Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-12-18
POINTS IN GENERAL NEWS
THE HOME AND FOREIGN OUTLOOK
Accidents and Crimes All over the
Wor1d-Business Affairs and Po-
liticaI COnside derations-Varfety ra of
Items.

her children about her bedside.
The old age pension bill of the Ne1
Zealand government provides for the pay
ment of yearly pension of SIS out of tn
consolidated fund to every person VIII
has attained the age of 65 and whose in
come is under s36
! About $4,000 has been realized by tn
Hawaiian government from the publ
sale of royalty chattels.
Rich strikes have been made at Kal
goorlie, the new mining district in Wes
/ Australia.
| An Englishman names Graves, wh{
has been inspecting the Penang gulf tele
graph line about nine miles from Jaska
province of Herman, on the Aban sea
just north of Cape Jaska, has been m1lr
dered in his tent by tribesmen
General Paul Vandervoort, at one time
grand commander of the Grand Army OF
the Republic, and one of the promoters
of the Grand Army colony in Texas, has
closed deal with John E. (''Shanghai")
Pearce, the great cattle king. for land for
1000 colonists, who will move Immediate
ly after the beginning of the new year.
The undertaking is fashioned after that
at Fitzgerald, Ga.
The defalcation of A. r. Spofford, Ii
brarian of congress, will amount to $4,000.
and the authorities are uncertain wheth-
er the man is a knave or a fool. Seven
hundred dollars was found in an old desk
belonging to the librarian, much of it in
shin-plasters. Many postotlice orders
have never been cashed, and the entries
in the books are for less than the amount
received. Spofford will be removed.
United States Ambassador Hay and
Mrs. Hay have dined with Queen Victoria
at Windsor and slept at the castle.
The Washburn & Moen Manufacturing
Company state that several of the larger
wire manufacturers are proposing to form
a new corporation, under the auspices of
j. ?. Morgan & Co. of New York
General Agent Herman of Haverstraw.
of the Amoskeag corporation at NIanches-
ter, N. H., is authority for the statement
that the cut in cotton mill wages in Fall
River will not be followed in that city;
that the Fall River action pertains only
to the mills of that city, and it is not |
probable that the example will be follow
I'd i'll other New England cities.
According to startling report made to
The Boston Globe by st. Louis man,
Mrs. Luetgert, the supposed victim of the
sausage manufacturer murderer, so-called I
N (thicauo ic a1iyo apI ,1,on Ir- ,,,+
CERT was seen in Boston during the month
u July and acknowledged her identity,
besides giving more or less eXplana ton
elative to the reasons which caused her
o leave her husband, who is again being
ried for his life.
Lewis Noxon of Elizabethport. n J..
5 to build a stern-Wheel steamboat spe-
tally designed for use on the Yukon
iver, for the Philadelphia Explora ton &
lining Company, which is about to send
n expedition under charge of Prof An
elo Heilprin of Philadelphia. The party
viii have eight members, who expect to
pend two years in Alaska.
The latest reports of late fights in Pinar
ell Rio province of Cuba show the Span
ii loss was more than claimed The dead
+ wounded include one colonel, one ma
)r, seven captains, II subordinate off
ars and a privates. Most of the wound
/ will die. The rebel loss was IA. The
ebels used explosive bullets. {
Governor Black has pardoned Albert H.
mith, who in 1890 was sentenced to Sing
ipfr fo,. 1ro,,c Tho oo,,;.+ ,,-,- ca,,
need for a series of forgeries, by which
e swindled his partners in the firm of
ills, Robertson & Smith, stock brokers'
1T of over 100000, causing their finan- i
al ruin. v
Charles Fleischman of Cincinnati. sew p
al-times millionaire, is dead. He was t
orn in Hungary in 1884 and came to h
merica in 1866. The founda ton of his t
eat fortune was laid by the invention Il
patent machinery for use in distilleries Il
ntil recently he was president of the Il
ncinnati Commercial Tribune Company c
e was also president of ..e Market Ma L
onal bank. He had an extensive inter a
t in the turf, and was the employer of i,
e famous jockey, Tod Sloane. ii
\ counterfeit $40 silver certificate is q
circulation in Denver. Col sf
Rev. DR.. F. b. Cherington of the West f,
ne, Wash, has accepted a call from the b.
inster Congregational church of Spo- o1
ymouth Congregational church of San =;
a nclsco. "
There We're no services Sunday in the o,
/ Catholic church of Green Bay. Wis in
". \. \. Miller, the parish Of HTHT u,
". A, A. Miller, the priest of the parish. a,
$ resigned his charge and accepted the s.,
faith. -.
Sioux City. Iowa, Christian Scientists n,
We dedicated a new church the first of y,
at faith ever built in Iowa. 1t costs J.,
600, all of which was fully paid when
e trustees accepted the building from n
G contractors. r.
Secretary Kopalowitz of the executive q,
ard of the United Brotherhood of Cloak r.
lkers announces that a membership # of
600 will be formed before the first of ".
9 year. The unions of Chicago. Bos-
a, Baltimore, Philadelphia. st Louis
d Cincinnati favor it.
James Cave. a printer, living at Pat
son. \. j., has been notified that he
5 fallen heir to a fortune of 100000 by
2 death of his grandfather. James Cave, ed
lich occurred in western Missouri on y
anksgiving day. a few months ago p,
We started for the klondike with Il COM fl;
MON named William White, but the lat Sit
left him in Chicago after his money NJ
IS gone and he had to work his way fo
elk to patterson. m
4 statement issued by the American ne
BILE Society concerning its work in for gi
N lands during the last year shows that W
involved an expenditure Of Sl92,292.32 al
d the circulation of 767 .52S volumes # is
, Holy Scriptures. Of these more than IN
If. 405.OO0 volumes, We're distributed
China: 10000 in Japan: - 600 in the
want: 10000 in South America; $4,000 M
Central America and Mexico; $4,000 Ill
Siam and Laos; 10000 i'll Russia; 20, tt
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