Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-08-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS
CHANCES ALL OVER THE WORLD
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Record of MisfOrtunes, Mishaps and
Crimes, as Well as of Indus
trial PROGRESS.

Michael Angiollilo, the anarchist as
sassin of Premier Canoyas de Castilloe,
who was tried by court martial at Yer
CARA, was found guilty and sentenced to
death.
Information is obtained at the office OF
the chief grain Inspector of Minnesota
that the wheat crop of that state and the
Dakotas would run 30,00O,000 bushels
short of expectations.
The employees of George c. Heitzel &
Co., manufacturers of worsted goods OF
Chester, Pa, have been notified that the
wages paid in 1892 would be restored on
September next.
A special from Rome says it is reported
that the pope will excommunicate Prince
Henri of Orleans and the Count of Turin,
as dueling is forbidden by the Roman
Catholic church.
The attempt of Senor Romero Robledo,
the Spanish minister of justice, to assume
the conservative leadership, has failed.
Following his public declaration in favor
of the retention of Captain General Wey
ler in Cuba, and against any reconsidera-
ton with the dissident conservatives, the
principal conservative leaders have given
their adhesion to General Azcarraga, the
acting premier and the minister for war,
who remains at the head of the govern
ment.
Frank Brooks Of Hollison, Cal, was
instantly killed while standing in the
doorway of his home by a stroke of light
ming.
The president has appointed Louis A.
Walker of Helena, Mont, to be melter at
the United States assay office at Helena.
Mont.
A letter comes from Edward Thorp say
ing he had cleaned up $l30,o0o on the
Klondike in eight weeks. Thorp left Sc
attic year ago.
The steamer City of Kingston has just
sailed from Tacoma for Dyea and Skaga
way, Alaska, with SO passengers from this
port, and took on board 200 at Seattle
Max Wiley, lerl for Bernheiner
Bros, whisky merchants of Louisville,
Ky, was shot and fatally wounded by Joe
c. kouwenberg, a gauger. The shooting
was the result of an old grudge.
1t is claimed that there are SIS dogs
in the United Kingdom to every 1000
inhabitants.
The elevator of the Davenport, Iowa:
4 Of 4o,
rife dust explosions, as a result of which
four lives were lost and two persons seri-
ousiy injured. ....
While No. Is freight train, on the Great
Northern, was crossing the switch-back
over the Cascades a tree blew down, strik
ing a box car in which two boys were
stealing ride. One was killed instant
ly. His name can not be learned He was
II years old and from Salt Lake. The
other boys leg was broken.
Senator Sherman has acknowledged the
receipt of oyertures of the French govern
ment, though Ambassador Patenotre, for
negotiating a reciprocity clause of the
new tariff law, and the secretary adds an
assurance that he hopes to take up the
important subject at any early day.
The cannery of the Pacific Northwest
Packing Company at Blaine, has been ell
tirely destroyed by fire, together with r.
900 cases of sockeye salmon ready for
shipment. The loss will exceed $4,000.
Owing to the raise in the price of lead
the fall in silver has been offset in the
Occur d'Alene, Idaho, district, and the
owners of properties there say they will
continue to run full shifts the same as in
the past.
Advices from Honolulu say the Ameri-
can flag has not yet been raised in Ha
waii, and there is no indication that il
will be. The government has declined
to grant a permanent register to the Pa
ciic mail steamship China, owing to the
belief that the reputed sale of the yes
sci, a British made ship, is not bona fde
A telegram from Northern Dallas, Ala.
states that a Mormon elder touring that
part of the state stopped with L. G. Ham
lin. A few mornings Hamlin awoke t6
find his wife, the elder and several of his
neighbors' wives had gone. The commun.
ity feels hurt over the elders doings and !;
caught he will be sunlmarily dealt with
'Doc" A. Huff, bartender in the Grand
Central hotel, New Denver B. c., mar
we'll known throughout the British Co
lumbia mining camps, was found dead OF
Six Mile creek, near where he was il
camp, the result of stroke of apopleXy
The United States revenue cutter Rusf
has returned from Bering sea with Pro
fessor David Starr Jordan of Stanford
sent north IA months ago by the govern
ment to investigate the feasibility o
branding the female seals to prevent their
determination Professor Jordan has not
yet spoken concerning the trips results.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, newly appoint
ed minister to Russia, has paid his re
spects to President Mckinley.
Robbers held up the messenger at Gran
ite. Col, and relieved him of $4,000, thE
result of cleanup from a placer mine
and escaped into the mountains
Fierce timber fires, started by Italian
pcddlers from Moscow are raging on bot!
sides of the south fork of the Clearwater
It is hazardous to travel and farm build
ings are in danger.
Report comes from Shepherd, Mich.
that Cashier Elmer E. Struble, of tht
Farmers bank, was shot down in th'
vault and killed by desperate depositor
who had been refused their money. Al
rests will follow.
Rev. W. G. Lord, pastor of the Madi
son Street Methodist church, Seattle, ane
state president of the A. P A., has fcs
from that city owing to his being charged
with unlawful intercourse with his ser
want girl, Jessie Morford, aged l6 years