Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-07
The Republican state platform is 6
compilation of dreary platitudes.
TELEGRAPRIC BREVITIES

News from Every Part of the World Pu
Into the Smallest Compass.
Serious floods are prevailing in the dis
trict surrounding Tampico, Mexico.
A millionaire named Fernback OF Vienna
killed his wife an then attempted suicide.
Owing to the failure of crops, q famine
prevails in Maros-Torda. Eastern Transyl
vania.
I Yarmouth and Sandwich, Mass, Tues
day celebrated the 25Oth anniversary o.
their settlement.
A mas meeting of sympathizers with the
London strikers was held atCoeper Union,
New York, Tuesday night.
Walker & Dana's match factory at Port.
land, Or, was burned with it's contents.
Loss $18,000;' uninsured.
The national convention of Catholic
young mems societies will be held at Provi.
dence, T.. l., September 3, 4 and 5.
The ship Bay of Naples, loaded with
petroleum for Rangoon, burned to the
waters edge in New York bay, Tuesday.
The Spring Valley Oily Coal Company
discharged their general office force for an
indefinite period. The town is fast becom-
ing deserted.
SSNSAO AOAdu"hO 6hOCh6 W6T6 6ADeTl.
enced at Erezroum, Monday, and the vii
lage of kautzork was engulfed in lava, with
a loss OF 100 lives.
Secretary OF War Proctor has accented
the resignation from the army OF Surgeon
Joseph Y. Porter, who resigned because he
was ordered from Jacksonville to Louis
lana.
H. Fl. Warner. the head of the large pro.
p~rietary and medical establishment in
Rochester. N. Y, has agreed to sell the
business to an English syndicate for e..
OOO,O OO.
After being out twenty-five hours the iury
in the Judge Pulliam murder case at Bran.
derburg, KY, returned a verdict of man.
slaughter and fixed the punishment at fiji. !
teen years in the p~enitentiary.
M. Laguerre is going to London to try to |
persuade Gen. Boulanger, on behalf OF his |
followers in France, to return to Paris. M. |
Rochefort and Count Dillon oppose the re.
turn OF Boulanger to France.
The state department has been informed
the government of Paraguay has &C.
eepted the invitation Of the United States
attend the international congress to be
held here in October and that a delegate
will soon be appointed.
From Khartoum, Kassola. Tokar and
other towns and villages on the Nile in
Upper Egypt come distressing accounts of
anime. There are twenty deaths daily in
alone. while in the whole stricken
district the bodies of the dead are eaten
" the living.
The threatened race war be, ween the
Vhites and blacks at Greensboro, Miss, be-
Sunday by q negro shooting in q crowd I
white men during a coloreu picnic, prom t
'es to subside. Several have been killed t
lready, however, but Governor Lowry has '
interfered. b
The great bell OF Hung.wu, which has t
ing lain half buried in the ground, has at 4
myth been lifted by foreign machinery and
ung In a pagoda built of iron by a foreign
According to prophesy, this bell was
ever to be lifted until China entered upon r
new career OF prosperity. =
The latest marine Internal machine ia a
batting battering-ram. 1t consists of a
ear-shaped boat, made entirely of thick NJ
eel, and operated by the captain only. :.
no is lodged in an invulnerable ~turrent' tt
lch a contrivance as this is capable Of b,
liking the largest ironciad with the great C.
t ease. :
A remarkable instance of telephonic -.
mmunication occurred in Charleston. S. .1
last week. A young man employed in VI
o western Union telegraph Office in that III
conversed without any difficulty with sh
who was in Omaha, 1900 miles Ri
ray: The brothers talked an hour with =.
rdly any pause between questions. co
At New York September 3. stocks opened rio
tn aspurt. Tuesday morning, and unusual MI
tivity, accompanied by decided STRENGTH
70 most remarkable movement was in stt
rthern Pacific preferred, which, after an
ening at 75h, rose rapidly to II, reacted mis-
75%. but rose again to Tx. Other to
Irked movements is an advance OF IL in W,
egon Transcontinental to 371. The up. thi
rd movement in stocks again became abs
re pronounced toward u O'Clock. and GRO
rthern Pacific preferred reached 7sk and sto
nmon 36B. At noon the market is ito
i've n strong at the highest prices OF rem
morning.
t Mondays session of the Americana
ociation for the advancement of science,
Toronto, a large number of papers were
d in the various sections, including one A
social economy" by Mrs. Laura o..
ne Talcott, in which she characterjzes .
as the most wasteful people on M
earth, and one by e. d. Preston, of the first
ee1 states oas ana geological survey, hou
It completed the list of officers to be ~
ented to the association to-day. was
rye s. Goodale of Cambridge, Mass, is goo'
for president; T. W. Putnam of and
bridge, permanent secretary; Fl. @. nris,
on OF New York. general secretary: =.
es LRndon OF Toronto, secretary of WV
William lilly of Mauch Chunk. won
treasurer. The next meeting will be mas
in Dimphoney. mos