Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-08-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS
CHANCES ALL OVER THE WORLD
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Record of Misfortunes, Mfshaps and
Crimes, as Well as of Indus-
trial Progress.

Count Posadowski Wehner, the new
vice chancellor and imperial foreign secre-
tary of Germany, is appointed to repre-
sent the chancellor in the capacity of su-
preme head of the Reichsbank. He has
more than once publicly advocated bimet
allism.
A dispatch from Havana says that Of
fetal information has reached Havana of
decisive battle between loyal troops and
insurgents forces in Matanzas in which
the Spanish troops We're routed with
heavy losses.
Advices from Vladivostock state that
the Russian government intends to
make an attempt to keep the port open
all the year round. A tremendous ice
boat, built in Denmark, has been
brought round from Europe, and the in
ventors, who accompanied the vessel, are
sanguine of success.
The in junction which stood in the way
of the new glucose combination by re
straining the sale to it of the American
Glucose Company of Peoria, ILL.,, has been
dissolved and the transfer took place i'm
mediately, certified check for over So,
100000 being passed in order to forestall
any similar attempts at complication.
j. A. Knowlin, a live stock commission
merchant of Kansas City, has bought i'll
Oregon $4,000 sheep which are now being
driven overland to Kansas, where they
will be fed next winter and spring. This
immense herd has been divided into II
bands, each of which is driven by eight
men. Knowlin expects to reach Kansas
with the sheep by October.
Five hundred coal miners employed by
the Albert Coal Company at Lethbridge,
Canada, are out on strike for an advance
of 10 per cent in wages.
The annual report of the Oregon Rail
way & Navigation Company for the year
ending June 80, 1897, shows an increase
of 81 0l5,32l in net earnings over the pre-
vious year. Total earnings, $4,7lS,354;
operating expenses, $2,779,O47. Net earn
ings, $l,939, ,307.
The property of the Chicago Sugar Re
tining Company has been formally trans
ferred to the Glucose Sugar Refining Com
pany of New Jersey for the consideration
of $6,25O,O00 "and other valuable con
siderations.' The plant consists of an
enormous sugar refinery and glucose fac
tory which have been in operation for l5
years,
A special from Coffeen, ILL.,, says
Frank Campbell, who was the trusted
lieutenant of General Bradley, was
forced to flee for his life from the strikers
camp west of town. He was pursued by
an angry mob of Slavs, who charged him
with having sold Bradley and his men out
to the Cotfeen Coal and Copper Company.
The Falls Creek tannery at Falls Creek,
Pa, has closed down because of the ap-
pearance of a peculiar and terrible di-
sease among the employees, of whom four
died within a few hours after they were
seized. 1t is supposed to be caused by
handling hides which were imported from
China and which contained germs of an
unknown and dangerous disease.
Captain w. H. Shafoe one of the best
known racing men in the south, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself at
Gallatin, Tenn, apparently without
cause.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock of St. Louis has
been appointed minister to Russia. Mr..
Hitchcock is a great grand son of Ethan
Allen who captured Fort Ticonderoga
in the name of the Great Jehovah and
the continental congress-
Captain General Weyler has rendered
his resignation as commander of the
Spanish forces in Cuba. His campaign
was brought to an inglorious close, lie
having been chased into Havana by the
rebels on the last day of the protracted
struggle.
All of the big labor leaders in the coun-
try have assembled at Pittsburg to aid
the miners in their fight for higher
wages. President M. d. Ratchford of the
United Mine Workers of America, fro II
the West Virginia DISTRICTS says the
working men are bound to win they are
daily growing stronger, and have now
reached the point where the courts have
been compelled to step in and enjoin the
striking miners from carrying on their
organization. Samuel Gompers said 49,
600 out of 10000 diggers in West Vir
ginia were now striking.
Eli Burney of Whitehead, Ala, who
was forbidden to visit his sweetheart,
shot and fatally wounded the girls faith
er, afterward escaping.
Several hundred tests of adulterated
tea, imported by Portland Chinese firm,
We're rejected by the Tacoma customs in
spector, regardless of the protests of the
company,s agent.
Governor Rogers has received an invi.
tation from the governor of Texas i'll
viting him to send four delegates to the
national prison association meeting in
Austin, October 1920. The delegates
must pay their own expenses. No one
has been found.
The eighth international congress OF
pharmaceutical chemists is in session at
Brussels, the direct object of the two
weeks meeting being to discuss hygiene,
pure water supplies, public health anl
sanitary legislation.
Ex-Collector of Internal Revenue 0. NJ.
Welburn of San Francisco has been form
ally indicted by the federal grand jury
upon the charge of having embezzled
1922 between September 80, 1896, and
May, 1897. There were 43 counts. Bail
was fixed at $4,000 and promptly fur
nished.
The annual conference of the ''Priests'
Eucharist League" opening at the Uni
versity of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind,
| August L. will be attended by 200
priests and II bishops, among the latter
being Archbishop Elder of Cincinnati and
Archbishop Williams of Boston.
Goddess of Plenty.
Walla Walla, Wash, Aug. l6.-Miss
Rose Blalock has been elected to repre-
sent Walla Walla as the Goddess of Plan-