The Dickinson press., 1890-08-09
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD,
Important Happeningsfr from All
Parts OF the World Con.
clscly ChrOnicleG.

Important Happenings from All
Parts OF the World Con.
ciscly Chr0nicled.
A Complete Resume of Crimes.
Casualties and Current Events
for the Week.
Two men were killed by a boiler ex-
plosion ut Muncie, Ind.
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters
Is IN biennial session in Chicago.
Chancellor Caprivi will accompany
Emperor. William on his visit to the
car.
The Canadian Pacific depot ut Win
3nlpeg was tired by lightning Friday and
burned.
Three children from the orphan asy.
!ulm at Toronto were run over at q cross
ing and killed.
W.K. Vanderbilt has offered Governor
SIprague 100000 for his country estate,
"Canonchet."
Sixty miles of the Santa Fe road be-
tween Benson and Nogales, Ariz.. has
been washed out.
The crops in several sections of Vir-
glnla are fast going to ruin by reason of
the prolonged drouth.
President Celman, Of Argentine, has
been compelled at last to resign. The
resignation has been accepted.
Two Of the men injured in the explo-
sion at the mine at st. Etienne, Franco,
have died from their injuries.
At the Charlestown, Mass, navy ward
Wednesday night, the entire force of
rope makers was discharged.
The Farmers alliance party of Min
nesota, will hereafter be known as the
Alliance and Labor Union party:
The Turkish summer resort Pendik
has beer totally destroyed by fire. Sew
eral persons were burned to death.
Several acres of mills and lumber were
destroyed ut Saginaw, Mich, by fire.
The loss will aggregate nearly half y
million.
Adyices have been received at London
that by an inflow of salt water 5000
acres of rice and cotton have been de-
stroyed in egypt.
The Warehouses Of Londonderry will
Take a trip to America shortly, her ply
slclans having recommended q sea vow
age for her health.
Hanlan, the oarsman, has issued a
challenge for q three-mile race with
Gaudaur for Il, 900 to g. 800 a side. He
put up $3.50 as a forfeit.
It is now understood that the Comte
de Paris and his son will visit the
United States about the middle of
September, making a tour of about five
weeks.
A mob of soldiers combined with the
peasantry and destroyed the railroad at
Cutai, China, on the p~retense that it
caused the recent floods in the Pei-Ho
river.
Chicago carpenters are again asking
for an advance which bosses refuse.
Workmen have been instructed to stop
work on any job when the advance is
refused.
The Egyptian government has ap-
pointed o commission consisting of lead
ing physicians, to consider means to
prevent the introduction of the cholera
into Egypt.
A cyclone swept over Lake st. Louis
and the st. Lawrence, in the vicinity of
Montreal, Monday evening. Much
property was destroyed, but no lives are
reported lost.
The town of Mikolajow, in Galica,
has been destroyed by fire. Many lives
lives were lost during the c~onhagration.
The people of the place are destitute
and much suffering exists.
Seventy-one Indians who have COM
pleted a five years course at the govern
ment training school in Carlisle, left for
their homes in Idaho, Montana, Nevada,
Arizona and New Mexico.
The official rough count of the census
bureau shows the population of Phila-
delphia to be 1,044, 1874, which is an in
crease during the last ten years of 1877
724, or 1884 per cent.
Steamer OLDHAM arrived at New York
Friday with part of the crew of the
French schooner Christopher Colombo,
which she had run down and sunk.
-Four of the crew were drowned.
At S~usquehanna, Pa, Walter Hobbs.
aged H., Annie Hobbs, aged IA, ran
away with George Wyman and Myrtle
Wyman, aged IL and II respectively.
The two couples drove to Windsor, NY,
and were married.
At Buffalo, N. Y, Mrs. Wade, who
keeps q boarding house on East Market
street, Mary Sylvia, aged 16 years, and
her brother John, aged II, were arrested
charged with attempting to poison Annie
Sl!kes, q absolute woman, who lived
with the children's father.
The Hon. Thomas L. James, ex-post-
master general of the United States, and
now president of the Lincoln National
Bank of New York City, has accepted
the presidency of the East Tennessee
Land company, made vacant by the
death of General Clinton B. Fisk.
1t is stated upon good authority that
the queen will appoint Emperor William
honorary colonel of cavalry. 1t will be
remembered that on the occasion of the
Emperor's visit to England last year he
appointed her majesty honorary colonel
of a German regiment.
A decree of partial amnesty to those
persons who have been convicted of Of
lenses in connection with the labor
strikes has been issued by the govern
ment of France. Under this decree
fourteen prisoners have been released
and the sentences of twenty-five others
have been reduced.
The number of Turkish pilgrims to
the Shrine of Mecca this year Is put at
800 1000. The porte is said to be
greatly alarmed at the prospect of this
great army of travellers spreading chol.
era on their return to their homes. Such
precautions against this calamity as the
bankrupt treasury and ipefficiency OF
the sultan will allow, are being taken.
An international conference for the
purpose Of fixing a common meridian il
proposed to be held at Rome next year
The conference will also rrang q sys.