The Dickinson press., 1890-09-06
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Important Happeningsfrom All
Parts of the World Con.
ciscly Chronicled.
A Complete Resume of Crimes,
Casualties and Current Events
for the Week.

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explosion at Boryslav, Galicia.
The pope has appointed Abbot Schom,
of Hamburg, archbishop of Bamberg.
Fire almost totally destroyed the
town of Oxford, Iowa, Monday, Loss,
$780,
The cholera epidemic at Jeddah is
abating, and the deaths now average
only two a day.
Two people were killed and several
hurt in a Northern Pacific wreck ear
Hot Springs, Wash.
By the explosion of q gasoline stove at
a st. Paul fire, four firemen were badly
injured, n fatally.
The aggregate debt of all the colonies
of Australia is $215 per head of the pop
ulation or $685., 900 1000.
The lumber firm of Hoxie & Mellor.
Amigo, Wis, has failed for $518, 900;
nominal assets, $500, 600.
Semi-oficial Canadian papers COM
ment favorably on Sherman's resolution
for reciprocity with the Dominion.
At a reunion of e~x-slaves and freed
men in Fort Gaines, Ga, 1900 colored
people of that region came together.
The Democrats of Western Colorado
adopted resolutions indorsing Chief
Justice Fuller for the presidencyin 1893.
The earnings of Michigan railroads
for June were $7,451, 295, al increase Of
$685. sos over the same month last year.
A train was derailed near Arrens,
France. Seventeen carriages were
wrecked and several people killed and
injured.
Sarah Micauel, aged 8, of Manches-
ter, N. H., grieved SO because her father
failed to kiss her that she committed
suicide.
The proposed railway across the
Sahara desert has been approved by the
gate its feasibility.
By the falling in of the roof
Of a burning building at the village of
Mejoe Kerestze, in the district of Bor-
sod, fifteen persons were killed.
The largest sailing vessel afloat was
launched Tuesday at Glasgow. She is
a fve-masted ship of $3.50 tons burden
and is intended for the nitrate trade.
A new electric car on the Davenport,
Iowa, street lines became unmanageable
and dashed down a steep grade, collid-
ing with a railway train. One killed,
several hurt.
Camp No. 10, Sons of Veterans, st.
Pauls representative at the national en-
campment of that order at st. Joe, Mo-.
won the first prize in the competitive
drill Wednesday
1t is stated that Stanley has informed
tho Fropch ,,,11ic1,o r of H., Loo..-I..
that he will devote the proceeds of the
edition toward the abolition of the
African slave trade.
Mrs. Sarah Mcintyre and her two
daughters were burned to death and
their homo destroyed by a fire at Phila-
delphia, which was caused by an intox-
icated son upsetting a lamp.
The unclaimed articles of value found
at J~ohnstown, Pa, after the flood were
sold at Pittsburg, the whole bringing
81, 200, which will be used to erect a
monument to the unknown dead.
Fire destroyed two and one-half
squares in the business centre of Hia-
watha, Kan. Fifty thousand dollars in
currency was burned in the First Ma
tional bank. Total loss, $15O,0OO.
John L. Sullivan has made his debut
as a star actor in Harrison's new COM
edy, Honest Hearts and Willing
Hands" at Bridgeport, Conn, and
created quite a favorable impression.
The Potter-Lovell company, of Bos-
ton, has assigned. The firm did a bust
ness of $50, O0O, 900 yearly. Assets are
expected to fully equal liabilities but are
in such a shape as to practically wreck
the firm.
The cellar of a brewery in
Stoetteritz, Saxony, in which a number
Of men We're at work. collapsed, burying
sixteen of the workmen. Of these seven
were killed and the remainder severely
injured.
The archbishop of Kingston has Dor
rowed 5000, 900 from the Standard Life
Insurance company at ~ per cent. The
loan is for twenty years. The lives of
forty young men will be insured for
s 5000 each.
Tho London dockmen have cabled
S., 1000 to the striking Australian dock
men. Many of the men who are able to
do so have subscribed a shilling a day
instead of a shilling a week pledged by
resolution of the union.
The excessive rains, resulting in seri-
Gus flood, have converted the Austro-
Swiss frontier into a series of lakes.
Hundreds of houses are isolated by the
floods and immense damage has been
done to crops and property of various
kinds.
Six more villages in Southern Hun.
gary have been burned. This fearful
destruction by fires is due to the dryness
OF the buildings caused by a long season
of torrid weather. Twelve persons lost
their lives during the burning of Mezoe.
Kereshtes recently.
Otto Leuth, the Cleveland boy muir.
derer, who outraged and then killed
little Maggie Thompson in that city
May 8, 1929, wa executed in the peni
Tertiary, at Columbus, Friday. Will
him was also executed John, alias
"Brocky" Smith, who horribly butch
cred old Bridget Byron, at Cincinnati
on Dec. 8, 1883.
William M. Butts, of the firm of Butts
q Robinson, printers and publishers o.
The Protector, the official organ of tn,
Ancient Order of United Workmen O
Maryland, died from the effects of
dose of morphia, which he admitted
having taken with suicidal intent. MI
Butts was past grand master of the An
Gent Order of United Workmen. Mr.
Robinson says he knows of no reasol
for the snicide.
SUCCESSFUL TRAIN ROBBERY.
An Alabama Express Held Up---A BIZ
Haul Made.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. Sat 1:
o'clock p. m. robbers held upa passenge,
train on the Escamba river bridge,
few miles north of here. They climbed
on the engine, compelled the englnee
to stop on the bridge, and then went t
the express car, which they wen
through, getting a very large amount O
money. 1t is reported that the expires
messenger, Archie Arkel, killed enc o
the robbers, but this is not confirmed.
Horrors of the Pen Exposed.
3 New YORK, Sept. 4.-The Evenin
Sun, as q result Of its investigation