The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1899-07-15
NEWS CONVERSATIONS,
Thursday, July 6.

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The proposed strike at Homestead has
been abandoned for the present.
Perry w. Palmer of Evanston, Ills,
real estate dealer and member of the
Union League club. has committed sui
eide.
Adjutant General Colbin says the
Thirteenth Minnesota will sail for
home this month, probably about the
25th.
At Tip Top, w. Va, an engine ex-
ploded, killing Engineer J. D. McCol-
gan, Fireman E. w. Albert and Brake
man Oscar j. Owens.
Pleas Wynn and Catlett Tiptcn,
whitecappers. were hung at Sevierville,
Tenn, for t murder of old man Wha-
ley and his wife over year ago.
Friday. July Z.
Robert Bonner, the New York pub
Usher, is dead.
General Joseph Wheeler has been as
signed to duty in the Philippines.
An attempt was made to assassinate
ex-King Milan of servia, who was
wounded.
Chicago packers have received an Or
der for $4,000 pounds of canned roast
beef for the army.
Tho Evangelical Lutheran college of
the Middle West has been finally located
at LIE Mars, Ia.
| Philadelphia doctors have discovered
that excessive bicycle riding causes
Bright's disease.
The secretary of the interior has de-
cided not to suspend or modify his order
that all whites must vacate the Leech
Lake Indian reservation in 80 days.
| Saturday, July 8.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall has been
elected president of the Women's inter-
national congress-
In an attempt to save her child from
death Mrs. rank Lausman was fatally
injured by an Illinois Central train at
Chicago.
The Canadian eight was defeated by
the London Rowing club crew in the
sixth heat for the Grand Challenge cup
at Henley.
The civil service commission, in a
letter to the secretary of the treasury,
claims that deputy United States mar
shals have been appointed illegally.
The war department has been advised
of the death at Santiago de Cuba of
Lieutenant Mclaughlin, volunteer sig
nal corps. Lieutenant Mclaughlin was
avictim of yellow fever.
1t is stated that Argentina, Brazil,
Chile and Uruguay will form an alli-
ance for protection against any foreign
Intervention in that part of South
America
Monday, July 10.
Herbert M. Hartman won the
amateur golf championship.
A warrant has been issued for the ar
rest of Norman President Cannon on a
charge of polygamy.
P. D. Boxhan, philantropist and
millionaire, is dead at Orange, N. J.
He accumulated most of his wealth in
mining in Montana.
| The sale of the Wisconsin Central
railway has been confirmed and new
officers elected, General Manager
Whitcomb becoming president.
The insular commission has decided
that the islands acquired as result of
the war with Spain are not part of
the territory of the United States.
Colonel A. T. Britton, first vice presi-
dent Of the American Security and
Trust company, and widely known in
financial circles all over the country, is
dead.
The senate finance committee is re-
ported to have agreed upon legislation
to convert greenbacks and treasury
notes into gold certificates and get rid
of the "endless chain"
! Tuesday, July IL.
A valuable copper strike is reported
on property in the Parry sound district
of Canada owned by St. Paul men.
An unsuccessful attempt was made at
the St. Cloud land Office to file on the
Cass Lake townsite with traders scrip.
The property of the New Orleans Cy-
press company, owned principally by
the Giles estate, Wisconsin, has been
sold.
The French government will prose-
| cute the cabinet minister under whose
| orders Dreyfus was tortured at DEVILS
| island.
The Atlantic coast steamer Portia
| was wrecked off the Nova Scotia coast.
All on board, numbering over 100, were
landed safely.
The government crop report shows
the conditions of all grains to be lower,
except spring wheat, which is higher
| than last month.
A special train carrying teachers to
| the National Educational association
convention was wrecked in California
and two ladies were killed and thirteen
other passengers injured.
Wednesday, July IL.
Jules PHILIPPE Grevy, life senator and
former governor general of Algeria, is
dead at Paris.
The sixth triennial convention of the
| National Association of the Deaf is in
session at St. Paul.
The resignation of First Lieutenant
Edward E. Hartwick, Ninth cavalry,
has been accepted by the president.
The French government will prose
cute the cabinet minister under whose
orders Dreyfus was tortured at Devils
island.
John Sherman's condition is i'm
proved. He takes ride daily. Since
the illness of three weeks ago he has
rapidly improved.
The cruiser Raleigh, which was with
Admiral Dewey's feet in the battle of
Manila bay, is to undergo extensive
alterations involving an outlay of about
$245, 900.
GtTba Resf Man That Ever IiYAd.N