The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-11
2sutte 2seeefp 2Niner.
NEWS NOTES.

They are skating on the Arkansas river al
Little Rock.
late adyices state that all communications
with Transvaal are interrupted.
II is now understood that the president Will
not appoint a secretary of the navy.
All the powers are doing their utmost to
calm the excitement in Greece.
A land league meeting was held near Xii
karney on the ID inst, at which 5000 persons
were present.
The Arlington House and Patterson row
were burned at McKiesport, Pennn recently.
/ Loss $4,000.
The total amount of expenses on the Can
ada Pacific railroad up to Nov. 3Oth ult.,
was SIS, o 10000.
The minister of Netherlands to Spain was
found dead in his bed at Madrid on the
morning of the I'd inst.
The paper mill of Martin Il Nixon, Maunch
Chunk, PENN, burned on the lst inst. Loss
between $4,000 and 100000.
The commission house of Clark Il BrecE-
enrldge, of St. Louis, Mo-, has gone into
liquidation. Liabilities about $4,000.
The Ennis walking match closed on the
night of the ID inst. Laconse scoring 425
miles and Wilmot 400. They walked l27
hours.
A boiler in the Dupont paper mills at
& Louisville KY, exploded Sunday, severely
injuring a man by the name of Mitchell and
killed Henry Taylor.
In order to avoid Misrepresentation, the
i pope has requested all Catholic newspapers
at Rome to submit their articles on Ireland to
the vatican authorities.
Galusha S. Grow, candidate for United
States Senator for Pennsylvania, has been
interviewed. He CLAIMS 95 votes in the Re-
publican caucus, which are IS more t,lan are
required.
Thd largest land meeting ever held in
sConnaught took place OF Laughrea, county
Galway, on the 3rd inst. Davit's was the
principal speaker. Several thousand persons
were present.
The Dominion government took possession
of all the Western Union telegraph lines,
cables, instruments, etc, in the Province of
British Columbia on the 1st inst. Considera-
lion $4,000. 00O.
Intense cold is still being experienced in
the East. On the lst at Petersburg, Va,
the thermometer was % below. At Mont
ipelier, VT, "a, Newport, n. H., 25, Antrim
,N. H., SO, and ~Poughkeepsie u below.
I Slosson, the biliiardist, has sent another
challenge to VignauX to play. 1t will be
published in tho G0lois and in the Figaro.
He offers to pay the Frenchman's expenses
# he will come to the United States TO play.
Hanlan and Ross, the oarsmen, have issued
p challenge to any two men in the "orld for
i double scull race for $500 or 1905 'ide.
The race to take place in the early part of the
ensuing season. They will allow a portion
of the stakes for expenses in going to Amer
'lca to row.
The Vermont legislature has passed one of
he most prohibitory of liquor bills ever
ramed. 1t provides that any place of resort
where liquor is sold or given away or wl.re
Gambling is permitted hal be denounced as
q. public nuisance, and the keeper shall be
ined not less than $40 or more than 5000 and
he place sbal! be shu: up on the first o~ffense.
The Denver Republican says: "AIr. Blaine
las introduced into the Senate a bill ~increas-
ng the number or supreme judges to IL. The
Vt. Louis Gtobe-Democrat suggests that if the
ill passes it should be amended so as to pro-
ide that not more than IL of the - Judges
hall ever be Ohio men, That paper pro-
loses to draw the line somewhere, and thinks
hat the eleventh judge is about the place.
The colony OF Conemara Irish under the
supervision OF Bishop Ireland, in Big Stone
ounty, Minnesota, has been found by the
itizens Of a ~neighboring own to be in ap-
alling restitution. The people were in
GARD shanties, most of them barefooted,
lany OF them so badly frozen as to need re-
,oval to the hospital at St. Paul and almost
fithout food. Great indignation is felt
throughout the state, as plenty Of money had
ieen furnished to keep them in comfort.