The Dillon tribune., 1883-10-06
Tribune Agent.
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
Senator Bayard goes square back on Gen.
Butler.
The Texas cotton crop is a failure, al.
most generally.
Snow storms have already visited Min.
ncsota and Michigan.
Further disasters on the sea are reported
from the Atlantic Coast.
The reduction Of the public debt for Sep.
te,nber amounts to $lspoo,ooo.
The Corean embassy have gone to Wash.
ington, where they will remain several
weeks.
A Peruvian dispatch represents the
forces Of Iglesiss making progress and we'll
received BY the people.
Messrs. Moody, McGranahan and Whit.
tic, the evangeliets, will leave this country
on October and for ireland.
The yellow fever at Hermosillo, Mexico,
seems to b&. on the increase. One thousand
people are down with the fever.
The New York cigar makers are taking
measures to rigidly enforce the law prohib.
iting cigar making in tenement houses.
Mrs. Dianna Calphus, colored, died in
London, Ontario, a few days ago, aged IFS
years. She was born in Danville, Ky, In
176S.
The French cabinet have decided to call
the chambers together October e3d. Orders
are given for further reinforce,nents for
Tonquin.
The coal miners, of the river district, Of
which Pittsburg is the centre, insist on In.
crease OF pay while the operators demand
a reduction.
In a recent conversation the Postmaster
General gave it as his opinion that the loss
to the government by the reduction OF let
ter postage would be $,,ooo,ooo.
The Treasury department has made out
and mailed 4S,1s4 Checks. amounting to
$s.794.7,1, being the October quarterly in.
terest due on four per cent registered bonds.
Bottle glass workers are on a strike, at
Pittsburgh, against proposed reduction in
their paw. The window glass workers are
waiting Tor proposal from the employers
Lieut.. Darlington says he never received
the supplementary instructions to leave
supplies at Littleton island on the way
north and that the original instructions al
lowed him some discretion.
The continual spread ofthe cattle disease
in nearly every portion Of England causes
the greatest uneasiness. In some sections
Of England only American beef is now te
be obtained.
A dispatch from Canton by way Of Lon
don SAYS there is no immediate canger o
farther trouble in Canton, though the light
ness of the sentence Of the European whe
instigated the riot is severely condemned
by the Chinese.
The Cannon Ball or Thunderbolt trair
on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe wa
attacked at Collidge, Kansas, on Sat"rda,
morning, and the engineer shot at his pos
for refusing to obey the robbers, who ars
said to be cowboys.
Compte de Grange, of Paris, who ha
been at Omaha about month, acting
agent OF the French Government, lett las
Saturday for France, with ,. lndians-te
men five women and seven children-whic
he has secured for the Worlds Exposition
ut Paris.
The Huntington, ILL.,, Car and Whet
Works, Blair Bros proprietors, have faile
with judgement rendered last week, D
the Union Bank, for $4,000. Other claim
will increase the claims to 100000: asset
estimated at $1ooooo. There were "a
employees who had not been paid for tw
months. Efforts will be made to tide owe
the embarrassment, SO work can be resumed
At San Francisco, Col. Mutt. presider
of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, hs
been comforting with Towne, general maj
aver OF the Central Pacific and Tuzalon
the Atch;sou Topeka and Santa Fc roa
with the object Of establishing throus
quick connection between the east and Sa
Francisco via Atlantic and Pacific roa
Col Mutt says his road will soon be in
condition to offer shippers the quickest ar
shortest route across the continent. lie WI
be able to bring freight from New io'
to San Francisco in less time than II
Northern Pacific can haul goods from Ne
York to Portland.
San Francisco Powder Works Explosion