The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1884-01-12
Tribune Agent.
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

on Saturday.
Charles Delmonico, the famous New
York restaurant keeper, has mysteriously
disappeared.
Chicago had three fires after midnight
on Saturday. The ire:nen suffered severe
" from the intense cold.
Brigham Young's seventeenth wife
Mary, has just died at Salt Lake of blood
poisoning. Sixteen widows remain.
Mrs. Abbie Hutchinson Anderson, one
of the original Hutchinson family of sing
crs, died in New York on Monday.
Queen Victoria has written book en-
tited-"More Leaves from the Journal OF
Lite in the Highlands, from 62 to 49,"
Willard received 100000 year for his
services while President of the Northern
Pacific Railway. Who wo uldn't be a rail
road President?
The funeral procession Of the victims OF
the railway disaster near Toronto, Canada,
was an hour passing given point. There
were twenty corpses.
The extreme cold weather in the East,
during the past week, caused much delay
in railway trains, causing them in some in
stances to be eight hours late.
Severe cold weather was reported, the
- H.
Dakota, the thermometer ranging from is
10 l., degrees below zero. The cold was
the most intense in Iowa and Illinois in
forty years.
Judge Smith, of the Superior Court of
Illinois. has rendered decision declaring
constitutional the act Of the Legislature
under which damages could be recovered
from owners of houses in which money had
been lost in gambling.
A table compiled from special dispatches
to the Boston Post from managers of 26
leading clearing houses in the United States
gives clearance for week ending Jan. 9Th
with percentage comparisons with cores
ponding week last year, total, $1,o91,S46,-
oS6, decrease f3.9.
The Park Theater in Cleveland, o., was
ruined b. fire on Saturday night. Loss,
100000; insurance, $4,000. 1t will be
rebuilt. The Wickes block, in front Of the
taeatcr, was gutted, and the Presbyterian
church, adjoining, damaged $4,000 worth;
insured fo' $4,000
At Paris, Jan. 4th, a well-to-do trades
logne. He placed around his neck fexi-
BILE ircn tube explosive battery and was
blown to pieces. His legs and arms were
thrown to a great distance, and shreds of
his flesh were found hanging on trees. No
noise was heard.
A great petition for national ccnstitu-
tional amendment is to be sent out by the
n ,tional Women's Christian Temperance
Union and presented to the presidential
conventions, Of the different
parties. It will ask for prohibition instead
OF the ballot for women, as before stated
A fire in Cincinnati, o.. Jan. 9TH, destroy
ed the following buildings: A three story
brick candle factory; three story stone
soap and candle warehouse; and large |
four story brick soap factory. These are
practically total loss, with the machinery
md large quantity of stock. Total loss,
S,5o,ooo; fully insured.
The New York Associated Press elected
he following officers on the 9Th of January
II the ensuing year: President, David NJ.
Storr, Of Journal Of Commerce.; Secretary,
Reid Of the Tribune. Executive
committee: Cyrus w. Field Of the Mai
md Express; Joseph Pulitzer, ofthe W'ovld;'
md David Nj. Stoke, Of the 1onrnal Of
[ commerce.
Mary II. Vermilye Of St. Paul, Min, has
filed an answer to the suit of Daniel B.
Vermilye for divorce. She denies having
adultery with Gen. Wm. Myers
Is charged BY Vermilye, and charges Ver-
nilve with being habitual drunkard,
gambler and frequenter of houses Of ill.,
anne, and that he tried to blackmail Gen.
Myers. She filed cross bill, asking di.
orce and custody Of the child.
BY the burning of the convent Of Notre
Dame at Bellville, Mo-, on Saturday night,
wenty-two persons were roasted alive.
'"ur Of them were sisters, and the rest pu-
ills. Several Of the bodies have been iden-
ified and buried. All that now remains Of
he famous Convent of the Immaculate
Conception is the charred and broken WALL
lhe building and furnishings were valued
It from $6s,ooo to $7o,ooo: insured for
$4,000.
In the boxing match held at Madison
square Garden, New York, on Jan. 9TH,
ef"een Joe Pendergast OF Brooklyn, and
'H"ghey' Burns OF England, Burns was
"rece;ve $1,000 and IS per cent Of the
rate money If he stood up through four
"ree-minute rounds. Two rounds were q
ought Pendergast knocking his opponen, !
~" several times, Burns vainly endeav-
.s - ward of the blows. The police :
,'e" '"'er'ered and the match was called . !