The Dickinson press., 1890-06-14
BRIEF REPORTS OF NEWS.
A Concise Summary of Events
Tint Have Occurred During
the Past Week.
Short Recitals of Crime, Disas'
ters, and General Happen.
ings Of Interest.

The village of Stillings, Mo-, is said to
he i'll danger from the high water in the
Missouri River.
Indictments against the Michigan
Central for violation of the interstate
law are to be prosecuted.
In Turkistan and other trans-C Caspian
provinces Il fine yield of cotton has been
secured from American seed.
Thomas King was hanged at Boulder,
Mont, Friday, for the murder of Mat
thew Fogarty last November.
There is considerable excitement at
Columbus, Ohio, over the street car
strike. and riots are imminent.
Seven men and fifteen valuable race
horses We're killed in a freight wreck on
the Wabash near st. Louis, Monday.
The Wisconsin Central is negotiating
for the purchase of the Milwaukee and
Northern. The purchase price is $l2,-
600. 900.
A case of yellow fever is reported at
the Chandleur Island marine hospital, To-
Gated off New Orleans. 1t was brought
from Rio Janeiro.
The Second district Republican con-
vention ut Lewiston, Me-, nominated
Hon. Nelson Dingley, Jr.. for congress
by reclamation.
William O'Brien, the great Irish agi-
tator, was married Wednesday to Mile
R%affalovitch, daughter of a prominent
Partisan banker.
A conflict between Arnauts and Servi-
II has taken place at Pristina, Mace
donia. Forty Servians We're killed and
900 taken nrieOnarc
A Northwestern passenger train
jumped the track two miles west of
Freeporl. Ills, Friday, and five persons
were fatally injured.
Passenger rates have been restored on
the Western railroads. the rates now
being the same as those in effect prior to
the cut some months since.
Two sons of John Smith, at Middle
bury, Conn.,, fell into the river and were
drowned. Their mother wa drowned
in attempting to I'VE them.
The postmaster general has ordered
the establishment of the free delivery,
the service to begin July 1 at Aberdeen.
Beloit, Wis, and Grand Forks.
At Jacksonville. Ills, while 1000 peo-
pie were listening to a concert in a tent,
q storm came up and carried the tent
away. A number We're injured.
A pleasure party of eight young men
started on a trip in Dorchester bay.
When about a mile out the boat was
capsized by a squall and seven drowned.
A tank of Oil on the oil steamer Hans
and Kurt, at Philadelphia, exploded.
The vessel was ruined and S00,O 00 gal
1pnc nf 1,11rrino all eo% 1o,,o Al.
water.
The steamer City of Rome struck u
rock off Fastnet, near Queenstown
and narrowly escaped sinking. She was
lowed into port in a badly damaged
condition.
The Northern Pacific and the Milwau-
kee roads have completed arrangements
by which passengers to and from the
coast will be carried by the latter road
between st. Paul and Chicago.
By a fire in the Ural mountains forty
persons lost their lives and $4,000 were
rendered homeless. The magazines, iron
works, four school houses three churches
and a thousand dwellings were de-
stroyed.
Thirty New Workers were arrested for
refusing to answer questions of census
enumerators. They were arranged, but
most OF them were discharged upon CIV
ing the desired informationto the United
States commissioner.
Editor Eugene Cowles, of Cleveland.
was shot by his brother-in-law on the
streets of Montreal Sunday. He had
just shot at his wife, but missed her. af-
ter which her brother fired at Cowles.
He will probably die.
Harry Mcbride and Frank Laure, two
San Francisco walters, settled a dispute
over a girl in the prize ring. Mcbride
was 80 badly punished that he died in a
few hours. Laure is held for murder
and others as accessories.
Rumors are current at Joliet that a
cyclone has struck the little town Of
Channon, in Will county Illinois. The
place is ten miles from telegraph or rail
roads. Fears are expressed that a num-
Der of lives have been lost.
A belt line is to be built around Lake
Washington, near Seattle. The lake is
twenty-five miles long. The road is to
foster some important industries which
are to be located on the lake, among
which will be a large Bessemer steel and
rail factory.
Another unsuccessful attempt was
made to run street cars at Columbus,
Ohio, Wednesday. The striking drivers
did not interfere, having been restrained
by order of the courts, but the citizens,
and INSTRUCTED the tracks.
The proposed match between Joe Nc
Auliffe and Jake Kilrain, for a So, 600
purse, offered by the Puritan club is off.
Kilrain was willing to go ahead with
the negotiations, but McAuliffe, on ac-
count Of the match made recently with
Slavin, was compelled to call it off.
John Buske was buried at Chicago,
Saturday. Some suggested that the cot.
fin be opened at the grave, a tapping in
the coffin indicating life, but it was
voted down. Monday the grave was
opened and Buske's body was found tc
be horribly twisted, his tongue bitten
in two and his finger nails ilnbedded in
the flesh.
Thomas Sutton, IA years old, living al
Dubuque, Iowa, fell from a butchers
wagon about a year and a half ago, and
injured his spine. He improved rapidly
for a time. but about four months age
paralysis set in. His stomach became
affected, and for ninety-six days not
morsel of food passed his lips. During
his long fast he lost flesh constantly
until at his death, Monday, he weighed
| but fifty pounds. For two months he
was unable to speak, though he has re.
tanned consciousness all the time.
. Pell's Sentence.
NEW YORK, June 10.-George H. Pell
who was convicted of the larceny O.
t%hirty-one bonds of the Lenox Hill banl
in the bank wrecking enterprise of Sim
mons Claasen and himself, has beer
sentenced to state priSOn for seven am