The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-08
NEWS NOTES.

ings have been sold for railroads west OF the
Mississippi.
Thu senate committee on foreign relations
will report back the Chinese treaties favora-
bly,.
Colored citizens of Augusta, at a public
meeting, demanded that Bruce be given a
place in the cabinet.
Secretary Sherman was in Boston on the
10Th, and was given a dinner by the mer-
chants of the Hub,to whom he made a speech
on finance.
An exhibition was recently given at Jersey
City of a new fuel-a combination OF petro-
leum and steam. The exhibition was OF a
satisfactory character, and promised results
of an Importance not easily exaggerated.
Col. Rose, of the Pennsylvania railroad, says
a locomotive can be run from New York to
Philadelphia for 81 instead of S25, which 1t
now costs with coal.
On the 3Oth, at Orangeville, Canada, all in
cendiary fire destroyed Lindsay's grain store
house and contents. Loss $4,000.
L ne STdllScIS u NloCohoih "S
to enact a bill similar to the old Potter rail-
road law, regulating railroad traffic. The
business men are concerned in it.
Prof. Augustus G.. Rodgers, of the United
States coast survey, has reported on the SUD-
iect of the proposed harbor of refuge, % be
constructed on the Pacific coast at the most
suitable location, somewhere between San
Francisco and tie Straits of Fuca. He thinks
that Trinidad is the best place to construct
such a harbor, and in a report of some length
recommends it as superior to either Crescent
City or Port Oxford.
Philadelphia had a big blaze Oh the 31st, in
which. among other buildings, a Baptist
church and organ, valued at S1s2,O6O, and
Agricultural hall, valued at $4,000, were
consumed. The church was insured by the
congregation and the hall was insured for
$4,000.
The police raided a keno room at st. Louis
on the night of the 31st ult. and arrested over
one hundred and fifty persons. About half OF
them were bailed out by the proprietors.
Recent advices from Samoa report the
death of King Malictoa, which occurred on
the Sth of November last. The country is in
a state of anarchy, except the neutral terri.
tory governed by the consuls of the United
States, Germany and Great Britain.
The charge of intimidation made against
O'Neil. the Secretary of the Cork land league
hos baap 5;cp,iScoS for tho want of ayidanpa
J. L. Schroeder and E. J. Osterhout, boil
prominent merchants of New Orleans
quarrelled about a bale of cotton on the Isl
inst, and Schroeder killed the latter.
A Portland dispatch says a hurricane has
swept over Puyalup valley, Washington Ter
ritory. The n. P. Railroad is obstructed by
wind falls, and buildings were unroofed anC
in many instances totally destroyed.
Moody and Sankey have entered upon tn
twelfth week Of their meetings in San Fran
cisco.
The women's walking match at San Fran
cisco closed on the night of the 1st. TIL
score stood as follows:
Nils. HOW lu.. .
Mrs. Lachapelle. .....340
Mrs. Young
Mrs. Sherman ........ ........22S
The latter was off the track more than ha
ofthe time on acconnt of illness.
Mrs. johanna Callahan and son burned t
death in their dwelling at Dorchester, Mass
on the Ind inst.
From Hickory Bridge, Kentucky, comes tt
following: VIM. McKenny was murdere
by Columbus Cass on the 31st ult. Ca
knocked Mckinney down with an axe, be-
. his head to a jelly and then fed. Both we.
, prominent members of the Methodist churc
= An old feud was the cause.
T The Canada Pacific Railroad bill passt
/ the house of commons of the Dominion 90
eminent on the first inst. by a vote of 12S
40.
Archbishop Purcell is reported to
paralyzed in the entire left side of his bod