The Dickinson press., 1894-09-08
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Washiugton.
1t Is expected that under the new tar
III Law the Democratic administration
Will entirely delmolish the reciprocity
system. :.
Secr.tary Carlisle has de idctl that
goods In bond under the Mckinley law
need not be rcimportad to come in free
of duty under the new law.
President Cleveland. in a letter to
Congressman Ca:chings of Mississippi,
criticlses the tariff bill which he al-
lowed to becS:ne a law last midnight.
without his signature.
Personal Mention.
George Barrett. comedian. brother of.
Wilson Barrett, is dead it, London. :
n. l.. Alden, IL business man and res
idcnt of Dubuque, Iowa. for forty
years, died suddenly IT, that city.
Judge John o. Wilkinson. one of the
most eminent .iurists of Western I'LL
nOis, died at the home of his sister in
Jacksonville, aged a years.
n. w. Dunno, superintendent of the
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk rail
road, died ut Cape Charles. Va. KTe
was 81 years old.
Rear Admiral Skerrett, recently COM
r:lding the Asiatic squadron. who has
been appointed, to succeed Rear Adj
miral Irwin, is i'll il Denver, Colo.
William w. McKcnney, the youngest
soldier in the Ohio volunteers, who en-
listed in 1861 at the age Of twelve
years and six months. died ut Zares-
willie. Ohio.
The marble bust of Mrs. Harriet
Beecllcr Stowe, recently n ,iled in
Hartford, Conn.,, was executed by Miss
Annie Whitney of Boston. 1t cost
$1,000, and was paid for by subscrip-
lions of Connecticut women.
Judge Holt was not the last surviv-
ing member of the military commission
that tried President Lincoln's assassins.
John a. Bingham, who was for years
In congress and afterwards served as
minister to Japan, is still living at his
home in Ohio.
Unfortunate events.
William Landgraf was drowned at
Fort Cclborn, Ont, by the capsizing
af aboat.
A dynamite explosion occurred in a
mine at Manilos. Mex, and six Mcxi-
cans were killed.
Flames starting from an unknown
cause destroyed property in South
Bend, Ind, valued at $4,000.
burglars, Stephen Albright Of Allen
town. Ia, fired at them, woun1iI.g six.
Benjamin Shaw and his wife. an aged
couple Of Wabash, Ind, were fatally
kicked by a runaway horse.
Homer Sloan laid down on the rail-
road track near Winamac, Ind, while
drunk, and was run yer and killed.
John I4insey was killed by a train.
while crossing the Big Four track
near Milford, Ind.
A sewer ave in ut Newark, o., bur-
led five men. One was taken out
d~ead-John Hirschlein,
Forest fires r raging along the
Massachusetts, coast, and several
towns an' In danger of obstruction.
A section of the Camp Springs Mill
ing SOmpany's warehouse at Nash
vile. ILL.,, collapsed destroying proba-'
bly, $1,000 worth of flour.
Tramps who had been refused free
transportation stoned a Big -Four pas
senger train ut Anderson, Ind, break
ing all the windows.
A. B.. Abbott, cx-lnember of the New
York legislature. was killed 1T Glens
Falls by the accidental discharge If his
gun.
A special freight bound West on
the Chicago & Grand Trunk broke in
two at Lansing, Mich. While
Brakeman NJ. ]. Wilson, of Port HUI
ron was uncOupling a car the rear end
crashed into the front. killing Wilson.
While Jacob Mapes, Il farmer living
near Rockford, ILL.,. and his family
were driving, the team became fright
cned and ran away, throwing the
family Of five out into a barbed wire
fence. Mrs. Mapes was terribly cut
and one child will die.
A shfpwrecked crew arrived in BAL
tilnore on the Norwegian steamship
America, Capt. Hvoslef. from Port An
tonic, Jamaica. They we're Capt.
Fergesen and five sailors from the
Norwegian b%rigantinc Smaragd of
Krageroe. which was burned ut sea
several days ago.
Criminal Doings.
Six Indians were killed in a free
fight at Chilect, Alaska.
A nan was found dead in Chadron,
Neb. Later a tramp carrying 500
was arrested for his murder.
State Game Warden Pell Of Illinois
arrested three Italians for fishing in
the Kankakee river with wicker nets.
Private Lee discharged from the Sal
walton army at Emporia, Kan, was
arresting for disturbing a meeting.
Miss Orfy Raridan of Wooster, Ind,
committed suicide by taking poison.
Jealousy is supposed to have been the
cause.
While defending his wife from their
insults, Conrad Busch Of Brooklyn
was kicked to death by n gang If row,