The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-04
THE HOLIDAY MINER.
NEWS xorEs.

At Chicago the thermometer stood rs de-
grees below zero on the morning Of the Goth.
Hon. VIM. Wait, the great law writer,
died near Utica, N. Y, on the Goth with con-
sumption.
A policeman in Tipperary was shot and
on the 2Sth.
neep snow and storms prevail all along the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad to the Ohio
river. Weather cold.
John Woodshull, aged II, murdered Mar
Gus Brattsn, aged 21, of Washington, Ind, on
the evening Of the 9th.
Seven persons were killed and So injured
on Christmas at Sallagot, France, by the fall
ing of the roof Of a church..
The British steamer Garnet was wrecked
in the North sea recently. All hands on
board, numbering seventeen, persisted.
The heaviest snow storms known for the
past so years have been raging in the north
part of Texas during the last few days.
Twenty-eight murders and ffty-seven sui
cides wre committed in st. Louis during the
past year. Eighteen murderers are in Jail
there now.
A $1,000 blaze occurred at Providence on
the Goth, destroying the Merchants block and
adjoining buildings. Cause, bursting of a
kerosene lamp.
Dist. Atty. Phelps, of New York, is report
ed to be dying from acute rheumatism of the
stomach, contracted at his wife's funeral a
few weeks ago.
On the night of the 29th Henry Dwight,
of Detroit, suicided because his sweetheart
refused to marry him as long as he drank. He
used laudanum.
The customary orders have been issued for
the officers of the army and navy at Wash
ington to pay their respects to the president
on New Years day.
The total banking capital of the United
States in round numbers is $500 600, 900. The
bank deposits for the year just ended aggre-
gate s2,2 POO, oso, 900.
Thirty thousand dollars were subscribed
in a few minutes, one afternoon, recently, at
Cincinnati, for the purpose of introducing
Maxion's electric light.
The sale of season tickets for Bernhardt's
engagement at Chicago closed on the goth.
The sale aggregated $4,000, the heaviest of
the kind ever known at that place.
Leonard H.. Castney, member of parliamen
from Liskeard, has accepted the under secre-
taryship of the home department, made va
,o-A H., lo-o&:.o.~o r. IL. Yu.JJS.l.
Prof. Bartholomew is giving exhibitions il
Chicago Of his horses, trained in California
and taken to Chicago about two weeks ago
Their performances are said to be wonder
full.
President Andre W. croft, of Switzerland,
committed suicide at Geneva on the 2Slh. He
believed his life was endangered by secret
enemies, and became partially deranged on
that account.
The city of Cambridge, Mass, celebrated
its 25Oth anniversary of its settlement with
great display on the 2Slh. Longfellow,
Holmes, Elliot and others made addresses
and read poems.
The Pacific Mutual Marine Inland Insul.
ance Company of New York will go into
liquidation. Assets stated at $75O,00O; liza
bllitles the same amount, including 100000
outstanding scrip.
A fire at Quincy, ILL.,, on the 2Sth burned
Richard Burtin's confectionery establishment
loss, $4,000. Joseph e Nelker's establish
ment, adjoining, was damaged to the amoun
of $4,000. The thermometer at the time
was Is below zero.
According to the territorial auditors re
port for the last year there were, on Jan. l
f 1880, in Montana, 345, $50 acres of land unde
fence and cultivation, valued at $2,O62,5 1862
and 1924 acres of town lots with improve
ments valued at 81, 653, 4O5.
) E. ID. Parker, formerly a member Of the
> Nebraska legislature, has recently been az
3 rested on suspicion of robbing a registered
mail pouch last March containing So 1000 il
postage stamps. Parker affected the Buffalo
Bill style, and had become very dissipated ii
his habits.
At New Albany, Ind, on the Goth, tn
= three months old twin children Of VIM. ant
f Fannie johnson froze to death in the house
= of their parents. The mother was unable tC
keep them warm, and the father was looking
t for work. The %neighbors were not aware o
the restitution of the family.
Statistics of sixty-four railroads, gathere'
by the Chicago Rail,vay Age show that the
> have already added 335 locomotives and "a,
, It's cars to their equipment this year, and tn
Aqe estimates that all the roads have requir
ed, 1896 new locomotives and 63,42o cal
worth .Itooatbar Sf5 $40 900 hesides lawn