The Dickinson press., 1890-07-26
AEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Important Happenings from All
Parts of the World Con.
cfsely CllrOniclcd.

A Complete Resume of Crimes,
Casualties and Current Events
for the Week.
The North Atlantic squadron has ar.
rived at Bar Harbor, Me.
The Michigan editorial excursion will
reach st. Paul Wednesday,.
The United States steamer Alliance
has arrived at Amez, China.
A heavy wind storm unroofed forty
houses at Trenton, N. j., Thursday.
Seven people We're cremated in a
burning building at Quebec Thursday.
The census of Madison, Wis, shows
1855 people, a gain of 1,45l in ten
years.
Mrs. Parnell. mother of the Irish
statesman is seriously ill, at Borden
town, N. j.
Hot, dry weather has nearly ruined
the corn crop in Kansas. Farmers are
Respondent.
Fire at Spokane Falls destroyed prop
erty valued at nearly $3.50, 600. Consid-
= ~ AAASSAASAlu1Js
The general deficiency bill calls for
SOL O,410 to make up expenses of con-
gress for Ii fiscal year.
A battle occurred between San Saliva
dor and Guatamalan troops in which
the latter We're defeated.
The czarewitch of Russia will start on
a tour of the world Aug. 1, returning by
way of the United States.
The population of Wilmington, Del.
as determined by the census, is 81, 1888,
an increase of 1870 since 1880.
Gen. A. P. Goshorn was elected direc-
tor general of the Chicago worlds fair,
but it is said he will not accept.
An excursion steamer at Alexandria
Bay. N. Y, ran down the steam yacht
Cathleen, and five were drowned.
A bill will be reported to the United
States senate shortly to cut lottery COM
panles off from the use of the mails.
The new Northern Pacific line to
Croo&ston is completed, shortening the
distance to Winnipeg twenty miles.
Legal complications may prevent the
worlds fair association from using the
lake front at Chicago for the fair site.
The employees of three large Wash
burn, Wis, saw mills have struck for
eleven hours pay and ten hours work.
A petition was read in congress asking
for All appropriation of $40, 900 to help
destitute Sisseton and Wahpeton Indi-
ans.
The Duchess of Sparta, wife of the
grown prince of Greece and sister of
Emperor William, has given birth to Il
son.
Morris Sullivan and his wife We're
both fatally shot by their 16-year-old
son, at Goreville, III. The boy wanted
their property.
The reported outbreak of wal between
Guatemala and San Salvador is denied
by Consul General Baize of Guatemala.
now in New York.
The Illinois board of agriculture is op-
posed to the location of the worlds fail.
on the lake front. They claim the site
is entirely too small.
Steamer Egypt, with its cargo of $40
cattle, was abandoned at sea on fire. The
crew were in boats forty-eight hours be-
fore being picked up.
At the Duluth yacht race Wednesday,
the yacht Roamer was capsized and its
owner, G. P. Linder, and a friend. j.
Clark, were drowned.
Cyclone struck Pacific junction, iowa,
Sunday, wrecking two business blocks
and several residences. None of the
buildings destroyed were occupied.
A Mexican named Vitola, his wife
and 5-year-old daughter, were found
murdered in their home neal Hutton,
Tex. Cause supposed to be revenge.
Not one island has risen or sunk in the
Pacific ocean for thirty-four years, and
biologists declare that the earth is rest
ing for some mighty effort in the future.
John Hart, of Ballyneale, Ireland,
killed his mother and chopped her head
off. When discovered the monster was
lying beside the corpse eating the flesh,
The recount i'll eleven census districts
of Minneapolis shows IL total of 9,37s
names, against Il total of 1880 am
their daily reports.
Delegates of twenty-seven dairy and
breeders associations are in convention
at Chicago to take action as to the best
means of representing the dairy inter
ests of the country at the Worlds fair.
The remains of the Peruvian heroe.
who lost their lives during the late wal
with Chill were landed at Lima Tues
day and deposited in the Pantheon. TIN
procession was the largest ever seen il
Peru.
The Virginia Natural bridge propert,
has been sold to q Massachusetts an(
Virginia syndicate for 5000, O0O. 1t wa
purchased from Col. Parsons and Jane
G. Blaine, who have owned it for
number of years.
A disastrous wreck occurred on tn
Kaukauna division of the Milwaukee
Lake Shore and Western, near New
London. Two freight trains collided OF
IL curve. Four trainmen were kille,
and four fatally injured.
The emperor of Germany is expected
at Cowes on the Sd or 4th Of August IN,
in st. Petersburg, on his visit to til
car, about the 10th of August. Grant
preparations are being made in Russi;
for his reception.
Cheyenne, Wyo., was flooded by
cloudburt Monday. Water from four t
six feet deep swept through the streets
Easements were filled and street ca
railway tracks covered. Many thousan
dollars worth of merchandise was dan
aged.
A party of moonshiners made a dc
: scent on the village of Pocahontas, Va
and terrorized the town for severs
y hours. The citizens rallied with arm
and a battle ensued, in which til
! moonshiners We're routed. Four wei
wounded.
The coroner's jury investigating tn
Tioga disaster, found a verdict holdin
the officers of the Genesee Oil compan
guilty of murder. The naptha .whic
s caused the explosion had been shippe
in violation of law and not properl
j, marked. Indictments will be issue
Y against the officers aud requisition p'
: pers asked of the New York authorize