Butte semi-weekly miner., 1886-07-24
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

The Moulton Company will pay a $40.
OtN dividend on August 8.
The Butte and Wakervilles ninas vii
tprobably play base ball next Sunday.
Kelley Bros. haye entered the overalll
var. They are ceiling two for quarter.
I The atmosphere that surrounded tn,
moon last night indicated . storm.
There win be q large theater party al
the Grand Opera House tonight, given BY
Mrs.. McCaig.
There 10 80 little going on in criminal
circles that the police feel ashamed to draw
their salaries.
Harry Smith, the pugilist, came to con
auer Butte and got left. He Is q cleve,
"scrapper, T" however.
In one sense of the word business was
very dead around the undertaking estab
hshments of the city yesterday.
The early closing meeting tonight at
Miners Union Hall will doubtless be at
tended by all the clerks in the city.
The largest lady audience that has been
seen Tor some time was present at Miss
Wade's first appearance last night.
Kirkendall d Brown have been awarded
the contract for constructing the new road
to the depot. They were the lowest bid
ders.
The condition Of the cutters is a stand
ing protest against permitting horses to
be htched on the principal business
streets.
At the CentenniaEW. Donovan, l,
Siverrson, Anaconda; H. 8. Depuy, Mis-
soula; P. Carney, Joe Brooke, Waterloo,
Montana; A. e. Phelps, Fish Creek; J. O.
Mozart, Pocatello.
Dan Gamer, of Schmidt & Gamer, has
gone to the Warm Springs with his wife.
Mr.. Gamer will meet Louis Schmidt there,
and together they will fish and hunt. He
will be gone about tendays.
Among the arrivals in Butte yesterday
was MATT" Riley, Of Dubuque, lows. who
comes for the purpose OF making his home
here. Mr.. Riley is an old schoolmate of C..
J. Walsh, and will for the time being be his
guest.
The demand for cool drinks yesterday
was unprecedented. One dealer sold 3O3
glasses OF lemonade at Is cents per glass
Lager beer dealers could not keep up with
their orders. and the bar-tenders had no
time to mop the perspiration from their
careworn brows.
The Stanley Sisters, who are snch favor
ties at the Comique. yesterday morning re-
ceived q dispatch informing them of the
San Francisco. The clever little ladies re-
ceive much sympathy in their sad bereave-
ment.
Intelligence was yesterday received in
Butte to the effect that Joseph. Falkner
had committed suicide by shooting himself
at Sheridan, last Thursday. Deceased was
a prominent citizen of Sheridan, and had
many acquaintance in Butte.
At the St. Nicholas-G. D. w. Fuller, w.
V. Thomas. F. Shulz, Sheridan;J. w. Kins-
ley. Miss Daisey Kinsley, Helena; J. G.
Campbell, Chicago; F. 8. Gorham, James R.
Sias, Anaconda; F. Churchill, Boston; j.
E. Clausse, Ogden; James w. Stevens,
VIM. Dix, VIM. Gray, Rolo Grant, Park
City, Utah; P. H. Powers, New York; 8. C.
Hinsdale, Denver.
The cases Of kidnapping and burglary
against Mrs. Minnie Platt came up yester-
day before Justice Lippincott. The charge
Of burglary was dismissed, and the kid
aapins case was continued until argument
IN q writ OF habeas corpus for the custody
of the child can be heard before Judge Gal
oraith. This hearing is set for the twenty.
'ixth instant at Deer Lodge.