smallpox.
There is now no difficulty from snow or
any of the main lines of the Northwest
ern roads.
I: The pope's Jubilee presents are valued
at 100000, 600, more than half of which
is in ready money.
There will be a partial eclipse of tn.
u next mouth, and any II can see il
by going to South America.
Bad management and too many Office
seekers has caused an almost total col
lapse of the Knights Of Labor organise
ton in New Hampshire.
The Minnesota supreme court has de
cided that the high license law is consti
tutional, but that wholesale dealers ar,
Z not liable to the II, 900 license.
j. X. Sides will was read in Mime
: apolis. 1t leaves the entire income o
property to his wife. AT her death it /
/, to be divided among his children.
. wilkins, the mAn who married an,
!. lived with five different women at tn
, same time in St. Paul was arrested q
y Pelican Rapids and taken to the scene q
his explettS AunnAr.