The Dickinson press., 1890-06-07
BRIEF REPORTS OF NEWS
A Concise Summary of Events
Tint Have Occurred During
the Past Week.
Short Recitals of Crime, Disas-
ters, and General Happen
ings Of Interest.

1t is reported that DR.. Peters has en-.
tered Uganda.
The house of re-assembled
Monday after the Whitsuntide recess.
The government estimate of Mantle
bas wheat crop is $1,000. 900 bushels.
Twelve buildings were burned at Med.
ford, Wis, as the result of IL lightning
stroke.
The French government has pardoned
the Due d'Orleans and conducted him
to the frontier.
Salnfoin won the English derby, LIZ
Nord second. The betting was Z to /
against Sainfoin.
Marquis dc Mores was sentenced to
three months Imprisonment at Paris for
his a%narchistic break.
John f. Beggs, of Cronin fame. has
been reelected senior guardian of the
notorious camp No. 20.
The American colony in London en-.
tertalned Stanley at a banquet at which
were present $50 guests.
n big cloudburst at Arcadia. Wis.
swept away two mill dams and Il mill,
One man was drowned and much dam
age done to property.
The coroner's jury in the Oakland.
CAL, disaster finds Engineer Dunn
guilty of manslaughter. The engineer
has not been found vet.
At Leicester, England, Wednesday,
Howell, the English champion bicyclist,
broke all previous records and won the
championship of the world.
The religious situation in Bavaria is
becoming very serious, owing to the an
tagonlstic attitude of the government
toward the Catholic church.
During a storm at Gie4wood, Iowa,
the brick smoke stack of the impecile
asylum fell, crushing to death two pa
tlents and injuring three others.
The legal documents consummating
the sale of the ten principal breweries in
San Francisco to an English syndicate
for $500, 900 reached there Sunday.
At Omemee, Ont, fire destroyed four
stores. Only a fortunate change In the
wind saved the entire village from de-
struction. Loss, SEQ, 900; insurance,
SIS. 200.
The Texas spring palace at TT. Worth,
was burned Friday night. A dance wa
i'll progress. a panic ensued, in which
two were killed and a score or more
mangled.
Rival lovers settled their claims to the
hand OF a young lady at louisville, Ky,
by a duel at night in the cemetery. One
was seriously wounded. Both have dis
appeared.
DR.. Justin's new dynamite gun ex-
ploded at the first trial at Perrysyille.
N: Y. There were thousands present to
witness the experiments, but, strange to
say, no n was hurt.
The Illinois secretary of the state
board Of agriculture has issued a crop
bulletin which shows the condition of
winter wheat to be poorer than ever be-
fore in the states history.
Harvard faculty has approved the
project of granting diplomas to students
upon the completion of the sixteen
courses. A good student can complete
the work in three years.
The monthly public debt statement
shows q decrease in the debt amounting
90 S6,661 ,Sn, during the past month Of
May, and for the eleven months of the
current fiscal year, $67, ISL, 72e.
The people of Newfoundland are ex-
cited over the outrages perpetrated by
French war vessels on fishermen on the
coast. They propose to pay no taxes till
the government will protect them.
The Chicago Post says that the Play
ers' league has tired of it's fight with the
National league and will meet in New
York this week to change their schedule
so that there will be no conflicting dates.
Carelessness Of a bridge tender on the
narrow guage road near Oakland, Cal.
led to the fatal plunge of an engine and
one car into a creek. Twenty bodies
nave been recovered and many more are
missing.
a decree has been issued by the Bey
of Tunis, in which it is ordered that ey-
cry negro domestic in his dominions
shall be furnished with a certificate of
freedom. Employers failing to prompt
~ comply with the mandate will be
fined.
On June Is General Superintendent
Earring, of the Milwaukee and St. Paul
road, Will become general manager of
the same. Assistant Superintendent
Collins will succeed Mr.. Earling. 3. p.
Rlpleys appointment as vice president
AAA">AS OuAy =.
Eleven hundred Cincinnati carpenters
went out on strike Monday, and it is
probable 600 more will quit work. They
demand nine hours work for ten hours
pay. Chattanooga printers struck for a
raise. Lowell, Mass, plasterers de-
manded an advance to $3.50 per day.
Several other small strikes occurred the
same day.
It is the purpose of the Women's Lib
eral Federation, of England, to men,
orialize Mr.. Gladstone Oh the subject of
the franchise for women. The memorial
will ask for Mr.. Gladstone to include in
the programme of issues to be presented
at the next parliamentary election a pro-
vision for the granting of the franchise
to women.
The Anti-Bennett convention at Mil
w,aukee declared that they consider pub
lie schools necessary; are not opposed to
prohibiting employment of children in
factories, and do not object to compul-
sorry education or teaching English i'll
schools. They claim the right to send
their children to any school they may
wish to, whether in their district or some
other.
Officers of the Western Union Tele-
graph company claim to have unearthed
a gigantic fraud by which the company
has been robbed of upwards of $50, 600.
The conspiracy has extended over forty
South Dakota towns, aqd the stealings
have been going on f5f years. Sioux
Falls, Pierre, Aberdeen, Mitchell, Red
field, Milbank and ether important
towns are included in the list. The plan
adopted was to get in collision with
managers at other Offices, then the fraud
was easily rerpetrated.
BISMARCK THREATENED.