Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-10-30
FRESH NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
GLEANINGS FROM ALL AROUND.
Deaths of Noted Personalities, Rob-
berries ana AcciGents-POinter in
Business Circles and General
News of the Week.

A telegram from Madrid says there is
much discussion in that city in regard to
the rumored Spanish Portuguese alliance.
color being given by the presence of the
Portuguese minister of marine.
The charred remains of Mark Beck, who
lost her life in the California Fuse Com
panys works at Colma, have been found
The plant was totally destroyed, entail
ing a loss of 100000.
The American Missionary Association
began its annual session at Plymouth Con
gregational church in Minneapolis Tues
day. The report of the executive COM
mittee showed that there are N schools.
with Alb instructors and l2,34S pupils, in
the southern educational work among the
negroes.
At the international conference of as
tronomers at Geneva, Wis., papers on alb
struse subjects were read by DR.. H. Des-
landres of Paris, Prof. Runge Of Hanover,
Germany: Profs. Stone and Humphreys
of the university Of Virginia Prof keeler
of Allegheny observatory. and Prof Lord
of the Ohio state university.
Senator Pritchard of North Carolina is
in Omaha to conduct an official examina
tion of alleged discharges of government
employees for political reasons.
Archibald NJ. Allerton, pioneer in the
live stock business. is dead at Moore.s
Fork, n Y, aged IS. He founded the
first stock yards in New York, and once
did a cash business of S20,0OO,OOO year.
Mrs. Jennie Campbell of New York has
been arrested under the new compulsory
educational law for failing to keep her
son William in school, and the trial will
probably be carried to the supreme court
to test its constitutonality
The steamship Belgic, arriving in San
Francisco, carried 2235 bales of raw silk
consigned to the mills Of Connecticut and
New jersey. valued at $l,OOO,0OO, and
sent overland in a special train.
Berthold Englisch, the we'll known chess
player, is dead from brain affection. He
withdrew from a recent tournament in
Berlin, declaring his brain was not clear.
The total cut of the II mills on the riv
er at Marinette, Wis, will be over 327,-
100000 feet this year, and will bring over
S4,O0O.O00 in returns, most Of the lumber
having been sold.
Word has been received in San Francis
co that Frank Y. Mcdonald had died i'll
London. He was fugitive from justice,
having been indicted for defrauding the
clients of the wrecked Pacific bank. of
which he was cashier, out Of thousands of
dollars.
Justice SABBATH of Chicago has given
Paul Czyet aged IA, the choice Of going
to prison or giving up enough skin to
graft over sore on the person Of Anton
kwitke, another boy, over whom he
threw boiling water the guilty lad hay
inc until October 2S to determine his
choice.
Prof. A. A. Nicholson. head professor Of
physics at the university of Chicago. has
been made a member of the international
committee Of weights and measures to fill
the place made vacant by the death OF
Dr. Benjamin Gould, the former represen-
tative on the board of the United States.
Over 800 invitations have been issued
for the wedding Of Ben iamin F. Hunt,
aged SS. to Mrs. Julia A. Sherman, aged
90. both Of Watertown, N. Y. The happy
couple met and fell in love while touring
the Adirondacks last summer. A son Of
the groom, eN-Postmaster ID. L. Hunt Of
Rochester. formerly business manager OF
the Post-Express, aged 60 years, will at
tend.
The Bank OF England is short Of gold:
and during the past week nearly S2O,OOo,-
600 worth of the yellow metal has been
called in.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Lima, Peru, says it is predicted the
senate will pass the gold standard, which
was recently approved by the chamber Of
deputies.
The sixth congressional district of Chi
cago democratic convention has nominat
ed Vincent Fl. Perkins to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of Congressman
Cook.
George Westerman of New Madrid,
Mo, aged so, shot his stepdaughter and
blew out his brains. He was suspected
Of criminal intimacy with the girl, who
is about to become mother
Mrs Virginia B. Todd Of New London:
Mo, has been found guilty Of murder in
the second degree she having killed her
l7-vear-old daughter in 1895 while in a
fit of insane jealousy.
More than 600 horses have been entered
for the Chicago horse show and it is ex
pccted the number will reach 1000 when
all entries have been heard from, many
coming in by mail.
State auditor Mahew eX-Auditor Hip
pie and Clerk Anderson of South Dakota
have been arrested on the charge Of en-
bezzlement and taken before a commit
ting magistrate.
The New York silk house of ". G.
Hitchcock & Co. has assigned to w. j.
Curtis, the liabilities exceeding a million,
and no cause being given. The firm was
the largest of the kind in New York.
The Robbers Roost gang Of central and
southern Utah, composed of 40 or 80 muir
dcrers and desperadoes has broken out
again, driven off horses in Wayne county
and taken refuge in the Henry mountains,
where the settlers dare not follow them.
Tt will be unsafe to turn stock loose Oh
the winter ranges
Theodore Krytka, the handwriting ex-
pert of San Francisco has received re-
vover from Bergman, the Bavarian me-
chanic, that by pulling the trigger once
will shoot six shots in two seconds, throw
ing a 2-calibre steel bullet with sufficient
velocity to pierce a siX-inch hardwood
plank at 300 yards.
The exports Of specie from the port of
New York for the week were $9l6,7O3 in
silver and $4,000 in gold The imports for
the week were: Gold, 81 ,562, Sal; silver,
s96236; dry goods and merchandise, $s,-
5O30l7.
Three hundred and seventyfour out Of
1892 private and state banks of Kansas
have made their report to Bank Commits
sioncr r w Prudential and they have