The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-02-15
NEWS NOTES.

Peter Garfield murdered Ann Cunningham
at New York on the 10th by throwing kero-
sene on her clothes and then setting them on
fire. He was sent to the Tombs.
The legislative assembly of Nevada has
passed a memorial asking congress to pass the
Reagan internal improvement appropriation
bill.
The house committee on appropriations
has agreed to a bill providing for an appro-
priation to BIT used to search for the steamer
Jeanette, now somewhere in the Arctic
waters.
The Germans of St. Louis held a large
meeting on the evening of the 10th to pro-
test against anti-beer legislation in the Mis-
sohri legislature.
A railroad accident at Rock Hill, on the
North Pennsylvania railroad, resulted in the
killing of Wm. Hollihan, a hotel keeper at
South Easton, and James Fraley, a section
foreman of the road. Several other persons
were fatally and a few badly injured.
At Cleveland a disastrous inundation was
threatened, but was averted by firing shell
from cannon into the ice gorge and breaking
it up.
Eleven passengers, the purser and two of
the crew of the teamer Northern Light ar
rived at Georgetown, Prince Edward Island,
from Cape Sharp. They were all badly frost
bitten, and report the steamer surrounded by
ice. Two boats have gone to her assistance.
A box, marked with the name of W. Phil
lips, washed ashore near Montreal recently.
1t contained a decomposed corpse. No clue.
Writs of judgment against delinquent tax
payers of Ottawa, Canada, had to be enforced
recently by the aid of a company of infantry
1t is rumored sthere is a plot to blow
up Windsor Castle. Precautions have been
taken and the Queen has delayed her return
from Osborne. London is excited.
A fire is raging in Richard & Sons c~olliery,
near Pottsville, Penn, caused by gas being
ignited by a blast. There are frequent ex-
plosions. The mine will be flooded.
At Long Branch the ice is so heavy that
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200 yards from the shore. The ocean pier is
being badly damaged by the ice.
A big blaze at Memphis, Tenn, caused a
loss of 100000. Insurance $124,OOO.
The wholesale grocery house of Kuhn &
Co., the dry goods house of Louis Goodsell
& Co. and the Herald Office at Dennison, Tex.
burned on the 10th. Loss $4,000: insurance
$4,000.
The snow fall at Winnipeg for the week
ending on the 9th inst, amounts to nearly
thirty-four inches.
The North German Gazette makes a violent
attack upon Gambetta, accusing him of at
tempting to drag France into a war-like pol
icy.
The steamer Columbia of the Archer line,
from London to Halifax, is week overdue.
Archibald & Schurries' linseed oil works at
st. Paul, Mimi, burned on the 10th inst.
Loss $4,000. John Muir and a laborer were
killed by the terrific explosion that caused
the fire.
The senate appointed Messrs. Pendleton,
Anthony and Bayard as a committee on the
inaugural ceremonies.
A recent accident on the old Colony rail-
road, through the carelessness of the engin-
eer, caused the death of a fireman and injury
to four passengers.
Dense fogs and heavy ice on Long Island
Sound, make navigation very difficult. None
of the larger boats can reach the city of New
York. The ice is causing great damage to
the piers at Long Branch.
In the recent foods at Saville, Spain, 49,
900 cattle were lost.