Butte semi-weekly miner., 1888-09-01
TELEGRAPHIc BREYIrTEs.
News From Every Part of the World r,
Into the Smallest Compass.

news From Every Part of the World Pu
Into the Smallest Compass.
The coilIiers' sttike at Melbourne. il aer
iously interfering with the movements Q
steamships. !.
Emperor Francis Joseph has invited th,
fnnce OF Wales to witness the autumn
maneuvers OF the Austrian troops.
Q. 8. Terry. OF Waterville, N. Y. has inst
sold his 1888 hop crop at 25 cents. an adj.
vance OF 10 cents on the pound within one
Mrs. Mary Chaslick Hume, wife of Pro-
lessor A. w. Hume, well known in literary
ClIcles: cropped dead while preparing to
Da1ne IN the surf at Good Ground, Z. /.
The barn OF the Spring Valley stock farm.
nlne m mics from indianapolis, was burned
| tuesday, and eighteen head OF fine horses
perlshed. The fine stallion Brignoli Wilkes
was lost, also Ina. valued at $6, 600. Mary
Y. at $5, 900, Vassar Girl, Madam Home
wood and others. 's-,---- 1'-'e-
The overland f1yer' on the Union
FacIfic road was wrecked at KimhaIl
Nebraska, cary Wednesday morning bv a
broken rail. Three sleepers, one OF them
occupied by Claus Spreckies, the sugar
King. were deraiied. Spreckles escaped.
Dlo tnree other passengers were seriously
9 Fivss- hundred dsr,;ahss astasksa
Egy ptian tort near Wady Halfa and cap
tured portion of ii. The Egyptians re. |
ceived reinforcements from Wady Halfa
and tIally succeeded in driving out the |
deryIshes, killing more than 100 OF them. /
Inc Egyptian loss was 16 killed and 90 I
wounded.
A. q. Throckmorton, nephew of Governor
I lhrockmorton OF Texas, committed suicide
In 10-cent lodging house ia Denver
Wednesday owing to morphine and de. L
spondency, caused by poverty and whisky.
ne IS supposed to recently have come from
Pueblo, Col, where, through sickness, he
Ind his wife spent all they, had. Il
The boiler of the locomotive attached to Z
Lehigh Valley freight train exploded while
'olng up the mountain near Wilkes Barre e
"a, Wednesday afternoon A brakeman I
lamed Joseph Vanhorn was blown from, the | 4
nglne into the woods two hundred feet
way. Both OF his legs and one arm were +
soKen and his back was injured. He died G
efore reaching home. s
a Middle Bass special to the Toledo a
biade" says: The people of the island and c.
tlzens OF Ohio and Michigan are LOOKING ?
'rward with greatinterest to the reception q,
De held at Put.in-Bay next Friday after n
Don. Indications are that thousands of q
eople will be present from all Northern "
mo and Eastern Michigan. Ex-Governor h,
oster says the reception will be purely in ii
rmal, but that the idea is to satisfy the tr
'puiar demand to see General Harrison bf
bile ne is IN this section. O,
The Portuguese brigantine Neptune ar.
Ved at Halifax, ten days ago from Faval. II
'eres, bound to Boston, U. s., with la
male immigrants on board. It was said
at she came in to procure water, but it
8 Just developed that she put in e,
sliax to land the women, who were for
rded to their destination by rail to Re
ade the American law. Had the vessel -
ken the women to Boston they .ouId NOT pr
yes aaaded there, as they had previously th'
~ engaged to enter service in the United snt
ties. tire
me British court OF inquiry. which has nu nr
n Investigating the causes OF the recent ~, ~
llsion in San Francisco BAY between taa "a,
steamers Oceanic and the CITY of ;n.. vne
'ster, by which fifteen of the latter's na ,ns
sengers lost their lives, announced a tau tau
Ision to-day exonerating the officers Ole
men, and complimenting them upon
fine discipline observed at the time of n
disaster. The court states that the -
lslon can only be attributed to the one
That the Chester was caught in strong tnel
which forced her across the Oceaaie,s altt
ma,