The Dickinson press., 1899-03-11

raised.
Senator Gray of Delaware has ac-
cepted the tender of an appointment as
Judge of the Third judicial circuit.
Cecil Rhodes predicts that the United
States will eventually control all the
Western hemisphere except Canada.
The American Tin Plate company has
notified employees of the plant at Mar
tins Ferry, O., of an increase in wages
of from to 10 per cent. Over 1000
men are affected.
Saturday, March Z.
The Fourth Wisconsin has been mus
tered out.
The last of Spain's Cuban army has
arrived at Valencia.
Lieutenant Hobson has been advanced
ten numbers for extraordinary heroism.
Heat in the interior of Lookout noun
tain, in the Caribou gold country, has
melted all the snow on the sides of the
mountain, thereby causing great floods.
The gunboat Vixen has been ordered
to Manila In response to the urgent re-
quest of Admiral Dewey for more small
craft. The Wheeling will also prob
ably 60.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
East Syracuse IN. W postofice and OBJ.
tanned nearly $1,000 in postage stamps
and money.
An apparent shortage of $50, 900 has
been found in the accounts of ex-County
Treasurer John G. Lamerts at Lockport,
n. Y. The grand jury is considering
the matter.
Monday, Maroh Q.
Rudyard Kipling, it is reported, will
be elevated to the peerage on Jan. 1,
1900.
Senator Wolcott of Colorado has been
sued for divorce, the alleged cause be-
ing incompatability.
An agent of the United States will go
to Cuba next week and pay the Cuban
army the $8,ooo,oOo appropriated.
A charter has been granted to the in
corporators of the Seaboard and Gulf
railroad to construct 447 miles through
the eastern portion of Georgia.
A conspiracy among the convicts in
the state prison at San Quentin, CAL, to
murder their guards and effect whole
sale delivery of prisoners was revealed
to Warden Hale through the faint-heart-
edness of one Of the conspirators.
General Toral, who commanded the
Spanish troops at Santiago de Cuba,
has been arrested and imprisoned, pre-
vious to being tried by courtmartial on
the charge Of capitulating to General
Shafter at that place on July IA last.
Tuesday. March Z.
The queen of Belgium is reported to
be improving.
The condition of Mr.. Kipling is re-
ported as continuing favorable.
1t is rumored that Quay will with
draw from the Pennsylvania senatorial
contest.
General Alger is stated to be willing
to leave the cabinet if he can name his
successor.
Governor Smith of Montana has
vetoed the bill removing restrictions
from gambling.
The astounding discovery is made
that just one-half Of the Cuban army of
$4,000 are officers.
Congressman Sulzer of New York is
confident that he will succeed Bailey as
Democratic leader in tho house and will
be nominated for vice president.
Professor Wasserman, one of Pro-
fessor Koch's ablest pupils, believes he
has discovered a serum for the cure Of
pneumonia. Experiments with animals
have been successful and he is now
operating upon human beings.
Wednesday, March 8.
Governor Smith of Montana vetoed
the bill permitting prize fights.
Austin Bidwell, the Bank of England
forger, died at Butte, Mon.
Ernest Roeber defeated Hall Adali,
the Turkish wrestler, in Boston.
Minnesota Indian reservation pine
fraud charges are to be investigated.
The three new battleships building
for the United States navy will be about
perfect.
Monroe L. Hayward, Republican, has
been elected United States senator in
Nebraska.
England and France, it is expected,
will effect a complete settlement of
their dispute within two weeks.
Four hundred New York city Metho-
dist ministers applauded a paper read
by one of their number, denying the
innerancy Of the Bible.
The Chinese are rejoiced because the
United States will not join the other
territory-grabbing nations. Our atti-
tute strengthens the hands of the gov
ernment of the empire.
Thursday, March 9.
The Russian minister to Servia has
been recalled on the complaint that he
/ was not invited to a recent court BAN
quet.
Miss Caroline Hazard of Peacedale,
R. l., has been elected president of the
Wellesley college to succeed Mrs. Julia
j. Irvine.
The navy department is Informed
that the cruiser Baltimore and the monz
itor Monterey, which have been in dock
at Hong Kong, have arrived at Manila.
Italy asked the United States to sup
port her in seizing Chinese territory,
but the United States declined. Italy's
action is regarded formal recognition
Of our new position in international af-
fairs.
Thomas Donaldson of Bath Beach, l..
l., known the world over as cham
pion high diver, dove from the roof Of
Madison Square Garden, New York, a
distance of IS feet, with probably fatal
results.
Pathetic and Practical.
Here is personal" that appeared
not long ago in a London newspaper:
''Willie, return to your distracted
wife and frantic childrenl Do you want
to hear Of your old mothers suicide :?
"