Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-04-17
ALL OVER THE WORLD
GRIST OF THE TELEGRAlHIC NEWS
All HOME AND ABROAD.
Industrial Pointers. Occurrences in
Political Circles, Fire Losses
and So On.


~ formal ballot Of one vote for each
candidate is being thrown in the sena-
torial contest in Kentucky.
King Humbert in the speech from tho
throne at the opening OF the Italian par
lament said the accord of the powers OF
the eastern question tended to preserve
peace and prevent massacres.
DR.. j. II. Walton, 50 years of age, q
Well known physician Of Dubuke, Iowa
committed suicide in Chicago by cutting
his thoat with 4 razor. He is believed
to have been temporarily insane as the
result of recent illness.
The provincial legislature of British Co
lumbia has passed the bill preventing
japanese as we'll as Chinese from being
employed on undertakings aided by leg
islalive charter rights. The japanese
consul is highly wroth, and will, it is eX-
peCted, strive to get the act dlsalloWed
by the governor general in council.
Yuma, Arizona. has become an excited
mining town district, some 25 miles north
Of Yuma, on the California side Of the
Colorado river. There are the Golden
Dream and MONDAY mines. For several
weeks the men at those mines have been
getting into rich ore and the owner has
been offered as high as $4,000 for ms
mines On the same day the men in both
mines ran into the edges Of ore that yield
PichacO district are all large.
D. Bemis has been reelected superin-
tendent of the Spokane schools at a sal
airy of $4,000.
Fire destroyed the Arcadia theater at
Spokane, causing a loss Of $4,000.
Theodore Roosevelt of New York, has
been nominated as assistant secretary OF
the navy.
During his visit to Washington William
j. Bryan called at the White House and
was warmly greeted by President Nc
kinley.
The new torpedo boat No. went %
knots an hour on her trial trip, making
her the fastest boat in the world except
the Farragut.
The Manchester. N. H., mills are MAX
ing large quantities of cotton goods Tor
the Chinese trade.
Governor Smith of Montana has refused
to pardon Albert Jackson, VINO is serv-
ing life sentence in the penitentiary for
the murder of Bruno LaVeiile near
Marysvila in July, 1889.
Governor Adams of Colorado, has sign
ed the bill recently passed by the leSisla-
ture aboishing capital punishment IL
that state
Mark NJ. Dintonfass, a barber, living
at Charlotte, n. C., has received notice
that he is one of the heirs to an Austrian
estate, valued al 100000 forms.
Michigan will adopt the apple blossom
as the state flower.
TIX-President Cleveland has gone to
Florida on a fishing trip
The Spanish forces claim great VIC
tories in the PHILIPPINE islands.
The death is announced Of William g.
Fisher. q millionaire dry goods merchant
of Denver, Colo.
Commander Montgomery Sicard has
been nominated rear admiral.
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base ball has been started at Cleveland.
Ohio
j. b. Catron of North Yakima has been
appointed warden of the Washington
state penitentary.
The Minnesota house Of representatives
has passed a bill prohibiting sectarian
instruction or the wearing of sectallan
galb in the public schools.
President and Mrs. Mckinley viii SUM
mer at Lake Sunapee, N. H., as the
guest of Colonel john Hay. Colonel Hay
has begun an extensive addition to Ms
residence.
Thirteen cities have thus far adopted
the Pingree potato patch plan Tor tht
coming summer.
Cambridge Springs. a health resort nea1
Meadvilc, Penn. has been almost entire
ly destroyed by fire. causing the loss o!
one life and 100000 Of property
The average weight of the hogs recelV-
ed at Chicago during March was eight
pounds lighter than returned in February,
and 1G pounds lighter than in March, 1896
Two Akron. Ohio, people have just re
ceived notice that they have inherited
good fortunes. Jacob Dotfelinger, sign
painter gets $250,J00 from an aunt III AUS
tralia, and Mrs. Joseph Wi9leE, wife OF /"
bricklayer. receives $4,000 from an auh
in England
Advices received at Pierre. S. D., from
the Moreau river country, are to the ef-
feet that the loss Of cattle in that sec
ton during the past winter has been be
tween 30 and % per cent.
Secretary NJ. J. Dowling OF the repu5l-
can national league announces that tft
next convention will be held in Detroit
Mich. July II, IA and 10.
By the will of the late Miss Winnifrcd
Martin who died at Baltimore. April 4,
about a million dollars is Dequeathed to
various Catholic churches and charities
in Maryland and California.
The next steamer from Tacoma to Jap
an will take 80 coo cigarettes.
Ex-Governor w, j. Mcconnell Of Idaho
will go into the dry goods business at
Spokane
c. p. Huntington has been reelected
president of the Southern Pacific.
Colonel William Rufus Shafter, First
infantry has been nominated to be brig
adler general.
j
appointed a government director OF the
Union Pacific.
President Dole of Hawaii, has sent a
special commissioner to the United States
to urge annexation.
G. A. Spreckles, the sugar king, has
discharged all but two Of the white men
on his Hawaiian plantation and put orl-
entails in their places
In replying to an inquiry from the sec
retary of war Morgan Johnson of Fargo,
n. D., says $4,000 is needed for the I'M
mediate relief of flood sufferers
BY the suspension of the Globe Savings
bank in Chicago over $J00000 in cash
and bonds OF the University Of Illinois
are missing. The president Of the bank
cannot be found.
The senate committee is working on the
line Of cutting down the Dingley bill tar
ifs.
Ten lives were lost and block OF
buildings burned at Buenos Ayres by
the explosion of a car loaded with fire.
works.
The burning Of the Lancaster House at
Rossland, 3. c.. caused a loss Of $1,000.
The boarders also lost their effects.
The trotting stallion Ashland Wilkes,
Is years old and sire of John r. Gentry,
2:001a, has just been sold for $1,000
Secretary Bliss has re-instated Captain
Henry C. Potter of Ohio as chief of the
Washington.
War preparations throughout the Turk
ish empire continue to be steadily press
ed.
News comes of a cyclone passing over
q portion of Saale county, Alabama, de-
molishing many houses. One woman was
caught by the falling timbers OF her
home and died before she could be res
cued.
Notwithstanding the fact that the floods
along the Red River of the North caus-
ed a loss Of q quarter of a million dollars
at Fargo, N. d., ard inundated 50 miles
of fertile territory, the people in that sec
ton have declined the government ald
voted them.
The Kaslo & Lardo, the Duncan rail-
way, Stiken & Telsen railway, Carlboo
railway; Victoria, Vancouver q Eastefn'
Vancouver & Lulu Island bills have been
passed by the British Columbia leglsla-
ture.
The Poughkeepsie, N. Y, glass works
have been completely destroyed by 1lre
today The loss is approximately $780,
00O. insurance 500 600