The Dickinson press., 1890-08-23
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Important Happenings from All
Part. or the World Con.
cisciy ChroniclcG.

St-Cly NNif0IliClCG.
A Complete Resume Of Crimes,
Casualties and Current Events
for the Week.
Governor Humphrey, of Kansas, has
proclaimed Labor Day, Sept. 1, u holi-
day.
The Lake Shore road is double track
ing its entire line from Toledo to Chi
cago.
An explosion occurred in q distillery at
Poser, killing ten men and injuring sew
eral others.
The work of the census enumcrators
shows the population of Maine to be
Gos. 453,m increase of $500 since 1880.
The census office has completed the
rough count Of the State of Delaware.
1t shows the population to be 1851.
Fire destroyed forty-two business
houses and u large number of dwellings,
at Austin, Pa. Loss estimated at $780,
600.
A summary of the spring wheat crop,
given by The farmers Review, of Chi
cago, shows a shortage of 5000, COO bush
els.
a wholesale massacre of Christians
has occurred at Moosh, in Armenia, and
similar outrages are reported from other
places.
An organized movement for the emil
grafton OF negroes from North Carolina
this winter, to the South and West is
under way.
StyIia, a duchy in Austro-H Hungary,
has been ravaged by storm and flood,
the losses attaining the dimensions of u
national calamity.
Nauvoo, Ills, reports an unpreceGent-
edly large grape crop. The manufacture
of Wine in that locality is becoming an
important industry.
A mysterious explosion occurred at
the Kendall soap factory, at Providence,
R. l., in which ten persons were badly
burned. Two will die.
1t is reported that the world'sfair will
be located on a tract of land east Of
Rogers park, Chicago, on the lake shore,
and just inside the city limits.
A Des Moines young lady named AL.
Smith was arrested Tuesday for circr-
lating obscene literature through the
mails. She had been carrying on q big
business for some time.
1t is said at the state department that
the services of the United States have
been rendered as peacemaker between
Guatemala and Salvador.
A Northern Pacific train was wrecked
in collision near Garrison, Mont. Miss
Potter, of Lansing, Mich, was killed
and several others injured.
The press censors of Sweden and Nor
way ave been instructed by King o.
car to relax the severity with which tho
censorship has recently been exercised.
emhankment by a rear-end collision on
the Pan Handle railroad. Two droyers
and two train1nen We're badly iniuccd.
Thornton's cloth mills, in st. Peters
burg. We're partly destroyed by fire.
The loss is ascertained to have been
1000. 600 roubles. Eight work,nen were
killed.
1t has been announced that the we'd
ding of Miss Julia, daughter of ex-Goy-
ernor Larrabee, would occur at Cler-
mont, Aug. IL. Don Love, of Kansas,
is the bridegroom.
A German named Won Gemling has
stolen the seal of the Berne university
and fled to the United States, where it
is believed he will issue fraudulent d.
pIomas for doctors.
A terrible explosion occurred at a
I country saw mill twelve miles west of
Ncwberry, s. G. -Four men, one white
and three colored, were killed and two
rOlO1.a1 ma Sorin11S1y ipi,1ro6
Miss Mary L. Weldon, of Schwcin-
furth's "heaven" at Rockford, Ills. has
given birth to another baby whose par
entage is charged to the holy ghost by
the new Christ.
The supervisor of census authorizes
the statement that in round numbers
the present population of Vermont is
1862, 200. The census return of 1880 gave
the population as 3;332e, 900.
Nellie Taylor, a dissolute Chicago
woman, was lassoed by her lover,
Bud" Harris, and hanged to a gas fix.
ture. She was rescued by the police,
but the shock will kill her, the doctors
say.
AT the midsummer handicap games of
the Detroit Athletic club, Harry Jewett,
of Chicago,a Notre Dame student, broke
the American hop-step-and-jnmp record.
The record has been A feet s inches.
Jewett made "A feet 81 inches.
At the Shelby Iron works near Birm.
ingham, Ala, a bloody fight occurred
between the negro laborers and a crowd
of negro gamblers. Several women
were also mixed up in it. Three mel
and one woman were killed and eight OF
fen nprS0nS wounded
It is expected that a gigantic strike Of
bakers will shortly be organized in Ber,
lin. The movement will involve all Of
the journeymen bakers in the city and
efforts are being made by the leaders tt
include the bakers of other cities. The
distress which will result from such ;
strike can scarcely be estimated.
Italy has completed arrangements fol
the establishment of a line Of steamers
to Africa, which it is expected will rs
sist in the work Of BUSTING the Aus
TRANS. Spain is extending her territory
i'll Morocco, and strongly fortifyins he
advanced positions against the attacks
Of rebellious natives.
Engine No. 17S, one of the new ton
wheel passenger engines on the BIZ
Four road, now running on the st
Louis DIVISION, laSC week ran q numDe
of miles at a speed Of a mile in As sec
onds, and n mile, it is claimed, wa
run in Al seconds: the engine haulin!
six cars.
Branches of Michael Davitt's 1.ay
labor union are organizing in Limeric]
and other places in Ireland with grea
rapidity. The scheme meets with favo
everywhere and the organization bid
fair to become a powerful lever in NOV
ing employers to a proper sense OF thei
duty towards their employees.
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