Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-04-02

Dwyer being mentioned as the real pur-
chaser.
In accordance with the plan decided up
on at the last convention Of the American
Federation Of Labor, organizers have
been quietly working for the past month
organizing the building tradesmen in Mil
Waukee, Wis, looking to demand on
May for an eight hour working day.
The grand jury at Chicago has return
ed indictments against George II, Jacks,
formerly chief OF police of Muskegon,
Mich, and William H. Willows, charging
them with the murder Of Andrew II. Nc
Gee Jacks and Willows, it is alleged
decoyed Mc('ee to an apartment house on
the south side several weeks ago and mur
dered and robbed him.
Colonel John W. Mckenzie, a we'll
known veteran of the Mexican war. is
dying in San Francisco. He is a native
Of Newark, n. j., and was formerly city
marshal Of San Francisco and colonel Of
the First regiment of the National
Guard of California
The Missouri supreme court mas declared
the inheritance tax law unconstitutional.
All gambling at Dawson City, Klondike,
has been restricted to Legitimate games"
Five small children Of Pottsville, Pa,
ate wild parsnips, and will probably die
from the poison.
Governor Culberson of Texas has issued
a quarantine against yellow fever on all
coast points and along the Rio Grande.
Pearl Eytinge, the actress, is in a New
York hospital, insane from the morphine
habit
Eugene Saulsby, a prominent politician
of Indianapolis has been stricken with to-
tai blindness.
The French minister for the colonies has
refused the petition Of Nine. Dreyfus, wife
Of Captain Dreyfus, to share the latter's
imprisonment on Devils island.
Many of the leading grain dealers Of H.
linois ask for the repeal Of the law giving
the right to elevator proprietors to trade
in the grain of which they are merely pub
lie custodians.
Measures are being considered at BON
bay, India, to deal more effectively with
the black plague, from which thousands
OF natives are dying.
Jim Orr, a versatile and independent
reformer in Kansas, is working for the
passage of a law which will compel every
man to refrain from signing another mans
note without first getting his wifcs con
sent.
A cablegram from London concerning, :,
Mr.. Gladstone's health says: "It was his
own wish to be moved to Hawarden with
as little delay as possible. Whatever the
precise nature Of the facial pains, neural
gia OF the presence Of some unhealthy
growth, there can be no doubt that,
though intermittent, they have occasioned
severe suffering, and it necessarily follows
that his physical powers and hearts ac
tion have become gravely enfeebled.'
The attorney general Of Texas has ruled
that in consequence of the careless draft
ing Of resolutions in the legislature there
will have to be two state elections in Tex |
as this year. The regular election of state
officers Will be on the second Tuesday in
November, and special election will have
to be held the first Tuesday. which is the
first day OF November, to pass on some
amendments submitted by
the last legislature, to be voteo on this
year.
The British government is massing
powerful feet in Chinese waters.
1t is understood that Frances demands
in China include the cession of Yang-tse
valley.
The troops at Fort Sheridan, Chicago,
are to Join the troops at the New York
harbor defenses.