The Dickinson press., 1890-05-03
ROUND Up OF THE NEWS,
Most Important OF n Week,s
Events COrralled I'm One
Column.
Happenings from ALI Parts of a
Busy World Presented in the
Most Concise Manner.

Mayor Grant, of New York, is accused
of wholesale bribery. He denies it.
All the Buffalo street car lines have
been sold to the Widener-Elkins syndi-
cate.
Miss Margaret Blaine's wedding to
Walter Damrosch will take place on
May II.
The Democratic state convention of
Pennsylvania has been called for July 2
at Scranton.
An explosion of coal gas in shaft No. 8
OF h Hancock mine, Hancock, Mich,
Monday, caused the deaths of three men
and a boy.
Rulnor at Spokane Falls says that the
Vanderbilt interest will obtain control
of the Great Northern at the election in
a few days.
Another break in lake and rail rates
has occurred. 1t is a reduction of 10
cents first class over the rates recently
announced.
A lead of almost pure galena ore
twenty feet thick, was struck at Barker,
Mont. The find is so rich as to cause
fears of a depression in the silver mar
ket.
Missouri Farmers alliance will store
wheat till the price reaches 81 per
bushel. A bank has been started to
furnish farmers money to tide them
over.
A fire at the village of Sandy Creek,
New York, destroyed the best part of
the business portion of the town, includ-
ing the opera house, a hotel and several
stores.
John A. Davis, brother of the de-
ceased Montana millionaire, has been
appointed administrator of the 81, 600, 900
estate, with a bond of 5000, 900. The
case will be appealed.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
has issued new stock to the amount Of
nearly $4,000, 900. with which to take up
bonds falling due and to extend the road
into the Black Hills region.
The Southern Pacific annual report
shows a deficit of $296,472 this year,
against a surplus of S 1879, 483 last year.
The gross earnings were SAG, 343, 2O6; OBJ
Grating expenses $50, 3O4, 1856.
The Illinois Steel company, which en-
ploys 1000 men at Joliet, Monday inaug-
urated a system of paying their m
ployes l per cent. advance on their
wages for each year they remain with
them.
Bishop Jansen, of Southern Illinois,
has issued a bull against The Arbeiter
Zeitung, a Socialist paper of West Belle
vile. ALI Catholics are threatened with
accommodation if they patronize the
sheet.
The bill creating the territory of Okla
homa has been returned to congress by
the president without his signature. on
account of a mistake in describing the
boundary. It now reads western line
of Texas" where it should be Eastern
line of Texas"
The house committee on war claims
has decided to report adversely the bill
introduced in the house by Mr.. Nc
Comas appropriating $S232, 500 to reim-
burse the towns of Frederick, Haggers-
town and Middletown, Md, for dam
ages from raids and invasions by
Confederate troops during the late war.
The Union Pacifc's annual report
shows a comparative loss in surplus of
S407, 900: the total surplus for the year
being $1,145,O0O, against 1852, 900 in
previous year. due, as President Adams
says, to the decreased earnings of the
Oregon Navigation company, by reason
OF deficient crops in Oregon and Wash
ington.
Foreign.
The Russian government is ~fortifying
the Red sea.
The Delagoa Bay railway has been
completed to the Transvaal frontier.
The pope has conferred the Order of
Christ upon DIR. Windthorst, the leader
Of the Clerical party in the German
reichstag.
The shah of Persia has vetoed the
project for the construction of a Russian
railway between the cities of Enseli and
Resht.
The state of siege having been raised
and martial law abandoned on the
island the Christian inhabitants of
Crete are jubilant.
The Brazilian minister to Italy has
been recalled, because he failed to pre-
sent to the Italian government the decree
OF his government forbidding Italian
emigrants to enter Brazil.
In the Spanish Cortez q bill has been
introduced which prohibits the employ
ment of boys under 10 and girls under
12 years of age. The measure also pro-
hibits all minors from being employed
in mines, circuses, OF in any unhealthy
occupation. All holidays, Sundays and
fete days are to be secured to such
minors, and the maximum days labor
is to be five hours.
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