The Dillon tribune., 1883-11-24
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

OOIN6N1 NEVS NOIESs
The Frenchmen and Cinnamon are grow
ing exceedingly hot.
Missouris legislature will stand IL
Democrats to IS Republicans.
Forty degrees below zero at Bismarck
Dakota, this week. Thirty below at S,
Paul.
Portugal has recently adopted law di
recting that for the future every human
corpse shall be burned.
A Chicago girl, aged fourteen, has jus
obtained divorce from her husband whose
wife she had been for one year.
Senator Fairs health is improving by hi.
residence in the East He declines to bt
interviewed on his domestic affairs.
Louisville, KY, had a general holida,
on Saturday in honor of the closing of the
Exposition after successful season of 1o1
days.
1t is reported from Cairo that the Egyp.
tian government is not disposed to admi,
DE Lessep's monopoly in the construction
of the Suez Canal
Old man Melting, for the murder of Ada
Atkinson, was 1ynched at Oxford, Ind, on
Monday morning. A mob Of three nund-
red masked men did the job.
All Slab Chinaman of rare Mongolian
attractions, living in Lafayette, Ind, has
been expelled from society on account of
his being betrothed to white girl,
The mayor of Bangor, Me-, decides that
the new time adopted by all the principal
cities, is unconstitutional and forbade the
city churches to change their time.
The annual convention of the National
Grange opened at Washington last Wed
resday. Twenty-seven States were repre-
sented by Masters ofthe State Oranges.
A whole family of counterfeitert has
been arrested at St. Louis. A bag OF fine
" executed silver dollars was found buried
in the cellar. The man. name is Anton
Richer.
The East Liberty stock yards, belonging
to the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., were
burned on Saturday night; the loss will
exceed $25o,ooo. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
On Sunday morning the house Of l. w.
England, publisher of the New York Sun,
at Paterson, N. j., was burned. Only a
few pieces of furniture, pictures, and books
were saved.
Ex-senator Geo. E. Spencer of Alabama,
was arrested at Austin, Nevada, on the or
der of Attorney General Brewster, for con-
tempt of court, in not appearing in the star
route cases.
John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, was unex-
pectedly downed, for the first time In his
life, by a colored man at the fremont
House, in Chicago, on Monday. The big
"fister" was very much abashed.
Surgeon Vanzandt of the U. S. Marine
Hospital in San Francisco, reports two
cases of yellow fever in that institution
They are two German sailors of wrecked
bark, brought here by the steamer Colima
from Mazatlan.
The Irish giant Pat O'Brien, and the
German giantess, Annie Dunz, were mar
ried at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 10th. O'Brlen
measures in height 7 feet and II inches'
and weighs upward of 900 pounds; Annie,
nearly as tall and fully as heavy, is but 10
years old.
Michels, Friedlander & Co., wholesale
dealers in furnishing goods, San Francisco
and New York, have made an assignment
in favor of their creditors. The failure is
due to heavy endorsements for Henle'n y
Co., and S. Lauterbach, both of which firms
have recently failed.
The Franco China trouble is beginning
to alarm Englishmen. Late dispatches an
nounce that war between France and China
is almost certain. Pin Yuling, Chinese
aide-de-camp, has gone to Hankow to open
recruiting stations throug hout the entire
province of Hoo Po.
B. Johnson, whose home is in Webster
Mass, left California eight months ago with
an old horse and buggy, behind which was
fastened an Ayrshire cow that had accom-
panied him across the plains, and furnished
him with most of his living en- route. he
re,ched his destination on Tuesday last.
GRAFT Sells, son of Michael Sells a
prominen< stock dealer Of indianapolis, Ind.
obtained Considerable sum of money at
bank on his fath-r's credit and is reported
to have decamped With a woman of evil
repute. The police authorities say young
,ns secured two checks s'sned in blank
oE ~ land filled them ..
ton, passenger Railway st cas's. ch;sas
and adopted rates from Nf'~-,r; rive
points to San Francisco as follows: ~,
class, sos; second-class, SIS; emigran
S45; theatrical, SIS. A proposition wa
presented to make the rate from Chicag
to San Francisco, $1o3.5o; st. Louis
San Francisco $1oo; and from Chicago c