The Dickinson press., 1899-04-01
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.

NGW0 CONUENSAT1ON6s
~ Friday. March ~.
The influenza is raging at Berlin and
:he death list 10 heavy. -- -
The Tenth Ohio regiment was mus
tered otit at Augusta, Ga.
John Z. Sullivan has been chosen ref
cree the AcGoy-C Choynski fight at the
Mechanics Pavilion. The advance sale
OF seats already amounts to $4,000.
John colbert, charged with the MUIR
der Of hi. wife aud four children, when
srraisned in court.at Clay Center, Kan,
pleaded not guilty, bnt later weakened
andeatered pteA p guilty.
Articles of Incorporation have been
hled with the secretary OF state at Tren.
ton. N. j., for HE New England Elec-
trical Vehicle and Transportation COM
pany. with capital Of $Ss, ,0oo. 900.
Saturday. March 10.
The betting ON the annual Oxford aud
Cambridge bost race is II to A on Cam
bridge. - ,..i
The wages Of the Twin City railway
conductors and motormen will be raisod
June l.
Trolley cars are expected to connect
st. Paul and Saltwater in so minutes
by July l.
Professor Gustav Weidermann, bro
fessor Of physics and chemistry at Leip-
sig, is dead.
Hon. Francis Harrison Pierpont, the
first governor of West Virginia, is dead
at Pittsburg, Pa.
Rates from Dawson City have been
cut in two by the formation of a trans
portation combination.
Mrs. Rachel Esterbrook, widow of
the celebrated pen maker, is dead at her
home in Plainfield, N. j., aged 81 years.
Albert Griffith, the Australian pugil-
ist known as young Griffo," has been
declared insane by a jury of Chicago
physicians. He was sent to Jefferson asy.
lum. Little hope for his recovery is en-.
tertained.
Monday, March 81.
The condition Of -sudyard Kipling is
again improving.
AT McKeesport, Pa, Frederick Clark
shot and wounded his wife and then
killed himself.
The Hamburg-American line steamer
Pretoria, just arrived at New York
from Hamburg, brought 1904 steerage
passengers.
George Bidwell, one of the Bank Of
England forgers, died at Butte, Mon.
Where his brother Austin died thret
weeks ago. -:
The secretary Of the navy has invited
Miss Marion Cockrell, daughter of Sen
ator Cockrell of Missouri, to christer
the battleship Missouri now in cours,
Of construction at Newport News.
Prof. Charles Augustus Briggs, D. d.
of the faculty of the Union Theologica
Seminary in NeweYork city, will soc1
be ordained to the priesthood in tn,
Protestant Episcopal church by Bisho,
Potter, having been accepted by tina
body.
TLssday, March -.
General Macarthur is to be promote,
for his work in the Philippine cam
paign.
The Missouri legislature has voted t
reduce passenger fares from ) to 81
cents per mile.
Joseph II. Choate, the United State
ambassador to England, is confined t
his room with severe cold.
DR.. James o. Murray, dean of Prince
ton university, is dead. He passe,
away quietly after an illness of severa
weeks.
The Call says that Governor Bradle
Of Kentucky has decided to settle pei
manently in San Francisco and take u]
the practice OF law.
The American Telephone and Tele
graph company of New York has certi
fed TO an increase of its capital stool
from $25, 900, 900 to e75, ,ooo, 900.
Professor J. B. Bully, an employe O
the Toledo (O.) postoflce, was caught i,
the act of stealing money from th,
mails and placed under arrest.
Wednesday, March 20.
President Mckinley has returned t,
Washington.
A wirela telegraphic message ha'
been sent across the British channel, T.
distance of 80 miles
Several Pennsylvania legislators ad
NIT having been approached" b,
friends of Senator Quay.
J.Stsrling Morton will launch hi.
new political party July 4. He ssyl
conservatism will be the key note.
The naval board of promotion has re-
ported favorably upon all those named
for rear admiralships under the nava.
personnel bill. There were IA of them
Ex-Secretary Sherman has arrived il
Washington. He was taken from tht
Paris at Santiago and brought to Nor
folk on the cruiser Chicago. He stood
the trip well.
Representatives of the Cuban Assem-,
bly, have arrived In Washington to at.
tempt to secure another loan for the
Cuban army. They will not be officially
received.
Thursdsy, March 80.
General Flagler, chief of ordnance, is
dead.
Ex-senator George Gray of Delaware
has been appointed United States cir.
cult judge for the Third district.
A Filipino commissioner to negotiate
for the release of the Spanish prisoners
in the hands of the Filipinos has
reached Madrid.
Michael Shea is dead at Indianapolis
at the advanced age Of 1le years. He