The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-16
Miscellaneous Dispatches.

Miscellaneous Dispatches.
BISMARCK, March 1O.-Two hundred men
are working eastward toward the blockaded
train. They clear two miles daily. There
is no flour in the city and provisions are being
transported by the government from Fort
Lincoln.
CHICAGO, March 1O.-I. f. Davis, whose
four or five wives have turned up recently in
various parts OF the country, was brought
here by officers to-day. He was met by one
wife and by the parents of another, and taken
to the police station. The case against him
appears to be very clear.
WASHINGTON, March 1O.-Conger, chair
man of the Republican Central Committee,
says that a convention will be held before the
national convention, which will he favorable
to Sherman. The delegates to Chicago will
be selected by Congressional districts.
MADISON, Wis, March 1O.-The joint ses-
sion of the Democratic committee fixed May
10Th as the time for holding the convention.
The meeting was evenly divided between
Seymour, Davis and Tilden.
TRENTON, N. j., March 1O.-The jury in
the Lewis will conspiracy case returned a
verdict of guilty as to all the conspirators
with the recommendation of Bradford to
mercy.
Boston, March 10.-Wool market is gener-
ally unchanged. California 22a23.
READING, Pa, March 11.-One hundred
and fifty moulders of the Reading Hardware
Company struck for an advance of rs per
cent. The firm will give an answer next
Saturday.
SAN FRANCISCO, March l1.-Denls Kear-
ney was arrested by the police at his residence
this morning on two charges of misdemeanor,
based OH his remarks at the meeting Tuesday
right. He furnished bail and was released
from custody.
ST.. PErERsBURG,, March 1O.-A great fire
occurred on Monday at the weaving works in
Moscow. The entire building was destroyed
Twenty-fOur persons We're burned to deaf.
and twenty-nine injured.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. March l0.-The Re-
publican executive comtnittee selected Selma
as the place and fixed May Goth as the time
for holding the State convention. There were
Grant, Blaine and Sherman men in the ON
mittee, with the first named in the lead.
ATCHIsoN, Kan. March 1O.-The county
convention sends a full delegation to the State
convention instructed for Blaine in the
strongest terms.
For WORTH, March l0.-The Jury in the
case of the negro Cops, charged with the
rape of Miss Thornton, a white lady, took
ten minutes to sentence him to tho gallows.
PARIS, March lin the divisions of the
Senate on article seven Of the education bill,
the whole Right voted against the clause
joined by Simon Dufour, Laboulye and
twenty-six other moderate Republicans.
Seven Republicans purpesely abstaiaed tiom
voting.
LONDON, March 1.-THE statement with
reference to the measures for the purchase of
Irish waste lands for distribution to farmers
was premature.
OTTAWA, March 1l.-One hundced aud
fifty thousand dollars in silver is to he issued
in twenty-five cent, fifteen and ten cent
pieces.
CLEVELAND, March 1.-THE jury in the
Cas- of Louis Noller, who killed his father
and shot his mother and brother in Strong
| vile, Oct. 2lst, brought in a verdict of murder
in the second degree. The penalty is life
imprisonment.
CHICAGO, March 1l.-Dispatches froM 81.
Louis say representatives of the Hannibal Il
ST. Joe, Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific and Mis-
souri, Pacific companies have held secret
meetings in that city and formed a new
southwestern pool with a view of war upon
the several Chicago roads.
GALENA, Ills, March 1l.-Grant will sail
for home on the 18th instant. He will visit
Galveston and New Orleans, and from the
latter city will take IA trip to Denver, for \
contemplated tour through the mining regions
of Wyoming and Colorado.
FRANKFORT, Ind, March Hickman,
Rosenthal & Co.'S. -four mill suffered a terrible
explosion this morning. Ten men were
killed, and the mill was entirely destroyed by
fire.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE postoffice
department has concluded contracts for the
star mail service for four years, in Ohio, In
diana, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South
Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama and
Mississippi. The total amount of awards is
about 1856 900.
CHICAGO, March 1.-THE Journals New
Iork special says tina; the documents sent TO
Congress by the President show clearly that
no European power has expressed at any time
the least desire or intention to tread on our
toes or Interfere with our control and protec-
ton On the isthmus. The whole thing would
be ndicu' >us if it had not helned the aStute
secretary of the navy to get through the
House il resolution authorizing a commission
TO report Oh the practirability of completing
the four double turreted monitors $" long in