Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-06-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM ALL PARTS OF THE NEW
AND OLD WORLD.
Comprehensive Review of the I'M
pOrtant Happenings of the
Current Week.

Comprehensive Review of the I'M
portant Happenings of the
Current Week.
Miguel A. Otero has ben appointed
governor of New Mexico.
T. Lloyd, democrat, has been elected
to congress in the first Missouri dis
trict by at least 5000 majority.
John Fratt of Racine, Wis, has been
elected head banker of the Modern
| Woodmen, and Rock Island was chosen
as the permanent headquarters Of the
! order.
A Washington special says the sui
tan Of Turkey has withdrawn his OBJ
Jection to the appointment of j. B. An
gell as minister to Turkey, and Mr..
Angel will leave for Constantinople on
Saturday.
Judge Taft of the United States
court has appointed Samuel N FELTON,
as receiver Of the Columbus, Sandusky
& Hooking Valley railroad. The road
has suffered on account of dullness in
the coal trade. It is claimed there is
a large amount due the employees and
for supplies, taxes and other charges.
1t is stated at Omaha that the Union
Pacific and the Southern Pacific have
reached an understanding and that
closer traffic relations between these
roads will begin Immediately. All the
western business of the Union Pacific
will hereafter be routed over the
Southern Pacific from Ogden, in re-
taliation for the opening Of the Ogden
gateway by the Oregon Short line.
A large crowd attended the Jubilee
derby at Epson, England, Wednesday.
Ln ta1y 70
second, 202 to third, over a course
about a mile and a half. The betting
before the start was 4 to 1 on Galtee
more. The derby was won by J. Cub
bins brown colt Galteemore, by Ken
dal out Of Morganette.
Edgar Harris, a Baltimore letter car
rier, 80 years old, shot and killed his
12-year-old son George and his young
daughter Ada, wounded his daughter
Ella, aged IA, and then turned the pis-
tol upon himself He Is lying at the
is thought to be mentally unbalanced
on account Of the recent death of his
wife.
D. Wilson was hanged Thursday at
Morristown, N. j., for numbering his
wife in June last year.
In the French chamber of deputies
aron des Rotorous has submitted a
motion to raise the duty on American
products if the United States fixes
prohibitive duty on French products.
Richard Crocker's bay horse Amer
icus won the Riddlesdown plate of 200
sovereigns at the third days racing at
Epson.
The state guards were called out at
Urbana Ohio, and are still on duty at
the Jail yard. The people are getting
worked up to a high pitch, and trouble
may be expected at any moment over
the assault of Click Mitchell upon Mrs.
Gaumer Her condition today is crit
ieal.
While the directors of the First Ma
tional bank of Dover, Del, were exam
ining the accounts of William N.
Boggs, the paying teller, they received
a letter from him saying he was $685.
900 short and had left town. He gave
the details Of his irregularities, when
had extended over 10 years.
The new Inheritance tax law OF
Pennsylvania is declared unconstitu-
tional.
Lawrence Townsend Of Pennsylvania
has been nominated minister to Portu-
gal.
Ellis H. Bobberts of New York has
been nominated United States treas
urer.
d
was felt at Helena, Mont, Saturday
morning.
/ The death is announced at Colorado
Springs of Benjamin ID. CroWell, one
of the foremost pioneers Of Colorado.
Conrad NJ Jordan has been nominat-
ed assistant treasurer of the United
States at New York.
I Mount Vesuvius is again in eruption.
l- 1>1y ride
wide is covered with lava.
A. V. Monarch & Co., a distilling COM
pany of Owensburg, KY, has assigned.
Liabilities, 100000; assets, $4,000.
/ Fright due to hearing man snore,
caused the death of 3-year-old
child in New York city. The snorer
has been sent to Jail for 10 days.
Richard M. Scruggs, a prominent
merchant of ST. Louis, has been held for
the grand jury, charged with snug
Cling jewe1ry into the county from Lon
don.
Fire at Portland, Or, destroyed the
Rambler cyclery. The Cactus saloon
adjoining and Miss Williams boarding
house were damaged by water The
loss is $35,O0O
/ Governor Tanner of Illinois has sign
ed the gas bills. AS a result the com
panies forming the Chicago Gas Trust
will be able to consolidate, saving, II
is said, s25O,O0O annually.
c.. J. McNamar is reported to have
purchased the N. N. stock brand Of the
Home Land Cattle Company, contain
ing from $4,000 to 10000 head of cattle
the largest transaction that has ever
been made in Montana.
Thirteen bands of sheep, a total OF
50 900 head, are now on the move from
the Inland Empire to points in Ne
braska and Kansas. The greater part
were bought in eastern Oregon and the
rest in Washington.
An earthquake startled many of the
citizens of Lansing, Iowa, early Sun
/ day morning.
Mayor Olmsted of Spokane mas writ
ten letter to President Hill of the
Great Northern, urging more eGuita-
BILE freight rates for Spokane.
The bonded debt of Boston has stead
lily increased, now amounting 10 S49.-
993, 1926. The annual interest is S2oS2,
0OO
A fire in the Standard Biscuit Com
pany's factory at San Francisco caused
loss of 100000 in property and the
lives of three firemen.
Thomas w. Booth, eX-president of the
| Merchants Exchange of st. louis, was
found dead in a bath tub. He lad
been suffering from a complication of
| diseases.
SPANISH CABINET HAS RESIGNED