Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-08
TELEGRAPHIc BRETITIES.
News from Every Part of the World Put
Into the Smallest Compass.

News from Every Part of the World Put
| Into the Smallest Compass.
Twelve hundred spinners at Bolton, Lon
don. have struck. 1t is expected the strike
will spread.
Judge Thurman rose late yesterday
Shortly before noon he emerged from the
Fifth Avenue Hotel and strolfed along the
avenue with hisson. He lookal remarkably
| wen.
DeLesseps read a paper Wednesday, at a
meeting OF the British asacciation at Bath.
He said he is confident q at ten locks OF
the Panama Canal will aompleted by
1890.
By an explosion of q stea, 1 resher at
nett was instantly killed, ant 70 other
men terribly crushed and scale and will
die. Five other employees were b ised and
scalded, but none seriously.
On the Kansas City, st. Joseph & Council
Bluffs road yesterday two freight trains
collided, six miles from st. Joseph, Mo,
Both were running at high speed. Both
crews jumped. The trains were loaded with
merchandise and nearly the entire cargo is
loss. The damage will amount to $780,
900.
A bloody affray over an attempt to steal
a ballot box by negroes occurred on elec-
tion day at Forest City, Ark, September 6.
The negroes finding whites on guard fired
volley and fled. The fire was returned but
without effect. The wounded are John Nc
Msth, fatally shot in the temple; J. Kinton,
James Jones, Robert Ragsdale, j. Massey,
Geo. Williams and B. F. Hood.
Near Columbus Indiana. Wednesday
night, James Ford, a farmer, while suffer-
ing from delirum caused by fever, sprang
from his bed and made an attack upon his
wife and two children. He seized chair
and killed the youngest child, babe, and
fatally injured his wife. His 1O-year-old
son Was 80 badly injured that he will die.
Mrs. Grant was burned to death at Win
nipeg, Man., September 4th, while making
heroic attempt to save her children from
the fire. The fire was started by the ex-
plosion of a lamp. The fire was between
her room and that of the children, but
she dashed into the burning room with no
thought as to her own safety. She reeeiv-
ed burns from which she shortly died. The
children were saved by outsiders.
The German bark, Jacobini. arrived at
Ship Island on Monday night from Colow,
in Ballast. Captain j. Hiederick and crew
k0s
and when she arrived q signal of distress
was flying at half mast. The second mate,
81. Lind, having died at 4 q. m. The quar-
antine yacht went to her assistance and
conveyed six OF her crew to the hospital.
They are ill with chagres fever, but will
recover.
The United States revenue cutter Bear
arrived from Behring sea at San Francisco,
September 6, and brings information that
on August 3, while most of the whaling
fleet was anchored between Cape Smythe
and Point Barrow furious storm oc-
Cured. The following vessels were wrecked:
Barks Mary and Susan, Young Pbenix,
Fleet Wing, and the schooners Jane Grey
and Ino. The crews of the lost vessels,
100 in number, were rescued by the Bear
and brought to San Francisco.
The society OF the army of the Tennessee
began it's twenty first annual reunion at
Toledo, September 6. Gen. W. T. Sherman
being in the chair. Hecongratulated those
present on the good attendance and spoke
feelingly on the dead membership. General
Green B. Raum, from the committee on the
monument to Gen. Logan; reported that it
is to be located at Washington city on a
site not yet selected. The government will
provide the pedestal and the society will
provide the statute. This ended the busi-
ness session for the day and Gen. D. NJ.
Dodge OF Council Bluffs, Iowa, read paper
on his personal experiences with the army
OF the Tennessee. The annual address by
Colonel Gilbert A. Pierce, Ex-Governor OF
Dakota, then followed and the exercises
closed with camp fire.