Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-07-17
AT HOME AND ABROAD
SUMMARY OF NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
Industrial Items, Record of Casual
ties and the Happenings of
tine Week.

Spokane countys commissioners, who
counted the money in the hands of tbs
treasurer, found that $76,Ol5.94 was OF
hand.
The commission sent to India to inves
tigate the bubonic plague report that tke
bacilli enter the body through the ton
sis, it taking four OF five days to incu
bate There is no fear of it entering E,l-
rope
The interurban electric car between
Bay City and Saginaw crashed through
an open draw bridge, carrying seven pas
sengers into the river, drowning woman
with three children and seriously injuring
three men.
Secretary Gage has written to Senator
Allison suggesting that tax Of a cent a
pound be put on all refined sugar made
of stock imported prior to the pending
bills passage, believing that several mil
lions of revenue would be derived from
those best able to bear it.
Henry Whitaker, a young farmer re-
siding six miles north of Cameron. Mo-,
shot and instantly killed Miss Thompson,
a young lady with whom he had been
keeping company, because she had spent
the Fourth in Cameron with another
young man. Whitaker then blew out
his own brains
At the international Gold Mining con-
vention in Denver, 600 delegates, repre-
senting 20 states from all sections of the
union, We're present the first day and 200
more We're to arrive on the second day
The mayor welcomed the guests for the
city and the governor for the state, the
latter also explaining the purpose of the
meeting.
Saltwater, Mimi, reports that st. Croix
lake has risen IA feet and 4O,OOO,OOO feet
of logs have broken away.
The United Mine Workers headquar-
ters report from l25 900 to 10000 miners
out on strike.
The Idaho board has pardoned Richard
Peeke, who was serving a life sentence
for the murder of Prosper Langrois, III
Boise county, in 1885. He pleaded guilty
to murder in the second degree.
The Cripple Creek district during the
first six months of the present year pro
duced $6,O75, 900 gold, and it is predicted
that the output for the year will have q
coinage value Of $l4,00O,O0O.
The senate committee on commerce.
after an exhaustive inquiry into the
charges against John Goodnow, nomi-
mated consul general to Shanghai, and B.
II. Warner, nominated consul to Lei psic
has agreed to report both with favorable
The committee also
decided upon a favorable report in the
case of f. II. Heustis, nominated for col
lector of Puget sound, Washington.
The first melting Of the conferees Of the
senate and house on the tariff bill began
Thursday. The democratic members Of
the conference remained less than 10 min
utes. They withdrew upon an intimation
to reconcile their differences
before consulting the democrats. With
the departure of the democrats the repub-
licans entered upon general exchange Of
views.
President Mckinley has decided to
spend his summer vacation at Lake Cham
plain, unless congress adjourns in time
for western trip in July.
w. W. Tullis, member of the Texas
state sanitary board, has announced that
he has found a herd of cattle in Randle
county infected with Texas fever, and six
counties through which the band passed
have been quarantined.
Judge j. j. Dehaven Of San Francisco
has decided that superior court has no
right to interfere in Chinese deporta
tion case in which a United States com
missioner has decided that the accused
should be returned to his native country.
United States Consul General Lee has
an account to the government
Of the $4,000 intrusted to him by con
gress for the relief of distressed Ameri-
cans in Cuba. His report shows that
only $4,000 was spent, although aid was
given to every American who sought it.
A motion for new trial has been made
at Helena, Mont, in the case of John
Bloor of Kalispell, secretary of the sen
ate, sentenced by the district court of
Lewis and Clarke county to one year in
the penitentiary for secreting the salary
bill The motion is made on the ground
that the jurors trying the case were per-
mitted to read the daily papers during
the progress of the trial.
The Northern Pacific has begun suit
against several hundred families occn-
pying land in Columbia. Cowlitz and
Clarke counties claimed by the railroad
While six negroes We're eXcavating for
a street railway at Lexington, Ky, one of
them struck a 64-pound dynamite cart
ridge, resulting in the instant death of
five and the fatal wounding of one.
Acting upon instructions from their re-
spective governments the ambassadors Of
the powers at Constantinople have pre-
scnted collective note to the Turkish
government demanding cessation of the
obstruction of peace negotiations.
The tariff conferrees at Washington
have adopted the habit of going into Sc
cret session to prevent unfavorable criti-
cism. The members of the body say their
are secret to prevent deluge
of telegraphic and letter suggestions from
The following postmasters have been
appointed in Washington: J. f. Forde,
Oroville, Okanogan county, vice J. ".
Mcbride, resigned; George Noah, Para
disc, Spokane county, vice X. H. Keeny,
resigncd G. A. Gwinn, Garfield, Whit
man county, vice H. B. Erwin, removed;
F. E. Knapp, Troy, vice w. B. Cooper re-
signed: W. S. Wickersham, Wickersham,
vice J. S. Pebley, resigned.
Judge Ong of Cleveland has declared
the Sunday law preventing baseball
games, to be unconstitutional.
Phillip I. Ashley, executed at Tucson,
Ariz., for numbering John Sanders,
United States soldier, danced Jig on the
gallows and said "Let her 60, Gallagher"
when the lever was pulled.
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