The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1899-01-07
NEWS coNDENsATIoNs.

NEWS CONDENSATIONS.
Friday. Dec. so.
Senior Romero, Mexican ambassador
~ Washington, is dead.
Baron Curzon of Keddleston, the new
viceroy Of India. has arrived at Bonn
bay.
The Iowa State Association of Teach
ers has asked the legislature to adopt
law for compulsory education.
The Chicago grand jury, which has
been investigating charges against alder
men, failed to find any indictments.
Mrs. Lilly Lord Tiff, secretary of the
American. Association for the Advance.
mont Of Women, is dead at Buffalo,
N. Y.
General Lawton has been ordered to
Manila and will probably be in COM
mand there, General Otis being slated,
1t is believed, for military governor.
President Snow of the Mormon church
asserts that polygamous marriages
ceased in Utah in 1890 and that the
church is not interested in the Roberts
case.
Saturday, Dec. 81.
The bodies of American soldiers who
fell in the late war will be brought
home within month.
Julia Arthur, the actress, is in trouble,
being accused of violating a contract.
Her property has been attached.
Serious trouble in the Transvaal is be-
lieved to be brewing again. on account
of legislation unfriendly to Uitlanders.
The standing committee of the dio-
cese of Nebraska, has decided to refuse
its canonical consent to the conservation
of DR.. Morrison as bishop of Iowa.
The biggest price paid for many years
for seat in the New York Stock Ex-
change, CSC, 900, was paid by Frank J.
Gould, youngest son of the late Jay
Gould.
Americans in Havana think General
Brooke made great mistake in forbid
ding General Gomez and his Cuban SOL
diers taking part in the evacuation day
ceremonies in Havana.
Monday, Jan. 2.
Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of
Office as governor of New York Satur-
day.
The total receipts of gold at the Dem
yer branch mint in 1893 were $50, 1876, ,995,
gain Of $7,s92, ,544 over the receipts in
1897.
The coinage of San Francisco mint for
December is the largest ever recorded
for single month, amounting to $10,-
082, 900.
The Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany has placed orders for 10 postal cars
and 500 fiat cars. The company is also
asking for bids for 20 first-class coaches
A. Small & Co., Montreal, doing the
largest clothing business in Canada, has
failed. No statement has been prepared
yet, but the liabilities will be very
heavy.
Tuesday, Jan. 3.
The Duke of Northumberland is dead
at London.
Daniel LaForte, known by his Indian
name as Te-hes-la, president of the Six
Nations, is dead, aged ".
The death is announced of the Mar
quis de Cubas, the Spanish capitalist
and former mayor of Madrid.
Rev. James Bowen Funston of Nor
folk, Va, who was elected Episcopal
bishop Of Boise, has declined the honor.
DR.. Charles F. Guillou, formerly
surgeon in the United States navy, is
dead at Philadelphia from pneumonia.
The latest advices from La Paz, cap
ital of Bolivia, say that combat is i'm
minent between the revolutionists and
the government troops.
Ex-Governor James E. Campbell of
Ohio, who has been confined to his
room in New York hotel for several
days, is believed to be out of danger.
Wednesday, Jan. I.
Governor Roosevelt will be made
brevet brigadier general
Hon. Wayne Macveagh, who has been
quite i'll with the grippe, continues to
improve.
Lord Charles Beresford favors an al
lance Of the United States, Great Brit
ain, Japan and Germany on trade in
China.
At Miner, Ills, John Layton shot and
killed his wife and then put bullet in
his brain. The tragedy was the result
of jealousy.
The New Year present of Emperor
Nicholas to Emperor William is a cou-
pie Of magnificent stays .or the royal
wild park at Potsdam.
The statement that the Spaniards
evacuated Iloilo in order to render the
situation difficult for the Americans is
positively denied at Madrid.
The Omaha city council has passed an
ordinance by which the Illinois Central
and the Chicago Great Western will be
admitted to the heart of the city.
Thursday, Jan. s.
Several Chicago painters and decora-
tors have formed cooperative associa-
tion.
Vice President Hobart is confined to
his home with mild attack of the
grippe.
+ George T. Tyler, "A years of age, was
killed in an impromptu fight in Brook
lyn by Thomas Foley.
Aime Eduard Herye. editor of the