Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1889-08-08
NEWS NOTES.

pennsylvania Is again .afIlicted win
floods.
Ex-senator E. H. Rollins, of New
Hampshire is dead.
All the Ereweries i'm Omaha have
been sold to an European syndicate.
The dam at Belleville, n. j., gave
way last week, destroying S2OO,OOO
worth OF property.
Between 10000 and $4,000 coal
miners i'm the Connellsville PA dis
trict have struck for higher wages.
At Mandan on Aug. Cd, a Northern
Pacific shed containing 500 cords OF
wood, 500 tons of coal and twelve
freight cars, were destroyed. by fire.
Loss, $45, 900.
The minister of Justice at Ottawa,
Ont. has signed the warrant for the
extradition of Burke and he will be
taken back to Chicago and tried for
completely in the Cronin murder.
Gov. Beaver has received through
the German consul at New York
$1O,OOO from the people OF Berlin and
over 81 200 from the mayor and
council OF Mannheim for the .JOhnstown
sufferers.
The report OF the commissioner OF
internal revenue for the fiscal year Just
closed shows the total collections for
the district OF Montana, which in
cludes the territo ories OF Idaho and
Utah, were Sl62.642.
The fast pacing stallion, Sir Thorn
ton died at Joliet, ILL., on July 31st.
Cause OF death said to be indigestion.
brought on by too rapid cooling of
after his remarkable performance at
Aurora. The horse was valued at
SIS, 900.
The Sonora and Milton stage was
stopped by two highwaymen near
CopperOpolis, Cal. The Wells, Fargo
& Co. sale was blown open, but was
found to contain nothing. The rob-
bers only secured s57 from the pass
engers.
Three departments OF the Diamond
plate-glass works at Kokomo, Ind,
we're destroyed by fire on July 3lst.
Loss estimated at $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000 The works cover four
acres and it required hard work to
save the remainder OF the plant. The
portions burned will be rebuilt at
once.
Miss Lizzie Farrell, daughter OF a
prominent citizen of Norway, Mich,
with two young women friends, Miss
Anna McCabe Of Depere and Miss
Alice MCCLELLAN OF Escanaba, lost their
lives by drowning on the 3lst inst.
They were boat-riding on the Menomi-
nee river when the skiff became un.
manageable and was swept over the
falls with it's precious cargo.
One night last week the good women
OF the town OF Kappa, III. arose in
their anger and mobbed pair OF dis
reputable women of Bloomington who
have been in the habit of visiting that
place and meeting certain prominent
men. The Kappa women gave their
unwelcOme visitors q thorough pelt-
ing with bad eggs and stones, driving
them from the town, and threatened
II they ever returned that they would
treat them to tar and feathers or hang
them to tree.
John Hronek, one of the Chicago
anarchists confined at the Joliet
prison, made a desperate attempt to
commit suicide on July 31st. Hronsk
is employed in the saddle-shop. Soon
after the convicts had entered the
shop for the days work Foreman
Dumaulin saw Hronek pick up a sharp
knife from his bench and viciOusly
slash it across his right arm, severing
the arteries. The convict was quickly
disarmed, and is now under the doc
tors care. HrOnek is a Bohemian,
and was given a twelve-year sentence
for making dynamite for the Chicago
anarchists.
At Buffalo, on July Both, Peter
Jackson was billed to spar four
rounds with Tom Lynch, the Irish
giant and big local athlete. Somebody
put it into Lynch's head that he
could down the darkey, and he sailed
into him with that intent. The two
men began humping each other with
might and main, and the crowd yelled
with delight. Finally, in the second
round, with II curse that could be
heard for blocks, Lynch grappled
Jackson by the legs. pulled his pins
from under him, and jumped on him.
The audience sprang into chairs and
yelled. The police jumped in and put
a stop To the fight.
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