The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.
Friday, Feb. 8.

Friday, Feb. 8. s.-
CONGRESS: Senate-Expansion debate
held the floor all dny. House-Filibuster
against relief bills on private calendar.
Cattle on South Dakota ranges are re-
ported to be suffering for water.
The Third regiment and part Of the
Seventeenth have sailed from New York
for Manila.
Charles Pokagon, son of the noted
chief, Simon Pokagon, has been elected
chief of the Pottawattolnies in success
sion to his father.
An express car on the fast mail train
on the Milwaukee road was totally
burned. with all tho express matter, ex-
cept that In the safe, near Brookfield.
' Indians are on the warpath in Alaska.
One battle has taken place and more
fighting is imminent. Four Indians
were killed in the fight apd four Amer
lean deputy rnarshals and several In.
dians wounded. The Indians are drunk
and there may be a general uprising.
Saturday. Feb. 4.
CONGRESS-; Senatc-Debate on expan.
sion continued. House-Military acad.
emy bill passed.
An Anglo-American syndicate has
secured valuable concessions in China,
The Cherokee-Dawes treaty has been
ratified by the Cherokees by majority
Of more than 1900.
Germany has assured Ambassador
White that she will investigate the con-
duct Of her agents in Samoa.
The record of the courtmartial in the
case Of General Eagan is now in the
hands of the president for final review.
Bob Marks, noted sporting charac.
ter and typical dead shot Texan, was
killed in duel at San Antonio by John
w. Bennett, proprietor of saloon and
gambling house. Bennett received 8
bullet in the abdomen and died later.
Monday, Fob. @.
CONGREss: Senate-Treaty ratified, 81
tos7. House-Census bill passed. Also
several bills under suspension rules
A dispatch from Berlin announces the
death of Emile Joachim, the singer.
Mrs. Botkin, the San Francisco mur.
derer, has been given life sentence.
The Rt. Rev. William o. 'Meara, bishor
of the Roman Catholic diocese at Scran.
ton, Pa, is dead.
The mo popery" agitation in England
has reached an acute stage and has be
come uppermost in politics.
Alice Atherton, the burlesque actress
died in New York Saturday after g
weeks illness from pneumonia.
Germany claims that Chief Justice
Chambers, the American, exceeded hi!
authority in the Samoan difficulty.
Porter Warner, receiver of the United
States land Office at Rapid City, S. D.
and one of the Oldest pioneers of tn
Black Hills, is dead.
Frank Blair shot and instantly killet
Edward Brovard and Mary Anderson a
Westminster, O., and ilnmediatel,
afterwards committed suicide.
- Tuesday, Feb. 7.
CONGRESS-: Senate-McEnery declara
tory resolution debated, but no vot
taken. Indian bill also considered. Hous
| Forty public building bills favorabl,
reported,
The American Steel and Wire com
pany has advanced the price of wir
and wire nails 50 per ton.
A. severe cyclone visited Northern
Madagascar on Saturday night, the dis
trict of 'Menjata, on Bentakbe bay, suf
fering severely.
Atgeneral advance of 10 per cent il
wages has been ordered for the 500
employees at the Cambria Pa.) Irol
company's works.
Prince Alfred of Sake Coburg- Goth
is dead He was the only son of tn
Duke Of Sa1e-C Coburg and Gotha, secon
son of Queen Victoria.
i Representative Stallings of Alabam
has introduced into the house bill al
thorixing tho president to appoint Ger
eral Wheeler major general in tn
regular army.
~, Wednesday, Fob. 8.
| CONGRESS-: Senate-Indian appropr
alton bill passed. Executive, legislativ
and judicial bill taken up. House-Cor
sideration Of postofice appropriation bill
in committee Of whole continued. Sixty
five altogether favorably recommended
carrying a total Of $12, 100000.
William Laird of the famous shil
building firm Of Laird Bros. at Birken
head, Eng, is dead.
/ Mrs. Mary Williams, her son and tw