Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-11-20
NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS
RECORD OF CRIME AND MIsHAP.
PROGRESS of Business at Home and
Abroad-Fire Losses and Acciden-
tai Deaths - Political Appoint
ments,

| III. He1nflcn wiener, the eminent Ger
man jurist, is dead.
The Georgia house of representatives
has passed a bill making the playing OF
football crime, and providing $1,000 fine
or one year in the penitentiary, or BOTH
as the penalty.
The Lovejoy monument at Alton. Ill.,
costing $4,000, has just been dedicated
Loyejoy was assassnated i'll that city
go years ago for his outspoken and fiery
editorials against the slave trade.
The comptroller of the currency has de-
clared dividends in favor of the creditors
of insolvent national banks as follows:
Twenty-Five per cent, Merchants & Min
ers' National bank, Phillipsburg, Mont.
Is per cent, Northwestern National bank,
Great Falls, Mont; 4l2 per cent, Ma
tional bank, Pendleton. Or.
Patents have been granted John Jel1iin
Spokane, dust pan; Alfred Barrett, Puy-
allup, a baling press, and John d. Camp
bell, Leesburg: Idaho, tool for miners
use
The war department, acting on the rec
ommendation Of General Wade, com
manding the department of Dakota, has
ordered the abandonment of Fort Custer,
Montana. General Wade has also rec
commended the abandonment of Fort As
sinaboine Montana, but the department
/ thinks it imprudent at this time.
Leading business men of Iowa cities are
circulating petition to present to the
next legislature asking that married men
be not exempted from paying grocery and
tradesmen's bills
! DR.. Won Hollenben, the new German
ambassador to the United States to sac
ceed Baron Won Theilmann recalled to
become secretary OF the imperial treasury,
has left Brennan for the United States.
\ 1t is probable that Rev. DR.. Collyer. the
eminent Unitarian divine of Brooklyn,
will Gil the pulpit of the First Unitarian
church of Oakland during the first three
months of the coming year, filling the
place made vacant by the resignation of
Rev. G. w. Wendt.
/ The annual report of the Great North
ern shows total gross earnings of $2l,-
736, 6,225, decrease of SS3.474; operating
j. expenses and taxes, S13,23O,22l, an in
crease of S6l5 5,999: net earnings, SIS, sos.
OO3, decrease of 5000 474; surplus after
dividends, 81 ,539, 7l6, a decrease of $5Gl-
40.
Three thousand sheep were burned in
a prairie fire in Crosby county, Texas.
The two Mormon apostles, Leyman
and Crowley, have assigned missionary
elders to various portions of Ohio, with
the view of spreading the faith in that
state.
| The past year has been the most sue
cessful financially, in the history of Yale
university, the school having received
S445,055 in gifts.
1t is learned at the state department
that Charles Page Bryan of Chicago has
been determined upon as the successor
of Minister Charles Denby, who now rep
resents the United States in China.
| In the Thorn murder trial in Long Isl
and City N. Y, Mrs. Agusts Mack, who
was indicted, together with her erstwhile
paramour, Martin Thorn, for the murder
of her former lover, William Guldensuppe,
| for whom she deserted her legal husband.
has appeared i'll the role of state witness
against Thorn, to the CONSERVATION of
the latter's lawyers. She told of the aw-
full crime, which will doubtless convict
/ her paramount.
Fire has destroyed the department
store of W. A. Wieboldt & Co., in Chi
cago The loss is about $l65,OOO.
/ Robert T. Lincoln has become the
head of the Pullman Car Company being
elected chairman Of the executive COM
mittee having the management of the af-
! fairs of the committee
1 William Jennings Bryan has contribut-
ed 500 to the Henry George memorial
| fund.
Miss Frances +. Willard, president of
| the W. C. I. o., announces that she will
contribute $4,000 of her own money to
start the fund of 100000 which the tenn
perance women need to hold control of
the temple property in Chicago
The Pacific Steam Whaling Company is
preparing to place a new line of steam
crs on the st. Michaels- Yukon route next
spring. The line will have its headquar
tiers at San Francisco and will be a direct
route. The company has also gone into
the Copper river and Cooks inlet trade.
Upon the opening of the trial of JOS
eph E. Kelly at Dover, n, H., for the
murder of Cashier Stickney of the Som
ersworth National bank, Kelly retracted
his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty
to the charge of murder in the first de-
gree.
A. G. Gillian. manager of the Jones
Nixon Publishing Company of st. Louis,
and a democratic candidate for state
senator at the last election, shot and kill
ed himself today. An injury received re-
Gently in bicycle accident is thought to
have affected his mind.
The police at Barcelona, Spain, have
seized 800 rifles intended for the Carlists.
Fire caused a loss of $4,000 by the
burning of the Riverview hotel at Kan
kakee ILL.,, insurance 100000.
President Mckinley has issued a proc
lamation exempting from payment of ton
mage duties to Mexican vessels which
come directly to ports Of the United
States open to general commerce, because
of concessions made to United States YES
sells by the Mexican government
Correspondence just received from the
New York Herald correspondent in Pu-
erto Principe states that open mutiny OF
Spanish soldiers occurred there recently
The mutiny developed into a conflict in
the streets between the commanding Of
icers and the troops The soldiers mu
tinted because rations were insufficient
and they could get no pay.
The finance committee of the chamber
OF deputies at Buenos Ayres has fixed the
bounty on sugar for export at Is cen
tavos.
A combination of steel tubing manufac
turers, representing 80 per cent OF tht
:, tubing output of the Union, has beer
formed.
William Knapp, a clerk in the city
n.1x T,1 lo.