The Dickinson press., 1897-02-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Overflow From the Wires In a Con-
Oen8ed Form,

Uc0oGU rOFms
The judiciary committee of the house
has decided to report favOrably the bill
to reOrganize the judicial districts of
Arkansas.
The New Hampshire senate has
adopted resolution of sympathy with
the Cuban insurgents. passed by the
house last week.
Through the collapse of the scaffold-
ing Of viaduct Oh a railroad in Corn
wall. Eng. twelve men fell a distance
of $50 feet and were killed.
+. Il. Dcttwold, late manager of the
local lumber yard of Kicker 4 Brat
nOl,cr. at Parkcrsburg. Iowa. is short
in his accounts and Is missing.
Frank Winclcll. arrested with twen-
ty carcasseS of deer in his possession,
was sentenced ut West Superior to pay
Il fine Of $3.50 or :s:O days in Jail.
a great many Nebraska farmers are
bringing their cattle and hogs to Yer
million, :. d.. and shipping them from
there to Sioux City and Chicago.
a dispatch to the London Daily Tel
cgraph from Vienna confirms the re-
port that Michael-Alunkacsy, the celc-
brated artist, is .holelessly insane.
Tho beginning of an organized effort
to prevent the consolidation of the Des
AIoines and Topeka pension offices and
their location at st. Louis has been
inauguratcu.
President Faurc has signed the ap-
pointments of William Dannat. the
American painter and ROdman Wan
amaker as foreign officers of the l.c-
giOn of Honor.
The steamer AnglOMan. Capt. Lewis.
from Boston OH Jan. 30. is ashore Off
the Skerries, near Liverpool She will
probably bc a total loss. All members
of the crew have been saved.
Congressman from those states in
which President Clcveland's order pro-
poses To abolish. are considerably OK
erriScd. and several meetings of re-
publican members We're held.
An open letter to the women of the
United States urging theni to use all
means in their power to further the
passage of the arbitration treaty With
| Great Britain has been issued.
\. B. Clark, for many years editor of
the Daily American of Newark. Ohio.
was killed by railroad train. lie was
~ years old and had retired from
newspaper work three years ago.
Articles of incorporation of the Orc-
gOn Short Line Railway company have
been filed with the secretary of state at
Salt Lake. The capital stock of the
company is fixed at SGO,OOD,NOO.
Thomas Redmond. an ol,l-time jockey
known as Texas Tom. shot and NOR
tally wounded John Stewart in Sill
loon at Chicago. where Redmond was
bartender, because lie refused to pay
for glass of beer llc had ordered.
The senate in executive session has
confirmed the following nominations
$. Penry Of California, TO DC register of
the land office at Sacramento; q. H.
Corby of California, to be receiver OF
public moneys at Sacramento, Cal.
The Bombay correspondent of the
London Daily Mail complains of tho
management of the infectious ships
and says the plague patients are left
without attention for the whole night
the result being needless mortality.
The powder war which has been
wagcd OH the Pacific coast for nearly
five years, il over. During the time
the contending companies. it is estimat
cd, have let between 81, ,NAIO,OOO and ST,
5OO,0OO in profits slip from them and
the holders Of stock have gone without
dividends.
President Il. s. Mcconnell. of the
Merchants National Bank of OsccOla
Fla. which failed OH Jan. II, has bcel
arrested on Il charge of falsifying p
turns and cmbezzling $SO,OOO lie has
no visible property there. but ii is al
legged that. lie has made heavy invest
mcnts in North Dakota.
The art exhibit Of the San Francisco
Chronicle, designed to illustrate tho
progress Of pictorial journalism In tho
United States will open in that city or
the oath inst. Drawings have been re
ceivcd from all the leading papers OF
the country, and the work of ncarIy
2OO artists will bc displayed.