The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-12-17

be necessary to secure them a.
gainst foreign invasion"
The Mills resolution was referred
to the foreign relations committee.
Mr.. Call, of Florida followed with
a resolution recognizing the repub.
lie of Cuba.
Sixty thousand coal miners are
about ready to strike in Penu>
sylvania because they cannot agree
upon a wage scale with the opera
tors.
An Arkansas girl bit her sweet
heart on the lip while kissing him,
blood poisoning set in and he died.
SLAIN by the jawbonc OF a lass, so
to speak.
The horseless wagon will be tried
IN the mail service of New York.
The announcement was made yes
terday at the post Office that ex-
perimental mail wagons operated
mechanically would be put in SER
vice and given a thorough trial,
with the view of using them in the
place of the present system.
W. Curry, chairman of the demo
cratic state committee, died at
Des Moines of blood Opoison~
ing, the result OF initiation to the
Elk's lodge a few weeks ago. He
was seated in an e'ectrict
char and horribly burned before
those operating it realized what
they were doing.
A new comet was discovered
soon after midnight Dec..9 in the
constellation of Pices by C. D.
Perreine. 1t is about as bright as
a.stav of eighth magnitude and can
be seen with a telescope of moderate.
power. 1t has a sharp stellar nu+-
|cleus Of ten and half or 18th magnii
tude. 1t is moving rapidly to the
east and more slowly to the south.
Secretary Olney received cable
gram from Senior Andrade. Ven.
zuelan minister at Washington, now.
in Caracas, stating the Venezuelan.
government has accepted the agree
ment reached by this country andI
Great Britain for arbitration of the.
boundary dispute, and an extra
session of the Venezuelan congress
has been called to consider it. Thus
the last obstacle to an amicable
settlement OF the dispute. will be
removed.
A Cascade special to the Great
Falls Tribune states that Harry
Moore, who has just returned from
Augusta brings word of a peculiar
and unfortunate ACCIDENT that &C.
Cured in that section last Thurs
day. 1t appears Alb Sllman and
Raymond Goss were hunting, and
while about two miles below Sun
river springs they started a deer,
In the pursuit Sitman was on one
side and Goss on the other, and
the former fired, his bullet passing
first through the deer and then
through the right leg of Goss,
between the knee and the ankle.
The wounded man was placed on a
horse and taken TO Augusta. where
surgical assistance was rendered,
but it is said the leg will have to be
amputated. Goss is married and
has two children.
Pie hunting is not so good as it
used to be. Twenty years ago the
president of the United States had
at his disposal 80, 600 Offices, ex-
elusive of post offices. Now, out
side of the post office department,
he has only 1000. The London
correspondent of the New York
Tribune has now called attention
to the fact that of the f~fty-seven
American consular offices in Great
Britain there are only"isix that
carry salaries above So, 500, and all
consular offices receiving less than
that salary are included in Secre-
Larry OIney's order of a year ago
classifying them under the civil
service. If President Mckinley
respects this order, there will be
Eonly twenty-five consulor: offices in