The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1900-03-31
NEWS CONVERSATIONS,
Thurstlay. March 22.

Pilot and one of the most prominent of
the independent Democrats of Vyiscon-
sin, is dead.
The McKensie bill, providing that
street car franchises shall be submitted
to a vote of the people, has been defeated
in the Ohio house of representatives.
Seven Indians have been arrested at
Klukwan, Alaska, charged with tho
murder Of Mr.. and Mrs. Burt Horton,
who were recently found dead in their
cabin.
Lieutenant Commander Seaton
Schroeder, at present secretary of the
naval inspection board, is to succeed
Captain Leary as governor of Guam.
Captain Leary is relieved at his own re.
quest, it is stated.
Friday, March 23.
CoNGREss-Scnatc: Porto Rican relief
bill conference report agreed to. House:
Private pension day.
The house committee on foreign af-
fairs has decided to investigate the
statements of Macrum regarding tho
opening Of his mail.
Boer women in Pretoria, according to
dispatches from there, have organized
an Amazon corps 1900 strong to aid in
the defense of the Transvaal.
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania has
introduced bill empowering tho COM
mittce on Pacific railroads to investigate
the recent reorganization of the North
ern Pacific.
The Belgian government has ap-
proved Of the projected electric road be.
tween Antwerp and Brussels. A Ger.
man company, with capital of 30,O00,-
0O9 francs ($5,790,OO0) has undertaken
to build the road and give q Commute
service between the two cities.
Saturday, March "a.
CoNGREss-Senatc: Porto Rican tariff
bill discussed. House: Army appropri-
tion bill considered. Conference report
on Porto Rican relief bill agreed to.
John Bole, the German composer, is
dead.
Russian officers in Belgium have been
ordered to rejoin their garrisons.
It is stated that determined effort is
70 be made to pass the shipping subsidy
bill at this session.
George N. Wiswell of Wisconsin has
been chosen sergeant-at-arms of the na-
tional Republican convention.
Fifteen hundred Cleveland machinist
have joined those at Chicago and Col.
umbus in the strike for 9-hour day.
A dispatch from Bloemfontein says
the government of the Orange Free
State has been reorganized, with j. A.
Collins, under secretary of the interior,
as landrOst.
Monday, March 2G.
CoNGREss-Scnate: Alaskan civil code
under consideration. House: Army up,
preparation bill.
The president has signed tho Porto
Rican appropriation bill.
Germany's fuel famine is throwing
many people out of employment.
American chess players won their in.
ternational match with the British
team.
Mayor Van Wyck has vetoed tho bill
empowering the governor to appoint a
commission to revise tho Greater Now
York charter.
Texas Populists have abandoned Bar
ker and Donnelly and will advocate the
nomination Of Eugene V. Debs at the
Sioux Falls convention.
The Austrian premier, DR.. E. Won
Koerber, has sent the presidents of both
houses Of tho reichsrath notice pro.
roguing parliament March %.
Tuesday, March 27.
CoNGREss-Senate: Porto Rican bill
discussed. House: Army appropriation
bill under consideration. Debate took
wide range, covering nearly all import
ant questions now before congress.
Mccoy and Sharkey have signed for a
fight at Coney Island, June 25.
Tho business portion Of the village of
Kingston, Wis, has been destroyed by
fire.
Complaints Of the trading check sys.
tenn have become exceedingly numerous
in the past few months. They come
from all sections of the country.
Sir Robert Peel has definitely decided
to go on the stage. He will join the
"Bootles Baby" company as Bottles,
and play in London and the provinces.
At Lawrence, Kan, fire destroyed the
plant of the Pierson Flour Milling COM
pany, valued at $15O,00O In addition
to the mill, several thousand bushels Of
wheat and several hundred barrels Of
-four were burned. Insurance, $50, 900.
Wednesday, March 28.
Russia is said to be actively preparing
for war with Turkey.
The Liberal federation at London has
adopted resolution declaring for peace.
+. S. Carlisle of Brookings has been
nominated for governor by South Da-
kota Prohibitionists.
Mrs. Edward Sumner, who was an
active organizer of soldiers relief So
ciety work during the Civil war, is dead
at Cleveland.
Senator Davis authorizes the state
ment that he will vote against any rev.
enue policy for Porto Rico which carries
with it tariff duty.
Secretary Root has created a new
military division embracing the Philip
pine archipelago, to be known as tho
Division of the Pacific.
One man was killed and two others
probably fatally injured by the prema.
ture explosion of stick of dynamite in
Allen & Whites quarry near Waterloo,
N. Y.
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