The Dickinson press., 1891-08-29
Interesting Happenings Of the Past
Week Culled from the As
sociated Press.
Bar silver, oslo.

A. $. Campbell Won the tennis cham
pionship.
The reported successes of Emiu Pash,
are denied.
The Omaha smelter strikers have re
sumed work.
Balloon fatalities are becoming com
mon in Europe.
Pan Handle wreck at Columbus, los,
ten thousand.
The Ontario crops are the best in
many years.
A national lead trust will be organ.
lied Thursday.
The Kansas Republican League meets
at Topeka today. .
Joseph Bros. & Co., of Chicago,
failed for $4,000.
Wisconsin crops much improve by
recent rains.
Great damage done in Pennsy ylvania
by transforms.
Ex-senator Harlan is slightly i'll nj
Burlington, Ia
Saloons are being closed in the In.
dian Territory.
The Prince of Wales is aiding desti-
tute Russian Jews.
Heavy rains damaged Westmoreland
County, England.
Albert Hall, colored, stabs his wife to
death at Nashville.
Russia will furnish free wood to its
distressed provinces.
Eight stores and $40, 900 were lost by
q fire at Lexington, Neb.
The knights of Reciprocity are in
convention at Topeka, Kan.
Over II 900 barrels of oil burned at
Mcdonald, Pa, yesterday.
Serious trouble is threatened over the
railroad strike at Peoria, Ill.
The dry weather is damaging crops
around Belvidere, Ills.
Hobart defeated Hovey in a tennis
match at Newport, r. 1.
Statistics show $2S 2OO, ,s69 invested
in Massachusetts in 1890.
Milwaukee takes Cincinnati's place
i'll the American Association.
Fred Douglas says the president
didn't ask him to resign.
Porter says America may replace the
Russian supply of grain.
Job Hass was murdered in Philadel-
phia by an unknown robber.
The Vermont legislature will convene
in extra session Aug. s5.
All Europe is excited at Russian pro.
hibition of the export of rye.
West Virginia's population is 762, 794,
an increase of 1884 per cent.
English papers believe Americans
will hold wheat for stiff prices
London papers all lament Lowell's
death in complimentary terms.
President Harrison spent yesterday
fishing near Mt. McGregor, N. Y.
Russia is concentrating large bodies
of troops on the Austrian frontier.
The strike of Lake Western switch.
men at Lafayette, Ind, continues.
A cyclone sweeps over Bloomington,
Ind. doing much damage to crops.
The New York democratic convention
will be held at Saratoga Sept 5.
A farmer kills his nephew in a quar-
rel over nickel at Jackson, Tenn.
Queen Victoria sent President Harri-
son condolences on Lowell's death.
DR.. Moffat, young Cleveland den
tist, was drowned at Chautauqua.
The striking switchmen at Peoria, ILL.,,
have been replaced without trouble.
Austria will make great display al
the Worlds Columbian Exposition.
The Reading coal company will work
short hours till the coal trade booms.
An italian steamer was wrecked and
eighteen persons drowned in Senegal.
The London Times argues against the
American Inter Continental Railroad.
1he Oklahoma alliance wants an in ter.
state railroad from Duluth to Galveston.
Mrs. Mary Richardson and her two
Ky.
Christ Young was hung at Licking
ton, Mo-, for the murder Of Hans Han
son.
The Pottsville, Pa, Steel and Iron
Co. has resumed work with non-union
men.
The fight at Valparaiso still continues
and the insurgents are said to be victo-
rious.
1t is reported that Ex-Governor Che.
ney will be Secretary Proctor's sue
cessor.
San Francisco employers organize tc
resist the encrOachments of the trades
unions.
Eight were drowned by the burning
of the Norwegian collier Frey, neal
Bergen.
The National Worlds Fair commits
sion must cut salaries or have 500, 0O(
deficit.
Turkish brigands captured an Italian
railroad contractor and demand $1,000
ransom.
Rossi Savarini got six months fol
robbing dead body at the New Yorl
disaster.
The Russian government denies that
it will place prohibitive export duty
on wheat.
Wool warehouses of the Oberland Co.
at Chicago burn ID, causing u loss oi
S85, 600.
Secretary Proctor has been notified
that he succeeds Senator Edmunds oi
Vermont.
The London Chamber of Commerce
wants fine exhibit for Great Britain al
Chicago.
The sale of Emma Abbott's dresse.
was unsatisfactory on account of very
low prices.
Journeymen stone cutters resolved
against the competition of convict will
free labor.
A linen mill has been established nea
the City of Mexico. being the first ii
that country.
Southern Nebraska and Northern
Kansas had a heavy rain, which wa
geatly needed.