The Dickinson press., 1890-08-02
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Important Happcningsf from All
Parts of the World Con.
cfscly CllrOnfclcd.

A Complete Resume of Crimes,
Casualties and Current Events
for the Week.
The Earl of Jersey has been appointed
governor of New South Wales.
ID. F. Roger has been appointed In.
dian agent at Pine Ridge Agency, S. D.
A oma and two children were
killed in a freight wreck near Portland,
Ore.
Gaudaur has challenged Hanlan for u
race on Minnetonka for $1,000 to IS 900
a side.
North Dakota elevator men say no
combine has been formed to refuse to
store wheat.
The business part of Travers, Cal,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Loss,
500, 200.
There have been 1867 notices of evic-
ton filed i'll Ireland during the past
three months.
An explosion in East St. Louis iron
works caused the death of one man and
the injury of five others.
7. NJ. B. Cook, a prominent Republi-
can politician, Of Jasper county, La,
was assassinated Wednesday.
L. De w. Washburn, of Minneapolis,
and his neice We're drowned at Mime
tonka Wednesday while bathing.
A general tie-up of all building trades
has been inaugurated by Brooklyn
unions to aid the striking %roofers.
The Ashland mill mems strike has
been ended by a compromise of ten and
a half hours pay for ten hours work.
Seven more bodies were recovered
from the scene of the collision at Balti-
more, Wednesday, making sixteen in
all.
Thirty Arabs were killed during the
recent attack upon the Spanish convict
settlement of Metillo, on the Morocco
coast.
At st. Paul, Charles Price Drained a
cook named Manchester. Saturday night
and Sunday gave himself up to the
officers.
The supreme court of Georgia has re-
fused a new trial for Tom Voolfolk,
who murdered nine persons in Bibb
county.
Several acres of mills and lumber were
destroyed at Saginaw, Mich, by fire.
The loss will aggregate nearly half a
million.
A strike of Union Pacific railroad men
is seriously threatened. The men claim
the road is not keeping its agreements
with them.
Herndon Morril, the we'll known
Washington tenor, has accepted the first
tenor part in the new opera, "The Red
Hussar."
By the fall of a pavilion at Ironwood.
the ground. Several were injured but
none fatally.
BY a disastrous washout the Colorado
Central wal damaged to the extent of
$$se5O,OOO. Twenty miles of track were
washed away.
Minnesota alliance men are said to be
agltating the subject of another conven-
ton: Many of them object to the pro-
ceedings of the late convention.
A state convention of the PEOPLES
Independent party was held at Lincoln,
Neb., and a ticket headed by John II.
Powers for governor nominated.
The Omaha Republican went over to
the cold water party recently. The flop
resulted disastrously and the paper
swamped. Liabilities about $50, 900.
An explosion of fire damp occurred in
the Pellisir coal mine at Stateinne,
France, causing the death of 100 miners.
About t~hirty-fve others were terribly
burned.
=: Masked robbers went through the
Eikhorn Valley passenger train near
Long Pine, Neb., and relieved the pas
sengers of their yaluables. No big haul
was made.
The railroad situation is beginning to
men IN the Cincinnati Southern yards in
that city have joined in with the strik-
ers, and nc trains are being handled.
The excursion steamer Louise and the
Bay line steamer Virginia were in COL
lision near Fort Carroll, on the Chesa-
peake. Four people are known to have
been killed and seventy-five injured.
A reign of terror prevails at Bairds-
town, Ohio. Armed men are ~patrolling
the streets to prevent further incendiar-
ism, which has become of hourly occur
rence
A dispatch from Geneva says that
the federal council has about decided to
expel the Mormons from the republic.
The number of persons protesting Nor
monism in Switzerland has increased
five fold in less than two years.
Nathaniel R. Locke, the venerable
father of the late D. r. Locke, better
known as Petroleum V. Nasty" died
at Toledo, Ohio, Friday, at the advanced
age OF w years. He wa a native of
of 1912.
At Buffalo, N. Y, Mrs. Wade, who
keeps a boarding house on East Market
street, Mary Sylvia, aged 16 years, and
her brother John, aged IA, were arrested
charged with attempting to poison Annie
Silkes, a dissolute woman, who lived
with the children's father.
The Washburn B mill, at Minneapo-
lis, was started up Thursday, after an
idleness since March. The Pillsbury A
was placed in operation Monday and is
now running at full blast. The mill
was shut down just three weeks-the
longest time it has been idle in several
years.
At Lynn, Mass, a story-and-a-half
dwelling, partially completed, fell in,
completely wrecking the building and
instantly killing Mary McCabe, aged IA;
probably fatally injuring Katie Griffin,
aged IA, and slightly injuring three
other children. The children took ref
uge in the building from the rain.
Brooklyn Has s04,s77.
WASHINGTON, July So.-The rough
count of the population of Brooklyn,
N. Y, has been completed by the census
Office. It shows that the population il
o04,377, AN increase since 1880 of 297, ia
or 41.95 per cent.
iNCENDiARV EIENDS