Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-11-27

deals with the proposed revision of th
financial system Of the government. Re
vision Of the financial system along con
Serya1iye lines is to be made a distinc
policy OF the administration.
The Vancouver & Northern Shipping
Trading Company, working in connection
with the Canadian Pacific railway. with
capital Of $4,000, privately subscribed
BY six shareholders, i'll London, have pul
chased two old Cunarders the Bothni;
and the Seythla, and two Cape mai
steamers, as the nucleus Of a fleet to rul
from Vancouver. Klondike ports, com
mencing on March TO- 1898
A boiler in Milton Artley's large wool
| working factory at Carlton Mich, eN
ploded, killing the fireman, Edward Graft
and injining three others. The force o
4 the explosion shook every building ii
1 town and left the factory a total wreck
/ The cause of the explosion is unknown.
\ The Building Trades Council of Sar
/ Francisco has adopted resolutions peti
tioning congress to suspend all immi
grafton for at least Il period of 10 years
/ that the great army Of the unemployed
may have the opportunity Of earning an
existence.
A1va W. Butler, convicted Of horse
stealing, has been sentenced to eight
years in San Quentin, Cal. Butler served
seven years i'll the Oregon state peniten-
tiary for robbing the postofice at Can
yon City and was released January 8,
1893
Lieutenant w D. Hughes Of the Unit
ed States navy has been attached to the
naval militia of California His special
duties will be to instruct the men of the
six divisions Of the battalion in the art Of
tactics Of naval warfare.
Alderman Durham Of Minneapolis,
convicted of demanding bribe Of $l0,-
600 III behalf of combine of l6 aldermen,
has been sentenced to six years and a half
at hard labor in the penitentiary.
The articles Of incorporation of the
Crockett Sugar Refinery have been filed
at san Francisco. The corporation will
& Refining Company. and its capital stock
is $2OO,O0O
1t is reported that Senor Cuestas, the
president ad interim Of Uruguay, intends
to establish a dictatorship.
George A. Taylor, cashier Of the de-
funct Argentine bank Of Kansas City has
been sentenced to four years in the Kan
sas penitentiary for receiving deposits
when he knew the bank was in an insol-
vent condition.
Senator Burrows of Michigan predicts
that there will be protracted discussion
Of the currency question i'll the approach
ING session of congress, and that i'll all
probability congress will be in session UNI
til August.
Frederick ". Griffin. who, as assist
ant cashier, embezzled $4,000 from the
Northwestern National Bank OF Chicago,
and who was sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary at Joliet, has been par
doned by President Mckinley
The American Wood Working Ma
chinery Company has just been organ
izcd and will control IA concerns manu-
featuring seven tenths Of the woodwork
MS llldcHiHeit ploHuetd III tht oIls'u
States. The capital involved is $s,5oo-
600
The Besscmer Limestone Company, the
Carbon Limestone Company and other
large limestone operators in the Mahon-
ing valley in Ohio, has posted notices OF
an advance i'll wages of 20 per cent. The
advance will affect 10000 men and is due
to all the blast furnaces being in oper-
alton.
BY changing its name and declaring
new principles the American Railway
League has become a full-tledged politi-
cal organization. Hereafter it will be
known as the Railway Employees
Political League Of Ameri-
ca. Its proclaimed object is to deal en-
tirely in state and national politics, chief
ly on legislative lines. Behind this, how
ever. is the desire and the determination
to secure recognition, elective and ap-
for railroad men.