Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1889-06-13
NEWS NOTES.

Nashville, Tenn, wa. shaken 10y an
Earthquake shock on the 9th inst.
Three lads. while hunting chipmunks
near Erie. Pennsylvania, last week,
unearthed purse of $500 in gold and
silver.
Justice Gray. OF the United States
supreme court, and Miss .Jeannette
Matthews, daughter OF the late Justice
Matthews, were married in Washing
ton on June 4th.
The National White Lead Trust has
purchased the plant OF the Collier
White Lead Company, st. Louis, for
four and one-half millions. This gives
the Standard Oil people control OF the
entire white lead output of America.
General Passenger Agent Charles q.
Scull, OF the Baltimore a Ohio road,
lost nine relatives in the Johnstown
flood. These were Mrs. Mary Hurst
and five children and Mrs. II. NJ. Ogle,
the noble telegraph operator who died
at her post, and her two children.
Deputy Marshal Williams was shot
and killed in the Indian Territory last
week by a notorious horse thief named
Cornelius Walker. Walker was in
stantly shot and killed in return by
Deputy Marshals Carr and Swain and
the Franklin brothers, pals OF Walker,
made prisoners.
A cyclone swept through Lamar
Icounty, Texas, last week, doing great
damage to crops, levelling fences, un-
roofing houses and barns and inluring
a number of people. The cyclone
struck the southern section OF the
county and moved in an easterly
direction, sweeping everything IN ITS
path.
j. II. Benjamin, edit or ol the Ire
land News, shot and instantly killed
Capt. j. W. Douglass at New smyrna,
Florida, on June 9Th. Douglass was
a prominent citizen OF Dayton and "A
well-known democratic politician. The
shooting was the result OF an old feud.
Douglass assaulted benjamin and tn.
latter shot in self-defense.
Congressman Dorsey, Of Nebraska,
has organized ~ touring party which
will leave Omaha July 26 for San
Francisco over the Union Pacific.
They will return by the Northern
Pacific, stopping to make speeches i'm
Washingt on, Montana and Dakota
and separate in st. Paul about
August 18th. The most prominent
| members of the party will be Con
gressmen Mckinley and Barrows.
| The booming town OF Seatt tie, Wash
ington Territory. was visited by "a
| terrible fire on the afternoon OF June
9th. The business portion of the city
is in ashes. Every bank hotel, place
OF amusement, all the leading bust
ness houses, all the newspaper offices.
the railroad depOts, miles OF steam
boat wharves, coal bunkers and tele-
graph offices have been burned. The
fire began near the cOrnero OF Front and
Pearl streets in the Seattle Candy
factory, at 2::,O p. m. The city is lit
orally wiped out except the residence
portion on high ground. The loss is
placed at 81 100000.
| At Topeka, Kan, early in the morn
inc o"d a, fll,Bpe w abhalHl abtha Hon q A. 7. Rogers, OF
burglar, and Mrs. Rogers aeliu@dsifiy,7
wounded. The burglar escaped badly
injured, but later in the day was cap
tured. When it was known he was IN
Gust ody the people surrounded the
Jail to guard against any attempt to
remove him elsewhere. During the
evening the crowd increased and at
IL y. m. the Jail was stormed. The
officers made "a desperate resistance
and it was | | O'Clock when the unfOr-
tunate wretch was dragged out and
hung to the nearest telegraph pole.