The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-06
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BREVITIES.

New York, May IA million and q half
OF gold coin was ordered for export to Eu-
rope To- nnorrow.
RocHEsTER, N. ", May 5.-ThFee men
were drowned yesterday in Brsddock's bay,
on Lake Ontario, while building 4 railroad
bridge.
Lou1sv11LK, May 5.-Dr. Boiling, one of
the most prominent physicians of the south,
and dean of the University of Louisville,
died this morning.
rested easier last night, and the chances are
more favorable for his recovery, as the
hsMOrrhage has been stopped.
CLAaKsBURa, W. Va, May 5.-Grsat for
est fires are reported in the vicinity Of Da.
Wis, Tucker county, and heavy losses will
result unless soon extinRuished.
FREDERICTON. N. b.. May 5.-Protests
against the election of Geo. e.. Foster. min
lister of finance, to the commons, has been
entered. The charges of corruption are
made.
HALIFAX, N. S., May 5.-The report is
current here that the British war ship Peli-
can. now in Newfoundland waters, was
fred upon by Newfoundland bait catchers
in Fortune bay.
ST. PAUL, May 5.-The Twin City Pas
senger association, in regard to rates to the
Puget sound diatrict, decided to refer the
proposition to insert the Omaha rate sheet
to three arbitrators.
CHICAGO. May 5.-Schneidwend & Lee,
electrotyping and printing press COMPANY,
confessed Judgment this morning to sums
aggregating. $4,000. Assets are about
$lb0,0Oo; liabilities are about 800, 900.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, May 5.-Prof. G., f..
Nash, of Hartford Theological Seminary, has
accepted An appointment as professor of
hofniletics and pastoral theology At the Pa
ciic Theological seminary, Oakland, Cal.
LONDON, May 5.-The influenza epidemic
is undated in Sheffield and it now has at
tackled Nottingham and Carnalvon. Num-
erous deaths are reported. The government
whip, Sidney Herbert, is Frustrated with
the malady.
LONDON, May 5.-Ths Rothschild syndi-
cnte has asked the Russian government to
postpone the issue of the conversion loan.
1t is Iumored the syndicate will withdraw
altogether from its engagements. Russian
stocks tlattened Yesterday.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 5.-Prof. Halsey @.
Ives, of Washington university. will accept
the position Of director OF fine arts of the
Worlds fair If the duties of his Office will
not require him TO leave the university and
if the faculty grant their appeal.
CHICAGO, May g. Tom Ryan, of Chicago,
champion welter weight, accepted the chat
lenge of Charles Kemmie, of Minneapolis,
to fight him to a finish for stakes of $40, 600
and purse of s 1880, offered by the athletic
clubs of st. Paul and Minneapolis.
ST.. LOUIS, May 5.-As an outgrowth of
the naturalization frauds of 1880, the u. S.
circuit court has declared null and void the
naturalization of seventy persons, on the
charge that they We're fraudulently OBJ
tanned. There are fifty more cases pending.
LONDON, May 5.-United States Minister
Lincoln. at a meeting of the British and
Foreign Sailors Aid society to-day, incl
dentallv remarked he felt sure the Boring
sea dispute would be settled amicably and
honorab!y and in a manner satisfactory to
both counties.
New YORK, May 5.-The count in the in
charging officials of the New
York, New Haven e Hartford railroad with
misdemeanor in having stoves in cars, were
Set aside in court to-day, but the other
counts were sustained.
CHICAGO, May 5.-Word has been received
at headquarters division of the Missouri
from Fort Washakie, Wyoming, to the effect
that another company has been sworn in
as Company l, of the Eighth infantry, COM
posed of twenty-eieht Shoshones and twen-
t~y-seven Arapahoes.
PoMERoY, o.. May 5.-Last night a party
OF ten young persons returning from a
dance near Chester tried to cross a mill
pond in a boat to save distance. Miss
Bertha Mckain, Miss Lutte Ridenour, Chas.
Frank and Smith McDeIa were drowned.
The Others were rescued with much diff
Guilty.
ST. JOINS, N. F., May GA steamer ar
rived here from Fortune bay bringing
eight persons charged with being ringlesd-
pected to be captured. Matters are getting
quieter and the government expects to
suppress all troubles. Hartigan, one of the
leaders, who threatened to fire on the in
spector, is among those captured.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 5.-Ricardo s. Turn
bull, of Santiago, Chilli, a representative of
the congressional party, who is in this city,
says the schooner. Robert and Minnie, is
Mt Catalina, loaded with arms and ammu-
milton. Iurnbull, says the steamer Etatn,
now at Santiago, is there for the purpose of
obtaining provisions for war ships now in
possession OF the congressional party.
SANTA FE. N. NJ, Mav5.-The Rio Grande
Is now within a few inches of the highest
point reached by the floods of 1884, and, on
account of the large amount of snow in the
mountains. it Is thought the floods will be
the greatest ever known here. Bridges at
Albuquerque and Los Lunas have been
wrecked. Below Socorro and at several
places above Albuquerque the waters are
running over banks and devastating fields.
CINCINNATI, May 5.-Judge Perkins to-
day i'll his charge to the grand jury of Ken
ton county, Kentucky, in the cases of the
Covington pool sellers. said that under a
recent decision of the court of appeals
selling pools OH races was not gambling. |
he also said pool looms were indictable as
nuisance, but that the nuisance under law
must be continuous and he therefore said
arresting pool sellers for each pool sold was
not according to law.
DEssr1ponr, May 5.-At a banquet
Emperor William, after dilating upon the
desire for peace and tho protection of Ia
Dor, and expressing satisfaction at the con
clusion of a commercial treaty with Austria,
said: "As to tie home policy which is be.
coming established. ! shall not deviate a
hairs breath from the course | have
adopted. ! alone am master IN this country
and nobody else" This emphatic lansu-
age In regard to the treaty with Austria.
which Bismarck opposes. and also in regard
to home affairs. was evidently directed at
Bismarck.
PARIS, May 5.-An official dispatch receiv-
ed from Chill says it is proposed that three
members of the congressional or insurgent
party and three members of the Balmaceda
or presidential party should be appointed
to confer and discuss some arrangement
which would bring peace to Chill. Presi-
dent Balmaceda has solicited the good
offices of Brazil. the United States and of
France in an effort to restore peace in Chilli.
he asked these three countries to unite in
sndeavors which they make in this dlrec-
tion.