Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1890-10-03
RESUME OF THE WEEK.
A BRIEF RECORD or IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS. M

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Tippoo lib, the great Central African
slave and ivory potentate, is on pill
grimage to Mecca.
A revolution has broken out in NUM-
pin, India. The maharajah has fed and
his brother has assumed control.
An expedition to explore the desert of
Cobb is about to be despatched to Mon
golia by the Russian government.
The Courier Franchise, of Paris. says
President Carnot is expected to visit
Queen Victoria at Windsor next spsing.
A dispatch from Algiers says that a
cyclone has swept over a large portion
OF Algeria, doing an immense amount
Of damage. ..s.
Emperor William will pay another
visit TO Field Marshal Won Moltke on
Oct. 26, the ninetieth anniversary of the
generals birth.
At Montichiari batteries of artillery
using smokeless powder kept up fire
for half an hour without their position
being discovered.
The Knights Of Labor and the Pro-
gressive union of the coke regions have
amalgamated. The new society has a
membership Of 10000.
When the Comte de Paris started for
Liverpool on his way to America all the
royalist exile colony in England gath
cred to see the comte off.
The population of the village of Wash
burn, Wis, according to the recount
just completed, is 2,7S9. The count of
June showed only 1850.
A cave-in of the Kelley Run colliery
destroyed the foundations of twenty
houses in Shenandoah, Pa, and caused
wide and deep cracks in some of the
streets.
The celebration of the Tooth anniver-
sary OF the introduction into this ccun-
try of cotton spinning by power by
Samuel Slater, in the City of Pawtucket
began there Monday.
Secretary Kramer, of the Johnstown
flood commission, is making arrange
rnents for the second payment of the
orphans annuity on Nov. /. Each Or
phan will receive $50.
A majority of the South American
governments have signified their support
Of the project for an international exhi-
discovery of America.
Chief Arthur is in San Francisco for
the purpose of adjusting, if possible,
the differences between the engineers of
the Southern Pacic railroad and the off,
cials of the company.
Secretary Quin, of the Milwaukees said
Thursday: aYou can state positively
that the Milwaukee team, as it now
stands, will be put into the American
association next year, The deal has
been completed, and it is a settled fact"
Suakim advices report the famine in
the interior as terrible. Thousands are
dying of starvation. Caravans are plum
dered by the desperate natives to obtain
food, and the owners are murdered If
they resist.
Official statistics from twenty-one
counties in Eastern Kansas show that
since Jan. 1, 4.061 mortgages have been
recorded and $500 released, or a de-
crease in mortgage indebtedness of those
counties of II per cent.
Advices from st. Petersburg state that
it is proposed to employ political and
other convicts in the building of rail
ways through that country. The COM
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has completed its labors.
The condition of the king of Holland,
W I'D ON Saturday suffered relapse, has
become of the gravest character. DIR.
Rosenstein, the famous medical expert
of Leyden, has been summoned from
that city to the kings bedside.
1t is reported that civil war is immi-
nent in Chilli, owing to the contest be-
tween congress and the president, who
refuses to choose new cabinet. The
president is backed by the troops, while
congress has the support of the people.
At Philadelphia, in the case of Charles
Areutzen and other peddlers Of the
"Kreutzer Sonata" who had been ar
rested on the charge of selling obscene
literature, Presiding Judge Thayer rem
dered an opinion in which he decided
that the prisoners had committed no
offepse, and therefore discharged them.
1t is now reasonably certain that a
fight will be arranged between Dempsey
and Fitzslmmons, to take place before
the Olympic club in New Orleans.
Dempsey wired the club to forward the
articles of agreement on the basis pro-
posed, to-wit: Purse of 81, ,000 The
date of the fight has not yet been deter
mined, hat it will probably take place
the last week in October.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
the Chinese propose sending their mag
nificent feet, now under command of
Chinese naval officers, on a voyage
across the Pacific. to prove to the world
Chinas ability to handle o feet in the
open sea. Heretofore Chinese war
ships have been content to cruise along
the coasts and islands with an occasional