The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-05
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BREVITIES.
ATLANTA. Ga, Feb. A.-Gsn. r, ]. Hen
derson, 4 prominent confederate officer,
died to-day.
KANsAs CIrr, Feb. ELMER Clark 50.
~perintendent OF the Kansas City Cable Koad
company, was killed to-day by . oar.
pAnts. Fob. 4.-One passenger was killed
and twenty were injured by the derailment
of a train, between Donai n Paris TINS
morning.
BosroN. Feb. 4.-Representatives OF house
painters and decorators from all over the
country are holding their seventh annual
convention here.
ST. Louis, Feb. 4.-Linebarger Il CO.. who
failed recently, compromised on a basis OF
Is cents on the dollar, and the firm will re-
sumo business on the exchange.
SpARrANsBuRa s. G., Feb. 4.--W. thinner
man, storekeeper and agent of the Farm.
ers' alliance supply store in this city, is said
to be short in his accounts from $15,UOO to
$4,000.
PuEnLo, Colo, Feb. 4.-The snow block
AIDE on the Santa Fe line near Palmer lake
is only temporarily raised. Trains have
been stalled in this vicinity since Sunday
morning.
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. A small pox epi-
demic is raging in the towns OF hnsk a an
Overton and the surrounding territory. The
schools and churches are closed and a rigid
quarantine established.
MAssILoN, Ohio, Feb. "A rear end col
lision occurred on the Cleveland u Wheel
ing railroad at Beach City this morning be-
tween two freights. The fireman was killed
and a brakeman fatally injured.
MARsEn LES, Feb. "A dispatch says: A
number OF artillery men belonging to the
garrison at Montpelier, were engaged in
charging a mine with dynamite, when the
charge exploded, fatally injuring nine men.
PANS, Feb. "A Belgian has been ar
rested in this city charged with supplying
German war department. officials with the
plans of France Belgian and Belgian-Ger-
man frontiers.
CHICAGO. Feb. 4.-The temperature last
O'Clock this morning the signal service
thermometer registered eight degrees be-
low zero, but by 1890 it stood at zero.
KANSAS Cry, Feb. 4.-The citizens com
mittee completed its investigation of the
affairs of the American National bank,
which failed two weeks ago. The commit
tee will report fayorably on the reopening
Of the bank.
LONDON, Feb. fin the house of COM
mons to-day Gladstone moved q second
reading Of the bill to remove religious dis
ability and made q long and earnest speech
in support Of the measure. 1t was defeated
by a vote Of 256 to 223.
LONDON, Feb. 4.-The State line steamer
State Of Alabama, Of Glasgow, Jan. IA, for
New York, returned to Queenstown short OF
coal. She had experienced terrible gales,
during which she was greatly damaged and
everything movable carried away.
-SpRINaF1ELD, ILL.,, Feb. 4.-Cockrel, +.
N. II. A. member. being sick to-day, his
two colleagues and the republicans in the
joint assembly refrained from'voting for
senator. There being no quorum the as
sembly adjourned after the first ballot.
ANDERSON, Ind, Feb. AFTER q trial of
field white caps was acquitted by the jury
to-day. The cases. against the men indict-
ed with Richardson will be dismissed.
Great indignation prevails over the verdict.
New York, Feb. 4.-There is anxiety for
the safety of the steamship Denmark, which
sailed from London Jan. IA, due here Jan.
26. On the 26th she was spoken 600 miles
not working. The weather has since been
bad at sea.
WATERLOO, Iowa. Feb. 4.-The Citizens
Mutual Fire Insurance company, of this
city, has assigned. Liabilities are about
$25,OOO; assets. made up of premiums.
notes, ETC., about $4,000. The company
was organized about four years ago by Ex-
Gov. Sherman.
BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 4.-The steamer
Circe from Glasgow sunk this morning at
the dock. Her cargo of -four in being re-
moved was considerably damaged. Some
one on board is supposed to have left open
one of her waste pipes Though which the
sea entered. No lives we're lost.
LAREDO, Tex, Feb. 4.-Dr. Ignacio Mar
tinez. while making his rounds among pa
TENTS this morning was waylaid by two I'M
known men and killed. The assassins
escaped. DR.. Martinez was at one line a
general in the Mexican army. He was a
political exile from his native country.
New YORK, Feb. 4.-The National Lead
trust to-day declared a dividend of so cents
per share for tho first quarter. The follow
ing trustees were elected to old Office I'M
til the first Wednesday in February. 1884:
F. w. Rockwell, W. H. Thompson, r. B..
Colgate, and f. A. Cole elected trustee to
fill a vacancy.
KANSAS CRY, Feb. 4.-Receiver Erb, of
the Kansas City, Wyandotte d Northwest
ern railroad, appointed referee in the
Rock Island and Chicago, Kansas &
Nebraska controversy, has forwarded his
decision to Judge Caldwell, of the United
States court. The controversy arose over
nm attempt to foreclose a mortgage on the
Chicago, Kansas Il Nebraska road.
BRAZIL, Ind, Feb. 4.-Dispatches from
Spokane Falls, WASH, announce that Hen
ny McNamer and sor, h had settled on a
claim near the Indian encampment, had a
row with the Indians and both were killed.
A squaw was also killed in the fight. Both
men we're we'll known in this town, the
father having taught school III Clay county
for wentv years.
PARIS, Feb. 4.-Adyices received by the
Gaulois from It's correspondent in Buenos
been obliged to abandon Laserene and Co
Quilnbo, and that the barbor of Iquique
has been r~e-opened. The reports also say
the government will raise the blockade at
Valparaiso in three days unless the insur-
gents make another attack in the mean
time.
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