The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1899-02-04

provision for lieutenant general dropped
A paper mill to cost 100000 is to be
built at White Rapids, Wis.
A 10-club National Base Ball league
has been virtually decided upon.
The transport Chester has sailed from
Savannah for Havana with the Thirty
first Michigan regiment.
| Senator Burrows has introduced a
bill to provide for the employment of
female nurses in the army.
-Seventy.fve American women met at
Havana and arranged for memorial of
the anniversary of the destruction Of tho
United States battleship Maine on
Feb. Is.
Saturday, Jan. 10.
CONGRESS: Senate-Frye continued his
argument for the peace treaty. House.
Army bill went over account Of eulogies
for deceased members.
Ex-Attorney General Garland fell
dead while addressing the United States
supreme court.
The senate committee on commerce
has reported favorably Senator Hanna's
steamship subsidy bill with slight
amendment.
The transports Scandia and Morgan
City have sailed for Manila from San
francisco, having on board the Twen-
/ tieth United States infantry.
Two hundred men who had been en-
gagged in roadmaking in the Santiago
district are on strike. They had been
receiving 81 per day and want $1.25
with rations.
United States Senator Knute Nelson
of Minnesota, and the American COM
missioner to Bergen exhibition, o. A,
Thorpe of Chicago, have been gazetted
knights of St. Olaf.
Monday. Jan. 80.
CONGRESS-: Senate-Peace treaty fur
ther considered. Carter, Montana, made
vigorous expansion speech. House-Com-
mittee amendments to army bill adopted.
Army increased to 100000 men, but may
be reduced to $1,000 ut discretion of tho
president.
Senator Quay's trial has been set for
Feb. ~.
The Farmers Party of the United
States" has been organized in Illinois.
A gold strike is reported in Colorado
which yields from $4,000 to 100000
per ton.
Disagreement over the question of
Macedonian autonomy caused the Bull
garian cabinet to resign.
Mrs.. Mary Mcintyre, wealthy Wild
ow, was murdered in her home at Pana,
Ills. Robbery was the object.
Mrs. Agnes Rudolph and her two
children, aged 2 and 4, were killed in
snowslide near Apex, Colo.
The report that General Eagan has
been found guilty by the courtmartial
is confirmed by the official report.
Congressman Payne of New York has
been named to succeed the late Con-
gressman Dingley on the Anglo-Amer-
ican commission.
Tuesday, Jan. 81.
CONGRESS-: Senate-Entire time both
In open and secret session devoted to dis
cussion peace treaty. House-Army bill
passed.
DR.. Fruin, the Dutch historian, is
dead at Leyden.
The Eighth cavalry has left Hunts
vile, Ala, for Savannah en- route for
Cuba.
Harry Bates, the sculptor and an as
sociate of the Royal Academy, ie dead
at London.
Alice Atherton, the actress, is Sc
riously ill at the Clarendon hotel, Brook
lyn, with congestion of the lungs.
The remains of the late Hon. Angus
tus Hill Garland were laid to rest in
Mount Holly cemetery at Little Rock,
Ark, Monday.
The New York assembly, by vive
voce vote, unanimously adopted reso-
luton urging upon the senate speedy
ratification Of the treaty with Spain.
Wednesday, Feb. 1.
CONGRESS-: Senate-Treaty resolutions
considered in open session and treaty it.
self in executive. House-River and har.
Dor bill considered.
Sir Thomas Taylor, chief justice of
Manitoba, has resigned.
The Union Savings bank of San Jose,
CAL, has suspended payment.
Merchants excursions will be run to
the Twin Cities in February, March and
April.
The Chicago Great Western will fund
about 100000 Indebtedness into de-
benture stock.
General Eagan, it is asserted, will not
be dismissed from the army, but may be
suspended until his retirement in 1909.
James ]. Corbett and Thomas Shar-
key have been matched to box six
rounds in Chicago on the night of
March z.
The German ambassador to the United
States says his country will not inter-
fere with US in the Philippines. His ut
terances are friendly in the highest de-
gree.
Thursday, Feb. 2.
The president has nominated Cadet
Taylor to be surveyor of customs at
Omaha, Neb. u
The transport Michigan has sailed for
San Juan, Porto Rico, with portion of
the Fifth cavalry.
The German reichstag has passed the
third reading of the motion to repeal
the anti-Jesuit law.
Lord Hallam Tennyson, son of the
late Lord Alfred Tennyson, has been
appointed governor of South Australia.
tits reported that the Columbia River
Gamers association, recently formed at |
Astoria, Or, is to consolidate with the
Alaska Packers association.
Frank E. Hixon, general freight and
passenger agent of the Duluth, Missis-
sippi River and Northern railway, with
headquarters at Mississippi, died at St.
Marys hospital, Duluth, of typhoid fever.
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guidly the other evening.
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