The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-02-17

street, No. 15O.to 1855, burned to-day. Loss
$4,000; Insurance 2 5,OO0.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 12.-At a meeting Oh
'Change this noon about $500 in money and
300 barrels of flour and various lots of pork,
corn meal, canned beef, bread and other arti-
Giles were contributed to the Merchants Ex-
change relief fund for Ireland. Two or three
committees representing different branches of
business and professions have been appointed
who will canvass the city at once, and it is be-
lieved a ship load of food and other supplies
will be raised shortly.
HAVANA, Feb. 12.-The insurgents at
Monterruse have been defeated, aud 225 have
surrendered.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 12.-An atrocious wife
murder was committed at Henderson, KY, last
night. Patrick Graham, who had been arrest
ed on the complaint of his wife for beating
her, broke Jail AMI finding his wife on a
wharf-bOat, he shot her three times in the
presence of the passengers of The steamer
ldlewild, killing her instantly. He then
leaped into a skiti:
ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 1.-THE Governor
has signed the bill permitting women to vote
for school officers.
LONDON, Feb. l2.-In the House of Com
mons to-day Mitchell gave notice that he
would introduce a resolution declaring the
famine due TO the undeveloped resources of
Ireland, which should be developed from i'm
perial sources. He also gave notice that ii
his resolution was adopted he would move
that an industrial commission be appointed
and inlrusted with G2O, 900, 900 as a half gift
and half loan for public works.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. l2-Mrs. Brown. wife
of Mr.. Brown, Murdered near this city Friday
last, has made a full confession OF her knowl-
edge of the crime, and charges Joseph Wade
with the murder. Wade is arrested and in
Jail.
WASHINGTON, Feb. PA meeting of the
national Democratic committee has been
called here for Monday, February 23d, for the
purpose of fixing the time and place for hold
ing the next Democratic national convention.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The President to-
day issued another proclamation similar to
that Of last year, warning interlopers not to
treSpass on the Indian Territory under pain
of removal by the military if necessary.
BERLIN, Feb. 13.-Prussia proposes prohib-
ting foreign vessels from engaging in the
coasting trade except under treaty or by
special permission.
The bill for the prolongation of the anti
Socialist law extends Its operation to March
81, 1856.
LARAMIE CITY, Wyo., Feb. &c. Bar
row, postal clerk, On trial here for robbing the
United States mails last September, was &C
, quilted to-day.
' NEW YORK. Feb. 13.-The Herald relic
, fund yesterday contained the names of %
? Mccullough, Fanny Davenport and Frank
Mayo, for large subscriptions. Also the
names of 230 congressman, which is believed
7 to be all there are in Washington. They gave
y precisely S. each, in order to make the dona-
q ton a representative one in every respect.
Bret Harte is about to resign his consulate
: and return. The German climate does not
u u agree with him, and he has been far from
we'll.
New YORK, Feb. 3.-Beecher said at the
Lincoln Club dinner last night: 1t l could
!" have my own way, | would vote for Grant to
come back cloud applause) partly because
should wish to bear testimony against that
y heresy of no third term - which has taken
> strong hold of some people. I refuse to allow
any party or any political organization to
y take away from me nv right to call again to
~ ~ Office a man who while in Office has ably full
" filed his functions, who is the choice Of d
majority Of his countrymen. and say that he
shall not try again. loud applause.] /
Va protest against going into an election handl-
g. cap. We should elect Grant because the
third rotation in Office is the cause of our
affairs. What we want is more stability and
continuity.
Iv NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. ia cyclone.
lie accompanied by lightning, thunder and heavy
e. rain, passed over the city at midnight. The
H. wind blew at the rate of forty miles an hour.
)a liz spires u i IL HISl tololcu i)dIDtlSt. ~.
r. Johns colored and st. Paul's colored churches
IN were blown down, also the inside brick wall
IN Of the new custom house. The roof of Rhea
as Il Sons elevator, containing 10000 bushes Of
ne grain, was swept of, and the third story of
e the Edgefield Manufacturing Company was
blown away. The roofs of a large number
r, eff private residences We're blown oil and the
W. W. damage up to this hour cannot be estimated.
be LAWRENCE, Mass, Feb. l3.-Andrew
H. Smith, of North Andover, detaulting town
treasurer, acknowledged that yearly since
he first elected in 1869, he had converted money
al of the town to his own use to the %mount of
to his defalcation, $29,S22; the smallest irregular
be town note was $500, and the largest was s.,
lily 800.
OF r,>C,~S.rr rnb I,- J;,o.. sn.oio1
s' says: The train Oh the Dayton u South
eastern railroad, which left Clillicothe this
er morning, fell through the first bridge west OF
Is Chillicotlle, instantly killing VIM. Connors
:al engineer, and Frank Kreclt. fireman.
ps' DUBLIN, Feb. l3.-The Mansion House
has letters giving the particular of increasin.
III distress in the country.
"' PROvIDENCE, Il. l., Feb. l3.-Samuel G
Arnold died early this morning. He was once
OH Lieut.. Governor, and also served a short term
in the United States Senate. lie was author
or OF the "History Of Rhode Island
CHICAGO, Feb. 13.-The Times Washing
.l ton special says: .sTilden is very favorable
in to Chicago as the place for holding the Demo
If cratic convention. He is not out of the race
AMI is certain he can control the nomim lior
'nf if he can not get it.
nd NEW YORK, Feb. l3.-The war of candi.
dites inthe Republican joII nails is increasing
80, One would almost think to read the papers
supporting respectively Grant, Blaine and
Sherman, That the other two names men.