The Dickinson press., 1890-10-04
RESUME OF THE WEEK.
A BRIEF RECORD OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.

Cream OF Home and Foreign Nows
Skinned From the Great Mass of Cur
rent Events and Dlshed Up without
Trimmings.
There is prospect for an entire census
recount for Ores
Tippoo lib, the great Central African
slave and ivory potentate, is on a nil
grimage to Mecca.
An expedition to explore the desert of
Cobb is about to be despatched to Mon
golia by the Russian government.
The Courier FRANCHISE, of Paris, says
President Carnot is expected to visit
Queen Victoria at Windsor next spring.
A dispatch from Algiers says that a
cyclone has swept over a large portion
Of Algeria, doing an immense amount
of damage.
Emperor William will pay another
visit to Field Marshal Won Moltke on
Oct. 26, the ninetieth anniversary of the
generals birth.
At Montichiari batteries of artillery
using smokeless powder kept up a fire
ava u ox AOux WxVuOuy tu0lI DOSltlOu
being discovered.
G. P. Carpenter, editor of The Farm
tngton, Mimi, Tribune, was admitted
the bar Tuesday, and is nov a full
fiedged attorney.
The Knights Of Labor and the Pro-
gressive union Of the coke regions have
amalgamated. The new society has q
membership of 10000.
The population Of the village Of Wash
burn, Wis, according to the recount
just completed, is 1889. The count of
June showed only 1850.
A cavern of the Kelley Run colliery
destroyed the foundations of twenty
houses in Shenandoah, Pa, and caused
wide and deep cracks in some of the
streets.
The celebration of the Tooth anniver-
sary Of the introduction into this coun-
Samuel Slater, in the City Of Pawtucket
began there Monday.
Secretary Kramer, of the Johnstown
Hood commission, is making arrange
ments for the second payment of the
orphans annuity OF Nov. /. Each or
phan will receive $50.
A majority of the South American
governments have signified their support
Of the project for an international exhi-
bition at Genoa in 1892 to celebrate the
discovery of America.
Chief Arthur is in San Francisco for
b purpose Of adjusting, if possible,
the differences between the engineers of
the Southern Pacic railroad and the off,
Gals of the company.
Corporal Tanner has taken the editor
ship of The Republic, q New York
monthly magazine devoted to the Grand
Army. He will not relinquish his pen
sion business in Washington.
The next important step in the build
ing OF the new navy will be taken this
week, when bids are opened for the con-
struction of three battle ships and the
swift triple screw cruisers.
The report of the Illinois weather
crop service shows that there was a
bountiful harvest of corn and that none
of it was injured by frost. A large
acreage of winter wheat is being sown.
Secretary Quin, of the Milwaukees said
Thursday: "You can state positively
that the Milwaukee team, as it now
stands, will be put into the American
association next year. The deal has
been completed, and it is a settled fact"
Official statistics from twenty.one
counties in Eastern Kansas show that
since Jan. /, 4.061 mortgages have been
recorded and $500 released, or a de-.
creasein mortgage indebtedness of those
counties OF II per cent.
Advices from st. Petersburg state that
it is proposed to employ political and
other convicts in the building of rail-
ways through that country. The COM
mission on the main Siberian railway
has completed its labors.
The condition of the king of Holland,
who on Saturday suffered q relapse, has
become of the gravest character. DR..
Rosenstein, the famous medical expert
of Leyden, has been summoned from
that city to the kings bedside.
It is reported that civil war is immi-
nent in Chill, owing to tho contest be-
tween congress and the president, who
refuses to choose a new cabinet. The
president is backed by the troops, while
congress has the support of the people.
Manager Weir, of the Adams Express
company, partly denies the reports of
sweeping reductions in the salaries in
VAo CoWP0ay' AAo oo4d1Ao1 are uOt W
be reduced he says. A slight reduction
in the force employed will be made,
however.
It is now reasonably certain that a
fight will be arranged between Dempsey
and Fitzsimmons, to take place before
the Olympic club in New Orleans.
Dempsey wired the club to forward the
articles of agreement on the basis pro-
posed, to-wit: Purse Of $12, 900. The
date of the fight has not yet been deter
mined, but it will probably take place
the last week in October.
A dispatch from Shanghai SAYS that
the Chinese propose sending their mag
nificent fleet, now under command Of
Chinese naval officers, on q voyage
across the Pacific. to prove to the world
China's ability to handle q fleet in the
open sea. Heretofore Chinese war
ships have been content to cruise along
the coasts and islands with an occasional
venture into the Pacific or Indian ocean.
An application has been made before
Judge Gresham for a writ Of habeas
corpus in behalf of Michael Schwab, the
Anarchist, now serving . life sentence
in Joliet. Schwab's counsel set forth as
the main reason that Schwab was not
present in the state supreme court when
his case was passed upon. A letter was
read from Gen. Butler, indorsing the
application. Judge Gresham will pass
upon the matter on Monday next.
The highest price ever paid for q year
old Kentucky trotter was given Mon
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