Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-07-09

NO. 45.
NEWS NUGGETS
WILL BE FOUND UNDER THIS
HEADING:
Collected and Condensed From
the Latest Associated
Press Dispatches.

}, The city Of Augusta, Ga, defeat.
ed prohibition last Friday by 1 400
in q poll Of 400 votes.
Hon VIM G. Whitney has de-
ciined to accept the c!lairnansII;p y
Of the democratic s1Htioaal com
nittee.
The big street car str:.k at CIeve-
land, Ohio, has been settled. All
strik ers returned to work at Increase
ed wages.
The d;ai;atoi1es report that Presi:
de,lt Harrison has refused to order
United States troops to the Ceur
j a'A:e.es.
It New London, Conn, Friday,
Yale Nol the 70 mile boat race from
Harvard in the presence OF $1,000
spectators.
Nearly every building il, the town
OF Mason, Nei., was wrecked bv a
/ cyclone last Friday, but no ftt;lli-
ties occurred
The republicans of Kansas have
nominated 'Farner" Smith for
governor and Ro5t. +. Moore for
lieutenant governor.
TIepresident has nominated Geo.
I. johnson Of Louisiana for civil
sevice commissioner, vice II. S:
Thompson, resigned.
Joe McAuiif1e, the California
heavyweight, was whipped in fifteen
rounds at San Francisco last week
by Joe Goddard Of Australia.
| At Montreal Sunday seventeen
members Of the Grand Trunk Boat
ing club capsized in a canoe and
six Of the number were drowned.
At New York, last week, George:
Dixon, colored defeated Fred
Johnson, the English champion, for
the featilerweigIl1 championship Of
the world.
The wheat crop in Kansas is so
large that the farmers are having
great difficulty in securing men to-
harvest it, The yield is the largest
in the history of the state.
Sixty miles of the country along
the Anlte liver, in Louisiana is
flooded from three to five feet.
Many families have fled to the hills
for safety and the crops are totally
destroyed.
The inman steamer City Of Chi.
cago went ashore Friday night of
last week on the coast Of Ireland
in dense fog, but the crew and
passengers, with the mail, were
safel ~ landed by life boats.
The senate committee on the
Columbian exposition decided to
report favorably the bill in aid of
the fair, substantially the same as
that agreed on by the house, pro
viding for 100000 sovereign half
dollars. 1t includes an amendment.
however, that the fair shall be
closed Sundays.
At midnight Friday, the wage
scale In all iron and steel mills In
he i'ittsburg district for the cur
'ent year expired, and the new
scale not having been signed, the
Mills closed throwing over 100000
men out Of employment. 4 confer
,nce between the iron nlanufactur-
II and emploi.a is in progress, and
trong hope oi compromise is enter
aimed.
The su5co:a,.1sittee Of the house
,ostoiIsce committee, to which was
eferrcd the charges made by
samuel Leake Of Philadel phias
gainst Postmaster General Wana-
maker IN regard to the pneumatic
ube service in Pliladel phia, con-,
idered the subject and reached tbs.
onclusion that the charges were
ot sufficient to justify an investi-.
alton.
News is received from Alaska.
hat the United States steamer Corr
in seized the British steamer CO.
uil]an, a tender to the seal poach-
'g fleet. The Coquillan had 5000
zins and stores for the sailing
eet. This seizure, it is thoughts
i'll do much toward breaking up
oaching, as it will force poacI1ers'
come IN from the sealing grounds
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