The Dickinson press., 1891-08-29
The Chinese squadron has been put
in readiness to repel an attack by

In private letter to st. Louis frient
Secretary Noble indicates no intentic
of resigning.
The Barcelona chamber of commert
formally protests against the Spanisl
American treaty.
The San Francisco Argus formal
announces Senator Stanford us a candi
date for president.
A night express train was held ND i
Georgia by three masked men nm
robbed of $4,000.
Strike on the Lake Erie & Wester]
Railroad extending. General blockad
of traffic threatened.
Gladstone writes letter condemnin,
interference by the house of lords in th
home rule question.
The United States government is ex-
ercised over the legality of selling lage
beer in Indian Territory.
The mayor and city council of AL
toona, Pa, We're arrested for refusing
to abate sewage nuisance.
A scheme is reported on foot to plac,
the militia of all the states under ua
tlonal command and pay.
w. A. Clemets has been appointed
government sugar inspector under the
new sugar bounty law.
Mexican farmers don't want Ameri
can reapers because the directions fo,
their use are in English.
An attempt is being made to raise the
blockade on the Lake Erie ~ Western
caused by the strike.
Attorney Catlin of Terre Haute was
arrested ut Chicago for purloininp
papers valued ut $4,000.
1t is reported that sixty sailors were
nassacred by natives ut the mouth of
Mackenzie River, Alaska.
The issue of fraudulent residence Ger.
tlficates to Cinnamon has been un-
earthed in San Francisco.
A collision between two Northern
Pacific freight trains at Palmer caused
the death OF two trainmen.
A schooner wreck on the Island of
Anticosta, Gulf of st. Lawrence, will
probably cost seventy lives.
Two convicts were killed while trying
to escape from the penitentiary at
Walla Walla, WASH, yesterday.
Maurice Call was fatally burned and
seven others seriously by a gas explo.
sion III II tunnel at Chicago, lii.
Blaine repudiates his alleged inter.
view with Alger, touching the presi-
dency. Alger also denies it.
The New York hot wave has gone.
but the effects are still apparent; six
heat deaths reported yesterday.
Seventeen thousand dollars were
found in the destitute home OF Edward
Baker, who recently died i'll st. Louis
On Sept. ID the boat entrance to
Green Bay, Wis, will be changed from
flash white light to fixed red light.
Sixty one bodies had been recovered
ut New York when work was stopped
and twenty one bodies were uniden.
titled.
Conductor William Mathews was
killed and three others perhaps fatally
injured by the Rock Island accident at
Chicago.
Two hundred and eighteen people
were killed in const towns alone during
the recent hurricane in the Island OF
Martinique.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Manning, an
Old wealthy couple. have been arrested
at Council Bluffs for issuing 500 spuri.
GUS $40 notes.
The new desert sea ut Salton covers
1856 square miles, and is receding. 1t is
fed by two channels, but at u greatly
diminished rate.
Mckinley opened the campaign in
Ohio with II speech at Niles on reviews
OF the republican policy on the tariff
and silver issues.
Robert Sims, arrested in Alabama for
elicit distilling, escaped from the
sheriff's posse. Two men were killed
in the melee which followed.
Harbin, who was to have been hanged
at Poplar Bluff, Mo-, yesterday, has
been respited six weeks, another man
having confessed to the crime.
Scientific examination is being made
of the holy coat at Treves and results in
favor of the theory it's being indentical
US the garment worn by Christ.
Won Moltkes history of the Franco.
German war causes disappointment to
German officers. owing to lack of ref.
erence to certain matters of domestic
policy.
A negro became entangled in the
ropes Of balloon near Wilmington, N
O., and was carried up 5000 feet. He
was afterwards deposited on the ground
unhurt.
The Federation of Labor elected
Charles A. Miller, Harrisburg, Pa,
president 1t was decided not to recoR
nize the socialist party or farmers
alliance.
The Bank Of France is trying to keer
gold to meet purchases Of American
wheat. The governor of the bank esti
mates the sum required for payment fol
wheat at 100000, 600.
The London Times discussing Amer.
loan politics, says the democrats are
more likely to defeat Blaine and Nc
Kinley by propounding a sober pro-
gramme with a sober representation
than by any pyrotechnic display.