The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-10

ENHEh august 5.-A Leadville specia,
says:-from present appearances LeadviiIa
NH WI soon oe an important railroad centre.
me DenVer q kio Grande company TO-DAY
let a contract Tor grading its Eagle River
Monday, was engaged in grading aInnn t .
line Of the Leadville, Ten Mile and Rro IL
enridge road. Deeh-
New YORK, August 5.-Disnatches s.or,
Webster county, Ca, say that a Mrs, Mun l
rells administered morphine to herself and
nlne children recently. She left a note de-
claring she did it deliberately. c
AUSTIN, Texas, August 6.-Gen J.mas
has explained to the Governor his connection
with the Dalrymple army of occupation, and
mas Withdrawn therefroln. His successor
VIII probably be Gen. Byrne. of Fort Worth.
hundreds OF young men all over the state
volunteered, many Offering to mount. arm
n equip themselves.
TORONTO August G.-The Emerald Bene-
fclal Society of Ontario, on their wav to a
Pic-nlc was met by an Orange force with a
oahd IN the streets. A desperate battle took
place at : O'Clock this evening. The police
barely got order restored when a second fioht
broke cut. At midnight ninety, more or
less were injured. Pandemonium ragged
along the dock.
LOUISVILLE, Aug. Gtl:-General William
". Butler, died at Carrollton this morning,
aged 80 years, he was an o~iiicerin the regular
army in the war of 1912, and was in the bat
Tie OF New Orleans, he was General in Chief
OF one army in the Mexican war. was a candi-
date Tor Vive President on the ticket with
General Lewis Cass, and represented
Kentucky in Washington at a political con-
vention at the beginning of the wal.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. G.-John McGuip,
who, while an inmate Of the pententiarv a
year ago, serving a sentence for murder,
killed a fellow convict named VIM. E. Ander-
deTson, was hanged at San Rafael to-day.
Mrs. w. l.. Pritchard, wife of the well
known turfman OF Sacramento, committed
suicide in that city this morning by hanging
herself in an arbor in her garden. The act
is supposed to have been caused by her hus-
bands business troubles.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 6.-Thc Ga=etts special
from Waverley, o., reports that three passen-
| genger cars in an excursion train returning
from Niagara Falls to jackson, O., via the
Springfield Southern railroad. went through
a bridge 20 feet high into the canal at Wavcr-
iy this morning. The front car Jumped the
track and went over the side of the bridge.
carrying it down and throwing the other cars
OIL. The locomotive crossed safely. Resi-
dents of jackson and vicinity to the number
of $50 were on the train. The casualties
are W killed, nine severely and five slightl,
injured.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Aug. G.-Further re.
ports from TT. Smith OF serious trouble al
Muscogo, Creek Nation, between Crick ne.
groes and Cherokees are received. Two
Crick negro horse-thieves, Bill Peters an,
Long Monday, were hanged by Cherokee
lynchers on July y. On Wednesday - ne
groes crossed into Cherokee nation and sho
w young Cherokees, VIM. Cobb and Alex
Cowan, the latter fatally wounded. Dicl
Glass, a Creek, was killed during the fight
At last accounts some 200 Cherokees were as
sembled at Fit. Gibson, near the line, intend
ing to attack the Crick negroes in force, an,
only suspending hostillties on condition tina
the ID Crick negroes be delivered to them OF
Thursday morning last. \ white man wa
reported killed on Tuesday, which will re
quire the interference of the federal authori
ties.