The Dickinson press., 1890-07-19
A Complete Resume of Crimes,
Casualties and Current Events
for the Week.

oledlllSiIp l4lAe aC OulCaSO, nave SCruck
for higher wages.
Fatal rae riots occurred near Griffin,
Ca, in which four negroes were killed
and six injured.
The Pennsylvania railway is said to
have gained control of the Chicago
Union Stock yards.
Armsted Jones, a lad of 16, was
hanged at Columbia, S. c., for the muir
der of his step-mother.
Collision on the Memphis and Little
Rock railway, near Memphis resulted in
the death Of four negroes.
French papers assert Gen. Boulanger
has asked the government to pardon him
and allow him to return.
Business failures for the United States
for the last week were 175. For the cor.
responding week last year 191. slsa
A pitched battle occurred at Yselta.
Tex, between local political factions for
the town government. Six were killed.
The knights of Pythias encampment
at Milwaukee came to a close Saturday.
The ~conclave will continue through this
week.
An Indian convict in the Ohio Peni-
Tertiary chopped open the heads of sew
eral companions. He is thought to be
insane.
Monday, the centenary of the fedora
ton and the anniversary of the fall of
the bastile was celebrated as a holiday
in France.
A woman of the town at Devils Lake
murdered her paramour and chopped up
the corpse. She and a female companion
were arrested.
Another gigantic lockout, due to the
cloakmakers' strike, took place Friday In
New York. Twenty Thousand workers
were effected.
An English syndicate is said to have
bought the elevators owned by Gfegoqy
& Son. The elevators are mostly sit
uated in Iowa.
A split in the Order of Railway Con-
ductors is reported, those opposed to
strikes forming a new association at
Chicago Sunday.
The United Mine Workers of America
have decided to institute suits for $40, 900
damages in the case Of each victim Of
the Farm Hill mine disaster.
Cornelia Ward Whipple, wife of
Bishop .Whipple, died at Faribault
Wednesday, from illness the result of q
railroad accident last November.
The mammoth summer resort hotel at
Lake Elmo, near st. Paul, burned
Thursday. Several guests lost heavily.
Aggregate loss estimated at $4,000.
A Fair Haven, VT, mother killed her
two children, fired the house and com
United suicide. Probably insane over
the accidental death of her husband.
John Hart, of Ballyneale, Ireland,
killed his mother and chopped her head
Oft. When discovered the monster was
lying beside the corpse eating the flesh.
Mrs. Leslie, in an interview at Queens
town, admitted she had once promised
to marry Marquis de Leuville, but his
persecution of her has made that i'm.
possible.
The National educational convention
ct st. Paul adjourned Friday. Most of
the teachers have returned home, but
many have remained to enjoy a longer
vacation in the Northwest.
Henry M. Stanley was married Satur-
day to Miss Dora Tenant, at London.
The presents were more numerous and
oAA0A4 WV4O PkOOdUly 0tfI UclOIo
received by a bridal pair.
About $50 negroes quit the plantation
of A. Hefner, near Oak Ridge, La, and
started west. They were pursued by a
party of whites and surrounded. A fight
ensued in which five negroes were killed.
Details of the fire at Fort De France,
on the island of Martinique, state that
an area of ninety acres was burned over
and l ZOO houses and contents DESTROYED.
The loss was a, 1000, 900. Twelve bodies
have been recovered from the ruins.
The interstate commerce commission
has decided that it will issue an order
making a reduction in grain rates from
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri
to st. Louis and the Mississippi river
and to Chicago.
Minnesota alliance delegates met in
convention Wednesday at st. Paul to
nominate a state ticket. Speeches were
made by Donnelly and Bill Irwin. Only
n ballot wa taken at the first days
session. There were fourteen candi-
dates for governor voted for of which
Knute Nelson received 104 votes, Don
nelly 9s, Buck 81.
The following is statement of United
States bonds purchased from Aug. 8,
1887, to date inclusive: Amount pur-
chased: Fours, $135, 917, 600: dis, $l41,-
353, $50; total, $277, 200, 800. Cost: Fours,
$172, 631, 500; 44s, 1852, 075, 900; total,
1924, 7O7, 1853. Cost at maturity: Fours,
$235, Al, $50; 44s, $3.50, 172, $3.50; total,
$780,, 621, 1O6. Saving: Fours, $62, 915,.
9S1; 32s, $7,o97, 1865; Total, $50, 3,s48.
A terrific explosion of 1900 kegs of
powder occurred at King Station, Ohio,
on the Little Miami railway. The depot
and all the adjoining houses were de.
molished. The cartridge factory was
shattered. A mass of earth wal thrown
from the cut into the river, completely
damming the river and causing a food
of the bottoms above. Thirteen bodies
have been recovered, and twenty people,
many of them girls from the factory,
rescued seriously injured.