The Dickinson press., 1890-12-20
EVENTS E%PIToMlzED.
News From AL Sections of This and For
cign Countries.

3SNS FROM All SCCIlONS OF klllS anu For
cign Countries.
4 mechanics lien for SIG, 6i5 has been
filed against DR.. Talmage's Brooklyn
Tabernacle.
The masons Of Lippe, to the number
of 1900, will strike in q fortnight for
an increase of wages.
benjamin NJ. stillwell, an old and
we'll known lawyer of New York, died
suddenly Wednesday night.
The Crown Prince and Princess Of
Greece will spend the Christmas holi-
days at the English court.
Polk Wilson YVES convicted at Cham
bersburg, Pa, Of uttering eighty oaths,
and sentenced to eighty days in Jail.
Two sons of the car of Russia, Mich
olas Alexandrovitch and George Alex
a%ndrovitch, will come to America next
spring.
The schooner sunk off Harborville, N.
S., in the gale of Dec. /, when all hands
were lost, is believed to have been the
Daniel Marcy, of Boston.
The Dun iman agency reports con-
siderable increase in failures in Canada
during the last quarter, as compared
with the same period last year.
Henry George is at present lying at
his home in New York suffering from
nervous prostration, caused by over
work. His condition is not serious.
In Leiningen, Germany, a crowd of
people assaulted a doctor who admins.
tered an injection of the Koch lymph
to a patient who died shortly afterward.
Chief Mayes has received a telegram
from the Lucas Cattle company. Of Col
orado, asking him if he will entertain a
bid Of $50, 000, 900 for the Cherokee strip.
After March 4 next, Senator Petit
grew will no longer be the youngest
member of the senate, as Irby, of South
Carolina, who is So years old, will sue
coed to that honor.
1t is reported at Zanzibar that the
sultan of Vitu and his followers have
destroyed an English mission station on
the Tana river. Several native Chris
tians were killed by the sultan's people.
The owners of the Dominion Cotton
mills company, which now controls all
the mills in Canada. have decided to sell
out. An advance ill cotton may Ike
looked for, as the mills have lost money
of late.
From present indications fully 1000
men will be on hand to file claims next
Saturday VIXEN the water reserve lands
at Wausau, Wis, will he opened.
Crowds of men are entering the city by
every train.
Rubinstein's resignation of the direc-
torship of the ST. Petersburg conserva-
tory is said to have been brought about
by the anti-Senites. The distinguished
composer, it is said. will leave Russia
and go either to Rome or Paris.
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.
Much havoc has been wrought bv
storms on the southern coasts Of Europe,
especially around Sardinia, in which
vicinity eleven persons are known to
have been killed and fifty injured, while
many vessels were wrecked and a num-
Der of houses shattered.
Mrs. David Zimmerman, whose hus-
band sold her to John j. Stewart for 25
cents, was convicted of marital inf
deity at Sunbury, Pa, and sentenced
to six months imprisonment, and Stew
art WAS convicted of unlawful cohabita-
ton and fined 500 and costs of prosecu-
ton.
The steamship Wyoming, from Liver
pool to New York, passed two water
spouts on Dec. 1, i'll mid-ocean. 1t was
showing at the time and the roaring
cylindrical column was filled with
white. The appearance Of the water
spout created no alarm among the pas-
sengers.
The question of immigration is excit-
ing lively interest in England, whittier
large numbers of Jews are flocking
from Russia by way of Germany. The
British government has instructed it's
consuls on the continent to discourage
such immigration and to warn passen-
gers not to rely upon assurances of find
ing employment in Great Britain.
The five young ministers of the Re-
formed Presbyterian church at Pitts
burg who have been on trial for acting
contrary to the church's discipline in
that they believed i'll taking part in
civil elections, We're convicted of being
guilty Of a heinous %otfense, and were
suspended from the ministry. The
young men will appeal to the synod.
A. Co]yer, Jr., a son of A. S. Colyer,
of Nashville, Tenn, has been brought
back from Mexico by the authorities of
Coffee county, Tennessee, where he is
wanted for horse stealing. While in
Mexico Colyer represented himself as
John S. Carlisle, Jr., a son of Senator
Carlisle, and was feted by the leading
dignitaries of the city. He swindled
the secretary of state, Gen. Frisbie, out
Of $4,000.
st. Petersburg adv1ces state that the
betrcthal of Prince Ferdinand, heir to
the throne Of Roumania, and Marie,
daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, is
viewed with mixed feelings. The pros
pective bride is niece to the czar. and
only is years of age, but it is feared
that her British paternity and training
will outweigh her Russian connections,
and that the marriage will rather
strengthen the anti-Russian attitude of
the royal house of Roulnania, already
connected by blood with the emperor of
Germany and the ruling house Of Great
Britain.
Minnesota Piuralities.
ST. PAUL, Dec. 17.-The official can
vass of votes cast at the last election for
state and congressional officers is being
made at the secretary of states Office
under the supervision of the state can
wasting board. The congressional can
vass has been completed with the fol-
lowing pluralities: First district, w.
H. Harries, 1898; Second district, John
Lind, 4S2; Third district, o. NJ. Hall,
1858: Fourth district, J. N. Castle, s.
Governor Merriam's plurality is 2.267.
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