The Dickinson press., 1890-12-06
T%ELEGRAPHIc eREv,TlEs.

AtiiN Ao1 ello pIOulUUlOu VI Geu.
Booths philanthropic sheme has now
reached $500, 600.
The official count makes the Illinois
Legislature stand: Democrats 1G1, Re-
publicans 100, Alliance 8.
A Hamburg dispatch says that eS-
ports to America have fallen off consid-
erably during November.
Statistics show that the Republican
vote in Italy at the recent election was
2o0,0 0 greater than \ former election.
Ellis Miller, of Union county, Ohio,
was hung in the annex of the peniten-
tiary at Columbus, shortly after mid
night Monday.
The president has appointed Henry NJ.
Gracey, Of Massachusetts,, to be marshal
of the consular court of the United
States at Foo Chow, China.
The snow storm in England is the
severest since the Crimean war. Sheep
are dying by thousands, it being impos-
sible to give them food and shelter.
1t is reported that Mrs. O'Shea is
plunged in tho deepest grief by the
erect OF the Glvorce suit upon the for
tunes of Mr.. Parnel, and that fears are
felt for her health.
Accounts received at Vienna of the
disaster incident to the storms in b.
hernia show that twenty persons are
known to have persisted from cold and
starvation i'll the Saale valley alone.
1t is reported that the will of the late
Lady Roseberry, daughter of Baron
Meyer Rothschild, leaves a magnificent
provision for Lord Roseberry, in addi-
ton to the 1900, 900 pounds as a dowry.
A sensation has been caused in Servia
by the evidence that the divorce of ex-
King Milan from Queen Natalie was
not legally granted. Metropolitan
Michael is blamed for not announcing
the fact before.
Four young men left Pittsburg on
Monday for Africa on an exploring ex-
petition, their object being to prove
that Stanley has greatly exaggerated the
hardshlps to be met with in travelling
through the Dark Continent.
The special election to fill the vacancy
caused by the election of Mayor Peck
Tuesday. The vote was very light,
Peter J. Somer, Dem, 10, $40; f. d.
M~agdeburg, Rep, 6,89l; John Stippick,
Labor, 1,131.
Hon. Isaac N. Jordan, a prominent
laWyerof Cincinnati. n ex-member Of
congress was instantly killed Wednes-
day by falling through an elevator shaft
at Lincoln's court, Cincinnati. which
had been carelessly left open.
From Tipperary como word that a
number Of tenants have seized the on.
portunity of tho Generalization of the
home rule cause to make their peace
with Smith-Barry, and are about to re-
occupy their deserted farms.
The official crop bulletin Of the Mani
toba government gives the yield of
wheat at 20.i bushels to the acre: oats
Alb; barley, 3s,1; potatoes, 235. The
total product Of wheat is 1865, 750,
nearly double last years; Of oats,
9,513,4333; barley, 2,069,415: potatoes,
2,540,s90.
Sheriff Matson, of Chicago, before
turning his office over to his successor
burned all the ropes with which the
anarchists We're hanged. !Jo said he did
it because fakirs all over the country
We're selling bogus bits of "angrchist
rope"
a Paris dispatch says that in q ser
mon delivered by Father Hyacinthe on
the relations of church and state. he adj
vocated that priests be allowed to marry,
following his own example, which, he
said, had been most happy in its results
to himself.
Six business places in Dustin, Pa,
We're burned Monday night. Loss,
$4,000; insurance small. The cause Of
the fire was an explosion of an oil stove
in a drug store. The village was de-
stroyed by fire only a few months ago
and was being rebuilt.
Advices by the steamer Australia.
Which has arrived at San Francisco.
state that King Kalakaua is coming to
San Francisco on the cruiser Charleston
and will arrive the latter part of next
week. The journey is made solely in
the interest of his health, and will not
extend beyond California.
Fire, Monday, in the extensive manu-
featuring establishment of the A,
Campbell Manufacturing company, cot
ton yarns, located on the canal bank, at
the foot of Robson street, Manayunk.
Pa, did damage amounting to $500. 900.
One fireman was killed and three others
were badly hurt by falling walls.
The president has appointed a COM
mission to select a sight for a govern
ment dry dock at some point on the
Gulf of Mexico. The commission con-
sists Of Capt. F. NJ. Bunce. U. S. NJ,
president; Col. G. s. Comstock, corps Of
engineers, U. S. A.; Sidney Perham, of
Maine; David 7. Little, of Illinois;
Lieut.. R. M. q. Brown, u. S. N.
Advices from Erzeroum are to the
effect that the Armenian insurgents in
SILICA have obtained several successes
against the Turkish troops. The insur-
gents are mountainous who had MAIN
tanned their independence of the sultan
for centuries, and until within about
twenty years, when a Turkish garrison
was established among them.
A betrothal is being arranged between
the 10.year-old Queen Wilhelmine of
Holland, and the hereditary prince of
Nassau, William, heir to the duchy of
Luxembourg, VINO is nov 80 years old.
The object of the alliance is to prevent
Luxembourg from falling into the hands
of Germany, and to preserve it as a part
of the kingdom of Holland, as it was
before the death of the late King
William.
Congressman Haugen has agreed to
allow the contest for the River Falls,
Wis, p~ostofice to be decided by q bal
lot of Republicans, Saturday, Dec. 6.
The candidates are Charles Ellis, Will
lam Ensign, Olaf Halls and George
Reed. The present incumbent, Rod
McGregor, is a Democrat, but as he is
very popular he is allowed to enter the
contest, and if he receives a majority of
the votes cast will be recommended.
MI. Parnell's manifesto is received
with general surprise as being irrele-
vent to the issue, and a mere burst of
self-glorification. Interviews with sew
eral prominent Liberals at the clubs
reveals the belief that MIR. Parnell has
played his last card, and alienated him
self forever from tho English Liberals,
with whom no alliance can ever again be
a hoped for by him. They regard him as
perfect egotist and q sneak. 1t is stated
that Mr.. Gladstone is preparing a renly
to Mr.. Parnell.
A man died in st. Paul the other day
leaving u fortune of 81, 600. The
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