Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
News from Every Part of the World Put
Into the Smallest Compass.

News from Every Part of the World Put
Into the Smallest Compass.
john Bright was worse Thursday morn
ing and his condition is critical.
Dion Boucicault is suffering with rheu
matte gout. 1t is not believed he can re-
cover.
The steamer Servia, which rumor last
Saturday had it had been sunk by the
Aurania, arrived at New York, Thursday.
call has been issued for q constitu-
tional convention at Jamestown, Decem.
Der 5, to further the early admission of the
two Dakotas into the union. -~--...--. .----
A meeting of carpet manufacturers was
held in New York Wednesday. 1t is under
stood a trust was formed and that prices
will be advanced soon.
Very Rev. Maurice A. Walsh, vicar gen.
eral of the arch diocese OF Philadelphia,
died Thursday morning.
Advises from Samoa state that Maltafa's
followers attacked the stronghold held by
the adherents of Tamasese at Atna, the 7th
inst, and captured the Outposts after two
days hard fighting.
Officers, after long chase in the Choctaw
Nation, have succeeded in overhauling and
killing a desperado supposed to be John
Barber, one OF the celebrated Kepqueen
gang. The man had killed an Indian, and
was wanted for attempted train robbery.
At wellington, Kansas, Wednesday even
ing, Levi Meeker, wife and an S-year-old
daughter were found dead on the Southern
Kansas railroad track. 1t is supposed
they were struck vile crossing the track in
d wagon by train.
Vice President-elect Morton was in
Washington, Wednesday, inspecting the
large apartment house which he is building
on the site OF his former residence here.
He says the time of his visit to General
Harrison is not settled. 1t will be ar
| ranged to suit the convenience OF both
parties.
At Chicago, November %, q false cry OF
| fire in the Boston store in the afternoon
caused q panic. A Thousand persons, most
| women shoppers and shop girls, made
| frantic rush for the stairway and exits.
Many were bruised and severely hurt, but
none fatally.
George H. knight is very i'll at Orange,
N. J. He is suffering from paresis, appar-
emily from the same causes which resulted
| in the death of John Mccullough and
BARLEY Campbell, and which have pros
| trated Tony Hart He arrived from Los
Angeles ten da-s ago. He may die any day
or hour.
Shortly after l o'clock Thursday after
noon a fire broke out in the school building
| at Long Island { ty. Nine hundred chill
dren III panic piled upon and fought each
| other in a frantic effort to get out. They
were piled on the floor at the foot OF the
stairway in heaps. Hundreds OF them were
badly bruised, but none fatally hurt. The
| fire was insignificant.
A London special to the New York
| "Times' says: During the past two days
| there has been n curious concensus OF
opinion that the French republic is in q
desperate strait and that Its downlall ls
Imminent. Several English radicals OF re-
pute have expressed most decided views on
the subject, out of which Il sort OF scare has
been generated here.
A, r. Thompson OF Benton, La, and
young Moore, travelling man from st.
Louis. uuarreed at the TeXarkana depot
Wednesday night and Moore shot Thomp-
son, infcting II dangerous wound. he tnen
turned the weapon aud shot himself in the
head. Both men will probably die. The
quarrel was caused by Moo:e charging
Thompson with carrying on a correspond
ence with his (Moore's) wife.
} The German reichstag assembled at Ber'
, lin, November 22d. Emperor William
opened the session in person. In speech
he sad the tours he had recen tly made con
vinced him that the desire 1or lnlperla
unity was deeply rooted in the people. III
pmuhasizpd the pacific character OF Ger
many's foreign relations and policy; salc
: his visits abroad which had been under
o taken with Il view TO effcctlng an under
standing il, tn interest OF peace causet
universal confiirnce in the maintenance o
/ l,r,c. Tie Eulr'r0r made no reference u
: INV military bin, O" = Its, and tOuche'
/ but briefly upon the last African affair.