The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-09-15
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

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opened.
Yellow fever is on the increase in the
Pensacola Navy Yards.
Butterworth & Co., Cincinnati shoe
dealers failed for 10000.
Ex-senator Sharon has been arrested in
San Francisco, for adultery.
Chicago banks refuse to receive the new
rost... notes as legal tender.
The famine in Malay follows close upon
the heels Of the volcanic eruptions.
Will E. Hahan, bookseller, Of Omaha,
has been arrested on the charge Of trying
to burn his store.
Ex-President Hayes has been elected
president Of the newly organized National
Prison Association.
The police, at Coney Island raided the
gambling shops, but did not bag any game
as the proprietors had been warned.
At GAINESVILLE, Texas, c. D. Sharpe has
been found guilty of raping Amanda Clark
aged 13, and her sister Emma, aged IS.
The country surrounding Corpus Christi
Texas, has been devastated by floods. The
amount of damage has not been ascertained.
In the Greenback, New York, State Con-
vention Rev. Thos. X. Beecher was NOM
mated for secretary Of state by accla,nation.
Frost has done great damage in Mime
sofa, Iowa and Wisconsin, the past week.
The damage is principally to corn and sor-
ghum crops.
Kate Cotton, negress, poisoned whole
colored family, at Cairo, Ills. One men,
ber of the family died. She was jailed,
toox poison and will die.
Articles Of incorporation of the Omaha
Belt Railroad Co. were filed on Tuesday
capital stock $Soo,ooo, with authority to
increase it to $c,ooo,ooo.
New York money markets are easy at !, 4;
prime mercantile paper 5H@7; sterling ex.
change bankers bills quiet at 4 Sl'4; ster-
ling exchange demand ass.
The West Indies have been visited by a
tidal wave and several shocks of earth
quake. Great alarm was felt for time
but no particular damage has been done.
The color line, it is thought, has been
settled at West Point. The new colored
cadet weighs zoo pounds, is six feet high,
has long reach and his muscles are we'll
developed.
In Elberti county r"i-- 's"' o"''a"'
night, party Of cowboys indulged in free
fight Two were killed and several danger.
ously injured. Bad whisky was the cause
Of the fight.
At the instance of the Northern Pacific
express company, the Wells-Fargo express
company have been enjoined from estab-
fishing agencies in Washington, Idaho and
Montana Territories.
Governor Knott, has designated Oct.
eth as the day Of the execution OF Ellis
Croft, twice found guilty of the terrible out
rage and murder of the Gibbons children,
at Ashland, Ky. The court of appeals re.
fused to grant new trial.
The Pilgrims, polygamists,at Ewing Ill.,
are having hard time in the prosecution
of their unholy religion. Their new
church building was blown up a few days
ago, and the preacher narrowly escaped
The entire Christian community Is up In
arms against them.
lanes &. DAILY and Tom Nc Alpine, the
seconds of Force and Dempsey In the re-
cent prize fight, at Long Island, have been
arrested at New York. Richard X. Fox
of the Police Gazette, stake holder for the
fight, was served with bench warrant al
the time Of the arrest.
Six hundred Swedish proselytes to Nor
monism landed In New York, Monday
Health Officer Sanburn regards these I'm
migrants to be one Of the foulest crowds HI
has ever examined. Some Of them vert
cripple and lame, and one was blind, ane
all were dirty.
A collision occurred, Wednesday morn
ing, Just out of Omaha, between passen
ger and freight train. The engines wer
hopelessly wrecked, but strange to say n
one was killed, though some Of the $50 pas
scngers we're badly cut and bruised.
Henry P. Blessing, St. Louis engineer
on Monday night fired six shots at his brott
er.in-law, all Of which took effect. II
then shot his wife twice, and went to IN
garden and cut his own throat blessin
and his brother.in-law will probably o'
his wife's wound is serious.
Last Saturday two parts Of a treigi
train separated, because of broken coul
ling, and came in collision, over brias
twenty five miles east Of Green R'ver,Wy'
broke down the structure and wrecke
eleven cars. The bridge has been repairs
and trains are now running regularly.
t0S REWARD.