Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-05-01
ALL OVER THE WORLD
GRIsT OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Industrial Pointers. Occurrences IN
Political Circles, Fire Losses
and So On.

The Mexican congress has ratified the
treaty settling the boundary line pc
tween Mexico and British Honduras
The Portland board of trade urges the
oregon delegation in congress 70 oppose
the renewal Of the Hawaiian reciprocity
treaty.
The state of Indiana has sued the Van
dalia railroad to recover S2,Ooo,oOo OF school
money alleged to be due under an ola
charter.
Amid imposing ceremonlals the corner
stone of the Trans Mississippi Exposition
arch of states has been lald at Omaha.
A wind and hailstornl, passing over
Harvey county, Kansas, demolished two
farmhouses near Newton. One woman
was fatally hurt. Glass in the south slue
Of buildings was shattered.
All necessary measures are reported to
have been taken at Sebastopol lor Tue
eventual intervention OF Russia IN lhe
war between Turkey and Greece.
AS a result of the verdict of the cor
oner's Jury at Salt Lake, Utah, in the
case of John II. Hamilton, Mrs Lou
Hamilton, wife of the dead man, is held
for murder. and Thos. p. Seldom IS held
as accessory.
The paper mills at Ellsworth, five miles
north of Terre Haute. Ind, have been de-
II is stated that Greece has informed
the poWers that she will abandon her
claims to the island of Crete II the pow
ers will force Turkey to cede her EPlrus
and Mount Olympus, accorded to her by
the treaty of Berlin.
An attempt has been made to assassl-
nate the president of Uruguay, Senor Jl-
darte Borda. He was shot at by
would-be assassin but the bullet missed
the mark The presidents assailant was
arrested.
The japanese having been turned away
from Hawaii, are trying to gam an Ell
trance into the United States. FIFTY Jap
anese laborers have arrived from BrltlSh
Columbia to work in California orchards.
Harold M Sewall, who has been select
ed for minister of Hawaii gained proml-
nence during the last campaign by rea-
son of his advocacy Of the republican
ticket and platform. although his father,
Arthur Sewall. was the nominee OF the
democrats for vice president. SeWall had
the Endorsement of the Name senators
for the Hawaiian mission.
A murder is reported at the mining
camp of Granite, Grant county, Ore Ihe
shooting resulted in the death OF Louis
Gutridge and a probable fatal Woundlng
of his brother Samuel, the slayer beng
John McMahon. A report deroSatorE 10
the character of McMahons sister was
charged upon Gutridge. \ quarrel en-
sued and Mcmahon shot the deceased
twice killing him Instantly sam Gut
ridge attempted to disarrl Mcmahon, and
the slayer shot him in the face.
The shah of Persia is reported alarm
ingly i'll.
The entire French squadron mas lell
Toulon for the Levant.
Two persons We're killed and many in
iured by a cyclone at Omer, Mich.
g. NJ Barnes of Guthrie has been ap-
pointed governor of Oklahoma.
Five United States cruisers will consl-
tute the fleet to patrol Bering sea
A gas explosion, 1860 feet below the
surface killed four Italian miners near
Birmingham, Ala.
An insurrection has broken out in AL
bania. Turkish troops are said to be par
ticipatin in the revolt.
General Miles will observe the war in
Europe taking with him Captain NJ. Is.
Maus of his personal staff.
Constable Mccoy at Fillmore, Cal, was
shot through the head and instantly kill
cd by two burglars whom he was pursu-
ing.
Active steps are being taken to unite
the navigation of the Danube with that
Of the Elbe. through the Moldan.
The rapid rise of the Blue river at Be
atrice, Neb., compelled the people to flee
from their houses at night, many seek
ing refuge in the tree tops.
Harry ". Cassin, cashier Of the Geor-
gia Loan. Savings and Banking Company
Of Atlanta is an elnbezzler, misapproprl-
ating Sl5,O00 of the funds of that insti-
tuition.
Consul General Lee has cab!ed the
state department of Cuba that John
Kelly of Philadelphia has been released
and will leave the island.
1t is reported from Rome that a plot
was in existence on April 1G to assassin
II,
cd Gudini, a friend of Acciarito, who at
tackled the king last week, has been ar
rested.
Five thousand people saw Jimmy Barry
and Jimmy Anthony, bantamweights,
fight 20 rounds before the National Ath-
letic Club at San Francisco. Barry being
given 10 per cent of the purse for 5000.
and declared the champion bantamweight
OF the world.
Memphis reports that the break in the
levee at Della has inundated 1900 acres
Of the finest plantations in northern Lou
isiana, and the water continues to pour
through the opening and is rapdly
spreading over q greater area.
President Mckinley has nominated VII
liam r. Day of Canton to be first assist
ant secretary of state, and cx-Represen-
tative Bellamy Storer of Cincinnati TO be
minister to Belgium.
While Tom Darben, a logging man, was
absent in Virginia chopping wood, ms
mountain home, at Beaver Creek, iAY
burned and his wife and four children
were roasted alive.
King George of Greece,by decree dateo
April 49, has granted a moratorium OF
month This moratorium means a gen.
cral suspension of debts until a more con
vcnicnt time at a subsequent date.
Physicians who have been examnlns
Petrio Acciarito, the ironWorker OF Ar
tccna province of Udina who tried tc
stab King Humbert with q dagger, Wh'it
his majesty was on his way to the races
have pronounced him insane.
The secretary of the treasury mas re-
ceived a telegram from Assistant Treas
urer Jordan at New York stating tha'
s977 600 in gold had been ordered Tor eH-
port This is the first withdrawal OF any
considerable amount since July e. 1896.
The Spreckes handicap for 3-year-olds
valued at $500, with cup worth slooo e
be awarded the winner, has beeh aecioe'
;t Irglcside, Howard s., by Imp. Whistle
Iacket-Zolica, winning by nose II
2.081b. Jockey Pigott piloted the winner
The army officer sent from Fort oneh
ing Minnesota, to the Red river Seclioi
in North Dakota reports to the war ae
partrnent that 90 families, compflslaS ~
neoplc. are destitute and in need OF IN
ncdiate aid. Thirty-two hundred rations
he says, will be sufficient for the mex. o
days. 80
Bellamy Storrer of Ohio. has been ap
pointed minister to Belgium
William D. Howland Of New Bedlofu
Mass the treasurer OF several haluAao
turing corporations, is missing.
President Diaz of Mexico, has issued {
decree establishing a naval school at Vefi
Cruz. to be opened July next
John OBJ. Scoby has been appomtee
receiver and Frank Deckabach register
the land office at Olympia, Wash.
Fire has destroyed the Central elevat to' so
at Peoria, H.. causing a loss OF $2oo,oo
insurance, $4,000.
Among the latest nominations sent e
the senate by President Mckinley are tn
following: William r. Day Of ONO hrs
assistant secretary of state; George M
Fisk of Ohio, to be secretary of the EN-
bassy at Berlin; Thomas r. Purnell, dis
trict judge for the eastern district o
North Carolina; Edward G. Bradford
district judge for the district OF Dela
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