The Dickinson press., 1890-09-27
RESUME OF THE WEEK.
A BRIEF RECORD OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.

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A BRIEF RECORD OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.
Cream of Home and Foreign News
Skinned From tho Great Mass of Cur
rent Events and Dishcd Up without
Trimmings.
The cholera is decreasing in Masso-
wah.
Senior Frerao is forming a new cab
met for Portugal.
Prince Bismarck has taken a villa at
San Reno for the winter.
The Democrats of the Eighteenth
Kansas district nominated Thomas
Moonlight for congress.
A revolution has broken out in NUM-
pin, India. The maharajah has fled and
his brother has assumed control.
Stanley and his wife will for some
time be the guests of the Duchess de
Melzi ut Bellagio, near Lake Como.
Mrs. Gen. Fremont is quite i'll at Los
Angeles and in very straitened circum-
stances, verging on actual restitution.
A two inch dynamite bomb, sufficient
to blow up a train was found on the
Michigan Central tracks at Windsor,
Ont.
The report that an enormous orderfor
locomotives for German railways had
been placed in London is Officially de-
MED.
Consul General John G. New is en-
route home. Rumor has it that he is
coming to conduct the Indiana cam
paign.
Vancouver, Wash. is having a boom
on account of building through the town
of the Union Pacific branch to the
sound.
DIR. Arthur Taggart, of Groffstown,
was nominated for congress by the Re-
publicans of the First New Hampshire
district.
The reports of the Austrian state rail-
ways show largely increased traffic and
profits since the introduction Of uniform
low fares.
Eight thousand lace makers are idle
IN Calais, France, and rioting is feared.
An extra regiment of troops has been
ordered to the spot.
When the Comte de Paris started for
Liverpool on his way to America all the
royallst exile colony in England gath
cred to see the comte off.
Miss Nellie Willoughby, the noted
author II lecturer, was arrested
charged with burning her ex-husband's
livery stable, at Luverne, MINI.
John Kean, Jr., president of the State
National Bank of Elizabeth, has been
nominated for congress by the Republic
cans of the Third district of New Jer.
sey.
Official figures published at Ottawa
show that while Canada in 1888 i'm
ported 2,134.764 tons of hard coal, the
imports during 1889 fell to 1876, O85
tons.
A dispatch to The London from CAL
cutta says the government is inquiring
into the the question of age in Hindoo
marriages and will probably legislate on
the subject.
The ship Raglan, with wheat valued
at $04, 1000, from San Francisco, Feb. "a,
has not been heard from, and the
Gretna, from Europe, is many days
overdue at San Francisco.
Mrs. Sarah Mcintyre and her two
NcttSA1SS4o nC1O UuIuSu W uGutu ana
their home destroyed by a fire at Phila-
delphia, which was caused BY an intox-
icated son upsetting a lamp.
Charles Miller, Prohibition candidate
for governor of Pennsylvania. has writ
ten a letter Withdrawing his name from
the ticket, owing to the pressing de-
mands of business upon his time.
Sualim advices report the famine i'll
the interior as terrible. Thousands are
dying Of starvation. Caravans are plum
dered by the desperate natives to obtain
rood, and the owners are murdered if
they resist.
Mrs. Emma Cooper, formerly of Lock
port, Ills, has fallen heir to SO, 600, 900
i'll England. Some time ago She re-
moved to Fulton, N. Y, where she
keeps u dry goods store. Her maiden
was Garlic.
The incorporates of the North River
Bridge company, authorized by con-
gress, held their fifth meeting at New
York Friday. The minimum amount of
$1,000, 900, as specified by congress. was
announced to have been subscribed.
McAuliffe and Slavin were arrested
Monday in London to prevent their
prize fight which was to have taken
place that evening. they were bound
over to keep the peace. The men will
probably fight Oh the continent.
A terrible tragedy occurred at Ports
mouth, N. Fl. Fred Fl. Helm, a wronged
husband, shot his wife's paramour ia.
tally, then going home shot and killed
two daughters, aged IS and II, and ia.
tally injured a third, aged 13. He then
committed suicide.
There is every reason to believe that
within a short time the st. Paul and
Duluth will pass under the control Of
the Northern Pacific. The latter road
has been quietly buying up the formers
stock, and at the next election of officers
will probably have full control of the
policy of the Duluth road.
At Philadelphia, in the case of Charlie:
A%reutzen and other peddlers of tht
"Kreutzer Sonata" who had been ar
rested on the charge of selling obsccn,
literature, Presiding Judge Thayer zen
dered an opinion in which he decided
that the prisoners had committed NJ
%offense, and therefore discharged them
The largest sale of apples ever mad.
in Jackson county, Missouri, has bee,
efacto1 Cant 7, . Williams cold 4b,