Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-10-09
OVER THE WORLD.
GLEANlNGS FROM ALL AROUND.
Deaths of Noted Persons-ENires, Rob-
berries and Accfdents-Pcinter in
BUSINESS Circles and General
News of the Week.

business Circles and General
News of the Week.
James T. Drummond, the millionaire
tobacco man of st. Louis, is dead. His
wealth, besides his tobacco plant, is esti-
mated at 100000.
Advices from the insurrection in Guate
mala state that the country is in a state
of chaos. Americans have been thrown
into Jail on the slightest provocation,
upon the ground that they are plotting
against Barrios.
The jury engaged in hearing the case
of Marks & Olson against the Northern
Pacific railway in the federal court at
Spokane brought in a verdict for the
plaintiffs for $lS,624l5. Marks & Olson
had sued the railway company for $l3,-
900 and interest, the amount alleged to
be due them for extra work caused by
changes in the route of a branch line III
Idaho, which they had a contract to
build. The case has been in the courts
for about two years.
Moscow reports that so per cent of the
crop is cut and the threshing is not much
behind.
Fire which broke out at Willow
Springs, l6 miles from Chicago, on the
drainage canal, destroyed nearly half the
town and made so families homeless. Loss,
about $4,000, with but little insurance.
The symptoms of Carlist agitation are
every day becoming more manifest at
Madrid and attracting the attention OF
the Spanish goCernment. Carlist ennis
saries are visiting the province Of Ma
valre and Castellon. where the party has
its strongest supporters.
General Alexander, the engineer ap
pointed by President Cleveland to settle
the boundary dispute between Costa
Rica and Nicaragua, has decided that the
eastern boundary Of Nicaragua and Costa
Rica commenced at the harbor head of
Greyton, as claimed by Nicaragua.
Boston Commercial Bulletins review
of the wool market says that last week |
beat the highest record on sales, on ac-
count of the heavy purchasing on the
part of the manufacturers, mostly terri
torial woods. All prices are steady and in
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tions Australians have advanced:
thought the Boston market is four cents
per secured pound below the prices es-
tablshed at the recent advance in Lon
don.
Japan will enter the international chol-
era alliance.
Neal Dow of Maine prominent in all
bo in tbic
try for half a century, is dead
The death is announced at the Fort
Russell hospital, Cheyenne, Wyo., of
Chief Packer f. p. Delaney, one of the
best known and most respected frontiers
men in the west.
Senor Sagasta, the liberal leader has
been entrusted by the queen regent with
the task Of forming new cabinet i'll
Spain.
Robbers blew open the safe in the bank
at Chase, Kan. About $4,000 is missing.
Some of the money, currency, was de-
stroyed by the explosion.
William Herbert, the young desperate
who is wanted in Wyoming for many
crimes and was waiting trial in Whitman
county IOI uOlSc SlttllllS, DIohS jan 'ot'g7
urday night and escaped.
Sufferers from dysentcry throughout
Japan numbered 5O,l2l up to September
IA. In Toxic p per cent Of the cases
have proved fatal.
A census shows there are lO,S55 foreign
residents in the treaty ports Of China.
There was also an increase Of 63 business
houses.
The emperor of China has forbidden all
sorts of banquets and junketing, because
an eclipse will occur on January p, 1898.
An eclipse Of the sun is said by the Chi
nese to be proof of the wrath of heaven
at the lack Of virtue in a ruler.
It is reported that 5000 Chinese have
started riot at Swatow, China opposing
the proposed founding of Christian
church there. Braves to the number Of
1000 have been dispatched from Canton
to pacify matters.
Joseph Ladue, founder of Dawson City,
Alaska, the owner CT a large part OF that
city, on his way to San Francisco, told
Chicago reporter that the stories of suf
fering to come this winter in Alaska and
the positive assertion that many people
will be starved in and around Dawson,
are not true. He said that supplies are
not short nor will they be before spring.
The death is announced at St Paul of
Samuel J. Mcmillan, United States sen
ator from 1876 to 1878.
One result of the formation of a Sa-
gasta cabinet in Spain, it is believed, will
be the granting Of amnesty to most if not
all the American prisoners held in Cuba,
and the pardon of many Cubans con
demned to life imprisonment in the island
Of Ceuta
The large pork packing and beef pack
ing establishment heretofore occupied by
the Minnesota Packing & Provision Com
pany at St. Paul, has been leased for 999
years to Swift & Co. of Chicago. The
plant is a large one and cost about $780,
OOO
The London Daily Chronicle publishes,
under reserve, a sensational report that
strong London syndicate has sent the
United States government, through Con !
sui General Osborne, an offer to purchase
the Union Pacific railroad. According to
this report New York syndicate has Of
fered 100000 pounds and the govern {
ment has decided to sell the road at auc-
tion November |, believing that it will
realize at least 100000 and perhaps ! l.
100000 or 100000 pounds. '
TO RESUME SILVER COINAGE.
San Francisco Mint Notified to Be ,
gin Operations at Once.