The Dickinson press., 1890-09-20
RESUME OF THE WEEK,
A BRIEF RECORD OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.

SKINNED From tho Great Mass Of Cur
rent Events and Dished Up Without
Trimmings.
The federal council Of Switzerland
has decided to recognize the Republic of
Brazil.
Half a block in the business part of
%Lynchburg, Va, was burned Monday
night.
The Switchmen's Mutual Aid Associ.
alton, of North America, is in session at
Buffalo.
The Car intends to remain a month
in the north of Poland. He then pro-
ceeds to the Crimea.
The total number of cases of cholera
IN the provinces of Spain up to date is
3,472, and of deaths 1885,.
The Democrats of the Eighteenth
Kansas district nominated Thomas
Moonlight for congress.
Twenty-Five men were killed and as
many more injured in a mine explosion
at st. Wendell, Germany.
Russia has given orders to the COVER
nors OF Siberia to prevent any further
immigration of Chinese into that prov
ince.
Five men were killed in q collision on
the New York Central, near Albany.
The accident wa caused by a misplaced
switch.
At the Second New Hampshire Re-
publican congressional convention Hon.
q. Q. Moore, of Nashua, was UNANIMOUSLY
renominated,
Roumania and Servia are negotiating
with Vienna bankers for a refunding Of
their public debts at more favorable
rates Of interest.
Orlando Kimmel, of Noble county,
was nominated for congress by the Re-
publicans of the Twelfth Indiana dis
trict at La Grande.
The first payment of $3.50, 900 on the
purchase Of the Philadelphia brewery
was made Monday by tho English brew
cry buying syndicate.
The terms proposed by Gen. Butter
field for the construction of a railroad
to Siberia have been rejected by the
Russian government.
A collision occurred on the Chicago
and GRAND Trunk at Schoolcraft, Mich,
in which two men were fatally and
three seriously injured.
The schooner Comrade is missing in
Lake Superior since Friday. 1t is feared
She foundered in the gale and that her
crew of eight was drowned.
The Guatemalan government ha; de-
cided to exile the daughter of Gen. Bar
rundla, who attempted the lifo of
United States Minister Miner.
A lioness with the Barnum & Bailey
show gave birth to twin cubs at Du-
buque the other day-the first kings of
the forest ever born in the state.
Advices from Africa show that in
spite of all the assertions to the con-
trary, the sale of slaves in the German
African territory continues almost una
bated.
Horace M. Porter, a son of Gen. Hor-
ace Porter, died in Philadelphia of ty-
phoid fever, aged rs. Deceased had
been employed by the Reading Railroad
company.
An immense find of gold is reported
at Rapid City, S. D., which assays IL
ounces to 4 pounds of rock. The lucky
d%iscoverer refuses to make known the
location.
Count Andore Szechenyi and compan-
ions, of the South Sea islands expedi-
ton, recently reported lost, have arrived
safely in New York from Honolulu on
their way home.
The exodus of Jews from Russia
caused by the revival of the cruel ukase
Of 1882 continues. Two hundred and
fifty Hebrew families departed from
Odessa on Thursday.
Anumber of $40 bills on the
German National Bank of New Or
leans are in circulation in st. Louis. The
police are actively searching for the
gang uttering them.
Mrs. Sarah Mcintyre and her two
daughters were burned to death and
their home destroyed by q fire at Phila-
delphia, which was caused by an intox-
icated son upsetting a lamp.
Mrs: w. M. Langdon, of Grand
Mound, Iowa, was shot and killed by
J: Bevan, Of Chicago, a former lover.
The husband, who witnessed the tragedy,
put five bullets through the assassin.
New York Central strikers held a
stormy meeting at Albany Friday night.
The leaders were accused Of living high
while the strikers were starving. The
men will probably make a break and
return to work.
The general assembly of the Presby-
terrain church has sent circulars to va
rious presbyteries asking a vote on the
question of admitting women to deacon
ships. The question will be acted Upon
by all presbyteries.
Hume Clay, of Paris, KY, who alb
seconded about a month ago, after hav-
ing forged paper on his father and
grandfather to the amount Of $50, 900,
has been taken back to Paris by his
father-in-law, Capt. Thomas.
Judge LaComb has made an order
permitting an appeal to be taken to the
United States supreme conrt in the