The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-01-09
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.

ALBANY, Jan. 5.-Senator Dennis McCar-
thy was elected President of the Senate.
LONDON, jan 1.-The Greenwich Obssrva-
tory began using the new system OF universal
time ut midnight.
The California Legislature convened Mon
day. The election Of United States Senator
will be q rst in order. Sergeant and ex-Gov.
Perkins are the principal candidates.
The q. s. man-of war, Essex, reached New
York the other day from three years cruise
around the world. But little sickness oc-
Cured during the voyage, and net man was
lost.
Another hoax has been perpetrated on the
British public. A bag containing two
pounds Of iron filings, with a fuse attached,
was found the other day under the arch at
Waterloo depot.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-The estimated cost
OF collecting the revenue in all parts of the
country for the fiscal year IL, for salaries,
50, Dos, 100 miscellaneous, 81, 1928. The en-
ployes number Al All.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Gen. hazen, chief
signal officer, has reduced Sergt Otto Holt
Dorth, of the signal service, to the ranks
and formally recommended his dismissal for
rifiing Lieut.. Greeley's private papers. The
recommendation will be approved.
PARIS, Jan. 3.-Rochefort has visited Lou
Use Michel, whose mind seems TO have given
way. She has visions of soldieis coming to
arrest her and hears voices through the mig hit
announcing the details of her trial and sem
tence. RochefOrt attributes her terri BILE con-
dition to the TIVE years of solitary confine-
ment.
NASHVILLE, Jan. 2.-The return OF the
Encke comet was discovered by Z. E. Bar
nard at the Vanderbilt University Obserya.
terry, at a:45 o'clock, Washington time, to-
nj 10. IL. A.
covered was: Right ascension, e hours, 56
minutes and "a seconds; declinatien, 4 degs.,
minute and % seconds. =,
CHICAGO, jan 6.-The Daily Ye,ors prints n
Springfield, ILL.,, special winch intiliated that
Senator Rugger, who is classed rs a Repub.
lican, will act with the Democrats, and he
aims at the Presidency Of the Senate, and
the statement is made that Gen. Logan has
been asked to 60 to Springfield and that he
will reach there next Thursday.
New YORK, Jan. 1.-The Wall Street Neus,
granger property 80 per cent lower this year;
also, both Central Pacific AMI Union Pacific
in the hands of receivers, and competition
in telegraphing cut the present price of Wes-
tern Union in twain. We expect to see
pretty tough times In Wall street this year.
RocKwooD, TENN, Jan. I'VE. Deros-
sert and Nathan Pass INDUCED in q street
duel yesterday. They had a difficulty the
day previous and each swore vengeance
against the other. They met on the street
and began firing with shot guns. Derossert
received load in the face and another in
the arm, aud Pass was shot in the forehead
and neck. Both men are mortally wounded.
PITTsBURG, Jan. "A sensation will be
caused tomorrow by The publication of an
interview with Andrew Carnegie, of the Ed
gar Thompson steel works, and many other
industrial establishments, in which he pro-
claims himself a socialist and an advocate of
socialistic principles. Carnegie Is million
aire, the author Of several books, and has
been referred to by William Black, the nov
elist, as "the star spangled Yankee"