The Dillon tribune., 1885-01-17
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
,Ho;lcd Down from the Late Telegrams.J

France has chartered two more steamers
,,r use in Transporting reinforcements in
Tonquin
Far,houake tremblings were felt en- the
IN inst, at rerrox, Cani!las, Amunc and
AIgarbox, in Spain.
The London Times wants Gladstone to
resi5r,, but that gentleman does not appear
inclined to fill the want.
A Cairo, Egypt, correspondent says the
Mahd has accepted the conditions propos-
.u by General Wo!seley.
Last Sunday cyclones passed over por"
,ions Of Alabama and Georgia, sweeping
verything in their track.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice Will
20 to Germany in March, and they Will re-
main on the Continent three weeks.
The Oregon and California Legislatures
will not commrnce balloting for United
States Senators before the 27th inst.
Tom Peddy, negro of Greenville, Tex,
was lynched last Monday night for an at
tempted outrage on white woman.
News is received that William Doyle. of
the Canadian Nile expedition, is drowned
He is the eighth member of the party lost.
Secretary Lincoln entirely exonera ra:es
Lieutenant, Darlington from all charges
preferred by General Hazen against that
officer.
The 'Tichborne claimant, who was re-
Gently released from, prison in England, has
made arrangements to come to America on
4 lccturny tour.
The charges preferred against General
McKeever by General Hazen have been
re,,rned to the latter officer, and NO official
notice taken of them.
Beccher don't 60 after all. Att re"
cen, sale OF pews in his church the hand"
some sum of S,6,2s6 was realized, being a
premium of over $1,000.
Chief Justice Waite is slowly improving
in health, and expects to leave Washing
ton for the South next week, hoping to be
benefited by the change. "A,
The World announces the approaching
marriage of Viscount Sherbrooke Robert
Lowe, aged 73 years and widower with
out heirs, to Miss Sneyot, his young amen
uensis.
Indian Territory advices are that Gen.
eral Hatch is ready to march on Camp
Oklahoma. The boomers are entrenched
at Saltwater, and fight is thought to be
imminent.
1t was proposed in the Hungarian Diet
on the 18th to form a Customs Union OF
Central Europe for protection against the
competion of the agricultural industries Of
England and America.
A party of workmen while digging eel"
lar the other day, near the scene OF Brad
docks defeat, in Pennsylvania, are report
ed to nave unearthed an old chest contain
ing gold to the amount of several hundred
thousand dollars.
Governor William Hale, of Wyoming
Territory, died on January 18th, after a lin
serny illness, from kidney complication.
He was appointed Governor by President
Arthur, August 8, 1882. His former home
was in Greenwood, Iowa. He was IS years
Old
Importers of Chicago complain that
there is q systematic characterization OF
the value of imported goods at the New
York custom house, which gives the East
ern merchants an unfair advantage over
those OF the West, whose goods are valued
there.
A shocking crime occurred at Frankfort
on the Main on January 14th. A police
Commissioner named Rampff, who had
been active in the prosecution of Socialists,
was found dead in front of his own house,
stabbed in two places. The assassin is un-
known.
A dispatch frem Czarnowitz, Austria,
states that a series of 'andslips have &C.
Cured on the hill behind the Greek Ca
thedral in that town. The adjacent build
ing to the Cathedral has been buried, and
the Cathedral, which cost $s,oooooo Is in
great danger.
The Figaro and Gaalois of Paris state
that France and Germany have come to
complete agreement in regard e Chinese'
Congo and Egyptian questions, b which
France engages to protect German com
merce in French colonies, and Germany
promises in consideration thereof % sup
port Frsnce in her colonial schemee.