The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-09-23
NOTES OF THE DAY.

NOTES Or IHE LAY.
Bloodhounds are used at the California
penitentiary to pursue escaped convicts.
Crow Dog has been indicted for the muir
der Of Spotted Tail, and viii be tried next
January.
The Pre- sident's train to Long Branch ran
at the rate of thirty-six miles an hour, In
Guiding stops. ..s....
The Grand Trunk railway Is selling tickets
from Boston to Chicago and return for S20,
with $40 rebate.
hundred thousand dollar fire occurred at
Austin, Nevada, on the 18th, with only
900 insurance.
Ex-Governor A. P. X. Stafford was married
to Miss Bouillas, Spanish lady OF Tucson,
Arizona, Sept. 10th.
d. Poole was shot and killed on the 10th,
at Greedy, Colo, by r. P. Abbey, in quar-
rel over an account. E.@ -.
Somebody says that Jay Gould Is "rail
mad.n Read il backward, says the Omaha
Republican, that's what you are!
Louis r. Redmond, the notorious South
Carolina moonshiner, is now In the Albany,
N. Y, penitentiary for ten years.
Asiatic cholera is prevailing to consider
able extent in China, and San Francisco
people fear it may reach that port. 4
Terence Connolly, of Newton, N. j., has
lived on water, with occasional sips of
brandy, for sixty-three days and over. Il
Snow fell In Iowa on the 10th inst. to the
depth of four inches. At Omaha and
through Nebraska the snow was two inches
deep.
A railroad collision In West Virginia Sept.
9th killed girl of fifteen and badly injured
thirteen other persons, mostly women and
children. ri n.
Sixty thousand sores of timber land have
been burned over by the fire started near San
Rafael, and there is danger Of it spreading
| still further.
On the 18th, at Park City, Utah, Frank
| O'Reilly, Superintendent of the Empire
mine, was shot and killed by George W.
Scott, discharged engineer.
Smontno, late Manager of the Associated
Press, has retired from that position and
will devote his energies to private business
| interests In Colorado and California.
E.A. Merritt, late Collector of Customs
| at New York, handled during his three years
| of service about four hundred millions of
dollars, and every cent was properly account
ed for.
S. A. Mann, formerly Secretary of Utah,
died at Reno, Nevada, Sept. 10th. During
| ing his official career he, as Acting Governor,
approved the act giving the ballot to women
in Utah.
The friend of Mr.. Garfield, Gen. Swain,
| who has spent twelve hours of every twenty
four at the Presidents bedside, has lost
weight and grown perceptibly grayer during
the time. . @r.. 1901.
| W. NJ. Lent, an old mining operator, now
of New York, was cowhided in San Fran
cisco on the 14th by James NJ. Classen, who
says that Lent owes him Sl50,000 snd re-
fuses to pay the debt.
The steamship Elbe this month made the
trip from Southampton to New York In
eighteen days, four hours and forty five min
utes Andrew d. White, ex-Mlnister to
Berlin, was among the passengers.
There have been several failures at Dead
wood lately, including Robert Chew, whole
sale liquors Hetzeli q johnson, grocers !;
Edmunds IL Pinney, clothing; o. A. ingalls,,
druggist; J. d. Woolly, stationer. Other
failures are expected. .-. .. -.
| 30 should the reader:
The bride was led up the broad aisle,
| Got up in the most killing staisle,
| When asked IL she'd be
A true wife 10 he
She promptly replied 81 should smaisle."
| Puck.
In San Francisco the other day two men
advertised a spiritual seance and took in
over thousand dollars at the door aud then
sloped. The police, however, thought the
affair was swindle and were watching the
operators and arrested them before they
reached their hotel.
Four Of the men who ditched the Central
Pacific train at Cape Horn have been cap
tured and the detectives are on the trail of
the others. The captured men are John
Mason and E. Stonegan, Of Iowa Hill,
Reuben A. Rodgers, of Gold Run, and Henry
Frazier, Of American River.
The heresy case in San Francisco, in
which the pastor and ruling elders of Calvary
Presbyterian church were charged with per-
hitting Mrs. Cooper, leader of large bible
class, to teach heretical doctrines, has been
decided against the defendants by the Pres.
bytery before whom they were arragned.
Sitting Bull was recently removed from
Standing Rock Agency TO Fort Randall. He
refused to 90 on the steamboat that was to
convey him to his new home, and he was
tied and carried on by the soldiers. He
swore he would escape from Fort Randall il
taken there, would call his warriors around
him once more, and kill all the whites on
the Upper Missouri and burn the Govern.
ment posts and agency buildings.
A couple of Kansas small boys thought II
would be rare sport to saturate the hair OF
their sleeping mother with coal oil and apply
q match to it, but after the experiment and
after woodshed interview with an electric
eyed, baldheaded woman they sat do VI
sideways on the step and thought and thought
and thought and thought and thought, and
to save their lives they couldn't see anything
funny about the affair.-Detroit Free Press
Charles Buckles disappeared from Usage
township, Kansas, about one year ago. II
was thought he was murdered and Henry
Forrest was arrested for the crime. There
were many threats of lynching, but they
were not carried out. At his trial the jury
disagreed. Recently Buckles was found a
, work for farmer near Westport. He knew
that Forrest was on trial for the supposed
murder, but he made no disclosure Of him.
self.
A woman in Chicago is seeking divorce
, | from two husbands. Her first husband
/ Dennis Folly, deserted her. In couple o
years Edward Hines told her Dennis wa!
dead, and so she married Edward. Lately
she has heard that her first husband is alive
with another wife and several children anc
, she wants divorce from him for desertioh
and also wants one from Hines because sh,
could not legally contract marriage will
him.
A safe weighing six thousand pounds, in
tended for the Mining Record office, OF
Broadway, New York,was being drawn up II
the third story with rope and tackle, on tht
10Th inst, and just as 1t reached the poin
where It was to be drawn into the building
, the ropes gave way and 1t fell to the street
!, crushing the stone pavement almost into thu
!. basement beneath, the safe being entirel,
broken mp. Fortunately no person happened
to be passing at the moment the safe fell.
The youth who parts his hair at the equa
tor, sucks the head of = rattan cane, squint.
with dreamy-looking eyes through airy