The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-02-27

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yesterday.
The Senate has confirmed Horati
G. Burchard as Director of the Min
and Eugene o. Fechat, of Michigan
as Consul at Ell Paso del Norte.
The President yesterday nom
dated Horatio G. Burchard fC
Director of the Mint, Commodor
VIM. g. Temple to be Rear Admira
and Samuel v. Shirley to be Re
ceiver Of Pubic Moneys at La
Cruces, N. M.
The Mexican government wi
establish q consul-g%e neralship in tn
Mississippi valley, probably at s.
Louis, with John F. Cahill in tn
position.
The jewelry store of Marks & Son
Toy, N. Y was burglarlzed Sunda
night, and $4,000 worth of propert,
taken.
The crew of the Lizzie Marshall
lost at e a few days ago, hav
arrived at Port Townsend, w. T.
Telegraphic communication ha
been re umed between San Francis
co ana Los Angeles.
DR.. Rafael Nunez has been electe,
President of the Panama Republic.
Mapleson's opera benefit at st
Louis for the flood sufferers, nettet
$500.
The boiler of the steamer Keetsdi
from Hong Kong to Maco, exploded
killing eight Europeans and min,
natives.
Toole, the editor of the Free
Thinker, London, yesterday com
pieted his years imprisonment fol
blasphemy. Bradlaugh, with 2,OO(
sympaJhisers, met him at the gate o1
the prison.
The remains of Gen. Ord are IN
the way from Havana to New York,
Patti is coming west with the
Mapleson Company. They sing In
the Tabernacle at Salt Lake on the
return from San Francisco.
John Bartlett, q patient in the
Elizabeth hospital, at Belleville, ILL.,,
attempted to kill Sitter Liberia,
shooting her through the ear, and
then killed himself. He was sup
posed to be temporarily insane.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. ga def
cheney of one hundred million roubles
in the last fourteen years has been
discovered in the administration of
Turkestan.
1t is stated that Russia has volun-
tary offered a pledge to stop at Merv,
and use her influence with the khans
o. Bark0hara and Khiva to facilitate
English commerce. 1t is also stated
that the Russian government has in
vited England to Join IN constructing
a canal from the sea of Atrial to the
Indian frontier.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2J.-Fifty-
five thousand photographs OF Colonel
the murderer, have been
throughout the country,
A reward of 10000 rouhles has been
offered for his capture and 5000 rou-
bles for information leading to his
arrest.
CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-Ine Times will
tomorrow publish an interview with
John Donnesberger, a prominent
citizen and chairman of
The Cook county board of comm.s-
who has just returned from
Washington via New York. While in
New York, Donnesberger called upon
J.. TlIden at his Gramercy
Park residence. Donnesberger says:
Mr.. Tilden received me very courte-
He is very feeble and i'm
pressed me with the idea that his
health is failing. Weak as he ap-
oeared to be he insisted on showing
ne all throu 5h the house, even to his
bed chamber He talked politics in a |
general. way; told me, or rather gave
distinctly to understand that he
vas disappointed in not receiving
he nomination again four years ago.
lie feels that he was unjustly treated !
n 1876, but that for the peace of the |
'ountry he did not insist upon ms
lights. l believe from u cvnyersa-
ion that he would like 10 receive the
domination. He feels it is due him.
lis mind is strong. He is very hard
+ hearing and he only whispers in
conversation. He holds your hand
mile talking to you. apparently to
teady himself. He does not like
hendricks, and from what he told
1e l don't think he wants Hendricks
laced on the ticket again. He was
retty well all the past year and un-
about three weeks ago, when he
omplained of not feeling so strong.
[e felt the presidential nomination
as due him. He wants to be the
andidate again. There is no doubt
my mind about that, continued
'o~nnesberger. He gave me that i'm
in u half-hour's converse.
on: be is mentally very strong and
lsplayed wonderful knowledge of
lblic affairs.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 26-The river
Shreveport is the highest since 40
I'd is still rising. Steamers are .
inglng in stock and people from
lbmerged plantations a hundred ]
lies above and below. The whole 6
is reported under water and
eat damage Is being done. r
Feb. 25-The following 3
u history Of the Haight case for =
hich a woman was sentenced soon !
ter 3 o'clock. On the morning of q
9th, 1889, a bullet was fired i
the brain of Geo. W. HaigLt. He o
ed a few days IN a dazed condition. e
after the shooting sus- +,
zion fastened upon his wife, mainly
account of her extreme anxiety to r,
the insurance companies in s,
!ich Haight held policies notified
his near approach to death. Mr.. q.
light was Mrs. Haight's third hus-
I'D. The others were alleged to &c
ve died mysteriously after making ~
Is in her favor. Haight married -,
in opposition to the wishes of his
ends. She soon soon began to i'm m
tune him to get some life Insurance az
he took several policies, and at n.
time of his death had about ~
.OOO insurance in his wife's name. NJ
out a year previous he became HI
worried over her anxiety L..
more insurance. He allowed ~,
le Of the premiums to go unpaid.
Mrs. Haight promptly sent
money. He finally secured
[tion as travelling agent. and was w
y from home most of the time. an
Feb. 18th, 1883, he was present ! in1