Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-13
-TELEGRAPHIO BREVTTIEs.

News From Every Part of the World Pu,
Into the Smallest Compass.
Some one claims to have made the dis
covery that the Chicago city election is lille
gal.
The count Of boomers camped around
Caldwell, Kan, shows the number to be
about 1850 and increasing every day.
At Kokomo, Ind, April 8, Lynch Bros.
boiler works burned. Three firemen were
seriously injured by a falling wall.
A panic prevails near Percivai, Iowa, on
account OF mai dogs. A large number Of
stock died from the effects OF rabies, and a
son OF Farmer Keyser was also bitten and
Is suffering from bydrophobia.
Specials from South Dakota report that
the usual spring rains have at last set in
and will soon extinguish the prairie fires
that are running all over the country. The
people are rejoicing.
A telegram from Kanaba, Utah, signed by
the sheriff, says that four robbers who held
up the train at Canon Diablo a month ago
have been captured, and that the sheriff
and posse are now on their way to Milford,
Utah.
Frank Hares of Bloomfield, Mich. aged
20, was, Monday, riding on a cart driving
|" ~ ACoNAuS O0i'ioA LILO 6pdi.
lion seized him by the neck with his teeth,
dragged him put of tile cart backward,
shaking him terribly and stamping him to
death.
Captain Leary, OF the United States
steamer Adams, arrived in Chicago Mon
day morning from San Francisco. He left
Samoa five months ago, and expresses the
opinion that il there had been more coal at
Pango Pango more lives might have Eeen
saved in the recent storm.
Almost the entire town of Smithfield,
johnson county, N. c., burned Monday.
The only buildings which remain standing
are the county court house and Jail and a
few dwellings. The total loss is estimated
at $100, 900. Much Of the property was
insured.
The government postoffice inspector has
Henry D. Darby, registry clerk in
the Office at Washington, for rifing valua-
BILE letters. When arreted he had $40 in
his hand, which he had just taken FROM a
letter, and on his person $500, which it is
thought were taken from registered letters.
At ST. Joseph, Mo-, April 9Th, the days
session of the worlds conference OF Latter
Day Saints vas given up to hearing of re-
ports OF missionaries, showing the prosper
ity and growth of the church throughout
The country. Reports of the church re-
show there are over 26, 900 members |
Of the church, a gain of 1,4S5 in the past
year.
A. J. Mcdowell, OF Boston, auditor OF the |
Mexican Central Railway Company, well /
~n in New York, Boston and the West, |
vas taken with q congestive chill last Wed. |
lesday morning while en- route from the
lily OF Mexico and was compelled to stop |
,ver at Albuquerque. After lingering five
lays, he died Monday morning.
At New York, April g.. Mrs. Parks, in.
psctress OF Surveyor Beauties force, seiz-
d from Mrs. Davis, q passenger on the
Adriatic, from Liverpool, about
hree pounds OF wooden yarn which she had
uilted into one of her petticoats; thir.
yards of dress goods, sewed into an
ther; aboat twenty yards of ~fannels
'hich had been wrapped around her little
aughter. Mrs. Davis is q resident Of
[innesota, and confessed to having SNUG.
ed the goods in this manner before. TIE
,ods were sent to the seizure room. /.
At Chicago. April g., Yee Sing, a wealthy ,
hinese merchant of Denver, was arrested, !
la-ged with clipping with Wong Toy, the
ife of Chin Poo, another prominent China. &
an, and with carrying off $500 of Chin
oo's money. zee Sing denies the theft Of
oney, but admits soft Impeachment as to !
10 wife. He returned to Denver Monday in !
arge OF the officers. tits understood that =
70 Sing has a rich brother in San Fran
and it is suspected that he is q royal =
andarin. His appearance indicates he is !
'ove the ordinary. p