The Ravalli Republican., 1896-06-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Floods are deyasting Nebraska

Floods are de;asting Nebraska.
Kansas democrats eulogize Clevc-
land and instruct for silver.
A cloud burst in Leavenworth,
Kansas, drowned four people.
Pcrsimmons, owned by the Prince
Of Wales, won the English derby.
Jim Corbett and Tom Sharkey will
box four rounds in San Francisco
June "a.
Both branches Of congress passed
the river and harbor bill over the
presidents. veto.
A bomb thrown into a crowd at
Barcelona, Spain, killed six persons
and badly injured so others.
Gen. S. A. Warner says the silver
men Of all parties will unite in NOM
mating Senator Teller for president.
Sir Walter won the Brooklyn
handicap by head from Clifford,
with st. Maxim third. Time 2:0Sa
st. Louis has boycottcd the colored
delegates to the republican national
convention, and not a hotel or res
taura!ht |l!r 3! I: VII! fS2cdi them.
'Massja, tho renegade Apache chief,
has: been; .slaipin southern Arizona by
Indian scouts: I. He. KILLED three of
the!seouts: before he fell. :. .--
! fiarry Hytiaes, the Salt Lake gam
| Bier WHO shut and Killed Walter Din
woody; Ills Atffps:; paramour, last
March, has been acquitted:
The, ,silvermen,wo hands down in
the NeR;t Il 6k y state democratic con-
veiltion,' and Bena tor " Blackburn will
heal the delegation to Chicago.
Mrs. san}hel Close and two young
daughters We're drowned near Big
Horn $ ring, il Wyoming, while at
tempting. t6 cross the Big Horn river.
A:terri1ie! bailsterm has destroyed
thousands st acres of growing corn
in Southern Kansas. The hailstones
cut off the stalks like moving ma
Detectives from all the large cities
will be in attendance at St. Louis
during the convention To spot and
arrest known criminals who may 90
there to ply their trade.
Frank Mayo, the prominent actor,
who recently passed through this
state staring in his play "Puddin'
Head Wilson,, died suddenly Monday
Of heart disease on the train en- route
to Chicago. ;':
The French Niger expedition from
Salaga has been routed and many ct
it's members killed by poisoned ar
rows in the Borgeo country. The
remnant OF the expedition arrived at
Kiama, May II.
Edward Perry, who murdered the
Sawyer family at Ava, Mo, has been
sentenced to be hanged July 21.
This breaks the record in Missouri
for speedy justice. The discovery Of
the crime of the murder Of Sawyer
his wife and son, and the arrest, trial
and conviction of one Of the murder
crs, covered only 10 days.
An error Of JAG votes as disclosed
by the official count in Linn county,
Oregon, wipes out the plurality Of
Vandcrburg Oopulist) for congress
in the First district, and gives
Tongue (republcan) a plurality Of
103. The republican state central
committee also claims the election ct
Ellis over Quinn (populist) by 100
votes.
A special from Brigham City,
Utah, says: The big reservoir in
Three Mile canyon, south of Hyrum
City, burst its banks and a solid wall
Of water, l6 feet high, rushed down
the canyon into the valley, carrying
destruction before it for distance of
80 miles. Boulders weighing tons
were carried along like feathers and
deposited in the fields of farmers,
who today find their fertile fields
covered from one to four feet deep
with sand, trees and boulders. The
entire valley presents a dcsolate APP
pearance.