The Dickinson press., 1891-12-12

City stands good show in securing the
prize.
Mrs. Emma Cole, who with her hus
band was lest in the storm Of last week,
had both feet amputated at Bismarck
yesterday, they having been badly
frozen.
Major L. @. Overman, who has been
in charge of the government works in
Cleveland, has been arrested charged
with the misappropriation of govern
ment funds.
Indians at the Cheyenne Agency
have notified the agent that they in.
tended to makean attack on the set,lere,
and troops have been asked for to pro-
tect the whites.
Dennis Rannafin, of Bismarck, while
Walking down st. Paul street on Mon.
d,y evening, slipped and sustained II
fracture of the leg. He was removed to
the city hospital.
A club composed Of twenty. five
French Canadians, whose members in
dnlaed in unnatural practices. was
raided in Montreal, and four of the
members were arrested.
The government office at Vladivos-
took, Russia, has been robbed of $3.50,
900. The thieves entered and escaped
from the treasury by means of an under.
ground passage.
The pope has anticipated frances
warming and INSTRUCTED the papal nuncio
in Paris to disavow the present action of
the French bishops in the affair of the
archbishop of AK.
Mr.. Cooper, of Indiana. will offer a
resolution in the house providing for @
thorough and rigid examination of the
management of the pension Office under
Commissioner Raum.
Joseph l.. Tice, who was convicted at
Rochester, N. Y, of numbering his wife,
has been sentenced to be electrocuted
at Auburn during the week commenc
ing Monday, Jan. 18.
The body of O. A. Kasberg, who fell
apparently dead at Valley City on Sun
day, is still warm and slight action ofthe
heart is observed. 1t may prove case
of suspended animation.
The prohibitionists of Iowa will hold
etate convention in Des Moines in the
near future. An address has been is
sued to the public in which is urged the
Seattle citizens ore very anxious to
have Senator Watson O. Squire accept
the commission of minister to China,
which, it is claimed, has been offered
him by President Harrison.
DR.. G. @. Gilbert, the prohibition
mayor of Pittsburg, Kan, together
with several other gentlemen, got on q
spree and became so boisterous that the
police had to interfere
1t is asserted that Rev. J. III. Oech-
tering, rector of st. Mary's Catholic
Church at Fort Wayne, Ind, has been
selected as bishop of the diocese of La
Crosse, Wis, to succeed the late Bishop
Flasch.
The Union Pacific Railroad 90.
took active steps in the courts Saturday
to recover some of the securities placed
by it in the hands of Field, Lindley,
Wiechers & Co., and rehypothecated by
that firm.
Chief Justice Beatty, of the supreme
court of California. has denied the ap-
plication of Actor NJ. B. Curtis, Sam |
of Posen," to be admitted to bail pend.
ing the trial for the murder of Police.
man Grant.
The special agent who has been III.
vestigating the affairs of Surveyor. Gen
eral Sullivan, of South Dakota, states
that the only bad act committe was the
appointment by Sullivan of his brother.
in law to an important position.
At West Superior burglars went
through hotel in broad daylight, Sc
curing about $50 and a few watches
from loungers in the hotel office. The
clerk was locked into room and the
robbers ransaoked the house.
Mrs. Olena Sodezki committed sui
eide in Jail at Sunbury, Pa, by hanging
herself to the water pipe in her cell
The pipe was only two feet from the
floor, but she rolled over and over until
she succeeded in strangling herself.
A syr dicate connected with the farm
ers alliance has purchased q general
store at Ve1million, s. D., and will go
into business. It is proposed to do o
strictly cash business, and 81, 900, 900 is
is said to be behind the syndicate.
The United States supreme court has
postponed until the second Monday in
January the hearing of the cases Of
Fielden end Schwab, the Chicago
anarchists now imprisoned at Joliet,
Ill, for completely in the Haymarkct
riots.
The centenary of the death Of Mozart,
the composer, was observed throughout
Austria Sunday. Many musical festi
walls marked the day. A performance
of Mozart's opera, Don Juan" was
given ut the Imperial opera house in
Vienna
Mrs. Joseph CLARK, who was mario d
to her husband on Thanksgiving Day,
ut Cassonolis. Ind. eloped with Alonzo
Ray, of Decatur. Ray deserted a wife.
He was captured and is now thinking
about his recent episode behind iron
bars.
The grand jury of Beaver County,
Pa. in the case of United States i'en-
ator NJ. s. Quay against The Beaver
Star for criminal libel has found true
bill against the newspaper. Senator
Quay is at Beaver pushing these libel
suits.
The grand jury in Minneapolis is in
vestigatipg the gambling houses and it
is said that several prominent citizens
of that city have found it convepiant to
take trip ont of town rather than ap.
pear before the jury and testify against
the gamblers.
Dan Morrison, lieht-headed gentle
man, called at the Office of Tom Lowry
in Minneapolis on Monday, and on
bei1 g refused sdmittance to the room
of the street railway magnate. threat
ened to blow the whole establishment.
Morrison was promptly arrested and
jailed.
An old man with suspicious looking
package created CONSERVATION among q
group of brokers in the Hoffman House
They thought he had dynamite bomb,
and the brokers hastily moved away.
but the man was afterward found to be
beggar, and had three stones wrappe
up in the package.
Railway officials Violating the Laws.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1O.-The general
passenger agents of the Grand Trunk
and Canadian Pacific Railways have
been in correspondent ce with the treas
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