Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-10
BREYITIEs.

rELEeRAPHIc BREYITIEs.
Frost did considerable damage to corn
around Galena, I'll.
n . ukase the car approves Count Toll
stoi's reform projects.
Tha ahorttime movement in the cotton
mills at Manchester has proven q failure.
Al q meeting of business men at Pueblo,
CoI' II vas decided to erect q mineral PAL
ace this fall.
watkins. N. Y, has been damaged sever
al Thousand dollars by q food, but no lives
were lost.
The Mexican steamer Ybero has landed
at Vera Cruz FIVE shipwrecked German sail
ors who were picked up at sea.
Miss Louise A. Andrews, al estimable
Young lady oil Milwaukee, was drowned
while bathing in DEVILS Lake, in North
Dakota.
The Scott elevated railroad bill for st.
Louis has passed the house OF delegates,
and will 60 to Mayor Noonan Tor his sigma
ture.
Charles Kemmer and Henry Arnett were
drowned in Braxton county, West virginia,
while attempting to cross a hoooeo
stream.
Thomas Courniff, of Albany, New York,
and several other people were injured py,a
wreck caused by an open switch on the
| Delaware & Hudson, near Albany.
Miss Lillian DurHont, q respectable young
lady of Brooklyn, stepped from q ball
room into q toilet room and hanged her.
| self. No cause is assigned.
A wreck occurred on the Gunnison rail.
| road in Colorado, in which Engineer
| Blanchard was killed. Many passengers
| were injured but none seriously.
Edgar and s. v. Matheny were killed and
several others dangerously injured by q
| blast explosion at the Garland Coal works
| at Clarksburg, W. Va.
Arthur N. Middleton, q prominent attor-
ney and ex-city solicitor at Urbana, Ohio,
was whipped with SWITCHES by w~hitecaps
for abusing his family.
M. Waddington, the French ambassador
at London, has been directed to ascertain
what chances the English law affords for
the extradition of Gen. Boulanger.
James Benjamin, a farmer near McCon.
nellsville, Ohio. committed suicide because,
as a member OF a jury, he WAS compelled to
render a verdict against his will.
An order has been issued at Washington
making men forty years old eligible as
letter carriers in non-civil service towns
This limit does not apply to wal veterans
The Durham, England, miners have
accepted the 10 per cent advance Offered
by the owners. This decision averts q
strike which would have been the greatest
on record.
The large grain elevator and warehouse
OF FL. L. Bushnell & Co., at Side)l, Iii.
burned, together with many thousands
II I.,Iol. - a~--, 1@un cox 0lf. fn11u in
sured.
The Niagara Hydraulic Electric company
will hold q meeting in New York Tuesday
to complete arrangements for utilizing thu
power at the Horseshoe falls, On the Cana
dian side.
At Ensley City, Ala, August 6, at mid
night Andy Williams went home and founC
VIM. McCutcheon with his wife. He killed
both with a revolver and left.
General Grenfell is returning to Cairo
The campaign is over. A body of Egyp
tians is left at Ferras. Cavalry is in pur
suit OF the one emir who survived the bat
tie of Saturday. He is lurking in the hill
above Bellana with 200 men.
Returns from the Kentucky election fol
state treasurer show a Democratic vic
tory. Stephen G.. Sharp of Lexington, tn,
present treasurer, was elected. There hav'
been some surprising victories for the Re
publican candidates for the legislature
but this has been due 10 all cases to loca
causes.
Paddy Brannan, q Buffalo, N. Y, pugi
list, tried to stand before Peter Jackson
the Australian, for a purse of $500, Mon
day night. La the first round jackson
hammered his man numerically. breaking
his nose, cutting a cash above the right
1-1 Vul@o ksp.o mos n ~ HID ~ Tho gnoNrr
round, the police would not ALLOW Bren
nan to continue. Jackson was not
touched.
Senators Dawes, OF Massachusetts, anc
Stockbridge, of Michigan, OF the commits
sion on investigation Of Indian affairs il
Alaska, arrived in Chicago, Sunday, aftel
five weeks travelling in Alaska. Whil'
they declined to talk freely OF the probable
report OF the commission, Senator Dawes
stated that the stories OF Indian o~utrages
had been greatly exaggerated.
The New Orleans ~"Picayune's' Bator
Rouge special says: Information hat
been received OF a bloody duel fought
Sunday near Cottonport, Avoyles par
ish, between Harry Ducate and hi,
s%on-in-law, Charles Armour. There were
about so men present at thu
fight. The men approached each Other
duO COuluucuCeu uFluS. DOtu C"OulUdtduIi
fell PROSTATE. Examination disclosed the
fact that Ducate had been struck in the
stomach with seven buckshot, making 6
fatal wound, while Armour's right knee
had been shattered by q rifle ball. Thu
fight grew out Of an alteration at a bal
the night before.
At Indianapolis Mrs. Mary Smith, 6
widow, a cut by a burglar while asleep
Friday. She was awakened by a ~stinginI
pain in her neck. Involuntarily raising bel
hand she felt the keen edge OF a knife OF
razor across her fingers. She screamed
and her son IRON q room upstairs came tc
her assistance, and the burglar escaped
The wound was deep, and the severance O
the jugular vein was prevented only by the
slight obstruction OF her night cap strings
which were cut. She will die. No attempt
at robbery was made, and the only ex
PLANTATION that can possibly be given il
that several years ago she testified III cour'
against a criminal, who was sent to the pen
vowing vengeance on the witness. 1t il
thought possible this man may have done
the deed.
Terrible Riot of Chinese Coolies.