The Dillon tribune., 1884-04-12
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
rY,oiled Down from the Latest Telegra,ns.1

The war In Tonquin is to be actively re.
newed.
Destructive forest fires are raging In
North Carolina.
Political conventions are being held all
over the country.
The carpenters Of New Orleans are on q
strike for So per day.
The debate on the wool tariff has com.
menced in the House.
Another Danville riot investigation de.
veloped nothing new.
The Pennsylvania Protective TariffD
ocrats will stand by Sam Randall.
The United States Supreme Court is tc
adjourn on the first Monday in May.
Preparations for holding the Republica,
National Convention are being made.
At Spearfsh, Dakota, on the 9th, Jack
Morris shot and killed Lewis Ssralie.
French newspapers report massacre o
missionaries in Than Hoo, in Tonquin.
Frank James is on trial at Huntsville
. Alabama, for the Musselshoals robbery.
The Quebec Provincial deficit for the
past fiscal year is now stated at $4S7,ooo.
There is an enormous amount of grain
stored in the London waterside graneries.
Four. fifths Of the sheep in the La Prairie
district, Ontario, are inflicted with disease.
The Republican Convention of Arkan.
sas indorsed the administration Of Arthur
The filibusters to the number of thirty,
from Key West, made successful landing
in Cuba.
In the House the motion to restore the
tariff on wool was defeated by yeas, 1l9;
nays, I26.
For completing the Mexican system OF
railways the sum Of $31,19s,ooo has beer,
subscribed. =.
A revolt against Parnell is being organ.
lied by the more active Of the ultra Irish
Nationalists.
A special Grand Jury has been empan.
eled at Cincinnati to investigate the cause
of the late riot.
In the annual boat race on the Thames,
between the Oxford and Cambridge crews,
the latter won.
The co'ored Republican voters Of Balti-
more want to send delegate to the Chi.
cago Convention.
Gladstone made a powerful speech in the
English House of Commons in support Of
the Franchise Bill.
The fight in the Republican Conventions
all over the country is between the Arthur
and Blaine factions.
Two millions OF dollars were subscribed
in one hour ut New York tor the Gable
Railway Company.
Evidence in the Sharon Hill divorce case
has been introduced to prove that Miss
Hill is a crazy girl.
At Altoona, Pa, jealous doctor named
amputating cleaver.
In the municipal elections the Repub.
licans carried Cleveland and the Demo
Gratis carried Cincinnati.
The funeral of the late Minister Hunt
took place at Washington on the Sth, with
imposing military honors.
The Cotton Exchange of New York pe-
titioned Congress for the stoppage of fur.
ther coinage Of silver dollars.
After the 18TH inst. the Central Pacific
Railway will run fast mail train between
Ogden and San Francisco. Time, 80 hours
John Dillman, another wife murderer,
was hanged at Easton, Pa, on the 9Th. He
ate hearty breakfast and cried on the
scaffold.
The British government has issued posi-
tive orders to Gen. Gordon to withdraw
from khartoum with the garrison as soon
as possible.
A Chicago man, named Cunningham,
has laid claim to the estate of the notorious
Kate Townsend, Of New Orleans, claiming
that she was his sister.
An official investigation into the loss Of
the steamer Daniel Steinmann has begun
at Halifax. One hundred people were lost
ON the Inflated steamer.
Logan, our minister to Chilli, now at
Washington, on being interviewed said:
"rhe situation of Peru is very bad, and the
Chilliau terms are hard"