The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-26
DAY DISPATCHES.

NEW YORK, March 21.-The an
nouncement that several prominent
public men including Speaker Car.
isle and Senator Thomas F. Bayard
would speak upon the tariff issue
crowded Tammany hall tonight.
Senator Bayard in letter of regrets
said of the subject of tariff reform is
one present and undeniable i'm
portance in the correction of the
abuses which have been rendered
possible by ill considered tax laws
passed in the exciting times of the
war and to supply temporary means.
They must be broken through and if
the democratic party has any plain
duty it is to take an honest, straight
forward, unmistakable step in the
direction of reducing and simplify
ing the present unequal, complicated
and obscure tariff system. ResO)u-
tions favOring a reduction OF the
tariff and approving the Morrison
tariff bill were unanimously adopted.
AUGUSTA, Ca, March 22.-This
morning while r. d. CrOcker, book
keeper in the Commercial Bank was
making exchanges with the National
Bank at the counter Of the latter, he
was approached by two unknown
parties one Of whom flaunted acheck
in his face and commenced to ques-
tiOn him closely, seemingly for infor-
nation. The party went out and
CrOcker found that $27 900 had been
stolen from the satchel at his side.
New YORK, March 21.-General
JOHN B. Gordon, of Georgia, has ap-
pointed as committee to confer
with the committee already appoint
ed or to be subsequently appointed by
the different grand army posts in re-
gard to furthering the movement for
the confederate home in Richmond,
Major Clark, of Virginia, Major John
7. Calhoun, of South Carolina, Col.
Thos. s. Mead, of Richmond, DR..
Theodore Steele of Kentucky, Burton
Harrison, of Virginia and Major
Quincy, of Tennessee. General Cor
don will he chairman of the commit
tee.
Sioux CITY, Iowa, March 2l-A
flood in the Missouri river is inevita-
bile and great danger is anticipated.
Green Island, a town opposite Yank-
ton. which was washed away in 1881,
is flooded and nothing can be saved.
LONDON, March 2l.-A dispatch to
the Times from khartOum March IA,
saws: Six thousand rebels face the
palace on the right bank of the Nile.
They recently fired upon 300 blacks
sent down the river for wood and
killed 100 of them. Gordon states
that the garrison at Vassalis is hold
ing out strongly. :.
Gordon has armed many inhabi-
tants, but they can do but little
against the mass Of rebels fronting
Khartoum.
The expedition to release Halfaya
conslsted;of 10000 men in three steam
ers. The men were concealed in the
holds to avoid the fire of the Arabs.
The expedition lost two men.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March IA
tramp named Beene married widow
woman named D0dd two years ago,
and subsequently abused the woman
and her children. The eldest boy
shot and killed his stepfather while
he was maltreating his stepmother.
The body was buried in cellar drain
where it was found to-day. The clue
was gwen by a girl who was in the
family at the time of the shooting.
MARYsvILLE, Kas.. March o.
About forty masked men went to the
jail last nig ght. Five of them entered
the jailor's residence, presented revol-
vers at his head and compelled him
to open the Jail doors. Samuel Trayer,
the convicted murderer Of John Pen
nlngton and wife, was then taken out,
conducted to wagon bridge in the
south part of town and hanged. He
is said to have made q full confession,
stating hs had no accomplice in the
murder. The mob was very quiet and
dispersed as soon as the work was
done.