The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-08-31

,Gict within one year from April sth,
HE'S.
l u. Ls1is, Ass. se.-Ths weather has
been feag9sllyAes 70 day. Thirty cases Of
Esun ssroke aEs reported. Ut whom probably
not more shaa oue.half will recover. Seven.
teen inquests were held, and sixty. five
burial permits were issued to-day.
st. Louis, Aug. 26-Thcrc were cigh.
deaths yesterday from heat. The weather
this morning II terrible hot. with no signs
nj change.
Chicago, Aug. 9o.-Thc weather to-day 10
much cooler. The heated term has been
unprecedented shroug hout the States, hun.
dreds were daily pros.rased by the heat.
New York, Aug. 2e.-All efforts Of the
District Attorney to find Comptroller Con.
molly, who 10 wanted % = witness in tho
Haggerty and Baulch voucher theiving case,
haye been unavaililc His own trial is to
take place in October, but It Is doubtful II
he ever returns TO New York, N his bail 10
over $500,0o0.
The Tribune says that ex.Comp,roller
Connolly has not been more than fifty miles
from New York. and most of the time in
Westchestcr county. and that he will turn
states evidence. 1t adds that his testimony
will absolutely convict Tweed and twenty
other officials, whose names 50 far have
not been published. He will first appear
to testify against the voucher thieves, under
Attorney General Isarlow's Instructions.
Chicago, Aug A-Thc proprie,ors of
tue Briggs House to-day gave = picnic in
Hays Park 10 $50 newsboys anil boot
blacks
Michael CrOnan was arrested on suspicion
of having murdered his wife, who was
found dead In their house this morning
with marks Of violence
Chicago, Aug. 25.--J. w. Woodward, an
operator on Change has become Insane from
his recent losses. and ON Friday shot and
slightly wounded an inofTcns,ve man. an
entire stranger to him, in street Cur. He
was yesterday committed to Jail, and lust
night hung himself 10 his cell, tearing his
coat into strips I" make rope.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
have extended their lines tn the Straits of
Aackinaw.
The Treasury balance on the %, showed
currency 34,s44,so7; coin $7s. 7s6, 504
Richmond, Va, Aug. 25-Jsmes F. Clarke
editor Of the Manassas Gazette, who recent.
~ deserted his family and abducted Miss
Fannie 6cwell. was arrested and admit.
cd to bail to answer to the charge OF abduc
ton.
Washington, Aug. 25.-Sccre,ary Delano
has recovered from his recent illness, and is
able 10 transact official businiss.
San Francisco, Aug 2c.-John Hall WIS
run over by the cars near Pennington, yes.
terday, aud killed.
Albert Lindsey, owner Of the Marietta
mine, near Emigrant Gap. was fatally in
jured by blast yesterday.
d. G. Godfrey, grocer on the corner of
Jessie and Rikar streets, stabbed bis wife
dozen times and cut his own throat Cause
Jealousy. Godfrey il dying, but the WI.
man may recover.
Memphis, Aug. &c. W. Martin, Of
Ripley county, Tenn, who few days ago
murdered his wife and threw the body in a
pond, was taken out Of Jail on Sunday hy
twenty armed men and shot dead
ATstal Wreck.
Philadelphia, Aug. N.-An oil train was
wrecked on the Reading Railroad this morn.
Ing by breaking = bridge. The cars and
contents were burned; loss, nearly quarter
of million. No lives lost.
Atchison, Aug. 49, The Atchison 4
Nebraska Railroad was completed on Ss,ur.
day To Lincoln, the Capitol If Nebraska.
and TO- day the trains commenced running
to Lincoln, which makes direct short line
fs0m q. 1oo's to Fort kesrney, on the
Union Pacific Railroad.
A scow with two boys aboard sank in |
The Niagara river, on tho 9th.
A train Of % freight cars ran of the
Track at Philadelphia, on Wednesday, ani
IN few moments thereafter train Of 90
'ars, loaded with dry goods, came dsshine
up, making wreck of both trains, which
ook fire and burned up No lives lost.
A mob broke into tho Jail At Hays CITY.
Kansas, on the 28th and shot two mcn-onc
murderer, and the other noted horse
hief-who were chained together.
The cotton crop in Arkansas IL suffering
rom drought.
On the night Of the 28th a storm of wind
nd rain did great damage to houses. fences,
md crops, in Illinois.