The Ravalli Republican., 1898-02-09
STATE AND WORLD.

The New York Central has be ught
the Lake Shore railroad.
]. W. Miskin has been appointed
postmaster at Glendive.
Senator Turley was elected to the
United States senate last week from
Tennessee.
Burglars and pickpockets arc reap
ing harvest ia Seattle from the
Klondike pilgrims,
The Turks are ravagfng Thcssaly
again, and the powers may have to
step in and take a hand.
The Montana National Guards will
| hold their annual enCampment at u
Fort Harrison, near Helena, in July. |
Boston and other eastern towns
were covered with a big snow fall
last week which greatly impcdcd
travel
The bank clearings for the past
week show an increase Of 40.G per
cent. in the United States and "A.
in Canada.
! White Sulphur Springs was visited
by a wind storm last Monday which
took the entire roof of the court
house and did other damage. .--
| George Baum killed J. H. Brandt
with shovel in Butte last Thursday.
The two men had always been friends.
It is thought Baum is not exactly
| right.
The cruiser Montgomery is now
cruising around Cuba. Uncle Sam
is not going to be caught asleep if
any trouble arises calling for his in
| terfcrencc. s.
The ST. Petersburg correspondent
Of the London Times says: a fail
ure in the harvest has caused terrible
distress among the peasantrv Of the
interior provinces and especially in
central and southeastern Russia.
Sam Martnovitch, miner from
Butte, Mont, was found dead in his
room at the Europe hotel, San Fran
cisco, having been asphyXiated by
gas. A draft for $1,000 was found
in one Of his pockets and there is no
reason to suspect that death WAS not
accidental.
Adoph Sutro, builder Of the ia
nous tunnel, eX-mayor Of San FRAN
cisco and millionaire, has been dc
clarcd mentally unsound, and his
daughter, DR.. Emma Sutro Merritt,
has been appointed his guardian,
with her two brothers and her SIS
ter as suretics.
Representative Charles w. Parker
has introduced in the Ohio legisIa
ture a bill requesting all persons ap-
plying for licenses to marry to pass
a medical examination. An examin-
ing board of three physicians in each
county will be created by the bill if
it becomes a law. s."
The old Keating mine at Raiders
burg, which has been a profit maker
for 80 years, has an extended period
Of prosperity, An ore body of un-
exampled proportions is at present
being uncovered, and the long time
owner, John A. Kcating, is jubianl
at the grand prospects that spread
out before him. New machinery is
being added to the concentrating
plant to properly handle the assured
large output of the property.
The Indiana state board OF health
has issued an order recommending
the doing away Of the common com
munion cup in churches. 1t says it
is a breeder Of diseases and trans-
mits cancer, diphthcria, scarlet fever,
tonslitis and other diseases, and
adds: 'Is it a true, intelligent,
wholesome or refined sentiment that
is willing to swallow the breath
blown, saliva tainted, mustache-dip-
ped, and often tobacco be- fOuled wine
of a cup that has passed the lips Of
fifty or 100 or more good peoplc?"
Sam Cling, a Carbon county rancher
yesterday committed suicide in his
cabin Just across the river from Gcbo.
He arrived at Gcbo last summer from
Wyoming, filed on a homestead on
Clarke's Fork and erected a cabin,
: which he occupied jointly with a
Swede, who had an adjoining home
stead. Yesterday morning the Swcdc
left Cling in the cabin and went out
to busy himself about the ranch.
Upon returning several hours later
he found his companion cold in
death. with a gun lying BY his side.
No cause is assigned for the rash act.
The deceased was related to Miss
Catherine Cling for whose murder in
, Minneapolis Harry Hayward was
! hanged, and it is said his father is a
; wealthy resident Of Chicago.-Ga-