The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-11-18
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UNITED STATES.

NEW YORK, Nov. S.--News was received
mere TODAY that the well known whaling
schooner Florence, lately employed by Capt.
II. H. Howgate, of the Signal Bureau in polar
| investigations, under command of Captain
Tyson, has been lost il the Cumberland
1 straits, to the east Of Hudson's Bay. She
parted her chains and went under during the
| gale Nobody was lost. The Florence was
owned by G. A. Williams, of New Bedford.
On one trip to The South Shetland Islands, she
| made in 1877 three hundred thousand dollars
| by bringing in fur aud seal skins. Her cap
tain received $4,000 as his share. She was
| less than 100 tons buHhen The crew were
| taken ofbya Scotch vessel
SAN Francisco, Nov. S.-A report not
| fully verified was received this afternoon from
| Eureka, Humbolt county, that outlaws, who
| recently had fight with the sheritf's posse in
| Mendocino county, had been overtaken near
| Red mountain, where fight ensued. resulting
| in the wGllnding OF several ofthe pursuers and
| killing of all the outlaws.
| The whaling bark Dawn arrived to-day
| from the arctic regions. On September %.
within twenty-five miles of Herald Island,
saw the wreck of a steamer, supposed to be
| the Jeanette. The ice began to open rapidly:
to the north saw Herald Island, and in Octo-
Der could go all around it. On the 7th of
| October the captains report continues, we
saw Wrangle's land, distant less than twenty
| five miles east, the coast line showing very
| little snow, but the mountains in the interior
were covered with snow. Could not see any
| ice between us and Wrangle's land, and we
were much surprised as the outlook was very
| dscouraging in the first part of September. l
| now think that the exploring vessel. the Jean
ette, will reach land, aud we may expect to
| hear from her next January.
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mining board and stock board was completed
| in this city Saturday evening. A board of
| directors of fifteen substantial business men
was elected. These men represent capital and
| active business, and their connection with the
| enterprise is ar auSury of success. The large
amount OF Chicago and Western capital that
! is being invested in mining property is ull-
derstood to be the moving cause of the organ
iZation. 1t IS announced that good rooms
have already been secured, and that the board
will open for business Oh the first of Decem-
Der.
New BEDFORD, Nov. 9.-The list of lost
OF the schooner Petrol includes eight passen-
gers. only one, Benjamin Martin, being an
American. The lest of the passengers and
all of the crew We're Portuguese.
TOLEDO, O., Nov. "a special from Ma
poleon, Ohio, to the Commercial states that a
dis ,strolls firc broke out in that place at 23O
a. III. to-day, consuming nineteen buildings
The loss will reach 100000; about one half
| of which is covered by insurance.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. S.-News reached here at
midnight that the west span of the St. LOUIS,
Kansas City Il Northern Railroad bridge,
crossing the Missouri river at st. Charles fell
about half-past eight o'clock tonight A
stock train of seventeen cars with seven men
on it was precipitated into the river and none
of the men have been found. The telegraph
wires were taken down with the bridge and
no particulars of the accident have been re-
ceived. A temporary office has been opened
this side Of the bridge and additional inform
| alton will be obtained if possible.
I.atcr-Three dead bodies and three badly
injured men have beer recovered from the
river. At this late hour it is impossible to
learn the names or residences of the unfortu-
mates. The conductor, engineer and fireman
escaped, by the breaking of the connection
between the cars.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. ga visit to-day to the St.
Charles bridge, one span of which fell last
night. disclosed a terrible wreck and destruc-
| ton of property. Conductor Kirley testified
| before the coroners jury this afternoon that
| the tain was all right when it passed on to
| the bridge. Another theory is that the bridge
was struck by lightning, very heavy storm
| having prevailed about an hour before the dis
| aster lie heard crash of timbers and iron
| and the great splashing Of water, and then he
sprang out of the side door of the caboOse on
| to the floor of the bridge, and approached to
within only few feet OF the chasm before he
| could regain his feet; saw the caboose plunge
down the awful abyss of so feet His escape
| is one of the most wonderful on record.
| Charles IRWIN, brakeman, was on top of the
| caboose and Went down with it. He Was SO
| terribly mangled that he died at noon to-day.
| Conductor kirley swOre that he has taken
| hundreds of more heavily laden trains across
| than the one under which it broke; and that
| 1t had recently been inspected by competent
pei SOILS and pronounced sound, and he could
| give 10 reason for the accident. Mr.. Strahan
| simply related his experience. The damage
| TO the bridge is estimated at 5000; value of
cars and stock about S25,O0O A temporary
wooden truss will be put up as speedily as
| possible, and in the meantime track will be
| laid to the ferry landing, and passengers and
| freight transferred by boat.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9.-The Indians at
| Williams Lake, British Columbia, are report
ed starving. Their chief has had translated
ror publication pathetic appeal to Her Maj
esty recounting how they have been deprived
of their lands and means OF livelihood by the
whites and asking for relief, saying that his
young men will not starve in peace.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-The Herald says:
| :. At the Republican headquarters the greatest
confidence Aas expressed that the entire Re-
publican State ticket had been elected, in
cludng Soule, candidate for State Engineer
and Surveyor"
The Suns returns give Hotter, DEM, ma
jority of about 1000. Horatio Seymour, jr.,
Dem, has nearly 1000 majority. 1t is prob
able that Wadsworth, Rep, for Comptroller,
and Ward, Rep, for Attorney-General, is
elected. Carr, Rep, for Secretary of Sta'e,
runs very close to Beach, with the chances in
favor of his being elected Between Wendell,
Rep, for Treasurer, and Mackey. the race is
/ very close.