Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-14
BREV1TIEs.
News from Every Part Of the World Put
Into the Smallest Compass.

1MUO sHO ShueAAOet OOmp09es
Col. Jos. Curry, q. 8. A., retired, died
suddenly at Fort Monroe, Thursday.
The Gar has consented to visit Berlin.
He and the Czarovitch will arrive August
Gath and remain several days.
A wheel on the President 9 carriage broke,
at Mount Desert, Thursday, as the carriage
turned a corner. But no one was injured.
At Stanwooi the President dined with Mr..
| and Mrs. Blaine.
In the British House Of Commons. We'd
nesday night, during a debate on the Irish
estimates Balfour and Harrington ex-
changed the lie, and nearly came to blows.
After the uproar had subsidized. they apollo
gized for their hastiness.
Secretery Window has directed that all
bonds purchased by this government since
the LIST OF July last be applied TO the sink
ing fund until the requirements for the cur
rent fiscal year, estimated at $47, O0O, 900,
are met.
Captain James 81. Rigby. aged 55 years,
commander OF the amous First Maryland
artille.y, q. 8. A., known as Rigby's
battery in the late war, dropped dead
from heart disease at his home in Baltl-
Dore.
The postofice inspector at st. Louis is
authority for the statement that "Black
Bart" the poetic highwayman ofCalifornia.
was seen in that city last week, and he is
thought to have been indicated in the re.
cent Missouri Pacific train robbery.
1t is stated that the professors for the
Catholic university at Washington will
come to this country notwithstanding
Solicitor Hepburn's adverse decision. At
torney General Miller declares that he will
give no opinion until the arrival of he edu-
Gators.
Hon. Mackenzie Bowel says that had
the seizure of the Tidette been maue, the
report Of it would surely have been sent to
him. He cannot conceive that so import
art a step would have been taken even
wrongfully without his being fully informed.
Ferdinand a.. Hofele was arraigned in
the New York police court Friday morning
and remanded until to-day. Hofele is
charged with completely in the crime oil
Eben Allen Of 42d and Grand street surface
road in an over issue Of stock Hofele says
he is innocent.
The fifty members of Scripts league O
the American workmen's expedition were
entertained at dinner at the Tavestock
hotel. London, Thursday night. Mr.. Lin
coin, United States minister. and Messrs.
Howell, Fenwick, Burt, Cremese and Begger,
members of parliament, were there.
At Chicago, policeman Adam Prayer was
shot to death by a couple OF thugs early
Friday morning, supposed to be John Will.
graw and William Murrill. There vas an
exciting chase after them and nearly q hun
dred policemen surrounded their supposed
hiding place and searched every nook and
corner without finding them.
Experiments with DR.. Brown-Sequards's
elixir of life in Cincinnati and Cleveland are
being made with the most marked success.
In the case OF q colored man Of 20, crippled
with rheumatism, q complete recovery re-
suited and the old fellow has been dancing
and jumping about like a boy ever since
his treatment.
Private dispatches from the Connellsville
cose regions report that a gang OF 800
drunken Hungarian coke workers are on q
raid. They do not seem to understand the
strike is settled in their favor aud Friday
morning started out to close up the works
in operation. They have driven the work.
ers away at two places and are still on the
war.path.
The heading of the great tunnel at Cum.
berland Gap, which unites the states OF
Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, was
knocked in at 6 O'Clock Thursday evening
with appropriate ceremonies. The tunnel
is the largest in the state and it's compile
ton was the accomplishment of the great
est engineering feat ever undertaken in the
state. Trains passing through the tunnel
will cross over to Kentucky, Tennessee and
Virginia.
The San Francisco "Chronicle" claims to
no uo 1ioc ,uoro1 fbot Thoroo 7 DI,n6ok%
who my~steriously disappeared from Hart.
ford, Conn.,, in August 1884, and whose
supposed death in Mexic was telegraphed
last April, is alive and a resident OF the
City OF Mexico. At the time of his disap.
pearance Plunkett was president of the
Hartford Silk Manufacturing company,
and a later investigation showed him to be
a defaulter to the sum of $50, OOO.
Postmaster Lewis and Colonel A. E.
Buck were burned in efigy before the court
house at Atlanta, Ga, Thursday night, in
the presence OF probably 10000 people.
This action is the result of Lewis appoint
ing a negro to place in the registry depart
ment where he would come in contact with
the white lady clerks. Colonel Buck is a
leader and is supposed to have
procured the appointment.
In response to g request from the sheriff
OF Bolivar county, Miss, Governor Lowry
ordered a company of militia to report to
the sheriff Of that county to assist in the
arrest of Messenger. who murdered Editor
Hull a few days ago at Rosedale, Miss.
Messenger vas reported to be under ar
in the hands OF his friends in Concor-
dia. When the sheriff and militia went
there he was informed that Weissengerh had
escaped last Tuesday. It is stated his
carried him to the railway station,
where he took the train.