The Dillon tribune., 1884-02-02
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

upward.
Sullivan was hissed while sparring
San Francisco.
Sullivan'sreception at San Francisco We
& grand ovation.
San Domingo is c'amoring for treat
with the United States.
The charges against Governor Murra
Of Utah. are being investigated.
Steady rains throughout the middle O
California insure an abundant grain GRO
this year.
The Marquis of Hertford was throw
from his horse while hunting in England
last week, and killed.
Peace is quite likely to be declared be
tween Chilli and Bolivia.
An epidemic Of typhoid fever has broke'
out at llyacinthe, Ontario. Colleges, con
vents and schools are closed.
Sergeant Mason is reported to be fail
lrc as museum attraction. The peopl
had rather see Frank James.
Chinese mobs attack foreigners in Hal
hou. The officials will endeavor to stoI
such demonstrations in the future.
The Japanese government has issued
new loan of $1S,5oo,ooo for railway con
struction, redeemabe in thirty years, at an
nual drawings.
Except one building, the entire block fac
ing Railroad street, including Commercial
Hotel, at Buena Vista, Colo, bnrned on
Monday. Loss $4,000; insurance, not Civ
The bodies of Lieutenant De Long and
companions, heroes Of the Jeanette expe-
d,ion, have left Moscow, Russia, and are
expected to arrive at New York about the
18th inst.
Canton advices say the American Pres
bvterian and Roman Catholic missions in
that city were wrecked by native mob on
Dec. 10Th and property destroyed, but no
lives lost.
DIR. John B. Wood, a prominent New
York newspaper man, is dead. His skill
in eliminating superfuous words and sem
tcnces from news reports earned for him
the title of "the great American condenser"
At San Francisco the court set aside the
verdict in the case against Aggie Hill and
WIN. Nelson in the Senator Sharon d.
vorce case The Grand Jury was commit.
ted for contempt of court in refusing to d.
vulye the secrets of the Grand Jury room.
In the case of Wells Fargo VS.. the Oregon
Railway s. Navigation Co., involving the
right of the former to send their express
matter in charge of their rursers over the
lines Of the latter, Judge Deady of the U. S.
Circuit Court decided in favor of Wells
Fargo.
AT the Nationalist meeting in London
last Sunday, in spite of the storm, fully
10000 persons were present Mayne, Big
ga, and o Brien, members of parliament,
and many priests attended. A resolution
was passed declaring the land act made
ouate, and q cruel blunder.
The Utah pool agreement was completed
in Omaha on Saturday night, being signed
by General Manager Clark, Of the Union
Pacific, and previously accepted by the
Denver & Rio Grande and the Central Pa
cific. An order was sent out for the resto-
ration of rates on Utah and Colorado busi-
ness on Monday.
John Muir, superintendent of traffic on
the Northern Pacific, has resigned, to take
the general managership Of the Oregon
improvement Company for term Of years,
and will reside in Portland. He will have
entire control of the Pacific Coast interests
Of that company, including their railroad
and steamship lines and their coal interests.
Reports of a terrible tragedy come from
four or five miles west Of Elgin, Ills. VIM.
Combs, farmer about forty years old, cut
his wife's throat. In her dying agonies
she wrenched the weapon from him and
fatally stabbed him. Combs is said BY his
physician to have been insane for some
time. At this time it Is impossible to get
the facts.
The New England Free Thinkers Con-
yention has formed an association. with BY
avs demanding that churches shall not be
exempt from taxation, that the judicial oath
be abolished, that all laws enforcing an OBJ
servance Of the Sabbath and Christian NOR
ality be repealed, that the Bible be removed
from the public schools and that govern
,nent aid be refused sectarian schools.
Early last Saturday morning fire broke
out in the State prison at Saltwater, Mimi,
and in spite of all efforts all the buildings
were destroyed. All the prisoners, includ-
ing the Younger Brothers, were taken out
and placed under strong guard IN the
yard. Loss, probably half a million. The
buildings and all property were owned BY
the State. All the valuable papers were
saved