Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-05-28
NEWS NUGGETS
WILL BE FOUND UNDER
THIS HEADING.
Collected and Condensed Frons
the Latest Associated
Press Dispatches.

A traffic over the Iron MonntaiH
railroad north Of Texarkana, Ark.
is suspended On account Of the
Eiooda.
Deacon, the American who shot
hi wife's paramonr in London some
time ago, has been Sentenced to
prison for one year.
The president Monday withdrew
the nomination of Frederick BAN
croft as United States consul to
Brunswick, Germany.
Charles Gaylor, veteran Ameri-.
can playwright, is dying at ST..
Johns hospital, Brooklyn. Gaylor
is 73 years old. He has had more
than 200 plays produced.
Twenty thousand acres Of farms
are flooded in Franklin county;
Arkansas. Hundreds Of families
are homeless. The losses are esti1
mated at S'2yO,OO0'to 50 50, coo.
A large number Of people have
been drowned during the week by
the floods in the Missouri and Mis-
sissippi rivers, and the property
losses will run up into the millions.
The Washington correspondent
Of the Cincinnati Enquirer, in last
Mondays issue, reports James G,
Blaine as saying: Il will do moth
ing to prevent my nomination. I
have made my last deniaF.'
A St. Paul dispatch Of Monday
says: It is officially announced
that ". ". Finley, ex-chairman Of
the Western Passenger association.
has been appointed general traffic.
manager Of the Great Northern.
A Salt Lake dispatch of Monday
says: Colonel Blunt at Fort Doug
las has been ordered by the war
department to hold his command
in readiness to march in an hours.
notice to the scene Of the mining,
troubles in the CHur d d'A}enes.-
A New York Herald cable from
Montivedio, Uruguay, states that
the war ship Solomoes struck "a
rock near that port and the entire
crew and passengers were all drown
ed with the exception of four. The
number that perished is 12O.
By an agreement between Cana
da and Newfoundland, Canada
will admit Newfoundland fish free
Of duty. Newfoundland will re-
duce the excessive duties on Cana
dian products, which she imposed
after Canada passed the fish duty:
4 St. Louis dispatch of Monday
says: The river has fallen q tenth
of foot since last night. The Up
per Mississippi has risen slightly
since Saturday. The Missouri is
rising from its mouth to Herman;
and falling above. There is slight,
improvement in the flood situations
hereabouts.
Governor Boies arrived at Sioux
City, Iowa, Monday morning after
investigating the flooded district
and resolved to Issue proclamation
inviting the people Of Iowa and the
country generally to contribute for
the relief Of the destitute. The proc
lamation will state that two hun
dred thousand dollars are needed,
Two more bodies, Oliver Hoblet'
and a daughter of V. D. Leonard
were recovered to-day.
Chauncey Depew,in an interview
Monday, declared his firm belief
that the alleged letter of Grant to
Conkling, made public at Columbus,
Ohio, in which the writer argues;
against second or third term, is
an atrocious, but ingenious forgery
He says it will act as a boomerang.
Depew says he had an interview
with the man who arranged Conk-
ling's entire correspondence. That
letter was not among them.
4 sensational shooting, recalling
the Deacon affair with a change Of
sex, occurred in Paris Saturday
night. The names of the parties
are carefully suppressed, thougha
the papers refer to one as Nine. L.,
Her husband is prominent club
man. She suspected him of inti='
macy with the wife Of high gov
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