Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-11-13
NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS .
RECORD OF CRIME AND MIsHAP.
Progress of Business at Home and
Abroad-Fire Losses and Acciden-
tai Deaths Political Appoint
ments.

\ Fire has destroyed the Grand Centra
hotel and Carey block at Marlboro, Mass.
loss, $l5O.OOO
General Thomas L. Clingman, ex
| United States senator, died at Morgan
town insane asylum. Aged, poor and in
firm, North Carolina gave him home
! there.
| Rev. DR.. Charles A. Gerry, pastor OF
the Queen street church, Wolverhampton
London, and chairman of the Congrega-
tional union in England, has reached New
the interests of Anglo American arbitra-
/ ton.
Particulars of the terrible casualty
which occurred in the village church at
khiloff, Kizolotf district. Russia, October
70, state that "A persons were killed and
100 injured in the stampede which fol
lowed the false alarm of fire
The Chesapeake & Ohio's vestibuled ex-
press, known as the 'sF. +. W from Gin
cinnati to Washington, was wrecked near
Old Shawdell, five miles east of Charlottes-
vile. Va. -Four persons We're killed The
wreck was caused by the breaking of an
axle on the forward truck Of the locomo-
tive.
Thomas Davis Of Boise, Idaho, has for
warded to President Mckinley, through
Senator Shoup, a box of fine large apples
and pears produced on Idaho soil. This
fruit has attracted great deal of atten-
ton from members of the cabinet and
their families and from others who have
been visitors at the White house, on ac-
count of its size. flavor and fine appear
ance.
G. D. Mclean, the Grass Valley (Cal.)
millionaire miner, is dead.
"A report has reached Chicago that the
operators at Carbon Hill, ILL.,, will import
Chinese to take the place of the striking
miners.
By an explosion at the Illinois Steel
Works, Milwaukee, Thursday night, five
men We're injured, two-Peter Hundt and
George Kolinsky-fatally
George S. Shaw, the pioneer lumber
man of Cloquet, Mimi, one of the best
known lumbelmen in the northwest, is
dead.
There is every indication that from l2,-
600 to $4,000 cloak makers will strike in
New York, owing to violation by con
tractors Of the agreement entered into six
weeks ago.
Charles l.. Fair, son of the late Senator
Fair of California, has announced his i'll
tention of selling his racing stable and re-
tiring from the turf, having met with
nothing but bad luck for years.
The ITpsala college, Lutheran institu-
ton, supported by the state church of
Sweden, Of Brooklyn, has agreed to move
to New Orange, n. Y, on condition Of a
100000 endowment from a town boom
ing real estate firm.
Owing to labor organizations objecting
to the famous Washington marine bands
playing at the Chicago horse show the
navy department has decided the organi-
zation shall not perform at any more pri-
vate engagements. This may ruin the
band, it having depended largely upon
outside aid
There are 232 business failures reported
throughout the United States last week,
as compared with 2lS the previous week,
235 in the week a year ago, 26O two years
ago. 24l three years ago, and as compared
with 333 in the first week of November.
1898.
The New York Herald prints re-
markab]e letter from Hannis Taylor, for
merly United States minister to Spain, i'll
which, after telling of his strenuous ef-
forts to prevent a rupture of diplomatic
relations between the two countries dur
ing the dark days Of the Competitor case,
he asserts that the ruling classes Of Spain
are determined to refuse any concessions
which would be accepted by the Cubans.
The president has selected Frank Mon
dell of Newcastle, Wyo., to be assistant
commissioner of the land office Mondell
was representa- tive-at- large from Wyom-
ing in the last house and will be 81 years
old tomorrow. He has lived in several
western states and territories, was mayor
of Newcastle for seven years, has been
president of the territorial senate and was
a delegate to the Minneapolis convention.
Bradstreet's weekly report on the bust
ness of the country says that features at
the larger Pacific coast cities are confined
to sales of merchandise and provisions for
the Klondike and the heavy foreign ship
ments of wheat and flour. Larger east
ern cities report no increase in the gener-
al merchandise movement. New England
centers report that orders from the west
exceed those from the south or east Lead
ing manufacturers are fairly well employ
ed. While there has been moderate re-
action in iron and steel. furnaces and
mills continue we'll employed and the
outlook for higher quotations is good.
For the month of October the receipts
of the Denver g. Rio Grande were $763,-
900, an increase Of S54,7O0 over the same
month last year, or III per cent.
The annual session of the committee
of the NJ E. church extension society at
Philadelphia, has closed. 1t was decided
to appropriate 100000 for church ex-
tension this year.
The exports of specie from the port of
New York last week amounted to $l2,-
$50 in gold and $7o2.27l in silver. The
imports were: Gold, s79,9ol; silver, sq4,-
3o6; dry goods and general merchandise,
S6,4SS,3l3.
A farewell reception has been given in
New York at the Bowery mission to a
band Of seven Christian crusaders, who
intend to start on Monday morning for
the Klondike gold fields to establish
among the miners a permanent mission.
The announcement at Philadelphia
that company has been organized,
with Charles U. Camp as president, to
carry passengers from the Pacific ports
to the Alaskan gold fields, receives an IN
teresting supplement in the statement
that four of the new boats to be used
are the steamships Pennsylvania, Ohio
Indiana and Illinois of the American
line, which have been sold to the new
company.
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