Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-07-31
PROGRESS OF EVENTS
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
business Outlook, Personal Notes,
and tn News of Fires. Ac-
cidents, and So On.
The furniture factories of Keeler & Co

The furniture factories of Keller 4 Co.
East Cambridge, were burned The loss
is about s25o,OOo, fully insured.
A special dispatch from Copenhag ger
says carrier pigeon has been caught IL
the vicinity of Tromscoe, North Point
Norway, with the following stamped upon
its wings: North pole passed fifteenth. ;
The death of Rev. Peter Havermans
the oldest Catholic priest in the United
States, took place at Troy, n. Y, the 9th
er day He was born in the province OF
North Brabant, Holland, March 2s, 1906
and was ordained at Ghent in 1880, e5,l-
ing to America few months later
The government has decided to prose
cute some editors of newspapers in Poona
district, in India, which have been most
conspicuous in the publication of seditious
articles calculated to stir up the natives
against British rule
The North American Trading and
Transportation Company, in which p. B.
Weare and John Cudahy of Chicago are
heavily interested, has chartered another
steamer, which will sail from Seattle Aug
ust loaded with 1000 tons of provisions
and IS or 10 passengers for St. Micllaels
on the Yukon river
An advance of 45 cents on coal comino
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 45 cents, the object of the
advance being to exclude the coal from
this state.
The last statement of the government
funds shows an available cash balance of
S236,69O,5O4; gold reserve, $l43 3,3s0,9O3
Secretary Bliss has approved for patent
to the state of Washington 36l9 acres of
land, selected under grant to aid the nor
NAL schools, locat ted in the Vancouver
land district
Joseph Burton, foreman of construction
of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company, was instantly killed at Salt
Lake by coming in contact with a live
wire while he and his men We're stringing
a new line.
The jury before which DR.. Sydney
numbering his wife returned a verdict OF
not guilty This was the second trial,
Goodmason having been convicted at the
April term of court.
F. c. Walters of Rossland, of the Ca
madam Gold Fields Company, who has
been in Ottawa and the east for the past
six months, has returned with $4,000,
which will be used i'll developing the
properties owned by the company.
Jennison's Park hotel at Holland,
Mich, summer resort, burned with 4
loss of $25O,O0O.
Ex United States Senator Doolittle OF
Wisconsin is probably fatally i'll at Prov
ldence, R. l., of Bright's disease.
j. +. Ostrander, for five years professor
of civil engineering and the mechanic
arts in the University of Idaho. at Mos
COW, has been elected to professorship
in the Massachusetts agricultural college
at Amherst, salary $250O per year. The
professor is permanently located in the
east.
Governor Mount of Indiana has issued
an appeal to the people of that state for
aid for the stricken coal miners.
Various Nebraska points report terrific
wind and hail storms. At Franklin the
wind blew hurricane, several houses be
ing nnroofed and a grain elevator de
stroyed. At Kearney many windows were
broken by hail stones.
The desire of Germany to institute a
European control of Greek finances still |
hampers the settlement of the indemnity |
question.
The New York cotton mills in Saco,
weeks, the reason assigned being the ne I
.essity of reducing the output. The mills
employ 1900 opera tives.
Receiver John II. Bryant has sold the
Seattle Coal & Iron Company's property /
o the MurphyGrant Company of New
York and four more creditors for $3.50,
100. The purchasers are five creditors.
whose claims the supreme court decided
we're prior.
Donald Macleay, prominent merchant
If Portland, Or, is dead Mr. Macleay
vas pioneer and we'll known through
,ut the northwest He was the father-in-
aw of Joseph d. Grant of San Francisco.
Who married his daughter Edith on June
a last.
During the session of congress Church
Howe of Nebraska was appointed and
Confirmed as consul general to Apia, Sa
noa. He does not care to take the place
md has now been selected for consul n |
Palermo, Italy, and Luther w. Osborne,
| lawyer of Blaire, Neb., will be named
or consul general at Apia.
j. j. O'Brien & Co., of San Francisco
lave assigned. The exact figures have
lot as vet been ascertained, but are es-
imated as follows: Assets, San Fran
.isco store, 100000; Los Angeles store. !
81 $4,000: total, S4l5,OOO. Liabilities
1926 600, of which less than half is due
o eastern creditors. The principal local
'reditors are Murphy, Grant & Co., $780,
100 Levi Strauss & Co., $50 1000; and the
Bank of California, $4,000.
The British, government has again de
lined to interfere in the execution of the
sentence of Mrs. Mayb,ick on the ground
hat there is no reason for a change of
Judgment in the matter. The last effort
% secure at least amelioration in the con
litions of her confinement was made b.
ambassador Hay, who had some CORE
pondencc on the subject with the foreign
tate department.
Presidential Nominations.
Washington, July 25.-The president
las sent the following nominations to the