The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-15
NEWS NOTES.

On the night of the Gth a fire iestroyed 10
insurance $4,000.
At Malone, n. y, on the It'll, Assembly,
man Brennan poisoned himself. Cause, ner-
vous prostration brought on by overwork.
One hundred and forty bodies were recent
ly dug out Of the ruins Of Casanaccola. The
total number of deaths is estimated at about
500.
Twenty vessels We're recently wrecked on
the coast Of England, and nearly 200 persons
drowned.
On the 6th, by the falling of Il building in
the course Of construction al Denver, Patrick
J. Smith was killed and Thomas Cowley had
his back broken. Cowley has since died.
Four othe- wolknen were wounded, but not
seriously.
A bill has been favorabtv reported in the
New York legislature requiring telegraph
wires to be hereafter buried in the ground in
New York City.
Advices from Cape Coast Castle state that
all apprehensions of an Asbantee war have
ceased. The king has seut a reply saying
that he desires peace. He asks for the deliv-
cry Of fug:t,yes aud asserts he never intends
to wake war.
Advices from Dublin under date Of the 9th
state that The land league intends to ~inves,t-
gate every arrest carefully and place tie par
~ticulars before the British public.
Oh the 18th inst, while the Missouri passen-
ger train was going south near New Dorson,
Texas, a man named James Hayden, from
Kentucky, suddenly pulled a pistol from his
pocket and commenced firing among the pas
snngers. VIM. Lewis and Thomas Shaw
were Slot through the head and instantly
killed, and James Hamilton was shot in the
cody. Hayden was apparently insane. He
was arrested.
Captain Robert T. r. Lewis, of the United
States navy, late commander of the United
States steamship Shenandoah, Of the South
American squadron, who was returning home
on the steamer City OF Rio Janeiro as an i'll
valid, died at sea February 23d ult.
The home rule members of parliament
held a meeting recently at London, parnell
presiding, at which it was decided that a ma
jority Of them shall Immediately return to
Ireland aud address their constituents Oh the
coercion act. 1t was agreed that all the
speeches should be bold and outspoken.
The gap between the Santa Fe and South
arp paeifr railroads will ha closp6 tn-doy of
Deming, New Mexico. Through trains to
San Francisco will begin moving on March
18th.
The Eureka blasting powder works, stu
ated three miles from Oakland, Cal, exploded
on the 4th inst. No particulars given.
At Cincinnati, on the 9th inst, J. A. Fay
& Co.'S. mandatory of wood working mi
chinery, burned. Loss, $15O,000. Insurance,
$4,000.
Fifty ladies, members of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union. will,
on to-day, present President Garfield with the
portrait of Mrs. Hayes, to be placed in the
White House.
A shooting ARRAY at Dodge, Texas, recent
ly, resulted in the death Of Frank Spratt and
Edward Cleveland.
The Rev. F. Wendle, a U ~nitarian minister,
in his sermon at Cincinnati, or the 9th inst,
denounced the school board of that city, as
composed principally of men low in mental
culture and social standing, and that they
were failing to adapt the schools to the pur-
pose for which they were designed.