The Dickinson press., 1894-12-01
therefore incompetent under the laws
Of Tennessee to give testimony before
any jury in a capital case.
coreie. Gossip.

OF tennessee to give testimony before
any jury in capital case.
Foreign Gossip.
Men. driven by hunger to prospecting,
have found paying veins in Australia.
One Of tho very few medical bursaries
In the University of Edinburgh has
been Won by Il Japanese student.
Montreal is to have a worlds fair in
1884, A london syndicate has agreed
to furnish the necessary funds.
H. Francis Maynard, elitor-in-chief
Of the Paris Figaro, is dead. He was
ffty-eight years Of age.
Officers of the cruiser Detroit, en-
trusted with the return Of the Colum-
bus relics, are heing handsomely en-
terta:ned ut Madrid.
Princess Claudine of Teck, sister of
the duke of Teck and aunt of the duch-
ess of York. died suddenly at Gratz,
Austria, aged fifty-eight.
The Compagnic Des Assurances Cen
erales Is suing the American Life AS
surance company in Paris for damages
for unfair competition by means of
pamphlets and circulars.
A man who is under trial for mur-
der at Kraguyvatz, Servia, has con-
fessed that overtures were made to him
to poison wine intended for the use of
King Alexander of Servia.
A Vienna dispatch says that Car
Nicholas. III consultation with the grand
dukes. declared 1t to bc his intention to
abolish the secret court police and the
at0fn <,f Csnsyn nd hot lo t.,
favor Of the freedom of the press.
A decision by the Queens Bench Di-
visional court in Canada is to the effect
that the Dominion government is pow
erless to punish bigamtsts when the
ceremony Of the second marriage is
performed in the United States or any
other foreign country.
Otherwise.
In his annual report Gov. Shcakley of
Alaska says seal poaching has not vet
been stopped.
The Milwaukee shops at Dubuque,
Iowa, now only run four full days a
week.
A MIME ball received during the civil
war was successfully removed from
the head of George Sackett at Creston,
Iowa.
Charles Knapp of Kalamazoo. Mich.,
follower Of Carter, the alleged Mes
siah, Is now in the insane asylum ut
that place.
The Virginia Jockey club has formally
withdrawn from all connection with the
Jockey club and will Hereafter be an in
dependent organization.
italian laborers OIL Il West Virginia
railroad have received no pay for three
months, and are creating reign of ter
rOr.
The Missouri Pacific has withdrawn
from the Western Passenger associa-
ton, which will probably go to pieces
us a result.
Indiana's supreme court decided the
Arnolds of Columbia City must stand
trial ON the charge of receiving depos-
its knowing tllcir bank to be insolvent.
Lack of public confidence forced the
Portland (Or.) savings bank to close it's
doors. Liabilities are given at $1,43O,-
600 and are covered by the assets.
A colony consisting Of fifty persons,
the heads of families being civil war
veterans, has emfgrated from Kansas
to Mississippi.
A relief committee gave 300 regular
dinners and distributed supplies to hun
dreds of other striking cloakmakers in
New York.
Coke Brothers & Co., the largest indi-
vidual operators in the anthracite coal
regions in Pennsylvania. have made Il
reduction of 40 cents ton at the mines
United Garment Workers Of America
endorsed the New York cloaklnakers'
strike and levied IN assessment to sus-
tain 1t.
Southern congres men question the
legality of the new bond issue and
threaten to make trouble for the ad-
ministratiOn.
A movement is we'll under way look
ing to the opening Of the great water
ways of Canada to vessels of the United
States.
Trial of the interstate commerce COM
mission cases against Southern roads
was begun at Cincinnati. further post
ponement being refused.
The National Wholesale Lumber
Dealers association has been organized
at New York and it is said tho organiza-
ton will have great influence on the
wholesale lumber trade.
Gen. Antonio Ezeta is in San Francis
co for the purpose, it is said, of pay
ing court to Mrs. Bessie Paxton, whom
he met while he was a prisoner in
San Francisco.
Dr. G.. \. Lindsey, secretary of the
Massachusetts state board of health.
thinks that the typhoid fever cases at
Noa1ov-on anI1nUn 1,yy
eased oysters.
Rev. Thomas Ducey. of st. Leo's
Catholic church, New York, has been
formally forbidden, 1t is said, by Arch.
bishop Corrigan to appear at Lexow
committee meetings.
In tearing down an abandoned house
on his farm near Columbus, Ohio. J..
L. Dickey found complete outfit for
counterfeiting United States silver dol
lars hid under the floor.
The will of James Hood Wright, of
the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co.,
bankers, New York, leaves the bulk Of
his estate, which is estimated at $780,
100000. to his wife.
Claude Rosche. living near Vincennes,
Ind, has sued B. F. Polk, ex-county
treasurer, for $1,000 damages, alleging
Polk prevented him from voting at the
recent election.
Mrs. John McNally of Leadville, Col,
was awakened by pulling at her hair,
and placing her hand to her head she
caught a mouse. This frightened her
into Mysteries and physicians in attend
ance have despaired Of her life
Overcharge of Powder.
Wheeling, w. Va, Nov. 23.-The cor
oner's jury in the case of the seven
miners killed In the Branch mines on
the Panhandle road, finished its la
lNlrS late last evening Eynert mfnora