The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-12-28
NEWS NOTES.

NEWS NOTES.
Certificates of all the electoral votes in the
Union are now received by Vice-Presiden
Wheeler.
On the 18th inst. two mail agents and sew
eral passengers were hurt by the ditching OF
q train near Worcester, Mass.
The clerks and employees of the navy de-
partment took a formal leave Of Sec. Thomp-
son last Saturday.
The Edison Electric Light Illuminating
company has filed articles of incorporation in
New York. Capital, ST, (, 1000.
At Augusta, Ca, Thomas and Frank
Twiggs (colored) were convicted recently OF
The murder of Driscoll (white), and SEN
fenced to be hanged on the 18th OF January
next.
On the 18th inst. Charles Sycles, Of Scran-
ton, Pa, accidentally poisoned his wife by
giving her carbolic acid instead of chloral.
She died in a few hours. Sycles has become
crazy over the fatal mistake.
John C. Calhoun, nephew of the late J. c.
Calhoun, was drowned near Stockton, Cal,
on the 10Th inst. Young Calhoun had been
recently committed to the insane asylum at
That city, and weuld have been discharged in
a few days, as he had recovered his reason.
Four river thieves and murderers were ar
rested on the 18th inst. at Quincy, Ill.
Abbott, the murderer, was found guilty at
Boston on the 18th. He exhibited great non-
chalance, and filed exceptions.
Two boys, named respectively Temple and
Terry, fought at Fit. Burwall, Ont, recently.
Temple was fatally stabbed.
Ed Long, who murdered r ,dgers (both
c~olored) was hanged at Memphis on the 18th.
Long confessed.
S. Morrison, president Q: the Bank of Man
haitian, died on Saturday last.
The s.Louisville Courier-Journal' foots up
the official vote of the United States for pres
ident as follows:
Hancock ....... ,49S
Garfield
Weaver 3O7, 99S
low. ........... 80. .......... S,oo4
Scattering. 9,759
lOtdl NOtt 1000
Combined opposition over Garfield. 34O,S35
John Toole, the brother of Larry Toole,
the comedian, was stabbed at New York re-
Gently by James r. Trainer, alias Pisshead.
Wound supposed to be mortal.
Herr Wittendo:f,. a Prussian official who
undertook to reform the Turkish finances,
and for this purpose has been living at Con-
stantinople for a long time, has giv~nthe mis-
sion up az hopeless.
1t is officially announced at Paris that the
allotment of Panama canal shares will be as
follows: Applications for from one to five
shares will be accepted in full. Subscriptions
for from six to twenty shares will receive 4
GER cent, and those for twenty shares and
upwards will receive 25 per cent of their de-
mands.
A railroad accident occurred at Chicago On
he ZUtA Dy Nnlcn Feu DNyeT, all engineer,
and Thomas Beakman received fatal injuries.
Jesse Marshall, a farmer living in Green
county, O., committed suicide recently by
shooting himself. His grief oyer the mistake
1e made in selling his old home caused him
% commit the act.
VIM. G. Bradley, the postmaster at Padu-
,ah, KY, Is supposed to be the culprit that
,obbed his own Office Of So, 900. He has
aeretofore borne an unspotted reputation.
On the 31st inst, by the explC sion of a
kerosene lamp at Brownsville, Tenn, several
buildings were burned. Loss, $50, 600 insur-
,nce, $500.
1t is stated on good authority that the Rus
sian government is prepared to support any
policy that is calculated to preserve peace be-
.ween Greece and Turkey. The government
$ also disposed to Meet the proposals of Chi
Ia in a conciliatory spirit.
President Hayes visited tue public schools
If Brooklyn on the 21st inst.
Henry Perkins, a prominent stock broker of
Boston, was arrested at that city on the 21st
INST. for u~nlawfully disposing of $4,000 OF
ollateral securities. He was admitted to bail
athe sum of $4,000.
Weaver apologized to the house for the