Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-04-10
ALL OVER THE WORLD
GRIST OF THE TicLEGRAPHIC NEWS
Al HOME AND ABROAD.
Disastrous Course OF Floods in the
mississippi Eafiey-Prevnlent
War Fail1 i'm Europe.

Governor w. T. Thornton of New Mex
leo has resigned
Greece is talking of an International
loan of IS, ,0OO,00
Johannes Brahmes, the we'll known mu-
scal composer Of Vienna. is dead.
The German Telchstag has passed to it's
third reading the motion abrogating the
Jesuit exclusion act.
Michael DaviIt, the irish member Of the
English parliament, mas landed at New
York on his way to California.
The inaugural California derby, valued
at s5000 was won at Ingleside by Scar
borough a native colt. The mile and a
quarter was covered in 2:11A.
1t is understood at Vienna that the
powers are determined to maintain the
blockade Of Greece If that nation declares
war, and thus deprive her OF her most
formidable means Of attack.
The 54th annual boat race between
crews representing the English universi-
ties of Oxford and Cambridge resulted
in victory for Oxford by barely two
lengths. The distance was four and one
quarter miles, and the time 10 minutes
and II seconds.
President Kruger's claim against Great
Britain for indemnity as a result Of the
Transvaal raid amounts to some $4,000, 900.
j. B. Callejos, sheriff Of Union county,
NeW MeAlco, dccluentdlly snoI h1nSoll
with fatal results In trying to draw a rifle
from beneath bed in the Jail.
The war department has issued a for
NAL order consequent upon General Ru-
gers retirement transferring General
Wesley Merritt from Chicago to New
York and General Brooke from St. Paul
to Chicago, to command the military de-
partments Of which these cities are the
headquarters.
All necessary shopping, marketing, Wis
iting of doctors and the like in over
flowed sections OF GreenvilIe, Miss, is
done by skiffs. Every street contains |
whole fleets Of these.
President Mckinley has inquired by tel |
egraph of the governors of states where |
the floods prevail as to the needs of the
people, and will ask congress to make an
appropriation for the relief of the suf-
ferers.
Lord Wolseley, the British commander
IN chief, accompanied by his aide-de-
camp, will soon start for Gibraltar to in
spect that fortress.
Many of the fruit men of California are
to the feature of the new tariff
prohibiting the rebate allowed on i'm
ported. tin, saying they will be obliged to
purchase American tin at higher prices
[han foreign tin, and claiming that the
production of tin plate in the United
States is insufficient to supply the demand
# the Pacific coast.
George f. Otter Companys carpet store
1T Cincinnati, Ohio, with it's stock val
led at S30OoO0, and insured for $150, 900
vas destroyed by tire in less than two
hours.
steamer from Mediterranean ports
las just landed 1000 Italian emigrants at
New York.
The National Mining Bureau has is
ued a call for an international gold \
miners conventon,'' to be held in Denver
n the 18th and 18th of June The ex- I
lblts will consist Of refined gold and
old ores and general mineral display.
EX-Llentenant Governor Percy Daniels
as succeeded in interesting most of the 6
4aders of the leading democratic-p popu- u
St statesmen of Kansas in an organiZa- v
ion, the object of which is to create Il Y
ureau of information concerning his n
cheme to tax inOrdinate wealth and to II
ecure an amendment to the federal con- s
Tuition giving congress the power to :
evy such a tax.
Reports of losses sustained by cattle -
len of Wyoming during the recent storm :,
re coming in slowly. On many Of the :
lrSe ranches it is estima ted the losses f.
Ill range from to 25 per cent of the Fl
erd. The snow lies one and a half feet Fl
eep in Cheyenne and from five to 10 feet G.
| the ravines. Much anxiety is felt for
lany persons reported missing. r
Among the diplomatic representatives
the large countries at Washington, the A
xpression is general that following the
eW tariff there will be a large decrease
| imports and that in turn will be fol-
WED by an increase of duties against II
merican goods. The representatives Of u
he nations that are the most concerned &c
18th reciprocity do not regard the reci- g
rocity feature Of the present bill with tc
lvor. IN
Bands of starving working people broke 's ts
1T into open disorder at Malaga, SPAIN % "a
lnday, destroying property costing large %, .,
inns of money. The police made many -, -,
rests. The cause of the outbreak was n.
OK of work. The condition of things In -
ndalusia grows worse daily. The gov h,
nment is reinforcing it's troops there 90
Dr. Spencer Harris of Circle City in a .,
tier to the Juneau News, says Pat Cas- ",
dy was killed on Oscar Oleson's claim nr
lring January by a gravel cavein. He
not take the precauton to timber the or
mel in which he was working and a W
6 body of gravel caved in on him. He =,
rs conscious for some time after the ac-
lent, and called to his companions to
scue him. They did ali they could, but el,
fore he could be dug out he had smoth- da
ed to death. 1o