The Dickinson press., 1890-05-24
REPORTS on NEWS
A Concise Summary OF Events
That Have Occurred During
the Past Week.
Short Recitals Of Crime, Disas-
tiers, and General Happen
ings of Interest.

The National Brewers association is
i n session at Washington.
The navy department has finally &C.
copied the cruiser Vesuvius.
The Republican national committee
will meet at Washington, May %.
Sullivan has decided to fight Nc
Auliffe before he meets Jackson.
Josiah Stanford, brother of Senator
Stanford, died at Oakland, CAL, Thurs
day.
The Ohio Republican convention has
been called to meet at Cleveland
July 16.
Kansas City's treasurer is short be-
tween $4,000 and 100000. Has been
suspended.
The Milwaukee road is to construct
stock yards in the Sioux reservation OPP
posite Chamberlain.
Henry Freeman. an Illinois farmer
was robbed of $13, 600 at the railway sta
ton at Delaware, Ohio.
The national conference of charities
and reforms in session at Baltimore for
the past week, has adjourned.
Frank McHugh, of Cincinnati, was
knocked out by Kennard, the ST. Paul
Kid. They fought at Buffalo.
The great flly Flyaway has broken
down and is hopeless cripple. Spo-
kane has been retired for the Season.
Mrs. Leslie denies the report from
London that her visit there is for the
purpose Of marrying the Marquis de
Leuville.
Iowa Indians have signifed their will
ingness to negotiate for the disposal of
their lands and the taking of lands in
severalty.
An uprising occurred at Porto Allegro,
Brazil. part of the troops joining the
insurgents. The outbreak was promptly
suppressed.
August r. Pantzker who is claimed to
be the Oldest volunteer soldier of the
late war died at Massillon, Ohio, Sun
day, aged so.
Eight of the Lincoln county, Louisi-
ana, bulldozers We're convicted and SEN
fenced to pay a fine of 800 and stay in
Jail three months.
By the explosion of a key of powder in
a Havana fire thirty-four persons were
killed and many others injured. Among
the killed were four fire chiefs and the
Venezuela consul.
Vienna physicianinsulteda Creation
girl and refused to apologize. She chal-
lenged him and they fought with
swords. She was the winner, giving
him two wounds.
Secretary Tracy has approved the
findings of the courtmartial in the
McCa!la case. The commander is sus-
pended for three years without loss of
his number on the navy roll.
According to reports received at the
St. Paul signal Office the rains of Satur-
day and Sunday were general through
out the Northwest. The benefit to
crops is timely and ~incalculable.
The United States supreme court has
rendered a decision in a Minnesota case
that the practice of money loaners
charging a commission on obtaining a
loan is usury and punishable according
ly.
The Russian government is informed
that the city of Tomsk, West Siberia.
has been almost totally DESTROYED by
flood and fire, involving the loss Of
many thousands. Noparticulars are OBJ
tainable.
By the explosion of gas in the Ashley
mine. at Wilkesbarre, Pa, twenty-eight
miners We're imprisoned Thursday.
Three bodies have been recovered. All
hope of getting the others out alive has
been abandoned.
Fifty-nine walters at the Palmer
House, Chicago, were discharged Mon
day, because they refused to leave the
Culinary alliance. Hotels have combined
for an aggressive war against the alli-
ance.
Too copious rains have caused a food
at Hornellsville, N. Y. Many houses
have had to be abandoned. In the Mo
hawk valley the fiat lands are flooded.
The Erie canal has been damaged CON
siderably.
Patrick Hynes, national treasurer of
the Ancient Order of Hibernians, is a
self-confessed embezzler to the amount
of $4,000. Members Of the order think
his stealings are more than that sum.
He has skipped.
Large numbers of respectable young
English women are being shipped to
Queensland, Australia, at the expense of
the Queensland government. They are
kept free Of cost after landing, until
proper employment is obtained.
The San Francisco Chronicle gives an
account Of a scheme Of Lower California
people to declare their independence of
Mexico, form a republic and finally ask
for annexation to the United States. The
names of the projectors are given.
The examination into the sanity of
ex-senator Charles W. Jones, of Florida,
took place at Detroit, Mich, Monday,
and the unfortunate man ordered com
mitted to the st. Joseph's retreat. Jones
will carry the case to the supreme court.
The publishing houses of D. Appleton
& Co., A. s. Barns & Co. ,%Ivision, Blake.
man & Co., of New York, Van Antwerp
& Co., of Cincinnati, and D. d. Merrill
of st. Paul, have been sold to the newly
formed American Book company.
Ed Smith, champion of Colorado, stood
up five rounds before Jackson at Battery
D, Chicago, without any apparent pun
ishment. His hackers have issued 6
challenge for a finish fight with any
pugilist except Sullivan, jackson anc
McAuliffe for s., 700 a side.
Stanley has suggested to the commit
tee in charge of the Stanley expedition
that the money raised be devoted to thu
equipment Of a steamer to ply on thu
Victoria Nyanza, in the service and fol
the benefit of the tribes of that region
Mrs. Florence Masterson, wife of ex
Judge Murat Masterson, of Prescott
Ariz., the man whose shooting affair il
a fashionable New York fiat brough
him into notoriety died in an elevator il
New York. She had come to New Yorl
to try to affect a reconciliation with he
husband, and physicians say it is a cas-
of broken heart.
Cuts In st. Louis Rates.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 19.-The Chicag
and Alton railroad has reduced the far
to Chicago to Sc to meet the cut mad
by the Wabash. The Burlington an
nounces a rate of "a to Chicago. L
order to make this rate they carry pas
sengers on their road from st. Louis t
Louisiana, Mo-, and thence to Chicago
the passenger ia carried IN tho Alto,