The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-21

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 16.-A
memorial service on the eighteenth
anniversary of the death Of Abraham
Lincoln was held at the catacomb o
the National Lincoln monument yes
terday under the auspices of the Lin
coin Guard of Honor. The pro
gramme embraced religious exercises
music, reading of President Lincoln's
Sunday order to the army and navy
and an Grafton in conclusion. It Is
stated when the exercises at the cat.
acOmb opened a large cOncourse
passed in and placed flowers and
evergreens on the sarcophagus.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 16.-The
spring meeting of the new Memphis
Jockey Club opened auspiciously.
The weather was all that could be de-
erred, the track in splendid condition
and the attendance large. First race,
mile heats, all ages, Pearl Jennings
won. Cellod End. Fellowplay, the
favorite, 3rd. Time, 1:46l. Lutte
Fogle sulked at the starting post.
NEW YORK, April 16.-A dispatch
froM Williams ranch, Texas, states
that an immense meteor fell yester-
day destroying the house of l.. Gar
cha, killing him, his wife and five
children. Every window in town
was shattered and all the houses
shaken. The meteor is still steam
ing and covers an acre of ground.
WASHINGTON, April 16.---The
twenty-first anniversary Of emanci-
patton is being celebrated with the
usual enti, usiasm. All colored en-
ployes of the executive departments
and public works havea holiday and
all private dwellings ndkindred en-
terprises, where cOlored labor is EN-
ployed, have suspended from neces-
sity.
ST. PAUL, April 16.-Oficials Of
the Northern Pacific are responsible
for the statement that large slaughter
houses will be established at varions
points in the Yellowstone country
along the line OF the railroad with a
view tn the shipment of dressed beef
to the East, and that by this means
a great saving can be made in con-
tract shipments of live stock.
STOCKTON, CAL, April 16.-Emil
johnson and James Donnelly met in
a grocery this evening. and fought
with knives, each killing the other.
The trouble grew out of a dispute |
about the sale of a wagon. Both
were stabbed in the breast.
CHICAGO, April Is. - The Daily
News Meadville, Miss. special dis
patch says: Tom Baily (colored)
outraged a young negro girl here, |
and after numbering her threw her
body into q pond. A mob took him |
from Jail this morning and hanged
him.
TROY, N. Y, April 16.-Andrew
was killed by E.. Shevelin
this evening. Both were dunk and
relatives by marriage. Shevelin
Lovelock with his fist, break
ing his neck.
ALBA, Iowa, April 16.-The At
House of this city burned
yesterday morning. Three guests
were burned to death. The propri
narrowly escaped with his life
CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss, April 1G.
DR.. Crum was shot and killed yes
at Chapel Hill by Jacob
N&icMfdlo, IPlli o.-rIIleeu penl-
tertiary convicts escaped Sunday
morning from Gault Brothers
& Burrus, lessees. Ten are recap
the others have gone down the
Some of the gang murdered
]. H. Cont near Helena last Febru-
ary.
DENVER, COL, April ia Lake
City special this morning says the
ury i'll the case of Alfred G.. Packer,
with numbering five COM
)anions in the San Juan country in
lS72, returned a verdict of guilty. A
for a e trial was made on
he ground that the murder was COM
on an Indian reservation, and
hat therefore this court has no juris-
LECTION in the case. A decision will
re made this afternoon. .