Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-12-25
.PO|NIS IN GENERAL NEWS
HOME AND FOREIGN OUTLOOK
Accidents and Crimes All Over the
WOrld-Business Affairs and Po-
litica1 ConsiderntiOns-Vu of
Items.

According to special dispatch from
Shanghai the German government con
templates colonizng the province Of Sha1
Iung with German families and making
Kiao Chau an open port
Cuban insurgents dynamited the rail
road between Canarias and Dagene, prov
ince of Pinar del Rio, destroying the track
and wrecking the engine of freight
train. A force Of troops with repairing
gang was sent to the scene Of the out
rage, where they found a dynamite bomt
and arrested the men who caused the ex.
plosion. The line was repaired.
Charles c. Brown Of Sacramento, Cal
a veteran sport, has fallen heir to an es-
tate in New Orleans valued at 100000
William Henry Theodore Durrant, the
condemned murderer Of Blanche Lamont
has been sentenced by Superior Judge
Bahrs at San Francisco for the fourth
time, to suffer the extreme penalty of the
law, the date for his execution being set
fer January next.
{, The following nominations have been
sent to the senate by President McKin-
ley: Court Of private land claims: joseph
Reed to be chief justice, William NJ. Nav
OF Tennessee, Thos. F. Fuller of Mort il
Carolina, Henry G. Strauss of Kansas,
Wilbur T, Stone Of Colorado, to be asso-
ciate justices, appointments, their terms
expiring December 81, 1897.
/ A bill has been introduced bv Sena-
i Wilson iy,f fba 10 ~
4 Spokane Falls & Northern railway right
of way through the Colville Indian res
ervation and also for any branch line
commencing at point in Stevens county,
crossing the Columbia river and running
! northwest by the most feasible route
through the northern part Of said reserv:,-
ton to connect at the international boun-
dairy line with any road which may be
built from British Columbia.
Louis and John Bonner, negroes. who
have been attending the United States
| court at Nashville, Tenn, as witnesses
against white-cappers, We're murdered in
a foul manner near Kennedy, in Lamar
county.
President Mckinley has decided to put
a quietus on the protests formulating on
the Pacific coast against Attorney General
McKenna of California as Judge Of the
supreme court, and sent in his nomina-
ton. The president is determined to
stand by his attorney general to the end
Of the fight it is said. He will insist, it
is said, that McKenna continue as attor-
ney general until the senate confirms his
nomination as associate justice.
One, on possible two, lives were lost
and $4,000 worth Of property destroyed
III a disastrous Ere at Durica, Pa, which
almost ruined the business portion Of the
town.
William Terriss, the well known actor,
was assassinated, being stabbed with 2
knife as he was entering the stage door
of the Adelphi theater in London.
Senator Frye has introduced a bill in
congress providing for the purchase or
construction of vessel for the revenue
cutter service on the Yukon, and appro
priating $4,000 for this purpose.
There were no services Sunday in the
old Catholic church of Green Bay, Wis
Rev. A. A. Miller, the priest of the parish,
has resigned his charge and accepted the
Protestant faith.
The death is reported at Tacoma Of
Jonas Stanup, one Of the best known In
dians in western Washington, aged o3
years In the Indian war of 1850 he took
an active part in defense Of his people
the Puyallups-and at its termination re
fused to surrender his gun to the govern
ment.
No appointments will be made by the
president during The holiday recess, ex
ccpt in case of emergency
John (Kd) Mccoy, the noted ex-bank
burglar, whose record is known to the
police of all countries, was struck on the
head with club and probably fatally in
jured in New York by John McGinnis,
proprietor of a BoWery lodging house.
Lately Mccoy has earned precarious
living by selling locks.
The establishment of Crook, Horner &
Co., dealers in plumbing, machinists and
milers' supplies, occupying a seven-story
building at Howard and Saratoga streets.
Baltimore, has been damaged $45O,000 by
fire The loss is covered by insurance.
The state department has been adj
vised that the Canadian authorities have
surrendered upon an extradition warrant
James G. Bennett, who was arrested and
held at Victoria on a charge of murderous
assault upon his wife in San Francisco
The state of Nebraska, by the attorney
general, has filed a civil suit against ex-
Treasurer Hartley and his bondsmen for
1896 OCO This is the amount which Hart /
ley is charged with embezzling from the
public school fund during his first two
years in office, and is only one of mum
Der Of similar suits.
The subcommittee Of the senate com
mittee on Pacific railroads heard F. M. |
Gideon. the attorney who was charged by /
J. X. Reddington on Saturday with hav
ing manipulated the land office records |
Mr.. Gideon denied every allegation made
by Reddington and insisted that there
was no possibility Of manipulating the
records even il he had so desired.
T. G. Beatty, formerly supreme secre
tary Of the A. ?. A., and a prominent
lawyer of the middle west, and Henry
Howard, have been taken from Strouds-
burg, Pa, to serve a term Of Is months
in the penitentiary. Before he left Beat
ty wrote an account of his life, which he
headed "Life Experience Of a Smart
Fool"
"The American Congregation, the Pride
Of Jerusalem" has been incorporated. Its
principal headquarters are to be in New
York city, and it is intended to carry on
operations throughout the United States
and Canada. The object of he organiza-
ton is to aid and assist INDECENT and
needy Jews Of all nationalities resident
in Palestine and Jerusalem by means OF
President Hampson Of the Mexico, Gu
& Pacific railroad, with small
party, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Bryan
to Cuernevaca. The party were greatly
i II.