The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1896-05-02
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cook of no mean skill.
Stanley j. Weyman, the novelist, is
a direct descendant Of the elder Du-
mas.
Mrs. Sarah Mcrcur. widow of the
late Chief Justice Mercur, died at her
home in Towanda, Pa.
II. G. Selous, the great hunter and
South African leader, is Al years of
age.
Capt. James Mercur. professor of
civil and military engineering in the
military academy at West Point, died
suddenly at Fortress Monroe.
Gen. MaccO, leader of the Cuban in
SurgentS, has captured % towns, 2,794
stands Of arms and 3l4,OOO rounds of
ammunition.
Hon. Francis Jewett. ex-mayor Of
Lowell, Mass, who had served three
terms, died suddenly of heart disease.
He was Is years old.
A. X. Butterfield is dead at Green's
burg. Md. He was wounded in the
Mexican war and lost n leg in the civil
war. He WAS so years old.
Samuel Messer, aged IS. superintend-
ent of the Hankey Lumber company,
a wealthy citizen, dropped dead in the
Methodist church at Akron, Ohio, from
heart failure.
Charles S. Osborn of Brimticld, Ind.
will contest the will of the late Mrs
William Lockwood. u centenarian, who
died at Newburg. N. Y, leaving an es-
tate worth S2OO,OO0.
Aunt Sally" Crane, as she was fa-
miliarly called, is dead in Morgan
county. Ill. She was the oldest native
of Morgan county and had lived there
eighty years.
late war and well known to public
men as counsel for the ALASKA Fur
Seal company, which long controlled
the Rcring sea seal business, died in
Washington.
Gilbert l.. Elliott is dead at South
Bend. Ind. aged So Mr.. Elliott had
been one of the most trusted officials
of the Michigan Central railroad for
thirty years. He was born in India,
his father having command of an Eng
lish regiment there.
CaaualtIes.
Thirty-twO buildings We're washed
away ut Three Rivers, Que, by the
floods.
The greater part of the business por-
tiOn of the town of Woodruff, twenty
miles from Spart: Eburg, $. c., was de-
strOyed by fire.
Green Il Bcntley's wholesale drug
store. the bank building adjoining. La
cey's building and Strasberger's dry
goods store, burned Mt Omaha. Loss,
$6OOOO; insurance, $4,000.
The British bark Republic, bound
from Newcastle, N. S. w., for San
Francisco with a cargo of coal, has
been out ninety-two days and many
shipping and insurance men believe
she is lost.
The countess of Aberdeen had a mar
row escape from death near Ottawa,
Ont. Her carriage horses plunged into
a deep pool beside the road and were
drowned The countess was rescued
with difficulty.
The steamer Marsden collided with
the British bark Firth of Solway, Capt
Kendrick, near kish lightship, Glas-
gov, causing the latter to sink. Thir-
teen men and the captains wife and
child were drowned.
Private George A. Parkhurst was
killed b ythe premature explosion of a
she'll While his company, Battery Il,
United States artillery, was firing IL sa-
Lutte at San Antonio. Texas. He was a
nephew of DIR. Parkhurst of New
York
A $50 fire at Toronto may cost two
lives. -Four tiremen wero ordered into
the burning structure and were driven
out by the flames. The chief ordered
them in again, when the shcp col
lapsed and the men were reviven with
great difficulty. Stevens had his skull
crushed and Collard was injured in
the spine.
A Louisville L. Nashville fruit train
and an Evansville Il Terre Haute pas
senger train coliided ut a crossing near
Mt. Vernon. Ind. Alex Driscoll, brake
man on the latter train. was killed,
while James Covinston. engineer. and
Il. II Thompson. brakeman on the
freight train. We're seriously injured.
Evil DoinEs.
Trouble in the Eighteenth Street
freefOrall fight. and the police had to
i've summoned.
Robert Chambers. negro charged
with robbinx and burning barn. was
tied to a tree and shot to death by .
mob mt Cranberry. n. &.
Cashier John A. Right, Of the de-
funct Fifth Avenue Savings bank Of
Columbus, Ohio. was held to answer
for alleged embeZZlement.
Ten miles west of Eufahla, l. H., in
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