The Dillon tribune., 1884-05-03
CURRENT NEWS NOTES,

CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
lTsoiled Down from the Latest Telegra,ns.1
The cholera Is making ravaees at Bonn
bay.
Brigadier.G General John NJ. Culyer, U. S.
A., is dead.
The Independent Republicans are BOOM
ing Edmut'ds.
The decrease Of the public debt for April
was $5,,5o,ooo.
Randall and Morrison are to compromise
on the tariff bill.
The Jeanette Investigation is still going
on at Washington.
The New York Greenbackers favor Ben
Butler for President.
A million dollar fire occurred at West
bourne Grove, London.
The Utes and Navajoes are creating
trouble in New Mexico.
The Sharon.Flill divorce case at San
Francisco is not finished yet.
The Blaine boom continues to gain
strength all over the country.
The Inter. State Conference of colored
men is in session at Pittsburg, Pa.
The U. S. steamer Portsmouth has case
of yellow fever OH board at New York.
From 5000 to 4,ooo Cinnamon want
work on the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Aquarter of million dolla, fire occurred
in New York on the night OF April 2oth.
1t is telegraphed that large quantities Of
whisky is being exported from Baltimore.
On the French frontier band of insurg-
ents we're defeated by the Spanish troops
Another six days walking fraud is going
on at Madison Square Garden, New York.
A powder magazine exploded near Ha.
vana, Cuba, and shook up that city severely.
Plenty of matrimonial ships are going to
wreck on the rock Of adultery at Salt Lake.
The Massachusetts, State Democratic
Convention indorsed Ben Butler for Presi-
dent
The city license for selling liquor in
Minneapolis has been fixed at $500 per
year.
There is to be Conference of the Eu-
roI,ean Powers on the Egyptian question
soon.
Allen ingalls,, charged with murder,
hung himself in the Cincinnati Jail on April
goth.
burned, and fifteen or sixteen inmates per-
ished.
Moses Farley, a grain speculator at St.
Louis, has failed for the modest sum Of
$4oo,ooo.
In the Spanish elections for members Of
the Cortes the Government candidates are
successful.
Blaine's book is having big sale, and
~, A
Dental stake.
The Irish invincibes are after the scalp
Of the grand master of the Orangemen Of
Belfast, Ireland.
Blaine already has 35S votes, or only
fifty three short of a majority Of the Chi.
oago Convention.
Frank Hurd, the fanatic free. trader from
Ohio, made a big speech in the House on
the Morrison Tariff bill.
At Portsmouth, Me-, the steamer Fall
mouth was burned. Loss, 100000. Three
men were burned to death.
Five hundred newsboys and bootblacks
paraded in t., ch.light procession at Chi
cago on las. uesday night
Princess Elizabeth, Of Russia, was mar
ried at the Winter Palace, st. Petersburg,
on April 18th, with great pomp.
Advices from Western Texas are to the
effect that cattle are suffering; large num-
bers dying for want of grass and water.
Greene and Montgomery counties, in
Ohio, were visited by cyclone and a
number OF people were killed and wounded.
At Cincinnati, since the riot, the judges
Of the criminal courts are ptonouncing
unusually severe sentences on convicted
criminals.
The Nevada delegates to the National
Republican Convention declare their in
tention OF voting for Blaine all the time and
to the end.
Henry w. Cannon, of Minnesota, has
been selected as successor to Comptroller
Knox, and James a. Connoll, of Illinois,
to be solicitor of the treasury.
The estimates OF the Army appropriation
bill for the ensuing year are $,6S7o,Io3.
The amount appropriated is $s42S9,4so,
which is $+es,Soo less than the last appro-
priation.
The guarantors of the late dramatic fes-
tival at Cincinnati are beginning to COM
plain and make objection to paying the
heavy assessment. 1t is certain to be made
the cause Of litigation.
In the Supreme Lodge Of the Knights Of
Pythias at New Orleans the uniform rank
was organized after the manner Of the
army, with a supreme chancellor.in. chief,
u major general and staff.
Lorillard, the New York tobacco manu-
factlrer, has thrown open to three thousand
men and women in his employ, his library
aud play rooms, provided with cards, check
ers, dominoes, chess. billiards, etc.