The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1898-04-02
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.

NEWS CONVERSATIONS.
Friday. March a5.
The battleships Kentucky and Kear.
sarge were launched at Newport News.
y. B. Wright, ex.president of the
Northern Pacific, died in Philadelphia.
The Spanish torpedo feet has sailed
from the Canaries for Porto Rico, which
Is considered q menace to the United
States.
Financiers on both sides of the At.
lantic plan to avert war and find but
little sympathy in the Washington gov.
ernment.
Statistics of the British Columbia
salmon pack for the last season show
that the total for the season was 1915.
AT cases, compared with 601,57O the
previous season.
In order to collect a $lE, 900 Judgment
for personal injuries, Montana man
attempted to have the recent foreclos-
ure sale of the Northern Pacific set
aside to certain extent.
The grand national steeplechase, the
great event Of its kind of the year,
which was run at Aintree, near Liver.
pool, was won by Drogheda. Cathal
was second and Gauntlet third. TWEEN.
ty.fve horses started.
Saturday, March 20.
James Payn, the English novelist and
journalist, is dead.
A rumor is current at Chicago that
Armour and Letter have patched up o
truce in the wheat pit.
Yale won the fourth annual inter.
collegiate debate between Yale and
Princeton at the latter place.
The United States minister, J. B.
Angel, has returned to Constantinople
from tour Of Egypt and Palestine.
The firing Of a dynamite cartridge in
the Hazard coal mines near Liege, Bel.
GUM, caused an explosion of coal gas.
Twenty miners were killed.
New York and Massachusetts naval
militia have been called upon to take
charge Of the monitors that will protect
New York and Boston harbors.
Lightning set fire to the docks at
Fiume, Austria. Hungary. which were
damaged to the amount Of $400, 900. In
addition nearly the whole of the sea.
sons jute imports were destroyed.
Monday, March 2s
w. g. Collins has become general
manager Of the Milwaukee road.
Irish landlords have practically civ.
on up all opposition to the local govern.
ment bill. ias
The Oxford University Chess club
has accepted the challenge Of tho
United States universities.
H. Walter Webb has resigned the
third vice presidency of the New York
Central on account of i'll health.
By vote of 95 to 28 the Louisiana
constitutional convention adopted q
suffrage plan whose avowed object il
to eliminate the negro from state pol.
iticR r I'll
-Four houses near Colgate, I. T., were
demolished and five occupants reported
to have been killed as the result Of q
storm.
Princess Marie Amelie d d'Orleans, the
Princess de Joinville, daughter.in.l Jaw
of the late Louis PHILIPPE, king Of the
French, is dead.
Tuesday, March 20.
The Marquis Of Salisbury has started
for Bealieu.
The Italian chamber Of deputies has
accepted SiRnor Crispi's resignation.
Sir John Arnott, baronet, proprietor
Of The Irish Times, is dead. He was
born in 1917, was knighted in 1853. and
was created a baronet In 1883.
Nine former Republican officials Of
Brooklyn, before the incorporation Of
Greater New York, have been indicted
on charge Of looting the city treasury.
Mrs. Della Parnell, mother of the
late Charles Stewart Parnell, died Sum
day night from burns received Satur.
day from the igniting Of her clothing
while sitting before a fire.
Weduesday. March 30.
Judge James Goggin Of Chicago, one
Of the most unique characters in the
legal profession. is dead.
Admiral Won Tirpitz, the commander
Of the German navy, has been appoint
cd Prussian minister Of state.
In wreck on the Peoria and Eastern
railroad near Bloomington, Ills, ~
persons were injured, seriously.
Three terrific explosions occurred at
the Sycamore powder mills at Clarks-
vile, Tenn. fatally injuring four en-.
ployes.
High water is doing great damage to
farm property, highways and bridges
around Princeton, Ind. The loss will
reach over $500. 900.
An attempted holdup on the Santa
Fe near Grant, N. NJ, by five masked
men was prevented by the nerve Of tho
express messenger, who opened fire
with brace Of pistolR
The postmaster general has awarded
the contract for carrying the mails
from juneau to Weare, Alaska, to H
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annual compensation Of $66, 600.
Thursday, March 81.
Chauncey Depew is now at the head
Of all the Vanderbilt lines.
The government has established .
naval recruiting station at Cleveland.
Fanny Davenport. the actress, has
passed the crisis in her illness and 10
improving. - ,=, +
A military funeral over the body Of
Lieutenant Jenkins of the Maine was
held at Pittsburg and was largely at
tended.
The dam in the Illinois river as
Beardstown, Ills, has broken and
Thousands of acres Of farm land are in,
undated, causing great damage. r
Two men were killed and two fatally
injured in . head-end collision b.
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