The Dillon tribune., 1886-12-03
AMERICAN NEWS NOTES.

~O'6'> 90 'o1A SANi\'S 10 4NO.
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African explorer,
has come to America to lecture.
The headquarters ofthe Anti Saloon Re.
publican National Committee have been
removed from Chicago to New York.
400 knights Of Labor OF Chicago ask for
new trial BY the Supreme Court OF Iii.
nois, Of the condemned Anarchists.
The President has appointed William II.
Neal, Of franklin, Indiana, to be agent for
the Indians Of the Lemhi agency, in Ida.
no.
200 and sixty men were discharged
from the Department Of Construction and
and Repair in the Brooklyn Navy yard,
Wednesday.
Mrs. Maud G. Andrus, the wife Of Lieut..
Frand B. Andrus and daughter of Major
VIM. II. Powell U. $. Army, died at Boise
Barracks last Sunday night.
The Boston authorities are preparing to
punish the non-rcsidcnts who voted there
at the State election. Warrants have been
issued Tor the arrest Of 200 illegal voters.
Yee Yang, the only Chinaman in the
Allegheny county workhouse, committed
suicide the other day by hanging himself
to his cell door. Overwork had crazcd
him.
The man Frank kerner, of Reading, Pa,
who choked his wife to death and then set
the house on fire TO destroy the evidences
of his crime has confessed. He is an an.
archist.
Vt is estimated at the Internal Revenue
Bureau that the Revenue tiom the tax on
oleonargarine, which went into effect on
the first instant, will amount to about $500,
opo for last month.
Another crank VIM. McKurze, jumped
from the Brooklyn Bridge, Monday after.
noon. He struck on his back. lie was
picked up by tug and taken to Il hospital.
1t is thought he will recover.
Tom Bigclow, one Of the most noted
bank robbers in the country, died last week
in New Orleans. He owned a home in
Windsor, Detroit's Canadian suburb, that
eclipsed anything in town. lie left $l,o,-
900 in improved property.
California is becomieg aroused to the
necessity of doing something to save her
forests. The State Board Of Forestry pro-
poses to submit recommendations for the
protection Of growing timbc: and the EN-
couragement Of forest cnlture.
| A special to the New York 7yibxsr,
from Lynn, Mass, says that the order OF
the Knights OF Labor there is breaking up
, rapidly, and :hat its decadencc is due to
the fact that the Knights tried to reorgan-
izc society according to their own radical
notions.
George Haslett and Miss Sadie Allen
of Buffalo went through the Niagara rap
ids Sunday in torpedo shaped barrel
They were taken out Of the eddy on the
, Canadian side Just below the whirlpool
three quarters Of an hour later, in gooe
= condition.
Charles Ogden Ferris, alias Charles
{ Custis, who is in RAYMOND Street Jail
BROOKLYN, awaiting transportation to Sat
. Francisco tor trial for obtaining a pension
{, on traudu;en, representations, still claims
to be the genuine Sir George bought,
= TichborEe.
The report of the general superintendent
Of the life saving service shows that at tn,
+ close of the last fiscal year, the service en-
l braced I'll stations, lh5 being on the At
lantic, IS on the lakes, on the Pacific, ant
at Louisville, Ky. The number of disas
=, ,ers within this field during the year wa.
3::.
\ Mondays special to the Louisville
, Co~,rr says: Five arrests have been
l made Tor completely in the murder Of the
Poe family in Knox county, Kentucky
There is no longer any doubt that eight
persons were murdered. The husband is
insane and not capable of attending to the
matter himself, but the people Of Knox
county have taken the affair in hand and
will vigorously investigate every clew.
| A Chicago dispatch says that an attcmp,
: was made on Thursday night to assa.sinate
Harry Gilmer, witness VINO gave evi.
. dence at the recent trial Of the Anarchists
directly duplicating Spies and Schwab in
the throwing Of the llaymarkct bomb
Gilmer was shot at while on the threshold
Of his home, and the bullet passed between
his legs, lodging in the bottom OF the floor
4 prominent farmer of Bowling Green