The Dickinson press., 1890-06-21
A Concise Summary of Events
T'llat Have Occurred During
the Past Week,
Short Recitals of Crime, Disas.
tiers, and General Happen
ings of Interest.

Christian Endeavor is in session at st.
Louis.
Lightning struck a street car at
Louisville, KY, Sunday and injured the
driver.
The Montreal grand jury have re-
turned a true bill against Hale for the
shooting of Cowles.
The wholesale liquor dealers of New
York and vicinity are moving against
the whisky trust.
Boston has been chosen for the next
annual meeting of the International
Typographical union.
San Francisco police have been Or
dered to put a stop to any prize fights
attempted hereafter.
Sam Kimball, a Milwaukee saloon
keeper, shot his young wife and commit
ted suicide. Jealousy.
-Four hundred bottles of ~contraband
brandy was seized by a customs inspec-
tor at Philadelphia.
Twenty dwellings were carried away
and two women drowned by a cloud
burst, at Osceola, Pa.
The secretary of the interior wants a
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the late pension legislation.
The Democrats of the Tenth Pennsyl-
wanna congressional district have nom
mated d. F. MCGEE for congress.
Indian Commissioner Morgan is con-
sidering the ACCESSIBILITY of moving the
Cheyenne Indians to Minnesota.
A strike Of bundlers in Carnegie's
mills has caused the works to close
down, locking out their entire force.
William l.. Scott has been renomi-
mated for congress by the Democrats of
the Iwenty-sixth district of Pennsyl-
vania.
Governor Fifer, of Illinois, has isued a
call for a special session of the legisla-
ture for July %, to consider worlds fair
business.
BY a washout on the Canadian Pacific,
near Cllremont, Ont, an engine was
plunged into the river and five men
drowned.
Five hundred of the Boston strikers
nave returned to work, the bosses hav-
ing, in most instances, granted the in
creased pay.
Baron Zedwitz and Miss Mary Cald-
we'll were married at Washington Tues
day. 1t was looked upon as a union of
money and title.
The Louisiana legislative committee
ON the proposition to submit the lottery
question to the people has reported in
favor of the proposition.
Arkansas Democrats have nominated
James P. Eagle for governor, B. B.
Chism for secretary of state, w. o. At
kins for attorney general.
Miss Mary Anderson and Mr.. Anto-
MO Navarro were quietly united in mar
rage at London Tuesday. The cere-
mony was severely simple.
Ponca, Neb., is much wrought up over
black diphtheria. Two deaths have oc-
CURED. The schools have been closed
and all meetings prohibited.
A terrific thunder storm visited Gin
cinnati Sunday, %unrooing thirty-four
houses and doing much other damage.
Three deaths are reported.
The New York World saws Duncan B.
Harrison is writing a play for John T..
Sullivan, who will make his debut as q
theatrical star next season.
Three desperate men, with a lasso, at
tackled j. Fl. Stewart, a Kansas City
capitalist, near Hamburg, Iowa, and
forced him to sign a check for 81, 900.
A census cnumerator named w. G.
Wilson. murdered a neighbor named
lnman, near Quincy, Fla. There was an
Old quarrel, and the census questions
revived it.
A negro in Polk county, Tex, killed a
white man and was lynched. Negroes
killed two of the lynchers. More trouble
is feared and the militia have been Or
dered out.
Two hundred persons We're precipi-
tated into a creek sixty feet below by
the breaking Of a bridge in Beyerle's
park, Cincinnati, Sunday. Forty were
seriously injured, but none fatally.
The Duchess of Fife princess Louise
of Wales was delivered of a still-born
male child Monday. 1t is probable that
the child will be buried with royal hon
ors, as a member of the family of the
Prince of Wales.
Young Cowles, who was shot by his
brother-in-law, Hale, at Montreal last
week, has exonerated Hale from blame
in the matter. He says he doesn't be-
lieve Hale capable of wishing to do him
any harm, except while temporarily in
sane.
Aero Holly, charged with assault OH
a girl, at Parkersburg, Pa, goes free
from the fact that the only witnesses
against him, the girl, her sister and
mother, were killed in a railway acct
dent. Conviction would have been
death.
Canadian banks have issued an order
refusing to take American money at par.
A discount of 20 per cent. on silver and
5 per cent. on paper is charged. Many
business men have posted notices that
American money will be received at par.
This action is apt to nullify the order Of
the banks.
The award of the e,15O-ton armored
cruiser will be made to William Cramp
and Sons, of Philadelphia, adopting
their plans and arrangement of engines
and boilers sixteen feet in diameter, and
substituting them in the departments
plan of hull. The 5,500-ton cruiser goes
to the Union Iron Works company, on
the department plans, at 81. 800, 900.
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