Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-07
BREVIrIEs.

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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
News from Every Part or the World Pa
Into the Smallest Compass.
The outlook for this seasons catch
whales is not considered promising.
The physicians attending Wilkie Collins
the novelist, pronounce him out ofdangel
tt is reliably stated that Harper, th
Cincinnati bank ~defaulter, will not be paI
> doned.
The Belgium chamber OF deputies he
voted 100000 Tor the new Congo raj
; way.
Jake Kilrain and wife are at old Poin
remain indefinitely.
Barker Weaver, 3 Kentucky convict
escaped, but was r~ecaptured by mean o
bloodhounds.
The American Bar Association will holt
it's twelfth annual meeting at Chicago Aug
ust %, 90 and 80.
Gen. Malone has issued q call for a stat
convention Of Virginia Republicans to NEE
at Norfolk August %.
Several slight shocks OF earthquake wer,
felt in Eastern Tennessee, causing people tt
abandon their houses,
Regent Ristics, OF Servia, is reported tt
be seriously i'll. He 10 said to have had
stroke Of apoplexy.
A bed quilt trust was organized at New
York recently, and an adYarceo OF about 81
per cent. will be made.
President Harrison will visit indianapolis
August 20, when the corner stone OF thu
soldiers monument will be laid. s.
King Mataafa says that the war and
hurricane ave caused q famine in Samoa
and asks assistance from America.
Rev. j. Crosslett, prominent in mission,
airy and benevolent work in China, died or
ship board Between Shanghai and TENT
sin.
James G. Blaine, Jr., is said to be acting
az a fireman on the locomotive which pulls
the fast express between Bar Harbor and
Bangor.
Compositors on the "Sun," Times" and
World at New York, who struck against
a combine to make q reduction in wages,
were successful.
Secretary Window has warned custo.
dians of public buildings not to admin.
lister oaths of office in anticipation of ap.
pointment.
Daniel banks, q religious crank, near
Warsaw. Ind, compelled his wife to stran.
gle their ffteen.months old child as q sac
rifce.
The new Sanderson academy building in
Ashfield, Mass, erected as q memorial to
the late John w. Field OF Washington, was
dedicated recently.
Secretary Rusk has decided that the En-
glish sparrow must 60, although it will
cost seven or eight million dollars to rid
the country Of the pests.
Two trains collided with each other.
Thursday, at ~Petchouggas. near Odessa.
Eight carriages were smashed and several
pereons killed and injured.
Eighty thousand Turkish reserves have
been called out. The Porte is buying uni
forms and stores. Work ia proceeding at
the dockyards with feverish anxiety.
Henry Shelton, a colored fireman On an
Ohio river steamboat, attempted to save
the life of q child which had fallen over
board, and both were drowned.
The secretary OF state has been informed
by the United States consul at Kingston,
Jamaica, Of a material reduction of export
duties on sugar, rum and coffee.
Twenty-Five persons living in a tenement
house at Chicago, narrowly escaped death
by asphyxiation, but we're saved by the
awakening Of one Of the inmates.
In the house of commons, London, Au.
gust l, STAIRS, a radical, moved an amend
ment reducing the grant to the Prince
of Wales to Ell, 600. The motion wal re-
iected.
An exploring expedition consisting OF
seven men under an officer OF the Danish
navy, provisioned for two years and hall,
will leave next spring on board q whaler
for the east coast of Greenland.
The British steamer Altnacraig from
Homo for America, with sugar. struck q
rock near the island OF Palawan and filled
with water. She will probably be a total
loss. The crew have arrived at Manila.
Gov. Sharpe OF Idaho, has Information OF
heavy timber fires in the Wood river coun-
try. Citizens have been fighting fire there
two days and now ask for assistance. The
country here is almost obscured by dense
smoke. 1t is estimated fires in Idaho are
destroying timber running into millions in
value.
Shepherd Bros, whose worsted mills
closed. down on account OF the failure OF
Lewis Bros. & Co., made a general assign.
ment August 1. Nothing could be
bilities, The firm owes $11, 600 in wages.
The firm did a business of from $500, 900
$to 800. 900 a year.
Harry Seebold, teller, and George Hen
ming, another employe of the bank of
Wheeling, W.. Va, were arrested Thursday
night, charged with embezzling $24, 900
of the banks funds. Seebold made q con-
~fession, Friday, and exonerated Henning.
He took the monev May 10th. Most OF
the money will be recovered.
The manager Of Rochefort's paper
LIntrausieiant, who was arrested. on q
charge OF stealing and publishing documents
submitted to the high court OF the senate
in the case OF B%oulanger, a arraigned in
Paris Friday, and testified that the docu-
ments in question had been received from
parties in London.
On the Richmond & Fredericksburg rail-
road two passenger trains collided. Thurs
day night: Engineer Desmond was killed
and Conductor Newman badly injured.
Howell and a lady passenger
were slightly hurt.
Froude, the historian, has written a let
ter denying the truth OF the reports that
No Od6 D6COu0 o uOAlO 1uiCAs LAX oOAo VA0V
Gladstone's policy is only a %spasmodic
gust of sentiment suggested, as always, by
some condition OF English party politics.
1t is the worst and most s%candalous in
English history.
The palace steamer st. Lawrence, which
for several seasons has been the pride OF
her officers and the best OF the Thousand
Island line OF boats, run on a rock of Hog
island in the Canadian channel, Thursday,
and is going to pieces. She had on board
nearly 800 people who we're safely conveyed
to an adjoining island. 1t is expected the
steamer will 60 to pieces during the night.
The b~oycotting circular Of eight state de.
partment commanders was discussed at q
meeting of the local Grand Army eDcamp'
ment council, at Milwaukee, Thursday
night, After a stormy session resolutions
were adopted to 60 ahead with prepare
tions for the encampment, and that the
usual parade will be held despite the re-
fusal of those commanders to take part
in it.
At a meeting OF the directors at San
Francisco, August 1, OF the California Ath.
letic club, the Murphy Murphy fight, which
was partly finished Tuesday night, was in