The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-01
Lightning Flashes.

The island of ChtOs was visited by
another ear hquake yesterday.
Marshal T. Polk, the defaultine
treasurer of Tennessee, died at his
home In Nashville yesterday of heart
| disease.
Six hundred thousand dollars in
gold will be shipped from New York
to-day to England.
Cardinal Hassown, Patriarch of
Cllicla, is dead.
The italian cabinet has resigned.
Mrs. Mary Brown, widow of old
John Brown OF Harper's Ferry fame,
died in San Francisco yesterday,
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. ga dis
patch from Portland says the Oregon
ian will publish tomorrow an article
exposing a vast land robbing scheme
under the legislative act of 1870 enti-
tied IAN act providing for the selec-
ton and sale of swamp lands In Ore
gon." 1t 5charges H. q. Owen, of Eu-
gene. with filing on 100000 acres
much of which is excellent grazing.
It also charges, that R. V. Ankoney,
who was sent from Washington to
examine the land on behalf of the
government, with being bribed.
OTTAWA, Feb. 28.-The bill grant.
ing a loan of $22yO0O,OOO to the
Canadian Pacific railway was read a
third time tonight amidst prolonged
cheers from conservatives. Before
the third reading the ministers of
railways added a clause to prevent
matchmaking on working arrange
ments between the Canadian. Pacific
and Gradd Trunk. In the commons
this afternoon Blake called attention
to the position of Sir Charles Upper
as a member of the house and at the
same time high commits ,ioner of Can
ada at London and moved that the
speaker be ordered to issue a writ for
an election to'ill his place. Sir John
Mcdonald moved as an amendment
that the mattea be referred to a
standing committee on privileges and
elections. Carried liz to 81.
NEW LONDON, Conn.,. Feb. ga
dispatch tonight states the death by
by drowning or starvation of seven
man of the crew of the schooner
Sarah W. Hunt, while searching for
seals near Campbell Island, in the
Pacific ocean. The captain and
steward alone sailed the vessel $50
miles to New Zealand, after losing
the crew.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 29. Five
fires occurred during the night. and
owing to the violence of the wind and
the great distance between the vari-
Gus alarms, the firemen found much
trouble in keeping the flames under
control. The most disastrous Was at
the chemical works of Powers &
Wightman, the largest of the kind in
the country, which were totally de-
stroyed. The loss of this place will be
over a million dollars. The fire was
first discovered about l o'clock. But
the alarm was not responded to be- |
cause the only engines in the fire dis
trlct were already engaged in combat
Ting a similar fire in the wool mills at
and Lehigh avenues. One of |
two engines which answered the
1rst call Came q distance of nearly
TWO miles. The store of Coon b os. |
y Co., produce and commission mer-
Nc. % South Water street:
iamaged $4,000. About the same
lime the Echo Carpet mill at Lehixh
and Palethorpe street, and
hree or four dwellings adjoining
we're destroyed involving a loss of
$4,000. The other fires were not 80
erious. but the frequent alarms
erved to distract the firemen and tax
he department to the utmost.
The Apaches + again committing
70 prodati0ns in Sonora.
Torkington's carpet mill at Phila-
elphia burned night before last.
LOSS. $4,000; insured. at 2 a. m. on
ne 9th, Powers & Weightman;s ex-
enslve laboratory had been burning
q hour or more, and Il large loss was
ntlcipated.
tere Hyacinthe is at Los Angeles.
al. with his wife and son.
John Muir arrived in Portland ves-
,rday to assume the general msnaee-
lent OF the Oregon Improvement
ompany. I
The people Of Uaioneown, Pa. i