The Dickinson press., 1890-05-10
ROUND UP OF THE NEWS.
Most Important of n Weeks
Events COrralled i'm Ono
Column.
Happenings from All Parts of a
Busy World Presented in
a Concise Form.

Wisconsin Prohibition convention will
be held at Madison July 3.
Another cut by the 500 reduces rates
to Il basis of SO cents first class to New
York.
The McCalla courtmartial is ended
and findings sent to the secretary of the
navy for his action.
The rumor that Willard and the N. P.
have purchased the Chicago and Ter.
minal roads is again reiterated.
Hon. c. F. Clarkson, father of Assist.
ant Postmaster General Clarkson, died
at Dies Moines Tuesday.
1t is definitely announced that the
Northwestern will build into Dead
wood, S. d.
Trials of the torpedo boat Gushing
prove her to he one of the swiftest YES.
sells afloat.
At Concord, N. H., James Palmer was
hanged for the murder of Henry T,
Whitehouse.
The bill to abolish capital punishment
in New York has been killed by the sen
ate committee.
A bill providing for weekly payment
by employers of wages earned by EN-
ployes has passed the New York as
sembly-106 to 1.
The big meteor which fell in North
western Iowa Friday, was found twelve
miles northwest of Forest City. 1t had
exploded and the fragments were widely
scattered.
Governor Hill, in a message to the
New York legislature, favors the trans
fer of election contests from the legisla
ture to the judicial branch of the gov.
eminent.
Officers of the Chicago and Calumet
Terminal company and the Chicago anG
Great Western Terminal company deny
that their roads have been bought by
the Northern Pacific.
The Texas Spring Palace, opens May
ace is 400 feet long, $50 feet wide, mair
dome 40 feet high. The building is il
the shape of a cross.
A curious condition of affairs exists il
James county. Tenn. The Legislature
abolished the county, but the citizen.
and officers ignore the law. They tall
of seeding and forming a new state.
The agricultural department at Wash
ington is distributing sugar beet seeds tt
farmers who desire to experiment will
the industry. Instructions for planting
and %cultivating accompany each package
of seed.
Detectives Strickley and Lowe, Of
Findlay, Ohio, have both died undel
circumstances which lead to the belief
that they We're poisoned by members O.
a gang they We're active in bringing tt
justice.
The largest gathering London has
ever known took place Sunday at thu
labor demonstration. The monster out
pouring was %variously estimated at from
100000 to 1, 900. 900. There were 200, OOt
i'll the procession.
The municipal election i'll st. Paul re
suited in a%sweeping Democratic victory
Republicans getting but three aldermen
The Republican candidate for mayo,
raj ahead of his ticket in spite of the
Pioneer Press attacks.
Southwestern stockmen to the mum
Der of 115 and representing a capital Of
$S,0O0,O 900 met at Corpus Christi, Tex.
Thursday TO inaugurate a fight against
the Chicago packing combine. A huge
refrigerator system throughout Texas
was provided for.
Blooming Grove, Tex, was struck by
a hurricane. Thursday. doing great dam
age to property. The new Baptist church
molished. The p%ostofice, the Presbyte
rim church and several business house.
We're partially wrecked.
The Texas Farmers alliance is il
trouble. In 1887 an exchange was or
gained with a capital of $500, 900 The
exchange has since sqandered $3.50, 900
and has nothing to show for it but about
100000 worth of property. Farmers art
The remains of DR.. Cronin were re
moved Sunday and placed in the toni
prepared for them. Sunday was the
first anniversary of his death. The Sher
idan guards, Illinois drum corps, Ancient
Order of Hibernians, and other Catholic
and Irish organizations participated il
the ceremonies.
Stock for the exhibition to be held al
Spokane Falls, commencing Sept. II
has been taken. The exhibition will
include Montana, idaho. Washing
ton, Oregon and British Columbia. A
notable feature will be the palace bull
of ore from neighboring mines like tht
st. Paul ice palace.
At the Ohio G. A. r. convention /;
resolution was passed that without aban
doning any claim heretofore made in
behalf Of needy and disabled com
rades and the widows and orphans OF
our dead comrades, we now demand Of
the congress of the United States thu
passage of q per diem service pension law
pure and simple"
Foreign.
Many planters in Yucatan have de
cided to stop planting hennequen. which
is quoted at low figures at present, ant
will plant cotton instead, bringing negro
and Chinese labor from Cuba.
Dispatches from Africa announce tina
a difference in regard to a delimitatio1
of the frontier has led to an encounter
between Tripolitans and Tunisians. ant
that many on each side We're killed ant
wounded.
The French government has accepted
the plan for the conversion of the e yp
tan debt, but demands control of III,
disposition of the amount saved by thu
operation. Dispatches from Cairo indi
cate that the proposition will be &c
copied.
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