The Dillon tribune., 1883-09-08
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.


The Queen Of Madagascar is dead.
Cholera Is gradually dying out, in Egypt.
The German Reichstag has been closed
BY the Emperor.
The Boston centennial is big success.
Crowds visit It daily.
The rebate on the tobacco tax will
amount to $3,soo,ooo.
Crops in the south Of ireland are expect.
ed to be an entire failure.
A strange and fatal cattle disease has
broken out In New York.
A son Of Stephen A. Douglas Is seriously
III, at his home, in Chicago.
The Chinese declare that the French
treaty was forced on Anan.
The Chinese troops are massing on
Anam, and war Is almost certain.
Foot and mouth diseases are making sad
havoc among the cattle in England.
Mary Anderson Is success before the
British public, as well as In America.
Dodge City, Kan, has shut down on
gambling dens and houses Of prostitution.
Yellow fever Is not gaining as many
victims as It was feared earlier in the sea.
son.
Texas stockmen will suffer heavy loss
from the unusual drouth they are experience
ing.
The Gear declines festivities in his honor
In Denmark he says he went there for a
rest.
Irishmen, In London have raised ths
money to defend O'Donnel, slayer Of Jas.
Carey.
Three Philadelphia Chinese have taken
steps to become citizens Of this glorious re-
public.
Zululand is in anarchy, and Cetewayo
has asked for British protection, which he
is bound to get.
A terrible explosion Of an engine run
ming threshing machine, in Dakota
killed three men.
Again It is promised, and this time from
Panama, that De Lessep's canal will be
finished in five years.
Judge Jerome Downer, Of Wisconsin, is
dead. He was 70 years old and leaves a
quarter Of million.
Seven hundred Icelanders recently Ian.
dcd in this country and will make their
home in the Northwest
Chinese are being smuggled in great
numbers, from the British Columbia coast
into Washington Territory.
Eleven Norman horses,recently imported
and costing $4,000, were s,nothered in q
burning barn, at Bloomington, ILL.,
The trial Of James Mutt; the slayer o
Lyman Dukes, began at Uniontown
Pa, on Thursday, Of this week.
1t is reported in New York that Goul@
has scheme on foot to dispose Of the tel
egraph service to the Government.
Judge Hoadly, democratic nominee fo
Governor Of Ohio, is under medical treat
mcnt in Philadelphia. Over work is tn
cause.
The Western Union Telegraph Co., ha
increased the length OF its operators
night time, and will allow extra pay 10
Sunday work.
The standard dollars issued during tn
week ending Sept. lst, aggregate 3:7,i9
against l23ooo for the corresponding pt
riod last year.
The Massachusetts Democratic CONVEX
ton is to be held, in Spring held ,Septemb<
Goth, and General Butler will be cand
date for Governor.
The recent volcano eruption and tid
wave in the island Of Java, destroyed tn
lives of 100000 human beings. 10000
them were Chinese.
a sister of Capt. Webb, who tried
swim Niagara rapids, became insane upo
hearing Of his death, and drowned herse
in the river near London.
Coffee, sugar and rice crops have bcs
much damaged, in Java and neighbori1
islands by tremendous earthquake, whi>
destroyed thirty thousand lives.
a new and brilliant headlight for loc
motives is being quietly perfected in l
dianaplis. The light will equal that
4,ooo candles. 1t will light the track for
mile brilliantly, and the light will be II
and continuous.
The Postmaster General, In his repo
will review the question Of the governme
assuming control Of the telegraph servi
Of the country. lie is convinced that
country is in favor Of the scheme. The on
danger, he thinks, lies in increasing t
offices.
In a railway accident,near Berlin 'Prus
On the third, seventeen men, eishte
- 4 c,,,. cl,sldren were killed. II