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The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
Worlds Fair ExhtlItor. Kick

Paris. March 2O.--Thc Figaro prints a
letter signed by several artists who ty.
hibitcd pictures at the Chicago fai.. They
complain ;liat their pictures have n (
been returned, and express keen anxiety
as to their safety as in the event IF fire
no Indemnity can bc obtained. They hint
that the French officials, whose expenses
are paid throughout their sojourn in the
United States are prolongng their stay
for the sake Of the profits. I he artists
say that some Of these officials are tI9lv-
cling the whole length and breadth Of
Amcrica
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
1,oth Men Defeated.

Ell Paso, Tex, March 19.-One of the
hardest fights that ever took place in the
West was fought yesterday between
Australian Billy Smith and Billy Lewis
of Butte, Mont. The fight was for $500.
Smith weighed in at 152 and Lewis at
las. Lewis was knocked out in fourteen
rounds.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24

Spokane. WASH. March 90. - Warm
weather in the Palc,,s" and Big Bend
col ntry is taking the snow off in IL
injury. All stre.ns ere raging. many
places have been flooded and fcEtcs car
rird away. AT the Palousc river NUM-
Der of houses haze l." Il washed away
tr looscncd out cf their foundations
Similar reports come frCm Uakestlale.
Davenport and Spangle.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
One london Scandal CoIlapsed.

London. March 20. - When the ad-
journed hearing of the srit of Mrs. Hol
land against Sir Francis Cook, the hus
band of Tennic Clatiin, was resumed to.
d.ly before Justice Hawkins in the
queens bench division of the high court
of justice, Mr.. Willis. counsel for tho
plaintiff, announced that he must with
draw from the case, and accordingly judg-
ment was ordered, with costs for the de-
fendant. Mrs. Holland sued for E12,-
GOO damages, claiming breach of prom
Use made twenty-five years ago, and that
she had been induced to submit to 3
criminal cnpratinn
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
Who Had This Eitf

Great Falls, Mont, March 2O.-The
body of an unknown man dressed in
llLc suit, ovcralls and mackinaw, was
found yesterday afternoon near Ring
wall l. Spitzlcy's ranch, eight miles
south, and brought to town. He was
about twenty-five years old and of light
compile Xion. He seems to have had q fit.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
Cutting Down w,g..

Boston, March 2O.-The first step
toward carrying out the order to reduc..
expenses on the Boston 4 Albany road
has been taken, 1MD men having been
discharged from the different depart.
nlcnts. During the past two weeks
twcnty-seven fi1cmen have been let "a
and nineteen engineers reduced to fire
men, making the whole number of men
discharged and reduced 13O.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
Fined for Tin,bcr Theft..

Crookston, Minn.. March 20. - John
Symmes. Martin Highland and Abra-
ham Paquin were brought before Judge
Christianson Saturday OH the charge of
removing timber from the Red Lake res
ervation. They all pleaded guilty and
we're fined three times the value of the
timber stolen.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
Oils in n Blaze.

Tracy, Mimi. March 20. Fire de-
stroyed the Standard Oil company's ware
house. $50 barrels of kerosene and forty
barrels of gasoline. The loss is $1,000,
with no insurance. The fire was in
cendiary.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
An Afflicted Family,

Fall River, Mass. March 2O.-Alcx ].
Mcdonald. of 147 County street, died
suddenly last Wednesday of heart dis
ease. Saturday Daniel j. Mcdonald, a
son, became violently insane, and now
another son is insane. Both boys are be.
ing guarded by the policc.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
Dir Block I'm Ashca

Eau Claire, Wis, March 90. - The
Bccbc block at Augusta City burned ut
8 o'clock this morning. 1t contained
Hackett & Hcbard's hardware store,
Coke Bros general merchandise an1
Hcintzlcinan's photograph gallery. No
contents were saved. Loss, S25,OOO;
partly covered by insurance. The origin
of the fire was unknown.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24

Ihc Rev. W. NJ. Thompson, pastor OF
a church at East Birmingham, Ala,
was arrested as he was leaving his pul.
pit. He has been identified as Buck
Hunt, a life-tcrm murderer who escap-
cd from the Mississippi penitentiary.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
Broke jail Mt phill,n.

Phillips. Wis.,, March 2O.-Charlcs r..
Husting and John Williams, two pris-
oners who broke Jail here last December,
broke out again last evening between 6
and o'clock and escaped. No trace Of
thelu has been discovered,
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
RIned Knnnn,. snfe.

Blue Earth City. NIinn., March TO-
Burglars entered the hardware store of
Otto kaurp & Son last night, pried open
the safe and obtained three grain checks,
one private check, one township order,
ladies' gold watch valued at $50 and
$40 in cash. No clue as yet.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
Victim Of n I'rnirie Fire.

Miller, S. D., Mlrh 2O.-Mrs. George
Hartong was burned to death Sunday af-
ttrIoon while fighting prairie fire. He.
clothes caught fire, ard she was fatally
injured before the flames could be cx.
tinr,iishol
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
wa.hi.sto. Gossip.

Washington COSBY.
The senate tables the resolution for
an investigation of the report that
senator's had spec;ated in sugar.
A resolution is prepared and will be
presented to the house authorizing the
government to sue the Union Pacific
for $4,OOOOOO.
Commissioner LOchren issues an or
der restoring to the pension rolls be-
tween 5000 and 4,0lO names which
have been suspended.
United States Supreme Court Justice
White Of Louisiana was inducted into
Office, and MIR. Blanchard was sworn
In as his successor In the senate.
About 100000 Of the new per
cent. bonds have already been deposit.
ed with the controller as security for
circulating notes.
The controller of the currency named
the Second National Bank of Boston
as reserve agent for the First National
of Duluth and the National German
American Of st. Paul for the Capital
National Of Bismarck.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
Approved ~. Reserve Agent.

Washington, March 2O.-The controller
Of the currency has appointed the Col,lm-
- '"';'''' ""at Of Minneapolis as re-
serve agent for the First National Bank
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
Lond of Wood Fell on Him

Annandale, Minn., March 2O.-John A..
Anderson. farmer living near town, was
seriously injured by part of load of
wood falling on him, causing serious
rupture of the scrotunl, which NAV prove
fatal
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24

she Had q Waste Basket.
He-Then we must part?
She-We must.
He-Wil you return my letters?
She-Not unless they were accompan.
led by the necessary postage.-Hallo.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
Miller. Second spouter,

Miller, s. D., March 2O.-Thc second
artesian well was completed to-day, be-
ing Of powerful force nnd sending uu
clear water.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
Lightning strikes a Church.

West Union. Iowa, March 20. - The
Catholic church at st. Lucas, one Of the
finest in Northern Iowa, was struck by
lightning early this morning and badly
damaged.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
From. roreix. Shores.

From Foreign Shores.
The house Of commons rejects Mr..
Laboucherc's amendment to the queens
speech.
Lord Rosebcry in a speech announces
that the policy Of the Liberal party
under him as premier will be precisely
the same rs under Gladstone.
The German steamer Lining, bound
from Danzic to Amsterdam, has been
sunk In collision with the steamer Lin
coin. Three Of the crew of the Iiuing
went down with her.
The Right Hon. Viscount Oxenbridge,
master Of the house, has resigned. He
was appointed to the position in 1892.
President Peixota Of Brazil refusss
Da Gama's term Of capitulation and
opens fire upon the insurgents, who
afterwaM surrender Nnconditionally.
Fifty thousand socialists of Vienna
and towns in the immediate vicinity
formed In procession ana marched to
the central cemetery, where wreatlls
were placed upon the obclisk erected to
the memory Of the rioters who were
killed during the disturbances of March
1S4S. Immense crowds witnessed the
procession. The proceedings through
out were orderly.
The London chamber of commerce,
In accordance with a resolution adopt
ed by the oriental section, have sent a
memorial to Lord Rosebery. the pre-
mier, requesting that he take steps to
bring about the resumption of the
Brussels monetary conference, in the
hope that further discussion of the
money question in the light of ..ccent
events will result in the adoption Ct a
plan to remedy the evil of which has
dislocated business throughout the East.
The Dickinson press., 1894-03-24
THE GLOBE.
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE wORLD.

All Impertaat Occurrences Of the
Past Week. Boiled Down nn0 Arr.
aaEea for Rapid lleading, From
Home aal Abroad.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-01-04
THE MELUNGEONS.
A Strange People Who Live in the Noun
 tains of Tennessee.

A Strange People Who Live Tn the Noun
 tains of Tennessee.
 It is not generally known that in the mountains of eastern Tennessee there lives a class of peculiar-looking people whose origin is wrapped in mystery and who are called by the whites Melun- geons.
 The legend of their history, which they carefully preserve, is this: A great many years ago these mountains were settled by society of Portuguese ad- Venturers. men and women, who came from the shore of Virginia, that they might be freed from the restraints and drawbacks imposed upon them by my form of government. They made them selves friendly with the Indians, and, freed, as they were, from every kind of social government, they uprooted all conventional forms of society and lived in kind of delightful Utopia of their own creation, trampling upon the mar riage relation, despising all forms of religion and subsisting upon corn-the only possible product of the soil-and the game of the great forests. They intermiXed with the Indians and sub- 
 sequently with the negroes, and thus formed the present race of Melungeons. They are tall, straight, well-formed people, of dark copper color, but with Circassian features. They were privileged voters in the old slave days and accredited citizens. They are brave but quarrelsome, and are hospit- able to strangers. They have no preachers among them and arc almost without any knowledge of Supreme Being. They marry by established forms, but husband and wife can sepa- rate at pleasure without meeting with any reproach or disgrace from their friends They have but little associa- tion with their neighbors, and are in every respect, save that they are under the jurisdiction of the state govern ment, separate and distinct people.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-01-04
STORES ON sHiPBoARD.
Passengers Will Soon Be Able to Get What
 They Need in DIidocean.

Passengers Will Soon Be Able to Get What
 They Need in Midocean.
 The steamship men are talking of adopting another wrinkle. ''It is a capital idea," said the originator, who, according to the New York Evening World, manages one of the biggest lines running between the Mersey and New York.
 Ut is our intention to establish a counter on every one of our ships. The department will be in charge of a landsman and an assistant, the latter a petty officer on board. It will be necessary to select landsman, because sailor men know very little about mo- tion counters.
 "Everything to be found in a first class dry goods store will be put on sale at this counter; everything, say, with the possible exception of the latest fangle in bonnets and trunks.
 ''Well run a full line and sell as good and as cheap as any firm on shore. The time has gone by when passengers have to be inconvenienced through an oversight in having forgotten to pack away shoe buttoners, particular kind of glove, hair brush, hand glass or any other article that makes human nature kind and good.
 ''No, we won't have any special sales, but we'll have silks and ginghams in abundance, that the ladies may have chance to while away the monotony of the voyage. It's big scheme, and it will be a great boon to our patrons when it is fully established"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-01-04
: GREATEST IN THE WORLD.
An Immense Bridge to Span the Mersey
 at Liverpool.

at Liverpool.
 It is proposed to build an immense bridge over the Mersey to connect Liv- erpool with Birlzenhead, and the de- signs of the structure are already in existence. According to descriptions in the Liverpool newspapers, the bridge will be of the arched suspen- sion type, in three spans, the roadway being suspended from an arch instead of the usual chain. Each span will have clear waterway of HOO feet, the center span having clear head way of 15O feet above high water of or dinary spring tides. Possibly it may be considered advisable to have one large central span of 1,500 or 1,600 feet with two smaller side spans, so as to give more room for maneuvering a large ship not under absolute control. The plans allow for clear roadway forty feet in width, sufficient for at least four lines of wheel traffic, and two outer footways, each z feet inches wide. The promoters further claim that an overhead electric tramway can be constructed along the center of the road, supported on center columns in a somewhat similar manner to the New York elevated railway. The to- tai estimated cost of the bridge and it's approaches, including a sufficient sum for the purchase of property and compensation to owners, but exclusive of additional approaches and the over head tramway, is q, ,730,00O. Itis stated that at present there is paid for the conveyance of goods and passengers across the river by lighters, ferry steamers and the tunnel, e195,0O0 a year. of which a1O5.OOO is paid for goods traffic alone. The promoters estimate that the income of the bridge would be not less than e165, GOO a year.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-01-04
A PERIlOUS TRIP.
On Foot Through Tarcary, TCrH-stan and
 Siberia to St. Petersburg.

On Foot Through Tarcary, TUr6-stan and
 Siberia to St. Petersburg.
 It may be safely asserted that not one of his Episcopal brethren has ever performed such feat as formed an ep- isode in the early life Of the newly-ap- pointed bishop of Norwich, says the 1 St. James Gazette. After serving couple of years as curate under Dr. Hook at Leeds, Mir. Sheepshanks went. out to British Columbia in 1859, when that colony was far wilder and more isolated country than now. He did eight years of rough work, and then determined to come home for holiday, at all events, electing to travel via Japan and China, in those days a by no means familiar route. For months he disappeared entirely from mortal ken, and his family began to entertain seri- ous misgivings as to his fate.
 One evening a young Cambridge man, afterwards head-master of a we'll known grammar-school, but tutor for the nonce to Russian prince, was smoking cigarette in his rooms in St. Petersburg, when his servant an- nounced that a moujik wanted to see him very urgently. The unknown wis itor was shown up and appeared in the well-worn garb from which Brian O'Lynn derived his simple but practic- al sartorial notions. To his hosts ut ter bewilderment this uncouth being addressed him in refined English, and presently explained that he was
 
 his good offices. The man, in short, was Rev. John Sheepshanks, who, hay ing landed some six months before near the mouth of the Amoor river, had made his way alone and on foot through Tartary, Turkestan and Si- beria to the banks of the Neya.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-01-04
BRUIN WENT THE PACE.
He Was Cross and Abusive When in Ills
 Cups, But He Meant We'll.

He Was Cross and Abusive When in Ills
 Cups, But He Meant We'll.
 Big Jackson is dead, and as a result the heart of King McManus is bowed down beneath the weight of unutter- able woe. Jackson was only big, shaggy. black bear, but he was hale fellow in his way, and there was not man in all the Potrero who could cope with him when it came to drinking whisky, says the San Francisco EX- aminer. He could drink from morning till night, go rolling to his bed in the corner of the yard, and get up in the morning fresh as ever. From his yout h he was rOllicking blade, with good dash of the Bohemian in his makeup, and early in life he started to travel the pace that kills His friends had foreseen for long time that there could be but one end to it all, and when Jackson succumbed to the grim destroyer they shook their heads know ingly and said with one accord: q told you so."
 Sunstroke was the immediate cause of his death, but alcoholism reared it's hideous head behind it all. Dissipa- ton had sapped the strength of once robust constitution, and the other day came the end. As usual, Jackson was in his cups. During the forenoon he poured whisky into his stomach in lib eral quantities, and the consequence was that by the noon hour he was very drunk. Then he became ugly and boisterous, as was his wont when drinking, and he was thrust out in the small back yard to sleep off the ef- fleets of his potations. The day was hot and Jackson's blood was afire from whisky. He lay in the sun for some time in drunken stupor, and when evening came he was dead, Sun stroke, the doctor said, and his life must have gone out hours before they found him.
 When it was found that Jackson was dead, King McManus was sent for. He had been the latter's favorite for years, and it was deemed fitting that the monarch of Potrero should be given the opportunity to show the last honors to his pet
 ''Give him the best send-on you can, boys, was the kings admonition, ''and don't spare any expense. Jackson was a thoroughbred, and nothing is too good for him. Send the bill to me-
 And so McManus' followers gathered in to attend the rites. There was a wake such as only the Potrero order knows, and when it was all over the body of Jackson was laid to rest in a grave dug for him on the top of Irish hill, overlooking the scene of many jolly carousal. Nor was there any lack of mourners. Jackson had made host of friends in his dissipated career, and they stood about his graveside to do him such honor as they could.
 "We planted him just like human being," said one sympathizer. ''And why shouldn't we? He wasn't the best bear in the world, for he drank like a fish and was often cross and abusive, but he meant well, and never played it low on a friend in need"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-01-04
OUT IN THE COLD.
Kept Warm by Love Alone, and Not Any
 Too Warm Either.

Kept Warm by Love Alone, and Not Any
 Too Warm Either.
 The steps leading to the platform of railway car are not supposed to be very pleasant place for society young lady and gentleman to ride for any considerable distance, especially when the train is running at the rate of forty miles an hour on cold, dark night.
 But this is what recently happened to such couple all the way from Balls ton to Saratoga, says the Albany Even ing Journal, and the probable outcome of the incident will be an after-Easter marriage in high life.
 The couple in question had gone to Ballston to take tea with a mutual friend, and to return by the nine p. m. train. Being 8 little late in reaching the depot, and finding the train under motion, by desperate effort the young woman gained the steps to the rear platform of the last car, and the young man followed her.
 The train was now moving at rapid speed, and the young couple, carefully cinging to the railing, started to ascend the platform and seek safety and more comfort on the inside of the car. But they soon discovered that they were on the steps of vestibule sleeping car, and that the door opening into the vestibule was locked.
 A seven miles ride in this uncom- fortable position was the necessity which stared them in the face. They had to stand up all the way and to hold closely to each other and to the railing, or the jolting of the train might have thrown them off
The St. Johns herald., 1894-01-04
CINDERELLA ABROAD.
They Don't Expect to Find Her in Paris.
 Though.

Though.
 4 new sort of Cinderella competition, says the London Post, has been started by French paper in search of sensa- tion. A shoe nineteen and One-half centimeters Seven and four-ffths inches) long has been specially made and the lady who succeeds in putting it on will receive a handsome present c plate, and will have her fame car ried throughout the length and breadth of France. The notion is said to be a Yankee one(D Experts are of opinion that the woman does not eXist-in Flu rope, at all events, for 1t is necessary to exclude China in a competition of this kind-who will be able to fulfill the required condition. The lady who has been for many years at the head of the ladies' boots department at one of the Paris universal providers declares that in all her experience she has never seen a woman's foot only seven and four-ffths inches long. The aver age length is twenty-five centimeters to twenty-five and one-half centime- ters (tcn inches to ten and one-fifth inches). Oddly enough, it is found that col.ltry girls have feet just as small as those of their sisters in town, although it is true the latter are more cunning in choosing boots that make the foot look small.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-01-04
Suicide and Insanity.

An epidemic of suicide has prevailed in Buda Pesth and other Hungarian towns lately. In Buda Pesth alone seven suicides occurred in one day some two weeks ago. The number of eases of insanity is also increasing so rapidly that the hospitals and asylums are crowded. Physicians ascribe both phenomena to the scarcity of pure wine since the phylloxera, in consequence of which the people drink made-up liquid composed of substances perni- cious to the brain
The St. Johns herald., 1894-01-04
The Rarest Plants.

The question which are the rarest plants on earth admits of two answers as to rarity of distribution and rarity in the numerical sense. There are some plants which grow in one small spot and nowhere else. Such are the Kerguelan cabbage, which is found only on Kerguelan island, a remote island in forty-fve degrees south alti- tude and sixty-five degrees east longi- tude in the South Pacific, the species of harebell which grows only on Mount Parnassus, and a yam which is found only on the Pyrenees. The palm of numerical rarity is divided among two hybrid orchids artificially produced crosses-laelia bella and lac lia sedina, of each of which only one specimen exists, a unique flower called odontoglossum vecillarium, eX- hibited at the last exhibition of the horticultural society in Temple Gar dens, and tiny Japanese plant, over weighted with the pretentious name schizocodon soldanellioides, which was brought from Japan abont two years ago by Capt. Torrens. So far as is known it is the only one in exist ence.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-01-04
Falcons as Letter Carriers.

Falcons may be used as letter car riers in place of homing pigeons. NJ. Smokoff, lieutenant in the Russian army, has contributed to the Revue des Sciences, the result of some expert ments in training falcons to carry dis patches. Compared with pigeons, fal- cons are in more than one respect su- perior as carriers. Apigeon travels from eight to ten leagues in an hour, while a falcon, it appears, can cover fifteen leagues in an hour, and keeps up this rate of speed for fifteen hours at a time. The falcon can also, of course, be intrusted with a heavier budget. He is less easily affected by atmos- pheric changes, encounters fewer dan gers OF the way and can rarely become the victim of an enemy stronger than himself