The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-02-24
The boring of the st. Gothard Tunnel will
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probably be finished in twelve days.
LONDON. Feb. 19.-In the Liverpool spring
cup race in MarcI, Parole will carry top
weight of 131 pounds, Mistake, 96 pounds, Sly
Dance, 81 pounds, Wallenstein, 81. In the
United Kingdom steeple chase at Croydon,
April 18th, J. g. Benefits Muscadin will car
ry 1856 pounds.
BERLIN, Feb. 19.-Among those who de-
canped after the explosion in the winter pal
ace is the captain Of the palace guard.
BERLIN, Feb. 19.-Emperor William,
Frederick Charles, General Won Moltke, the
Ambassadors, the members of the Ministry
and the chief dignitaries of the court and
State were present to-day at Thanksgiving SER
vice held for the escape from assassination Of
! the Gar.
LONDON, Feb. 19.--In the House Of Lord,
Lord Beaconsfield, abiding to the late at
tempt on the life of the Gar, said the Ouch
ess of Edinburgh, who is now in st. Peters
burg, refused to quit the scene OF SO much
domestic suffering.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2O.-By the running off the
track of a passenger train on the Bellaire and
Southeastern railroad While crossing the
trestle near Bellaire, Ohio, last night, the cars
fell a distance of 30 feet. Twenty passengers
were seriously injured and ten dangerously.
Among those fatally wounded is the Hon.
Lorenzo Danford, of St. Claireville, Ohio, eX-
members of Congress.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2O.-Rev. Edward Cow
ley, late manager of the shepherds Fold, was
drraigned this morning for sentence. Record
err Smyth gave him the extreme penalty of the
law, one year in the State prison and $3.50
fine.
CHICAGO, Feb. ZO.-The Journals special
from Washington says "Blaine's most tried
friend, a Maine Congressman says, although
ha f,aS pct ham ai,thorj2eU tO saw so nv Mr..
Blaine, yet he is confident it is no part OF
the Blaine campaign to attack the Grant
movement and try to kill it. lie is confident
that such a course on Blaine's part would
antagonize all OF Grants friends and do more
harm to his own cause than good. The story
is, therefore, entirely discredited.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2O.-The Journals New
York special states: AHavana letter says that
the government has discovered a conspiracy
among the creoles for an uprising in Vuetta
Alba, and secured six of the ring leaders
who were employed on the railroad. Three
thousand Remington rifles and a vast quantity
of fixed ammunition, arms and munitions
were smuggled in from the United States,
and the Instruction was to begin the first OF
March.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 20.-Parnell, who ar
rived here to-day, said that the British gov
eminent had gave solne signs of atlording
ItlltI, yet ttl lLlb AOltlo w NtoAiS III ALL
would be needed to avert death and bitter
5 suffering.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-The committee
on Territories decided to recommend the pas
} sage of a bill extending the jurisdiction Of
United States courts i'll civil and criminal
' matters to the Indian Telritory, and providing
for the requirement Of citizenship by Indians,
and the allotment of lands to them in sever
= atty under the prescribed conditions OF the
+ bill.
c ST. LOUIS, Feb. ~2O.-Ancther fifty miles OF
4 the Texas Pacific Railroad extension west
1 of Weatherford, was let yesterday. Iron and
a other material, and a complete outfit for the
telegraph line from Fort Worth to Weather
ford, is ON hand, and trains will be running
to the latter place by the first OF April.
a CLoNMEL, Ireland, Feb. l9.-Four bailiffs
accompanied by a large force of police to-day
distrained cattle for rent on a farm III the
> county of Waterford, occupied by a widow
A crowd of five hundred persons overpowered
the police and recaptured the cattle. The
e ring-leaders of the mob will be summoned fcl
s assault.
+ SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2O.-Late this after
u ternoon a warrant was issued for the arrest Of
u Fiburcio Parrot, of the firm of Parrot 4 Co.
on the charge of employing Chinese in the
a service of the Sulphur Bark and Quicksilver
+ Mining Co., of which Parrot is president
u The case is made up to test the constitution
atty of the act recently passed by the Legis
lature prohibiting corporations from employ
ing Chinese.
d 0,.u Fah On tbe 3lst of January T.
OMAHA, feo.-On CnG 11sI vi january y
"a G. Lawrence anu Tiahh na"lcAce' MS son
- arrived mere from 'elll.oh'' ~ touts . Zen
a yer. botH letC tle Iralh az "lahu islalu
where the 1atller uleu OH Ile oIl Oh Icplu
IS the son before and at the burial aroused sus
nicion, and the deceased's stomach being an
l. alvzed. sufficient prussic acid was found t,
+ cause death. It is learned that the son ha,
,. insured his fathers lie before leaving Yer