The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-05-13

seain from intervention. Egyptian
Minister formerly assured the FOREIGN
Consul 0e1esal that ~ danger thr6ot.
en0 the Hives q property Of Europeans,
/ ut they declare that In the event ol
Turkis6 Intervention they are resolved
70 defend their liberty.
WAsHlNGT0K, Nay II. Sherman,
from Cnmmittee ON Education and
Labor, reported . bin to aid IN the xup.
port Of common schools. Printed and
Ie-committed. It provides that for the
next I'VE yeeD there shall be annually
appropriated common school fund 0l
$1W, 100 900 In support Of common schools
appoFtj0Ded to the several States and
Territories according to the number OF
their illite.1te population over ten years
Of age. An amount not exceeding five
per cent. OF the sum .app0Ftj0ned may
be used for the education Of teachers In
public schools.
Rice, from the Committee on Public
Lands, reported back adversely the bill
to shorten to two years the period re-
quired In homestesding. Tabled
LITTLE Rock, May 1.-Two brothers
nam d Hawkins had q quarrel with q
man, name unknown, Tuesday evening
at Reedville, seventy-liv& miles out on
the Little Rock 4 Mississippi river H.
H. Both brothers were shot dead and
the murderer lied to the woods and e.
capped.
LONDON, May l1.-Information IL
just received Of . terrible explosion Of
fire damp in the Pluto mine, town Of
Bochum Westphalia. So dead bodies are
recovered.
HAsTINos, Ont, May II. "A good
portion Of the business part Of this place
was burned this morning. Loss $780,
HALIFAX, n. g., May 1.-Two BROTH
erD named Fenton and q man named
Gray were drowned.
CINCINNATI, May lO.-A train on the
Whitewater Valley Railroad was thrown
from the track by . broken rail near
Memoirs and l6 persons injured.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May ia special
to the Erening Ledger from Jackson
port, Ark, ON the White river, says the
town IL three feet under water and the
river still rising.
NEW YORK, May 1.-THE Dallas
(Texas) Nesos has the following discrip-
ton of the McAllister cyclone:
An eye witness of the storm says:
1.-TWO horribly black clouds. one from
the southeast and the other from the
met and seemed to rend and
tear each other like wild beasts. Con-
tinuOus flashes of lightning made the
scene brighter than day for over one
hour. Above the wild )oar of wind
could occasionally be heard the shrieks
Ut dying men, women and children.
When the storm subsidized no aid was ut
hand and none could he got until next
morning"
WASHINGTON. May lit is doubted
by many persons whether Chandler will
consent again to put on arlllDr for
Blaine and make as bitter fight for
him as he did two and six years ago. 1t
is known that tie former intimacy does
not exist between these two leaders. al
though Blaine assumes that Chandler is
still ready to battle for him in prefer
cnce to anybody else: but this remains to
liz seen.
NEW YORK, May 12.-The Trihunc'*
special says: Mrs. ThOml,-
son, daughter of Senator Hill, of Geor-
gia lett yesterday tn join her brother ut
the Hot Springs, Arkansas, where ne
has been for sOnle1 weeks with Mrs.
Hill and three other children. Hill has
no hope of recovery and desires to have
his family with him. He's very much
depressed and it is hoped that the pres
ence of Mrs. Thompson who il u favOrite
daughter may have cheering influence
upon him.