The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-07-25
CITY BREvITIES.

Tho St. Nicholas is being overhauled in
Tte incaudescent lights will be used in
minimizing the Grand Opera House.
The nublic school at Walkerville, taught
81 Miss Maggie B. Sullivan will close Fri.
day.
I'D other deserving persons came in with
the circus.
The Miners Union have arranged to give
.ho;r annual picnic at Columbia Garden
August 10.
anaconda and Deer Lodge are sendino
,orce contingents the to opening of the
Grand Opera House.
The Trustees of this school district have
a;recred that the public schools of Center.
lille be closed to-day.
Mrs. McAfee who broke her leg by falling
aovn stairs in her residence near the denof
is getting along nicely.
There is some talk of a new hotel ho;po
huilt here by Schwab & Zimmerman Of the
COSMOPOLITAN in Helena.
The Little Darling mine is now in good
sbape and additional hands are being en-
ployed in it's development.
Cans d Klein have had the plans for
their new building completed and now in
yite bids for it's construction.
A special meeting of the stockholders of
the Grand Opera House company is called
for Friday evening July 31st:
The firm OF Warfield & Gwin has been
dissolved Emanuel Jacob having u
chased the interest of Mr.. Gwin.
There are twenty-six inmates in the
Sisters Hospital, and with one or two no.
table exceptions all are doing well.
According to competent authority the
Alice mine is to day richer and in better
condition than ever before in it's history.
j. A. Shiffman is erecting a two-story
brick'in Walkerville. The upper portion
will be a lodge room and the lower a store.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Vial at their home at
VAUDEVILLE, yesterday, gladly welcomed Il
stranger in the person OF j. H. Vial, Jr.
The boy and mother are doing well.
1t is stated that Mr.. O'Rourke is about
to purchase the real estate belonging to the
Mathews estate for $4,000. This will
include the Granite and Main street
block.
Daniel O'Grady, the newly appointed
postmaster at Walkerville, has secured and
forwarded his bond to Washington. There
are two Democrats and two Republicans
on the bond.
Yesterday an invoice Of eight and six
inch pipe for the gas company arrived. In
a day or two contractor Mccarthy will be-
gin laying the mains on Main street from
the works up.
Work on the new Miners Union Hall is
being pushed. and it is expected that the
brick work will be completed by August LIST.
The new iron front has arrived will at once
be placed in position.
The ladies OF VAUDEVILLE are arranging to
give an excursion at an early day for the
benefit of the Sunday school children. The
details lave lot yet been arranged, but due
notice will be given.
About $3.50 o'clock this morning a fire
occurred in one OF the Chinese rookeries in
the street running parallel with Main
street below Galena. There was consider
able noise but little damage.
Some OF the residents on Copper street,
in the rear of Humphreys, complain of the
residence OF Anna A. H. Lamar. They do
not think, from what they say, that she is
the kind OF a neighbor they want.
The play to be produced by the Wallack
company on Monday evening at the Grand
Opera House, viz: Victor Durand," had a
most successful run at Wallack's for O
nights. It was written by a native Cali
fornian and a graduate OF Santa Clara
college.
Chas McKeehan and Will May. formerly
of Sands 4 Boyce's, could not make II sue
cess in the hotel business, SO have given it
up. MIR. McKeehan has resulned his old
position with Sands & Royce, and Mr..
May expects to 60 into some other enter
prise.
Paxson has excelled all his previous eff
forts in one set just finished for Victor
Durand." It is a grand "~salon," and it is
questionable if "Victor Durand" was put
on the stage any better at Wallack's
Theater, New York, THANH it will be presented
here Monday evening.
The question which is now agitating the
minds of a number OF ambitious young
men is, who are to be the deputy collectors
under Mr.. WEIGH. Thu gentleman named
may be doing considerable thinking, but
thus far he has given no indication as to
who will be the lucky ones.
Messrs. Dow & Mulvaney have sold out
their stage ines running from Butte to
Silver Star, Fish Creek and Pipestone
Springs to H. T. Clark & Co. The purchasers
are genial. accommodating gentlemen and
will do their utmost to please their patrons.
See their advertisement in another column.
An "old sport, " Informed a MINER reporter
yesterday, that he was personally ac-
guainted with the famous wrestler, Tom
Cannon, and that the person now in this
city representing himself to be Tom Cannon,
ia not the original Tom. tom Cannon,
the wrestler" said our informant, "would
not come into any town under a fictitious
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