The Dickinson press., 1900-10-27
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.
Thursday, Oct. 18.

Lord Roberts has been gazettec hon.
orary colonel of the now regiment of
Irish guards
Tho total registration in Chicago
this is FL 900 greater than in 1896 and
10000 greater than in 1893.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has presented
to the town of Hawiok, Roxburgh
county, Scotland, with 10000 for o
public library.
Persistent reports are current in Ber.
lin to the effect that Prince Hohenlohe's 8
resignation Of the imperial chancellor
ship is pending.
M. M. Dolphin Of Kansas City, for
merly first vice president, has been
unanimously elected president of the
Order of Railway Telegraphers, vice w.
P. Powell, removed.
Lord Salisbury, according to the Lon
don Daily Express, has offered the
portfolio of war in the reconstructed
cabinet to Lord Balfour Of Burleigh,
secretary for Scotland.
Friday, Dot. 10.
Yellow fever is increasing at an
alarming rate at Havana.
The battleship Texas probably will
be put out of commission Nov. 10.
General Weyler, the former captain
general Of Cuba, has been appointed
captain general OF Madrid.
Major Peterson, U. s. ", died of yell
low fever at Las Animas, Cuba. His
wife killed herself an hour later.
A dispatch from Madrid says that
General Linares has been gazetted as
minister of war and General Azcarraga
as president of the senate.
The Spanish government has sent all
official protest to the Italian govern.
ment on account of tho fact that the
Carlists are permitted to assemble there.
The Brooklyn Base Ball club has
won the championship of the world by
defeating tho Pittsburg club three
games out of four of what was to have
been 5.game series.
Saturday, Oct. go.
Richard Croker has made another
bet of $4,000 to $4,000 on Bryan.
Rear Admiral Sampson is quite ill
and is not permitted by his physician
to leave his bed.
Nearly $4,000, 900 in gold has arrived
at San Francisco from Australia on the
steamer Alameda.
Captain John B. Adams of Lynn,
past commander.in-chief of tho G. A.
R., is dead at Boston.
1t is reported that earthquake shocks
have been distinctly felt in Wurtom.
berg and the southern part Of Baden.
United States Minister Godfrey Hun.
ter has left his post in Guatemala for q
visit to the Uni.ed States on leave OF
absence.
Forty thousand dollars in registered
letters, postoffice orders, checks, etc.,
were stolen from a postal substation in
New York city.
Monday, Dot. az.
Johanna" Barnum & Bailey's ia.
nous gorilla, has just died of pneumo
mia at Nuremburg.
The Anti.Imperialist league has is
sued an address to all independent
voters in tho United States, asking
them to support w. J. Bryan for presi'
dent.
Lord Methuen has re-occupied Zerust
and captured numerous wagons, 8
large quantity Of stores and many cat.
tie and sheep.
The admiralty, according to The
London Daily Mail, is about to organ.
ise an additional reserve squadron un.
der Rear Admiral Gerard Henry Noel
for home waters.
An officer Of the New York Yacht
club is authority for the statement that
new boat will be built to defend the
Americas cup and that the Herreshofs
will be the builders.
Tuesday, Dot. 28.
The president has appointed David j.
Price postmaster at Lake Crystal, MINI.
The New York has been detached
from the North Atlantic squadron and
ordered. .out.of oomuBsaon.