The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1893-05-06
General News,

Illinois miners demand an increase in
pay.
The Mississippi is very high at St
Louis.
Lottie Collins, the dancer, has returned
to Europe.
The English budget shows a deficit OF
$7,87O,OOO.
Seventy-fve people were killed by the
Oklahoma cyclone
Nixon & Co., paper dealers ut Dayton
Ohio, failed for $4,000.
The Exeter Investment Trust company
failed in London for $50OOO0.
Mayor-clect Jones of Topeka, Kan,
spent $44.N to secure his election.
There are 43O delegates attending the
trans-Alississippi congress ut Ogden,
Utah.
The Reading Railroad company will
probably issue $50, O,OOO, ,OOO. of bonds at 4
per cent.
The nine oil wells of Gibson & Giles in
Jay county, Ind, have been sold for
$23G,5OO.
DIR. McVickcr of Philadelphia declines
to become bishop of the Episcopal diocese
of Massachusetts.
Gen. Grants birthday is celebrated at
his old home, Galena, ILL.,, where Gov.
Mckinley gives an address.
o. Il. Mink is the new vice president
of the Uuion Pacific A. Il. Orr is chair
man of the board of directors.
DIR. William Everett Dem) has been
elected to congress In the Seventh con-
gressional district of Massachusetts.
A. p. Hepburn, ex-controler of the
currency. has assumed the presidency of
the Third National Bank of New York.
A Chinese woman ut st. Louis, Mo-,
Is circulating petition addressed to
President Cleveland asking for Il picture
of Baby Ruth.
Lew Murphy. well known citizen and
business man of Lagro, Ind. has gone
insane from drinking whisky after taking
the keeley cure.
Emanuel Lasker won the chess tourna-
ment prize of $1,000 and the champion
ship of America in the contest with Sho-
walter at Kokomo, Ind.
Henry Willard is about to send an ex-
pedition to South America at his own ex-
pense. What Willard means to do with
the results is not known.
Wheat speculation caused the failure
of the Mcconnell & Mcguire company at
Moscow, Idaho. Gov. Mcconnell is at
the head of the concern.
The Sioux City u Northern road and
the Pacific Short Line hnve been sold to
the Great Northern and will form link
in its new route to Denver.
The great naval review at New York
is success, despite constant rain. The
Columbian ball follows and is pronounced
the most magnificent affair ever seen in
the new world.
The rise in prices in the corn markets
Of Vienna and Buda Pesth has resulted
from the severe drought. Rain has
fallen in several districts of the empire,
but not in large quantities.
1t transpires that the delegates from
twenty or twenty-five unions in London
and the provinces, who met in this city
recently. resolved that general strike of
waterside workers in Great Britain
would be inadvisable at present.
Mrs. Margaret Goodwin of Indianapo-
lis, at whose home have occurred five
cases of disease resembling Asiatic
cholera, is dead. Her husband and three
children are still violently i'll. The well
water at the house has been analyZed
and found to contain organic poison and
animalculae.
The Norwegian storthing-G3 to 81
has decided to suspend its sttings sine
die, owing to King Oscars attitude of OPP
position to the storthing of the consular
question. The Norwegian newspapers at
tack the monarchy and are agitating for
the elision of the badge of union of Swe-
den and Norway from the Norwegian
flag.
Word has reached Livingston. Mont,
from Cooke City that in the Alice Il.
mine a four-foot vein of gold ore has
$500 ton in the yellow metal. One of
the banks of this city to-day forwards to
the East gold brick from the same
property as the result of n twenty three
days run, containing $4,000 of metal.