The Dickinson press., 1903-06-20
Friday, June II,

Friday, June u.
The business portion Of Mays Lick.
KY, was burned Thursday afternoon.
Loss about 100000.
James Dumas killed Sarah r. Kiue.
wife of Wesley r. King, at lndiauap-
oils and then committed suicide.
In the race of cup defenders Thurs.
day Reliance won by six minutes. Con.
stitutlon finishing second and Colum-
bia third.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued call for the condition of M,
tional banks at tho close Of business
Tuesday, June 9.
A decree has been issued authoris.
ing the construction of the Shanghai.
Nankin railroad projected by 4 BHtigh
and Chinese corporation.
Ora Copenhaver of indianapolis and
William Jackson Of Evansville were
hanged this morning In the pSnten.
tiary at Michigan City. Ind.
Andrew Carnegie has purchased
from Baron de Bayet Of Brussels. Bel.
gium, his collection Of European fos.
sils. and has presented It to thS Car.
negie museum in Pittsburg,
Saturday, June 13.
The French senate has adopsed a
Dill reducing the military service to
two years.
Lo Feng Luh. tho former Chinese
minister in London. is dead at Foo
Chow, China.
William Cooper. tho negro who re-
Gently murdered Mr.. and MrS. An
drew Bowling near Clayton, Ala. was
hanged there Friday.
The exchange grain elevator in the
East bottoms at Kansas City. Mo-. has
burned with forty thousand bushels Of
wheat. LOSS. $4,000.
DR.. Rudolph Baird, tried at Boulder.
Colo. on the charge Of having mur.
dered his wife with poison, was found
not guilty and was discharged.
Plans for the organization of the
general staff Of the army contemplate
investing the chief of stan with com,
plete control Of the army. The reor.
ganization of the naval board en-.
bodies practically the same ideR B.
~ .- Monday, June IS.
During the past twenty.four hours
the river has fallen ono foot at East
st. Louis.
Louis Rentz was stabbed to death
at Cleveland. o.. by Joseph socksy,
bis brother.in-law. 80
Former President Cleveland d has
been offered and has, declined the
presidency Of the University of Vir.
ginia.
Mrs. Lettie Quine. president of the
Women's Foreign Missionary society
Of the Methodist church. died at her
home In Chicago Sunday.
Hon. John F. Mckinney. q promi.
nent lawyer and one time Democratic
state leader, Is dead at PiQuat O., Of
paralysis. aged seventy.six. .Ha served
two terms in congress.
Employees of the Pennsylvaaia rail.
road, numbering about $500, all con.
nected with the Philadelphia terminal
division. have asked for 4 reduction
of the working day from twelve to
eight hours.
Tuesday, June 10.
The Kurds are taking up arms In
Kurdtstan. according. to q dispatch
from Constantinople. 4
The Russian war minister, General
Kuripatkin. is being extensively feted
at Toxic. where he arrived Friday last.
As the result Of a collision in the
Great Northern yards in Minneapolis
Monday morning Engineer Hairy Will.
Iams was scalded to death. ~. : - -.
Arthur Gibbs, aged eighteen, and
Annie Reardon, fifteen years old, were
drowned In East ST. Louis by falling
from raft on which they we're play.
Ing
Thomas Donohue, a native of Har.
rlson. N. J.. has become insane
through excitement over . base ball
game. Donohue was an iRveterats
fan"
A dispatch from Warsaw, Russia,
announces that large apartment
house there collapsed suddenly and
that the bodies Of nineteen persons
we're taken out Of the ruins. -.
An attempt was made early Monday
to blow up the courthouse at Peters.
burg. Ind. with dynamite and powder.
The dynamite failed to 60 of. but the
powder did considerable damage.
Wednesday, June II.
Fire at Webster City. la, destroyed
the Northwestern Felt Shoe company's
plant, LOSS, $4,000: insurance. $685..
900. 5. ,.
Major X. B. Harlow, formerly post.
master of St. Louis and a veteran of
the Civil war. died Tuesday Of
paralysis.
The Rev. DR.. Hathaway, secretary
Of the American Sabbath union, died
suddenly at the Pasadena, Cal, hos
pital after an operation for appendi.
citis.
, Omaha building operations. tied up
for four months on account Of strike
Of bricklayers. hod carriers and as
sociates In the building trades. were
resumed Monday.
Prince Urosoff, hitherto lieutenant
governor Of the government Of Tam
bof, has been appointed provisional
governor OF Bessarabla. In succession
10 Governor Won Raaben, who. was
dismissed as result OF the Kishineff
massacre.