The Dickinson press., 1901-01-05
saturday, Dec, 20.

Saturday, Dec. 20.
Rt Rev. Charles r. Hale, bishop of
Cairo (Ills.) is dead.
Currier & Bunker, New York stock
brokers, have made an assignment.
Thomas Sulzer. father of Congress.
man William Sulzer of New York, is
dead
There are 10000 lepers in the Philip.
pines and the government is trying to
find way of isolating them to check
the spread of the disease.
Mr.. Edmund Burton, who was the
leader of the federal convention, has
accepted the Earl of Hopetown's offer
to form the first cabinet of the Austria.
lian confederation.
The resignation Of Captain Charles
A. Boutelle of Maine as q member of
the house of the Fifty.seventh congress-,
will be rendered about March 4, &C.
cording to an understanding with Pres.
ident Mckinley.
Monday, Dec. 81.
Six Japanese section hands on the
Great Northern railway were killed by
a freight train near Cutbank, Wash.
Major Alexandra Alberto da Rocha
Serpa Pinto, the African explorer, is
dead at Madrid. He was born April
80, 1876
Scandalous scenes ensued at Dowie
Zionist meeting in Bermondsey town
hall, London, the disturbances cul.
minating in free fight.
Keepers of IA "dives' and gambling
houses have been indicted by the grand
jury as the result of the inquiry into
crime and vice in Chicago.
The German tourists, Herren Lainer
and Eindlinger, assembled Mount
Schwartzenberger without guides, &C.
cording to a dispatch from Vienna,
and fell into an abyss and were killed.
Hiram Hitchcock. the last of the
founders Of the Fifth Avenue hotel,
New York, died at the hotel after
few days. illness from pneumonia.
Deceased was born In Olaremont, N.
H., Aug. 81, 1882.
Tussday, Jan. 1.
A fire at Baku, Russia, destroyed
% naptha springs and warehouses.
Almost the entire business portion Of
Williamson, w. Va, including two
squares, was wiped out by fire Sunday.
Fire destroyed the plant Of the Bell.
aire Stamping company at Harvey,
Ills. The loss is estimated at $400, 900.
The navy department has ordered the
Scorpion to proceed at once to Laguira,
Venezuela, to replace the Hartford at
that port.
Congressman Lentz of Ohio has
served formal notice on Congressman.
elect Tompkins that he will contest the
latter's seat in the house.
The entire plant of the Grand Rap.
ids (Mich. Bookcase company was de.
stroyed by fire Monday together with
the greater part Of the season. g output.
There has been q renewal of the
stormy weather on the northern coast
Of France and several shipping casual
ties of minor importance have been re.
ported.
Wednesday, Jan. 2.
Ebenezer Upham, a well known
newspaper publisher, is dead at James.
town, N. Y.
The marriage of Queen Wilhelmina
to Duke Henry Of Mecklenberg.
Schwerin has been officially fixed for
Feb. Z, 1901.
Four new cases of smallpox were re.
ported to the New York board of health
Monday. They are all residents Of
Brooklyn.
J. w. Bell, engineer, was killed, and
John Scott, fireman, fatally. injured,
by the derailing of a Chicago and
Northwestern locomotive at Barring
ton, Ills.
Leander D. Parker, general superin-
iendent of the Postal Telegraph com.
pany, has resigned and E. J. Mally.
assistant general superintendent, has
been appointed to the Office.
The proposition for the purchase of
the island of St. Thomas by the United
States is opposed in Porto Rico. Porto
Ricans wanf West Indian naval sta.
ton established at San Juan.