The Dickinson press., 1891-12-19
An uprising in Havti ia looked for

u. OolDv mas Deen appointed post
master at Ypsilanti. Stutsman county.
United States district court was
opened at Grand Forks yesterday morn.
ing.
r. P. Olarkson, editor of The Des
Moines Register. has been sued for
SANDER.
A bag containing $4,000 in gold dust
was found among a heap of cinders at
st. Louis
Hon. Josiah Minot, once the law part.
ner CT President Franklin Pierce, is
dead, aged 73.
DR.. Henry s. Douglass. house sur.
geon of the Kansas City hospital, com.
mitted suicide.
The national convention of the Ameri.
can Sabbath Union is in session at Des
Moines.
The treasury department this month
has paid out $7,0OO,O0O on account OF
pensions.
Wall Street lost fully $4,000, 900 in
money, bonds and stock through the
Field failure.
Alfred Downs, colored. will be hanged
on Friday, at Charlotte. N. o., for steal
ing sy ringe.
The Duluth millers have contributed
35, 900 pounds of flour to the famine suf,
ferers of Russia.
Chief Hayes, of the Cherokee nation,
is dead. The assistant chief is said to
be dangerously ill.
The south Carolina house has passed
q bill prohibiting public officers from
accepting free passes.
The Marine Band will make another
tour in the spring. 1t will go as far
west as California.
Matt Quay says he is out of politics,
and is not q candidate for re. election to
the United States senate.
Six divorces are on the docket at
Chamberlain, 8. D, Five of these are
brought by eastern people.
The wheat exports from San Fran
CISCO last week were four hundred and
forty-fve thousand centals.
The trial of M. B. Curtis, the actor,
who killed a policeman in San Fran
cisco, is set for Jan. II next.
The last cable from Liverpool says
cables closed 1! penny lower than last
night. and bad break in wheat.
Lemuel Richards, we'll known citi-
zen of Milwaukee, committed suicide.
He had bad attack of lagrippe.
John Prichards, of East Carroll
Parish, La, the largest individual cot
ton planter i'll the world, is dead.
The first annual meeting of the Da.
kota Epworth League will be held al
Aberdeen, s. D., Dec %. 20 and 80.
It is reported that e1-Speaker Reed is
about to retire from pnblic life and es-
ia blish himself as q lawyer in New
York.
A Washington dispatch says the navy
is in warllke mood, owing to the talk
of declaration of war with Chill by
congress.
Senator Kyle has written to parties in
Pierre to the effect that free delivery
will not be established in that city until
next July.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, jr, has been
granted $500 alimony and $500 solici-
tori fees, to be paid within the next
thirty days.
The steamer Solty Kof, from Barry
for st. Nazalre. has been wrecked of
Brest, and everyone of her crew was
drowned.
It will take no less than 13O big rooms
to accommodate the New York delega.
tion at the national republican conven-
tion at Minneapolis.
Harry Hall, of the senior class in the
Kansas State University, is dead from
the effects of too much exertion during
q game of foot ball.
The reports of E. f. Rea, station
agent at Gilby, are found to be all right,
and there is no shortagein his accounts,
as was first reported.
Peter Jackson has signed articles to
fight Frank Slavin for $40. 900, the escrap
to take place at the National Sporting
Club. San Francisco.
Speaker Crisp has announced the
committee on rules as follows: The
speaker, chairman; McMillin, Catch
ings, Reed and Burrows.
Last Friday afternoon M. O. Hol.
comb threshed $40 bushels of wheat
from the shock on the farm of A. M.
Campbell, of Rose Hill, N. D.
In Iowa, at the towns of Furley,
Earlsville, Dyersville and Delaware
Center, the saloons were raided and q
large quantity of liquor seized
1t is now claimed that DR.. Nelson,
who was burned to death at Oakes, COM
mitted suicide by pouring kerosene
over himself and setting fire to it.
Louis Wilson. porter at the Griggs
House at Grand Forks, has skipped to
parts unknown. after raising consider
able amount from certain parties.
Tim Byrnes, of Minneapolis, has
been arrested on the charge Of forgery
in the first degree. His bail is fixed al
$4,000, and the trial set for Feb. Is.
Workmen dredging the Harlem ship
canal discovered the tusk of mastodon
measuring four feet long and eight
inches in diameter at the butt.
At Chamberlain, s. D., Alexander
Rencountre, Sioux Indian, was di.
vorced from his wife. The plaintiff
alleged that she tried to kill him with an
ak.
The central Pacific Railroad Go. have
sold to Chicago lumberman IL, 500 acres
The purchasers will erect large mills al
once.
Representative Bryan, of Nebraska
will introduce bill providing for the
election of United States senators by
popular vote. in states where the people
so desire it.
Considerable excitement prevails al
HillEboro over the recent decision re-
garding the county seat, and every ef
fort consistent with law and order vii