The Dickinson press., 1890-10-25
RESUME OF THE WEEK,
A BRIEF RECORD OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.

Cream of Home and Foreign News
Skinned From the Great Mass of Cur
rent Events and Dished Up without
Trimmings.
The population of Texas is 2,2322, 22O,
an increase of ESQ.,
Tennyson contemplates taking a sea
voyage for the benefit of his health.
William L. Scott, the Erie, Pa, col.
gresham, is reported to be dying at his
home.
Dom Pedro, ex-emperor of Brazil, has
taken up his residence at Versailles, in
the villa Brechignac.
Berlin drank in 1880 900, 247, 100 quarts
of beer. That is about $50 quarts to
every man, woman and child.
The tug james A. Garfield was sunk
by the Amos Barstow, in New York
harbor, and two of tho crew drowned.
Russian advices are to the effect that
the cholera has extended from Persia to
Bagdad, and is destroying many vic
Tins.
1t is announced from Berlin that
Count Herbert Bismarck is engaged to a
Russian countess residing at Milan, in
Courland.
At Napa, CAL, Corbett's yearling colt
Freedom, trotted a mile Saturday in
2:29a,, beating the yearling stallion
record of 2:35.
James Maxwell was hung at Morris,
Ills, for the murder of Charles Decker.
whose house he entered June 4, last. for
the purpose OF robbery.
a The schooner Lizzie G. Troop, Phila-
delphia to Nagaski, Japan, was wrecked
on the Island Of Loo Choo, and nearly
all the crew of twenty-five men lost.
A United States judge in Kansas has
decided that the Wilson bill does not
restore the power of the prohibitory law
as against original package saloons.
1t is announced that the sultan of
Turkey will visit Berlin next summer,
to repay the visit which Emperor Will
lam paid him at Constantinople some
months ago.
Advices from South America state
that the Chilians are indignant at the
French government for aiding the no.
torious Dreyfus claim and are prepared
to oppose a firm resistance to French
aggression.
A negro with a razor drove all the
passengers but II out of a Chicago
street car. Tom Donovan, the one who
resisted, was probably fatally cut. The
negro escaped.
Russia will begin Immediately the
construction of a new railway between
Bialystock, Poland, and the Austrian
frontier, to be available for the mobiliz-
alton OF troops i'll case of war.
Mr.. Stanley has returned to London.
He says he is rapidly recovering his
health and strength. He visits Cam
bridge university On the 18th inst. and
will there receive the degree of Ii. d.
The Berlin Tageblatt announces that
funds wherewith to construct the rail
road by which it is proposed to connect
Pangani with Kilimanjaro on the Fan.
zibar coast of East Africa, has been Sc
cured.
The British admiral at Zanzibar has
been ordered to destroy WITH, and make
unsparing war on the inhabitants, I'M
less all the murderers of the German
traders are surrendered, to be turned
over to the Germans for punishment.
The Italian government has notified
Don Carlos, in view of his recent note
claiming to be the legitimate king of
Spain. that he must abstain from all
open assertion of his alleged title or
leave Italy. Don Carlos is now at Ven
ice.
The %liquidator of the Cape of Good
Hope bank, which recently suspended,
has made his report. 1t shows the net
minimum deficit to be 464, 900 pounds.
The report says that an assessment upon
the shareholders of 80 pounds per share
will be necessary.
A Winnipeg paper says that the at
tempt of st. Paul and Winnipeg parties
to put an electric street railway fran
chise through the city council was one
OF h deepest laid schemes and one of
h boldest attempts to corrupt the city
counc ever unearthed In Winnipeg.
A tornado passed through the north
ern section Of Robson county, North
Carolina. Great damage was done to
property in its path and several persons
were killed near Maxton. At Hasty
several houses were blown down and
n person killed and several injured.
Advices from Holland state that the
health of Queen Emma is seriously af-
fected by her continual attendance on
her husband, the king, and that it is
owing to her reluctance to admit the
hopeless condition of the king that the
appointment of a regent has been de-
MED.
It is learned from Berlin that the eld-
est daughter of the American minister,
Hon. VIM. Walter Phelps, is betrothed
to Lieut.. Letter, one of the most popu-
lar young officers of the army. The
minister's youngest daughters engage
ment to Baron Withelben is also an
nounced.
A special to The New York Herald
from Galveston, Tex, says the Beaumont
a works, owned by a syndicate of
Boston capitalists will be located at
Beaumont, Tex. The citizens of that
town have subscribed 800, 900 to the
enterprise. The company has a cash
capital $500, 900.
The monument to commemorate the
heroic officers and men of the United
States navy who persisted in the unfor-
tunate Jeanette Arctic expedition, will
be unveiled at Annapolis, Md, on the
grounds of the naval academy on Oct.
30. Assistant Secretary Solely, of the
navy, will make IN address.
The Scotch home-rulers are much dis
satisfied because of the indifference Of
the Liberal leaders to their pet scheme.
They have addressed protests on the
subject to Mr.. Gladstone and others,
and threaten to make trouble for the
party in the elections, unless the princi-
pie for which they are contending re.
ceives official recognition in the Liberal
platform.
An organized gang of robbers made a
raid on Ohio City, Ohio, Friday morn.
ing. They robbed a number of houses
and about 3 o'clock were detected in the
act of blowing open the safe in P. HALLS
store. A posse surrounded them, and
in. the fight which ensued one of the
robbers and two of the posse were killed
and several wounded. The robbers
escaped.
Horrible Treatment of Nuns.
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