Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-27

taken to sea from the Brooklyn navy
yard Tor q trial test at broadside firing.
The Southern Pacific company, through
C. r. Huntington, have given orders Tor
30, 600 tons OF steel rails to eastern rolling
mills, for the construction OF new lines.
President Diaz il determined to have the
troubles between the International Com
and the land owners OF Lower Cali
iornia settled and has issued order to that
effect. a -@ntiFf1 81 ?
Minister Dinsmore at Seoul. Corea, tele-
graphs that the report that Mrs. Heron was
under sentence of death Tor preaching chris.
tiapity in Corea, 10 wholly without foun.
dalton.
b. j. Creighton, OF San Francisco, ex-state
senator who was convicted OF jury bribiDg
nearly two years 6 and escaped before
sentence was pronounced, has returned and
surrendered.
Salem, OREGON, lumber mills have shut
doyn with 100000 OF logs on the banks
OF the river, above that cannot float down
on account Of scarcity OF water. Mills at
Eugene City and Albany are in the Same
boat.
As Hon. E. H. Terrell, Of Texas, minis.
ter to Belgium, was boarding the steamer
in New York he struck bis knee Against q
projection, ~injuring it so badly that be
has been unable to walk since. He is con-
hued to his room in Brussels.
Aibrewery that will cost 5000, 600 10 to
be erected in Tacoma. The company il al
ready formed and the work has been be.
gun and it il calculated that by the begin
ming OF 1890 Tacoma will be supplying the
Northwest with lager beer. sir
The ruiuo OF salmon on the Columbia river
has been improving lately, but it comes too
late to swell the pack very much. The well
informed state that the canning this year
will amount to about 300, 900 cases, which
10 so, 900 cases less than last year.
The Minneapolis Market Record esti,
mates the wheat crop OF Minnesota and
Dakota at eighty to ~eighty-fve million
/ bushels, or about ten million more than
last year. Harvesting has begun in the
southern portion.
At Penina, q village . few miles south oi
Peru. Ind, last Tuesday evening, james
| Oyerman shot and killed his sweetheart
| Miss Maggie Smith, daughter OF q promi
| entphysician, and then committed suicide
Jealousy was the
Philadelphia and New York business cir
Giles are excited over the failure of the
Wholesale dry goods house OF Lewis Bros
q Co., in Chestnut street, above Second, in
| Philadelphia. IL is thought liabilities vii
run up, to $4,000, 900. The firm ha.
houses in New York, Chicago, Baltimore
and Boston,. y bqaf 0;5-,
Dupont, q Boulangists member Of tn
chamber OF Deputies Monday attempted
to make q speech at Port Liable, but wa
attacked by O mob and stoned. A number
| OF DupoEt's teeth were broken. His fact
Was cut and he was refused permission te
proceed. ias4a .Giar asasssa Il .ra
Two brothers named Heller, doing bust
ness a. foreign bankers and steamship
agents at st. Louis, are missing, and it il
charged that from $15, 900 to $4,000
deposited chiefly by poor Russians and
Scandinavians for Transmission to rela
tives abroad, went with them.
An early opening OF much OF the valua
BILE lands on the Puyallup reservation to
white settlers is expected after the return
OF the senatorial committee from Alaska
ard real estate spectators ut Tacoma art
on the qui vive. They are all looking with
longing eyes on the wooded shores OF thu
reservation on the Sound. --r g.
The trial OF the strikers arrested at Bres
lau, Germany, resulted in the conviction o
thirty-two. Hsnkel, the r~ingleader, 10 sen
fenced to seven years penal servitude, and
| to be deprived OF all civil rights during that
time. Nine are sentenced to terms ranging
from eighteen months to five years at hard
labor, and twenty-five are sentenced from
enc to four years without hard labor.
A special from Victoria, B. c., says the
schooner Wandsrer arrived there from
Sand Point yesterday morning with the
catches of several British sailing schooners,
| consisting in all OF $500 skins. A syndi'
| cate OF four sent the Wanderer to Sand
Point for the purpose Of securing the catch
before entering Behring sea. One catch Of
twenty.one British and American %schooneri
| at Sand Point amounted to S,Sl2 skins.
A report is current, but not fully authen'
ticated, that early Wednesday morning The
/ bodies Of three men, one colored and two
white, were found near Whiting station,
Lake county, Indiana. Who they are OF
how they came there is not known. The
most plausible theory is that they were
stockmen passing through with q load oil
live stock, and perhaps tramps on the train
committed the deed and threw the bodies
OF in order to allay suspicion. The bodies
were found close together between the track
Of the Baltimore & Ohio and Lake Shore
railroads.