The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-02-02
STATE BRIEFS

Butte, Jan. 3o.-Tnc inquest on the
bodies 0. those killed 10y the explosion
has not yet been concluded.
Helena, Jan. 2G.--An earthquake was
felt here at five o'clock this morning.
Small articles were shaken off OF
shelves and s~ideboards.
Philiipoburg. Jan. 21.-John Nixon.
treasurer-elect o. Granite county. died
to-day at . a. n 1T Granite from bron-
chitis.
Livingston. Jan. 2,.-Con L~owncy.an
old-time Cooke City miner. wa, in
s~tantly killed in the Horn coal mines
Friday morning by an explosion Of coal
gas.
LIVINGSTON, IAN. Pin the dis
trict court to-day Judge Henry SEN
tsnced Jacob freshman to five years in
the penitentiary. The prisoner i, aged
Is and was convicted OF criminal as
sault. He outraged a l~2-year-old girl
on the Upper Yellowstone last january.
Hamilton, Jan. 27.-The Euvaili
County Fair and Racing association
held u meeting in the club rooms yes
terday at noon. Articles Of i~Icorpora-
tion were adopted, making the capital
stock $50 600. The erection OF build
ings will be commenced at once.
Butte, Jan. 26.-An inquest was held
this afternoon to determine the cause
OF the death OF Jane, Tracy. 4 num-
Der OF Witnes5e, We're examined and
the jury found that Tracy cane to hi,
death from al overdose of morphine.
supposed to have been administered
for purposes Of suicide.
Deer Lodge, Jan. 2G.-To-day Fred
Byers, Louis Byers and John +. Jones
We're sentenced o. Judge Brantly to
the renitentiary for seven years each
for stealing cattle from Spencer John
son. The ranchmen 0: Deer Lodge
valley have been losing II great many
cattle and these are the first to be con-
victed for a long time.
LIVINGSTON, Jan. PA rousing an
%ti-cOunty division mass meeting was
held here Tonight at which Judge say
z presided. The size and enthusi-
assn Of the meeting was sufficient refu-
tatiOn Of the statement that many Liv-
ingston people favor the creation OF u
new county. Ringing resolutions were
adopted memoraliIing the legislature
not to pass the Sweet Grass county bill.
a strong lobby will go from acre to
Helena Monday.
Helena, Jan. 25.-Herlnan Blune, an
old timer, was killed in q snow slide in
Mcclellan gulch recently. The acct
dent happened neal his cabin. He had
been missing two weeks. A rescue
party was formed to look COR him, and
after three days search the idea occur
red to thein that he might have been
caught IN the slide. They began dig
ging in the L and found the body
after al hour and a halt's worK. Blume
had zee in Montana since the early
sixties and was placer mining on the
Big BlaCllfOOt d number of years. \
nephew came over from Butte this
morning and went out after the body.
Glendtve, Jan. 26.-An epidemic Of
suicides appears to have struck Daw-
son county. Two cases of intended sui
eide were reported yesterday. VII
liam De5hins, aged 33. unmarried, who
reside. with a pmarried brother on
Cedar creek, y miles from Glendive,
shot himself in the right ear with a %
revolver. He will ccover. Financial
troubles were the cause of the attempt.
The second case was a man named Hcf-
fern, employed as Y domestic at the
GleadiVc hotel. 1t appears he was in
o with a lady in the hotel, which
passion was not returned by the lady,
and AFTER crying in his room for se,-
efal hours over the disappointment, he
called the proprietor, George Burns, to
his room and told him he was going to
cut his W throat. He pulled out j
dirk knife and made a stab at his
throat. Burns caught his arm and the
knife took effect in his right shoulder,
INJECTING a slight wound. He was able
to be round and attended to his duties
to-day.
That Was Different.