Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-06-19
NEWS ABOUT THE WORLD
FROM ALL PARTS OF THE NEW
AND OLD WORLD.
Comprehensive Review of the Inn
portant Happenings of the
Current Week.

Fire at Cairo, ILL.,, has destroyed $780,
0o0 worth of property, including the
new Baptist church, Glynn's transfer
stables with 26 head Of horses. and sew
eral dwellings.
Frank A. Leach of California has
been nominated to be superintendent
of the mint at San Francisco, and Will
lam M. Lynch of Louisiana to be as
saver of the mint at New Orleans.
millionaire, is dead. He made fortune
in railroad building, and was closely
associated with the Vanderbilts and
Goulds. He constructed large sections
of the Union Pacific and other roads.
Jerome Smeathers, his wife and seven
children were poisoned at Yelvington,
KY, with Paris green, which accidently
fell in bucket of water. One child
is reported dead, two are dying and
possibly none will recover.
Wheat advanced at Chicago two and
quarter cents Tuesday and the pit
was the scene of more activity than
has been seen witnessed in several
weeks. The advance was caused by
reports of damage to crops.
Governor Budd of California has
granted a reprieve to Durrant until
July 9.
James Hughes Taylor, the veteran
tragedian, is dead, of dropsy, at Down
ington, Penn.
Commander j. c. Green has been or
dered to the Puget sound naval sta
ton.
Bank clearings of Spokane during
the past week were $650,548. This is an
increase of 27 per cent over the same
week last year.
Boston has just witnessed the grand
est wedding in its history, Larz Ander-
son, until recently a member of the
United States diplomatic corps at
Rome, Italy, and Miss Isabelle Per
kins of Boston, heiress to $17,000,0O0.
becoming husband and wife.
Floods are doing considerable DAM
age along the Connecticut river in New
England. A boom containing 12,000,0oo
feet of logs, north of Bellows Falls, VT,
was carried away. The boom at Tur-
ner's Falls, Mass, also broke. There
We're about 100000 feet Of logs. The
dam of the Warner Manufacturing
Company at Greenfield broke. 1t was
built of solid rock and was SO feet long
and u feet high.
Alvin G. Clark, the famous telescope
lens manufacturer, is dead.
News is just received of terrible
gale off the coast of China May 6, over
taking several hundred fishing boats
of Cha San Archipelago, 500 men los
ing their lives.
Claude D. harrington, superintendent
of the National Academy of Design,
has been arrested in New York on a
charge of having embezzled $4,000 of
the academy's funds.
While trying to arrest three burglars
at Omaha Neb., Police Officers Tiede-
mann and Glover were shot, the for
mer perhaps fatally. The burglars es-
capped.
Governor Tanner of Illinois has sign
ed the famous Allen street railway
bill 1t authorizes a 50-year extension
Of the existing railway franchise, al
lows five-cent fares, permits consollda-
ton of companies and makes no provi-
sion for compensation to munlclpall-
ties.
William Andrews, colored, was TAX
en- from the officers at the door of the
court house at Princess Anne, Md, and
killed by a mob. Andrews had been
tried, convicted and sentenced to death
for feloniously assaulting Mrs. BenJa-
min T. Kelly on May S.
Prof. Fesenius, the well-known chem
ist at Wiesbaden, Germany. is dead.
A London cable says that j. w.
Stocks has ridden 32A miles in an houf
on bicycle at the Crystal palace.
James French was hanged Friday in
the county Jail at Rockford, ILL.,, for
the cold-blooded murder of his wife
last July. Two hundred persons wit
messed the execution.
A dispatch from Simla announces Sc
rious trouble on the northern frontier
of India and the massacre of a num-
Der of British officers and native SOL
diers in the government employ.
While canvaSmen were working on
the tent of Ringing Bros circus at
Wahpeton, N. D., the centerpole was
struck by lightning. Charles Walters
and Charles Smith were killed and
four others shocked
The grand jury has returned indict-
ments against President A. c. Huger,
Cashier J. H. Field and Directors ID.
T. Johnson and Olaf Searle, of the
failed Washington state bank, at Min
neapolis, MINI.
1t is alleged at Athens that the Ger
man government seeks to overthrow
the Greek dynasty ana to establish Il
rigorous control of Greek finances. In
order to attain this double object Ger
many wants a continuance of the war
and to have the terms Of peace finally
dictated at Athens.
Bradstreets reports business better
than it was a year ago.
By the falling of a cage in colllery
in Wales 10 miners were killed.
Indianapolis reports that two per-
killed by lightning.
A treaty of alliance is said to have
been completed between France and
Russia
The Paine Shoe Company, one of the
largest in Holbrook, Mass, has assign
ed.
The senate has agreed to the amend
ment to the tariff bill making the duty
on sugar 1.95 cents, or nearly cents a
pound.
Difference of opinion regarding the
wearing of a black gown has caused
trouble in the Reform Episcopal church
and Bishop Cheney of Chicago has re-
signed.
Gas companies of New York and
Brooklyn have consolidated, having
total capital stock of over $56, ,0OO ooo,
and bonded indebtedness of over Sll'-
100000
A correspondent of the London Stand
ard writing from Madrid says that
everything shows that Spain is again
drifting into strained relations with
the United States.
The Turkish government is draining
the Asiatic province of the empire TOT
troops to be sent to the Belkans ana
has ordered an additional $50, 900 Nauser
rifles.
The Voseeage Finishing Company,
manufacturers of shoe machinery and
wood working tools, Of Lynn, Mass,
has assigned to F. A. Wyman. The as
sets are unknown; the liabilities are
placed at $4,000.
Hiram A. Waite, ex-city comptroller
of Port Huron, Mich. has been sentenc-
ed to five years in the house OF correc,
ton, on a conviction Of embezzlement
| of 900 from the city.
An excursion train, while on the way
from Baramouth to Oldham, England
was derailed at Westampton near Us
wesley, last night. Nine persons were
killed and Is injured.
w. ]. Bryan was greeted by great
crowd upon his arrival in New York
Saturday. AS he left the train he was
greeted with cheers and repeated cries
of Bryan the next president OF the
United States AS Bryan left the
station all the hackmen waved thei1
hats and renewed their cheering for the
next president of the United States