The Dillon tribune., 1883-09-29
Tribune Agent.
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

HALEY, Idaho, had a $4,000 fire this
week.
The N. Y. Democratic Convention is in
session at Buffalo.
Sullivan and Hanlan are to run a foot.
race for ST 600 a side.
Levy Bros. s. Co., clothiers, of New
York City, have failed.
The Erie railroad shops at Port Jervis, N.
Y. were burned Tuesday.
Cyclones are doing great damage in all
parts Of the eastern states.
R.W. Sloan, a member Of the 43rd Con.
gress, died at Silver City, N. NJ, Monday.
The Old Fellows Grand Lodge session
has adjourned. It will meet next year in
Minneapolis.
The Daniel Webster monument, at
Marshfeld, Mass. Is defaced by vandals Of
relic seekers.
Four female smugglers have been arres-
ted, in New York. They had twenty.seven
trunks and packages with them.
The stories Of acts Of vandalism in the
National Park by soldiers Of the Presidents
party is denied by Governor Crosby.
A three cornered wrestling mattel, with
Duncan &. Ross as one Of the contestants
is arranged to come off at Rochester,N. Y.
next month.
Schacfer and Slosson, billiardists, are
sparring for match, which the former
says can be had as soon as he is through
with Vignaux.
Three escaped Cuban slaves tell in Bos.
ton terrible tale, Of inhu,nan treatment
they and their fellow slaves are subjected
to in that island.
A new lock for mail pouches will go into
Use on the 1st prox. Fifty thousand keys
were sent out in registered letters from the
postoflice department and every one reach.
cd its destination.
A frightful storm ragged on Lake Erie
Monday evening. Great damage was done
to the shipping and docks along the shore.
Great numbers Of trees were destroyed in
the city of Buffalo.
Figures for the past eight months go to
show that the present years shipments Of
California frnit east will aggregate $4,000
tons, an increase Of over 500 per cent dur
ing the past three years.
Two new Western Union telegraph wires
are being stretched along the line Of the
Northern Pacific from St. Paul west, the
work having commenced this week. The
wires will reach Helena late this fall.
The aluvial deposits of Australia have
furnished the largest gold nuggets in the
world. Five nuggets found in the Colony
OF Victoria aggregated $1s6699, and aver.
aged 1880, the largest having been worth
$46,3S1, and the smallest, $1as9s.
Returns from the recent election for
Chief OF the Greek Nation, Indian Territory
are all in except two precincts. Spieche Is
elected over Perrimen and Checate by
about forty majority. The result is defeat
for the liberals and progress party.
Gen. Sherman recommended that the
Twenty.first Infantry, stationed at Vance
ver's Barracks, be exchanged in position
with the Tenth Infantry, stationed on the
Great Lakes. The department rejects the
proposition, as involving too much expense.
The Massachusetts, Greenbackers have
nominated Gen. Butler for Governor. The
remainder Of the ticket was nominated as
follows: Lieutenant: Governor. John llawes
Secretary of State, B. J. Furlong; Attorney
General, George Foster; Treasurer, Wilbur
+. Whitney; Auditor, A. II. Wood.
On account of the prevalence Of the foot
and mouth disease, in England, Secretary
Folger has instructed the officers OF the
customs service to exercise great care in
examining into the sanitary condition Of al
cattle, sheep, swine and goats imported in
to the United States,
The schooner kodiac, from the north
brought to San Francisco, four Alask;
mummies supposed to be at least Tires
centuries old in an excellent state Of pres
ervation. They are similar to those sen
the Smithsonian Institute some wears ago
and are intended for the Berlin museum.
For ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain the Yankee beats the world. Th'
Yankee dealers have found awayby which
they can outwit Bismarck in his war upo'
the American hog. The pork is consigned
to agents in London and Paris, where it
re,nocL ed and sent to Germany the sam
a, other PORK. It bein. impossible TO de
tect the nationality ofthe dead hoy the Ger
man Ch ,ucelor's exclusion Of the Am.ri
can product is rendered nugatory.
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