The Dillon tribune., 1883-08-18
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

The telegraphers are trying to max
terms.
Itre Black is reported very ill at his hom
in New York.
Tom Thumb had a sister who weighe,
over 200 pounds.
Proctor Knott was elected governor O
kentucky by $4,000 majority.
At Ithaca N. Y. a Chinese yam is grow
inc at the rate of five inches day.
Yellow fever has appeared on board q
bark in the st. Lawrence river near Que
bee.
Count de Chambord's dyspcptic Com.
p!aint is increasing and his condition is mos,
alarming.
The Prince Of Wales contributed G1oc
towards the relief of the sufferers by the
I>chia earthquake.
A large fire at Atlanta, Georgia, on Mon
day destroyed $725,ooo worth of property.
Insurance, $4,000.
Iohn w. Mackey, has been elected direc-
tor of the Postal Telegraph Company, in
place of Ehrhardt, resigned.
A man named Fort, walked ocross the
Delaware ver,recently on shoes, invented
bv II. r. Rowland, of San Francisco.
A watermelon vine grown by Harris
County, Georgia, farmer, is 1000 feet long
and it has produced 400 pounds Of melons.
Conductor L. P. Taylor, of the Union
Pacific, died at Omaha last week Of spider
bite received on the lip a few days pre-
viously.
The required capital has been pledged
for the construction of the Ohio and Bis
mark railway and preliminary surveys are
in progress.
A mortgage for 81 100000 was procured
at Springfield, Ills, for Cyrus c. Hyne Of
Indiana, and the Union Trust company, of
New York, who loaned the money to the
Ohio & Mississippi railway company.
At New York, August 18th. The direc-
tors of the Illinois Central Railroad elected
the following offices: President, w. K.
Ackerman and Stuyvesant Fish; treasurer,
/. V.F. Randolph; secretary, l.. A. Catlin.
In excavating for the Bartholdi statue on
Bedloe's island, the workmen unearthed
from the ruins Of the fort jug and bottle
otwhisky put there in 1874. The crowbars
broke both and the seventy -year-old spirit
was lost.
Archbishop-elect William Elder has
issued an edict to the clergy of his diocese
70 meet in Cincinnati on the 10th instant
to devise some means to pay the creditors
of the late Archbishop Purcell, but as a
matter of charity and not as a discharge OF
legal duty.
An appalling calamity has befallen the
town of Vineyard Haven. The town was
almost destroyed by fire on the nth inst.
All the stores, but one, were destroyed.
Mrs. James Davis an aged lady died from
excitement consequent upon the fire.
C.E. Heath, of Chiocpe, Mass, rode down
Mt. Washington last Saturday morning,
from the Summit House to the Glen House,
on tricycle.. distance eight miles, in S
minutes. His previous record on bicycle
over the same road was one hour and five
minutes.
Slade and his trainer arrived in Kansas
City, Monday from New York, and Mitch
ell and his party came in from Denver
Slade and Mitchell will 60 into active train
;no for the coming match, which will
come off September nth, within 200 miles
of Omaha or Kansas City.
A man entered Central Market, New
York, recently, walked up to outcher $
stand and seizing cleaver placed his nd
on the block and chopped off the little finger
ofhis left hand before the astonisired butcher
could learn who he was or ask MIN tne
of his action. He walked awoy
and disappeared, leaving his finger oeh'no'
McGinnis, an explorer just ret"rneo
from Alaska, reports smallpox as making
terrible work among the Indians OF that
country. He relates fearful stories OF SUI
fering and privation, and says that the In"
dians are entirely without medical aia'
The terrible disease has full sway E'gnty
five deaths have been reported already IN
two small towns.
The Great Eastern, after lying ld'e io'
many years, is about to be employed again
A company has been formed to purchase
the vessel for, the coal trade oe'"ee"
Queens Ferry Firth of Forth) and the
Thames. 1t is intended to put 10000 IONS
Of coal on board, in sacks, at each voyage
The. vessel is described as being in spleno'o
order. having been carefully and expe"
sively maintained.
The wife of U. S. Senator W. B. Allison
committed suicide by drowning tn the
Mississippi River near Dubuque lo"a, 70, - -
the niyht Of the 13th instant. She Gu. UP
her cloak, placed some stones in :, ana ;,a .'.o
han