The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1885-05-02
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
rp,;lsd Down from the Late Ieiegra'ns.J

4 flood in Arkansas did much damage
-. crons and drowned a large amount of
stock.
tits stated that cholera has reappeared
,t Cairo, and that seven deaths have oc'
Cured there.
THE war news has caused All advance of
four shillings per quarter in the price OF
wheat at London.
Passengers on the Bermuda steamers re-
,ort that the British are putting the island
of Bermuda in complete state Of defense.
Fifty heavy guns have been sent from
Ke;ff to Finland. The Gar has signed or.
iers for the equipment Of the whole Rus.
sian fleet.
Sweden and Norway are urging upon
Denmark the expediency of uniting with
them il, the event of war, declaring strict
neutrality.
The splendid structure erected for the
use Of the Chicago board OF trade at an ex-
,ense of $4,000, 900 was formally dedicated
on. April ,7th.
The Russian Reserves are mobilizing.
All business transactions now being en-
tered into at Odessa, are undertaken sub
ect to heavy war risks.
President Cleveland has refused TO exer.
else the power Of Executive clemency in
regard to the sentence of General Swain,
Judge Advocate General.
It is reported in London that newspapers
published in the Russian Empire have been
forbidden to print anything in reference to
current events in Central Asia.
Rudger Clawson's polygamy case has
been decided upon by the U. $. Supreme
Court and his sentence affirmed. This was
made test case by the Mormons.
The three mile boat.race between n. L..
Lahyberger, OF Pittsburgh, and Austin
Stevenson, Vallejo, was won by Stevenson
by thirteen lengths at San Francisco.
A special dispatch from Tirpul, dated
April Goth, says the Russians have occu-
pied Akhdtepe and are actively at work
making military road from Penjdeh to
Herat.
The Russian advance south of Mcruchak
is regarded in Parliamentary circles as
dispelling the last hope of a peaceful solu.
,ionLand the precursor ofa Russian advance
upon Herat.
1t is reported that natives OF the Hermi,
Islands in the Pacific ocean ha' eaten the
crews of two German merchant vessels
The gunboat Hyalno has been sent to pun
ish the cannibals.
At San Francisco Lou Perkins, daugh
ter of former tenant of E. J. Baldwin, has
instituted a breach ofpromise suit for $500,
900 against Baldwin. She claims to have
his promise in writing.
\ box containing 10000 in unsignee
bank notes on the Banco Mexicanos ha'
been stolen from the custom house at E
Paso Del Norte. Three custom house of
tcials have been arrested.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointed George p. .ringle, Of Montana, ant
Charles Ryan, ofIndiana, special agents TO-
the Seal Islands in Alaska, zsre II. J. Cred
don and j. II. Moulton suspended.
Immense quantities OF coal are being
stripped 10 Cape Town, South Africa, 10
the use of British armed cruisers and men
ot-war, in the event Of the outbreak OF wa
between England and Russia.
The Wilmington, Del, E7~,y Ezyniuy'
special from all over the peach growing
district Of the peninsula concur in predict
ing an unusually large crop unless som
unforeseen and unexpected disaster occurs
\ Russian who visited Victoria, r.
and vicinity about a month ago, under tn
pFstence of buying furs, is now known to b
a Russian spy, who took drawings Of tn
'ortitications and harbors. He went fror
mere to San Francisco.
a toot'race, l,5 yards distance, for $50
a side and the championship Of Americ;
was run this week at Chester Park, Phila
dephia, by II. NJ. Johnson, of New Yorl
and George Smith, Of Pittsburgh. Johnso
won by six feet, in 1134 seconds, beatin
the record.
An arrangement has been signed for
round glove contest, Marquis of Queens
nury rules, between Charles Mitchell {
London and Mike Cleary ofNew York, t
TAKE place on May eed. The winner is t
nave IS per cent. Of the receipts, the lose
IS.