Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-08-14
SUMMARY OF NEWS
CHANCES ALL OVER TIIEH WORLD
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Record of MisfOrtunes, Mfshaps and
Crimes, as Well as Of Indus
trial Progress.

Another hot wave passed over the cen
trail states the first of the week.
| Fire has destroyed the chemical work:
Of D. Jayne & Sons at Frankford, Pa:
causing a loss of 100000.
The Hawaiian government decided on
July 2S to issue no more six months resi-
dence permits to Chinese. This practical
exclusion following the lines OF American
LEGISLATION means much to American Ia
borers.
Governor Rogers appointed a. j. Bleth-
en-. editor of the Seattle Times, a regent CT
the state university at Seattle, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death OF the
late John Wiley, for the term ending
March, 1902.
Two hundred women and girls employ
ed at the Fulton bag and cotton mills at
Atlanta, Ga, have struck because of the
employment of negro help by the manage
ment.
Clarence Temply of Irvington and
Joseph scanlan Of Corning, Iowa, were
killed by lightning near Wiota, Iowa.
where they had sought shelter in barn.
Four girls We're drowned in Skunk
river, near Lancaster, Iowa. Three were
daughters of Pierce Pamble, aged 7, II
and l6 respectively, and the other was a
Miss Asmas. They were caught in the
current while wading.
Burlington, Vt, has given President
Mckinley and party a royal reception.
Captain Dodd's crack troop of the Third
United States cavalry from Fort Ethan
Allen was waiting at the dock, and sa-
luted as the president stepped ashore. A
salute from the yacht cannon was fired,
and the waiting crowd cheered. The
streets of Burlington were gay with bunt-
ing, and it was quite triumphal march
for the presidents party from the club
house to the house of Colonel Legrande B.
Cannon, where an invitation to luncheon
had previusly been accepted.
Governor Rogers is officially inspect
ing the soldiers home at Orting.
Chief Justice Elmon Scott and As
sociate Justice Gordon of Washington
are recreating in Yellowstone Park.
The Plunger, submarine torpedo boat
launched at Baltimore.
Ex-Sheritf Dan Simmons of King
county and Bruce Alilroy, ex-state rep
resentative from Yakima county, are the
latest recruits among the Alaska gold
gatherers.
Frank N. Bristol, pastor of the First
Methodist church of Evanston, ILL.,, has
accepted call from the Metropolitan
NJ E. church, President Mckinley 5
Washington church.
In head-on collision at indianapolis
between Chicago express, on the Penn
sylvania line, and Monon switch en-
CINE, William Martin, the Monon en-
gineer, was instantly killed.
A mob at Nacogdoches, Tex, caught
and speedily hung a negro, who assault
ed a white woman, and at last accounts
were looking for the companion of their
victim, having attempted to assault an
other white woman.
Judge Tnley of Chicago has decided
that the city ordinance fixing vehicle
tax is void. The city proposed to col
lect 81 license from each bicycle owner
in the city and apply the same toward
good roads.
F. J. Liebke, a Louisville man, who
created sensation by rash attempting,
it is alleged, to assault a Miss Bayless
of st. Louis while riding in a hack, was
arrested and held in $4,000 bonds.
According to statement by Commits
sioner Evans the number of pensions al
lowed by the government was increased
$l2,S50 during the past year. The pen
sion roll nearly reached the million mark.
During the year there were 81 $50
deaths, many widows remarked and
many orphans became of age.
After due deliberation the English
parliament has decided it would be un
wise to give aid to the hundreds OF peo-
pie who suffered from recent tornado
in Essex. 1t would be establishing a
precedent, the legislators say, and might
revert back on the present and future
governments.
Russell Sage, who recently celebrated
his SD birthday, is given credit for
bringing about the recent corner Of Man
haitian elevated stock. Sage declared
the Manhattan was not earning the
dividends paid and when the spring
quarterly meeting came around the divi-
dends were accordingly cut. About
this time the old man got heavy block,
some Of the other houses went short and
the stock suddenly jumped from 95 to
100
George w. Schofield, one Of the best
known ranchers in the vicinity of San
Jose, Cal, was assassinated near that
town, on the public highway. Schofield
had trouble with his wife and neighbors.
His life was threatened the day before
the killing, but the perpetrator Of the
deed is unknown.
HOME BURNED, GARDEN DESTROYED
Indian Ell and Young JorEens
Brought Menger Particulars.
Nez Perez, Aug. 6.-Word has reach