The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-21

Fink to-day reduced the 7th and 9th classe
of freight from Chi, ago to New York fiv,
cents.
LIVERPOOL, June Is The police profess
to h We incontrovertible evidence connecting
McKevitt and Roberts with the attempt OF
the Central Police Office, London.
QUEBEC, June 15.-Six hundred and forty
two houses were burned by the recent fire
and 1911 families and COPS individuals are
homeless and mostly without possessions.
ALBANY, June 15.-Cohkling vote: Jacobs
49,; Conkling, 81; Rogers, IS; Cornell, 10;
Lapham, TO-. Bradley, l; Tremaine, 8; Crow.
ley, 2; no choice.
For successor to Plat: Depew, 81; Herman
So; Plat, p; Folger, 3; Cornell, 10; Crowley.
4; no choice. Adjourned.
Forster said the Irish landlords were not
endeavoring to force the government to sup
| port them in the exercise OF injustice. A
| proportion of the tenants against whom the
eviction course had been taken are able but
unwilling to pay the rent.
LIVERPOOL, June 13.-At daybreak Sun
day 5000 men marched to the prison to
which McKavitt and Roberts were taken, os-
tensibiy to rescue them. A policeman gave
Xix Ala Ill anu plO
with carbines and revolvers. When the
men saw the warriors they separated going in
various directions. Sentries have been
placed around the prison and the wardens
are armed to the teeth. "A patrol is placed
outside.
NEW YORK, June 13,--EX-Senators Conk-
ling and Platt were away from the hotel a
good deal yesterday, and this gave rise to a
rumor which was circulating about the hotels
last night, that a conference was being neld.
Vice-President Arthur says he HAD not been
absent from his house during the day, that he
had not seen Conkling since Thursday, and
that he knew nothing about any conference.
1t IS probable that there was no conference
further than what conversation COnkling had
with ex-senator Plat, Senator Jones and a
few others. In the afternoon ex-senator
Conkling took a walk with Capt. Michael
Cregan. When they returned Cregan said
the ex-senator would probably return to AL
bany to-day. He said there was no prospect
of a change in the situation, and no man knew
what the outcome of the present deadlock
would be. He declared that the talk OF a con-
ference to consider the withdrawal of Conk-
ling and Plat to be ~ullfounded.
CHICAGO, June B.-The Tribune's Otta-
wa special says: Intelligence is just received
from British Columbia that Mr.. Onderdonk,
OF San Francisco, is pushing forward on his
contract on the Canadian Pacific railway with
great energy. His contract is for l27 miles Of
very difficult country. There are three tun-
nels to be built and the work is tedious. One
tunnel is 1000 feet long. There are some
three thousand men to work on the Onder-
donk work, of which half approximately are
Chinese. There is among the people of Brit
ish Columbia intense and increasing aversion
to the employment of Cinnamon, but the con-
tractors appear to find it profitable TO engage
them. They are fairly good work
ers and are reckoned valuable in proportion
of three to two white men or Whereabouts. All
men work on ten o system alike. The
are paid ST per day. The whites
receive from $l.25 to $l.5O per day and skill
ed men or extra good men in tunnel work
at 81. so to 50 per day. They are kept at work
at grading and work i'll open cuts.
New YORK, June 16.-The Times Wash
ington special says: The officers charged with
the prosecution of the Star Route frauds eX-
pect to be prepared to begin operations when
the Grand Jury meets. which will be the
latter part of the present month.
The selection Of Herbert Shiller and An
drew LangdOn as members Ofthe Grand Jury
has given rise to considerable comment in
Of their former connection with
the Postotiice Department.. Shiller is a trescO
painter and performed work for the Depart
ment. His work, it appears, was not ~satisfac-
tory, and an investigation was ordered by the
Postmaster General, the result of which has
not yet been made fully public. Langdon is
president OF a cooperative mail and transpor-
tation company, OF which Albert E. Boone is
general manager, and whose familiar method
of handling Postoffice contracts has been fully
exposed in the Times.
Tho Y Lima ~ DIttnyial hints ot thn Atlanta ttoI
are being made by Brady and his associates
in the Star Route rascalities, to induce the adj
miuistration to let up on them. They will
use their influence to the utmost. There is
not the slightest reason for fearing that any
thing these rascalS can do will deter either
James or McVeagh from the course upon
which they have entered. 1t is to be hoped
there is nc ground for fearing that
they may be able TO allure or drive
any of the officials associates or the Of
ticials superior to these men from giving
themall the support they need, bu t there are
threats and murmurs that are disquieting
public sentiment. There ought to be more
aroused on this subject, to demand with all
unmlstakable voice the strengthening of the
hands of those engaged in this prosecution
and the battling of the devices of the desper.
ate conspilators who are at bay.
SAN FRANCISCO, June IA Portland de.
spatch says the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
ton Gompany's new steamship California ar
rived here to-day via Straits OF Magellan. She
brings full particulars of the blowing up o.
tho British man-of-war Doterelle. The ex
plosion took place about 4 o'clock in the at
ternoon of the 9th of April. The Doterellt
was lying at anchor about 1000 feet from
the shore and vas preparing to receive
quantity of coal. Shortly before the Goa
hulk came alongside the explosion occurre,
forward, tearing away fully one-third of tn
vessel and shattering other portions. Their
were 1872 men on board the gunboat at tn,
time only II being picked up bv the boat
from the coal hulk. Those saved, were the
commander, paymaster, engineer, caulker
carpenter and seven m At the time @
the explosion the captain of the corvette wa
aft taking a bath. There were two explosion
! ono follaMinn the atler in raL,id SIaaaacciaI