The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-08-05
General.

General.
The dominion cabinet decided not to
attempt to enforce the alien law in
the klOndyke region.
August McKinnon of Metropolitan.
Mich. has filed suit against the North
western Railroad company for $4,000
damages for personal injuries.
A prominent distiller of Kansas City
named Mccormick is In correspond
ence with local capitalists at Ottumwa,
Iowa, endeavoring TO put in a distillery
at that place.
The battleship Indiana will be sen
to Halifax 10 be locked and cleaned.
This is necessary on account OF the
bad condition of the dry docks at
Port Royal, S. c.
The sparring match between Kid
Mccoy and Tommy Ryan will take
place at the Empire Athletic club in
Syracuse, n. Y, Sept. s for a purse of
5000.
The Algonquin Wooden Mills Com
pany of Passaic, y. j., has given notice
that on Aug. ! wages in their large
mills will be increased from 10 10 II
per cent.
Two thousand three hundred gar
ment workers went on q strike at New
York. One hundred and twenty-five
shops in that city and Brooklyn are
affected.
The Avery Plow factory Of Louis
vile, Ky, has resumed operations af-
ter II three years shutdown. giving
employment to LOCO lei One thou
sand additional men will be given en-
ployment gradually in the future.
The board of railroad commissioners
has granted authority to the Boston
Elevated Railroad company to issue
S~10,0OO.O00 of stock. The motive pow
er of the road is to be electricity.
JEFF Powers and Jack Perew spared
for points at Lavack's gymnasium Mt
Cleveland. Ohio. Powers won in seven
rounds. The match was to have been
between Lavack and Powers, but the
former was unable to spar because OF
a sore hand.
The reply of the German govern
ment to h demand Of the Agrarians
for a decree temporarily excluding
foreign grain has been received with
general satisfaction, although il is
considered too gr~aciously worded.
a letter from Capt. Lehman. of the
Dutch steamer Dordreicht. says that
he saw a curious object floating in the
White sea on July IL. which was nei-
ther a ship nor n dead whale, but re-
sembled a balloon.
Mayor Sylvester Pennoyer of Port
land is credited i'm Oregon with an in
tense desire to be governor of the state
once more, his plan being to mass all
the free silver Republicans and Demo
Gratis in his interest. The election is a
year off.
The general store of Aid. n. c. Gal
lagher of Escanaba, Mich. was taken
possession Of by the sheriff on a claim
of 5000 held by the Dousman Milling
company of Depere. Wis. Mr.. Gala
CHER Is perfectly solvent, but disputes
the claim. asserting there is a discrep-
ancy In the account.
a rich strike has been found in the
Golconda. in Montana. one of the
group Of mines belonging to the Alps
Mining company. A vein of eighteen
TO twenty feet Of free milling ore that
will average 500 has been found by
cross cutting in the bottom of a shaft
125 feet from the surface.
The board Of fire and police commits
sioners Of Omaha met and adopted n
resolution calling on Chief Sigwart. of
the police department, to resign. This
Is h elimination of an agitation that
has been going Oh since the Populist
legislature changed the law restoring
to the governor the power to appoint
the Omaha police commissioners.
TuOlumno county. Cal. Is excited
ovCr a rich pocket strike made recently
in the Tansey mine. between Sonora
and jamestown. Colby d Beckwith.
who are working the mine under lease.
uncovered the pocket ut night. and
before noon the next day they took
out 100000. In the afternoon the yield
was $4,000. The lessees are now
working another lead which they think
will run into a second pocket.
There Is not a mine in the country
which can show such extreme varia-
lions in the price mt which ii is held
as the Diamond mine near Helena.
Mont. 1t was sold last year TO a
Scotch syndicate for 81. 100000. Eff
teen years ago Richard Jockey Of Hell
ena bought the mine for 80 cents. Mr..
Jockey did not make the difference
between these two sums. The proper
~ which he bought for 90 cents he
sold for $1,000 and thought he was
making a good bargain.