The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1898-12-03
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.
Friday. Nov. 20.

NEWS CONVERSATIONS.
Friday, Nov. 25.
Theodore Sedgwick Fay, the diplo-
matist and author, is dead at Berlin.
The United States battleships Oregon
and Iowa, and The collier Celtic have
arrived at Montevideo, Uruguay, to re-
coal and take Oh board supplies of pro-
visions.
The soldiers at Pana, Ills, have dis
armed number of negroes and others
in accordance with the proclamation of
the governor, but there are. still plenty
Of firearms concealed about town.
Marshal Blanco, whose resignation as
captain general Of Cuba has just been
accepted, sails for Spain on Sunday. He
will be succeeded by General Jiminez
Castellanos. division commander.
Edward G. Assay, who was in former
days one of the great criminal lawyers
OF the country is dead at Chicago. He
defended the leaders in the Camp Doug
lass conspiracy during tle.war and was
prominent in the whisky trials in 1876.
Saturday, Nov. &c.
General Brooke has cabled from Porto
Rico announcing the death of Neal Bair-
den, Company E. Eleventh infantry, of
tuberculosis.
The French cabinet has decided to
authorize loan of 100000, francs for
the purpose of establishing an Indo-
China connection with the Chinese
railways.
Consul Ellsworth ut Puerto Cabello
has notified the state department that
large shipments of fine Venezuelan cat
tie are being made from Puerto Cabello
to ports in Cuba.
The London county council has up
held, by vote of 62 to 33, the decision
of the licensing committee to refuse
licenses to halls where Sunday concerts
are given for profit.
The building of the Indiana Medical
college, a department of the University
OF Indiana, has been gutted by fire.
DIR. Shobe, one Of the internes, may die
Monday, Nov. 2S.
War on slot machines is being waged
at Sioux City.
Chicago has been decided upon as the
place for the Methodist general confer
ence in 1900.
In a letter to the war investigating
commission Robert B. Roosevelt secre-
tarv OF the committee of the Society for
the Protection of Soldiers, scathingly
criticized the management of the war
department.
A letter from the Manila agent of a
London firm assures the latter that
there will be more fighting in the Phil,
ippines in case more than IL protectorate
is attempted by the United States.
The boiler Of the river steamer T. G.
Walker, exploded near Stockton, CAL,
Sunday, killing the captain, fireman,
engineer and wife and one passenger,
and badly scalding eleven passengers.
Tuesday, Nov. go.
Prairie fires are doing great damage
in Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
Top Gallant, the sire of Typhoon II,
was sold at Lexington, KY, for $50, 600.
Grandma" Wynn, who owned half
of Brooklyn, Ills, was murdered by
robbers.
The trial of Senator Quay on the
charge of using state funds for private
purposes, has begun at Philadelphia.
Ex-Judge William Foster, a well
known Hawaiian ju1ist under the mon
archy, is dead. Judge Foster had been
practicing law in San Francisco for sew
eral years.
A dispatch from Brussels to the Paris
Journal des Debats affirms that Comte
Ferdinand Wallin Esterhazy has EN-.
barked at Rotterdam for the United
States.
Fire in the big furniture establish
ment of Robert Keith & Co., Kansas
City, caused loss on stock roughly
estimated at $150,000, and on building
Of $4,000
Wednesday, Nov. 80.
The republic of Ecuador has pro-
claimed a state of siege.
An attempt is being made to form a
large sugar trust in Chicago.
The Alton Qlls.) school case has been
decided against the colored people.
Meetings are being held in Iowa to
call for an extra session of congress to
retire the greenbacks.
The Cuban General Lacret says the
Cubans will fight the United states if
necessary to obtain independence.
Pitt Cravath, we'll known Demo-
cratic leader of Wisconsin, committed
suicide, presumably because of despon-
dency over his wife's death.
An Illicit whisky still as a side issue
Of plant for the unlawful manufac-
ture and imitation of we'll known
brands of wine has been unearthed near
the heart of Chicago
A Buenos Ayres dispatch says the
coming crop will probably be good one
despite the damages caused by frost.
The export of wheat, it is calculated,
will be 900, 900 tons, of corn 700, 600 tons
and of flax 100000.
Thursday, Dec. 1.
The woman suffrage amendment to
the South Dakota constitution was de-
feated by 4,0Os votes.
The Spanish government is greatly
alarmed at the activity being displayed
by the Carlists.
The Oregon and Iowa have been Or
dered to proceed from Montevideo to
Valparaiso, where further orders will
await them.
The pope, it is said, has proposed to
settle the Spanish dynastic difficulty by
having Don Jamie, son of Don Carlos,
marry Princess Mary of Austria.
The secretary of state has received a
cable message from United States Con.
sui Gibbs at Tamatava. Madagascar,
saying that the bubonfc plague has
broken out at that place.
AT meeting of the Industrial com.
mission at Washington reports were
made by chairmen of the various sub.
showing progress in prepara,