Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-07-24
AT HOME AND ABROAD
SUMMARY OF NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
Industrial Items, Record OF Casual
ties and the Happenings of
the Week.

I GIeaJ excitement Is raging Oh JIG bi
mingham stock exchange owing to the
belief that there has been corner i'll
cycle tubing, resulting in several specu-
lators being pinched and a heavy advance
in prices
The large sawmill OF j. I. Jones at Cot
4 tagc Grove, Or, has been sold to the
Sugar Pine Door & Lumber Company ol
! Grants Pass. The plant consists of a
large mill. six miles of flume factory, dry
house. spur track and 1900 acres of fir
and cedar.
During the present month the governor
Of Pennsylvania has been confronted by
eco different messages to approve OF veto,
all of which have to be considered before
August l, making a greater task than
any which ever confronted a president u
the United States, the time limit being
! the same.
The secretary of war has transmitted
to congress the report Of the preliminary
examinations made by Major T.. W. Sy-
mons of the corps Of engineers on the teas-
ability of a ship canal from the great
/ lakes across New York to the Hudson
river The estimated cost via Niagara
river. Lake Ontario, Oswego, Oneida lake
and the Mohawk and Hudson rivers is
placed at $6OOOG0O0O. But the ma OF IS
also Of the belief that the Erie canal when
enlarged under existing plans of the
state of New York, would result in com
mercial advantages equal to those OF 4
ship canal, provided the restrictions were
removed.
1t it rumored among the senators that
! the president will nominate Terence y.
Powderley, formerly grand master work
man of the Knights of Labor, to be com
missioner of immigration to succeed Mr..
Trump.
Mrs. John Bradbury of California,
whose notorious elopement with II. Rus
sell Wardc occasioned Sc much newspaper
/ talk a few days ago, has been forgiven
and joined her husband in Chicago, where
the duo are stopping at the Wellington,
neither caring to be interviewed.
! Charles W. Spaulding, accused Of EN-
bezzling the endowment funds Of the
University CT Illinois, has been acquitted
a second time by a Chicago court within
two months, the instructions to the jury
being that unless they were sure that
Spaulding intended to elnbezzle they must
acquit.
Backed by John d. Rockefeller, the
Standard Oil millionaire, Commander
I Booth Tucker Of the Salvation Army, in
company with the industrial and land
commissioners of the Santa Fe route, IS
looking over lands in Colorado with the
view of establishing an industrial colony.
which will be peopled by the reformed of
eastern cities.
TewflS P;rsha, Turkish foreign minis
ter, has informed the ambassadors Of the
powers that the sultan has agreed to their
demands and was prepared to accept the
views Of the peace commission. 1t is re
liably stated that the powers have fixed
the indemnity to be paid Turkey by
Greece at $4,O0O,0OO, allowing the for
mer a more liberal frontier line.
/ The, governor of Tennessee has an
nounced that the successor to the late
Senator Harris will either be I. NJ. Insley
of west Tennessee or James G. Richard
son or Benton Mcmillan of Middleton.
Efforts are being made by the commit
tee in charge Of the Logan day ceremo-
MES and the eX-confederates' association
of Chicago to secure the presence of Miss
| Winnie Davis, ''the daughter Of the con
federacy,' at the dedication exercises i'll
Chicago Oh the 22d.
Three boys, John Bridges, Charles
Sweeney and X. L. Montgomery, of Fort
Worth, We're killed while sleeping OH the
track at Austin, Tex, by an lnternation-
al 4 Great Northern freight train, a
I fourth boy, Henry Estis. also with the
party, was dangerously injured and an
hour later the same train ran over and
killed negro, i. f. Cox of Waco.
The exploring expedition of Jesse
/ Grant and associates, which landed on
the Tiburon islands in the Gulf of Cal
ifonia, was driven off by the Seri Indians,
who are said to be canabals, the cxpedi-
ton making but little resistance to the
will of the Indians, but going to Quay
mas, where more men will be secured and
stronger party organized.
/ In a runaway accident near Ouray,
Col, Miss Myrtle Shaw of Pittsfeld. H.,
was fatally injured and several others, all
members Of {; Y. NJ G. A. excursion from
| Denver, were painfully injured, among
them being Major E. w. lIalford, private
secretary to eNPresident Harrison dur
ing his term of office O. A. Rcinhardt and
I DR.. Elliot of Denver.
j BY the explosion of two dynamite
bombs at Guadalajara, Spain, in a castle,
| several perosns were killed and others in
jurcd.
A staff correspondent for an Indianap-
oils paper, who has been investigating
I the condition of Indiana coal miners, says
! they are facing starvation.
A Salt Lake City detective who went
! to Pembroke, Ont. to identify a man sup
posed to be Rev. Francis 'Hermanns, muir
dcrcr of Henrietta Classen, ordered the
man released, a mistake having been
made. -.
Emanuel Rich, one Of the largest dry
goods merchants in the south, committed
suicide at his home in Atlanta by sever
ing his throat four times with dull
knife. Rich's deed is supposed to be due
to dependency.
An advance of As cents on coal coming
into Cleveland from all West Virginia
fields has been declared, the advance be
ing forced by the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road which raised its freight rate on West
Virginia coal to As cents, the object of the
advance being to exclude the coal from
this state. ...=
Major Terrell, negro who criminally
assaulted Mrs. Martha Thomas at he,
home iii the country near Elba, Ala, and
then set fire to the bed, burning his vic
tim and her six months old babe, was
taken from a court room, where he was
having preliminary trial, by a mob ana
hung as expeditiously as possible.
The bureau of agriculture labor and