The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-10
DOMESTIC DR1Pr1NGs,
Senator Leland has headed the San Fran
isco list to the subscription to the Grant

monument with 5000.
A new scheme for the annexation OF Cuba
is said to have been backed BY syndicate
OF Spanish-American bankers.
The Socialist Congress in session at Gin
cinnati has decided to open q aprinting and
publishing house in New York;
Five Italians, engaged in rounterfeiting
silver coin, including two women, were ar
rested in Washington, yesterday.
Customs officers at Chicago have seized
81 900 worth OF smuggled diamonds be-
longing to Meyer Bros, Of Omaha.
The Marquis of Landsdowne, Governor
General OF Canada, visited Victoria, b. u,
yesterday, and was royalty received.
The friends Of Indian civilization are in
session at Lake Mohunk, New York. Gene
raj B. Fisk presities. DR.. Lyman Abbott
read a paper.
S.. Reade, charged with stealing $12,-
900 from the Southern Express Company
at Morristown. Tennessee, has been ar
rested in the City of Mexico.
Rains are flooding Mexico. 8. the weak
ening OF a reservoir at Leon, Mexico. many
houses were swept away, and the Mexican
Central Railway has been washed.
December IL and II will bs assigned to
"a Silver Congress" at the New Orleans
Exposition. Two days following AN Amer
can Bankers Congress" will follow.
The Women's Congress is in session at
Des Moines, Iowa. Papers were read yes
terday by Julia Ward Howe, Miss Frank
Willard and Julia Holmes Smith.
H. G. Leonard, of the Janish dramatic
company, was shot and slightly wounded
in Philadelphia last night, by A. L. Erlan-
ger, manager Of the Dagmar company.
The net earnings OF the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy Railway for August were
S1,lO2, ,2S1, u decrease of$226, 733 as COM
pared with the corresponding month in
1884.
In Detroit the Knights Of Labor had Il
grand demonstration last night there being
fully 2 900 men in line. The demonstra-
tion was orderly and the speeches conserv-
ative.
Major w. H. Bell, commissary of subsist-
ence, has been ordered to relieve Captain
F. F. Whitehead ut Cheyenne. Under or
ders he will rotate between Cheyenne and
Denver.
Oregon Railway and Navigation stock
was very active yesterday, OH the report
that the gross earnings for September were
;:i.I 900, an increase over same month
last Year OF S190,OO0.
The Southern Pacific yesterday dis
| honored the Burlington draft for it's share
of Transcontinental pool for first hall OF
'S5. The Burlington has given notice OF
withdrawal from the pool.
Blind Tom was again in the courts at
Richmond, upon the application OF his
mother, who asked for an accounting of
| his earnings from his guardian, Charles A.
| Bethune Motion overruled.
At Salt Lake City Policeman Andrew
Smith took the stand to-day in his case oi
unlawful cohabitation, admitting that ne
| lives with two women as wives. Verdict,
guilty Sentence postponed ten days.
It is reported from Galveston that an ore
train en- route from the Sierra Moiada
mines to Parol Mexico, a station on the
Mexican Central railway, was attacked,
! four of the guards killed and the treasure
| stolen.
The Peabody Educational Society ex-
pended S37,7O5 in the Southern States
last year. President Cleveland was elected
as a trustee to succeed General Grant, and
J. Pierrepont Morgan to succeed Samuel
| Whetmore.
Smallpox has made disappearance at
! St. Catharines, Canada. First case was
brought from Montreal and gas nursed by
| tue Salvation army, who are spreading the
| disease rapidly.
Thomas J. Tiffany, alias George Fulton,
defaulting postmaster of Bennington, VT,
was arrested by Postoffice Inspectors Bas-
sett and Adsit, at Currier' sheep ranch, fifty
miles northeast of Denver, Tuesday even
! ing. Tiffany absconded year ago last
| March.
| The American Consul at Guayrnas denies
that there are 1000 Cinnamon in that re-
pion who are surreptitiously making their
| way to the United States. He says there
| are only l25 Chinese there, all employed IN
| shoe factories and tailor shops, and do
| not wish to leave.
The stock OF the Oregon Navigation Com
| pany has advanced b owing to report
| that the franchise has been leased to the
Union and Northern Pacific companies: Ii
consummated, the proceeds will pay on the
| debt maturing at the end OF the current
| wear and the remainder will be funded IN .
F.! per cent bonds.
| The annual meeting OF the New York
| clearing house association to-day electeo
| q. G, Williams, president OF the Chemlca
| National Bank. chairman for the ensuing
| wear, in place of Edward II. Perkins,, ]r.
president OF the Importers and Traders
bank, whose term expired. William Il
Camp was elected manager.
Abram Erlanger. the theatrical mana
ger arrested Tuesday night upon the charge
OF shooting G. Herbert Leonard, the actor
in the Continental hotel, was taken before
a magistrate this morning. The injured
man failed to appear, and without an!
testimony being offered defendant was hell
in 81 900 for hearing next Wednesday.
Upon the committee appointed at tn
Brooklyn meeting OF Irish sympath'zers Il
90 to Ireland and assist in the campaign q
Parnell and his associates are Congressman
Collins and John Boyle O'Reilly OF boston
Neither of these gentlemen favors the pre-
iect, believing it entirely unnecessary,
Parnell does not need assistance OF tina
kind.
The steamship "Montmore.' which is n
ported from Liverpool as having lost ne ht1e
deck load, sailed from Baltimore on til
| 18th ult. She is one OF the johnson line an
besides an assorted cargo, took out 3 . l
cattle which were housed ON deck. IN
agents at Baltimor state that the catt
, belonged to different shippers and were II
sured in Montreal and Boston. They ma
no definite information as to the number
cattle lost.
CASH FOR APACHES.
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