The Dickinson press., 1897-02-27
Miscellaneoul

The b%nttleship Texas has arrived al
Galveston. Tex. A silver service will
he presented by the citizens.
Senator George of Mississippi has
recovered sufficiently to he taken to
his home.
The fight in Kansas for resubmis-
sion of the liquor question is apparent
ly lost in the stae legislature.
BY unanimous vote the athletic coun-
Gil Of Cornell agreed 10 allow Yale to
enter Corncll's race with Harvard.
The controller Of the currency has
given authority for the organization Of
the First National Bank of Newport,
Ark.
Kid Lorraine. who lately went to
Rochester. n. Y, from the Pacific
coast, was knocked out in the fifth
round by Jack McDonough of st. Paul.
The Burns & Hunt Hardware COM
pany. a large retail house at Sioux
City, Iowa, has failed with liabilities
of $4,000. Assets IRE ample.
The lower house Of the Kansas state
legislature has killed the bill giving
ZONE the right to vote for presiden-
tial electors.
The Greater New York commission
has adopted the charter prepared for
the consolidated municipality as Il
whole.
The Office of L. w. Tynell, Il dealer
In farm machinery at Riceville, Iowa.
was broken into by burglars, who
drilled the safe and attempted to blow
it open, but failed. They escaped.
Judge Daley has appointed Peyton
b. Harrison general receiver for the
Auburn Wagon works Mt Martinsburg,
W. Va. The liabilities are S12O,OO
and the assets $65,OOO.
Without a dissenting vote the New
York senate has passed a bill providing
that persons convicted of placing Oh.
structions on railroad tracks shall be
guilty of murder in the first degree.
The statement that the refunding
bonds of Dubuque. Iowa, to the
amount of $500 900, had been repudi-
ated by the purchaser turns out to be
untrue.
Navigation on the great lakes will
open ut an unusually early date this
year. The steamer State Of Michigan
will begin making regular trips be-
tween Cleveland and Detroit next Mon
day.
Quantity large; quality poor" is the
summary of the German Rhine wine
crop of 1896 as reported to the state
department by the United States con-
sui at Mayence.
The executive committee of the
church of the Protestant Episcopal
church met at the Bible house, New
York, and voted to hold it's next con-
gress at New Orleans in November,
1897.
The Columbia, Pa, silk mill has an
nounced that 1t would put 100 extra
men ut work at once, and upon the
completion of an addition this spring
will employ 200 more. 1t now gives
employment to 700 hands.
The wooden mill at Oak Valley, II. L.,
will resume operations in a few weeks,
after having been idle for sixteen
months. The other wooden mills in that
section of the state are nearly all run
ming.
The Ohio Steel Company of Youngs-
town has commenced active operations
toward the construction of ten new
Open-hearth furnaces. The plant is
now running double time in all de-
partments with a good outlook for Il
Still greater increase in business.
The American Federation of Tabor
and the unions attached to 1t through
out the country are making arrange
mentS to begin the agitation for n gen
eral eight-ho1ur worEday by a series
of meetings on WaShington's
birthday. a circular urging all the
labor organizations to Join in the
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