The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1881-12-24
Rofs and flashes.

An explosion occurred in colliery at
Bolton, England, Monday, in which $50
lives were lost.
Ten thousand pounds Of gold was with
drawn from the Bank of England on Satnr-
day for America.
The Washington Monument Associa-
ton will ask Congress to appropriate $eoo,. |
600 to continue the work OF completing the
monument.
Sam Long, proprietor Of a Chinese laun-
dry in Philadelphia, has been sent to jail
for attempting an outrage on ten-year old
girl.
The total number Of Standard Silver dol. |
lars put in circulation last week was $44S,. |
oos against $41S,9o6 for the corresponding !
week last year.
The Chinese Consul General, at Havana. |
sailed for New York on Saturday for the |
purpose of assisting in the preparations for |
the departure Of the Chinese Envoy at
Washington.
A report Ia current that another mine as
sassination plot was discovered at the Rus.
sian Imperial Palace at Gatschina, and
several officers have been arrested on sus.
picion Of completely.
The Peruvian minister at Washington
says that the conditions are more favorable
than ever for lasting piece between Chill
and Peru, which would be honorable to
the latter government.
A Vienna Relief committee was organ
lied In New York last Saturday night.
Many prominent citizens took part In the
proceedings; $4,000 was subscribed on the
spot and ST. 900 forwarded.
| George William Curtis, iu a lecture in
New York on civil service reform well
coined President Arthur into the reform
ranks and trusted to himself to carry out
the instructions ofhis inaugural message.
The Southern Pacific railroad company
is making arrangements for very heavy
traffic. It expects to carry wheat from
San Francisco to Liverpool in thirty davs
as against $50 days by the Cape Horn
route.
The countess Of Crawford and Balcaires
announces that she Is determined not to
offer any reward for the restoration of the
body of her husband. Sine desires to dis.
courage repetitions Of such outrages in the
future.
The Criminal Court at Washington
opened at II o'clock Monday and Guiteau
was escorted to his seat by the officers.
The announcement was Immediately made
of the death of the wife ofjuryman Hobbs
and the Court adjourned until Wednesday
!. The Tuttle Mountain Indians, in North
Wisconsin, are scourged with smallpox,
) and as these Indians are not under any
Government Agency, they arc allowed to
roam and care for themselves as best they
can. The War Department has no funds
available for their relief
The organization against payment Of rents
in Ireland is becoming still more favorable
1t is regarded as much ola crime to go int
t the Land Court as to pay rent. A list o.
such persons has been served with notices
S and those suspected of paying rents are
/; posted at chapels and other places where
they are likely to be seen, although the po
!, lice tear them down, the. are soon postee
r up again.
Bishop Ne Quaid Of Rochester IN. Y.
l. warns his congregation against supporting
y the mo rent, movement saying It wa
not sanctifed BY the following OF few
priests with loose conscience and adde's
that the church's hostility to secret organ
d izations was well known and that the line
o were sharpely drawn between the revolu
1t tionists Of the Land League and all goo'
J. Catholics.
;. The executive committee appointed b
Z the Irish American Convention at Chicag
3 met in New York ON the 18th, Col. Be
land, Of Kentucky, presiding. A resolu
: ton was adopted setting forth that an eN
' ecutive committee was empowered by tn
Chicago Convention to take all the neces
. sary steps for sustaining the people Of Ire
- !. land in their present struggle, and to forr
y a central organization to give concerted Al
5 sistance to them while the struggle contir
= ues.
The London Times on Blaine's dispatc
n concerning the CLAYTON -Bulwer treat
h says: If international good faith Is
count nothing, with what show Of reaso
~ can England be required to allow II
- highway between the two oceans to
# placed under American guns? Blaine mu
II remember that the freedom Of passage b.
re tween the two oceans can In no possib
"a event become an exclusively America
= right. The whole world has an interes;
maintaining the free use Of the great higl
re- ways.
70 The published statement that Mrs. Lii
a. coin has lost the use Of her eyes is untr,
I'd DR.. Lewis \. Sayne, who has been h
&c physician ever since her return from E
" rope, year ago last September, told
re Herald reporter that her eyes had bee
he growing sensibly weaker for some tin
dc past ana ne had determined 10 call IN
as consulting physicians the oculists, Drs.
e. B. Agnew aud Herman Knapp; that 81
ut had been accustomed to sitting in da1
re room for some time and having her lette
es written by her attendant have doubtle
d. led to this statement.
The money to pay the expenses Of Gs
H.. fields illness will be disposed Of as follow
nm Drs. Bliss, Agnew and Hamilton are to ,
ev ceivc two-thirds, which will be about s:
las 900 or $4,000. The physicians say tn
he under no circumstances will they prese
ire bills, either to Mrs. Garfield or against t
he estate OF her deceased husband. Fo
lie, nurses are to receive $1,000 each.
to Lamb, of the Surgeon Generals Office,
so receive 5000 for the autopsy he mac
;er Revhourn, " no was Bliss assistant, "
In. also receive reasonable sum for his CO
us. slant attendance. 1t is not known wi
av charges the railroad companies will ma
,er for the use of special train or tor the &C
. is struction of new tracks laid in Washingt
and at Long Branch.