Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-08-13
THE WORLDS NEWS IN LITTLE
ITEMS FOREIGN AND HOME.
Minor Matters in Brief paraE ra III
-HaDpeninEs I'm All Parts of the
Globe-Notes Of People, Crimes
and Accidents.

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newspaper correspondent. Probably Gar
cla never saw it.
Last Friday at Jeanette, Pa, three mel
by the name of Wentzell, who are trip
lets, joined company of the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania regiment. They stepped up
one after another, and signed the muster
roll. Their age is 10 years. The par
ents of the trio brought forward another
son, who also joined the regiment.
Pennsylvania is about to pass moro
stringent laws in regard to the keeping
to the right side of the road by driver:
Of vehicles and bicycles. Severe penalties
will be imposed for failure to comply
with the requirements of the law.
The president has told some lnquirine
callers that he will not issue another cal
for troops. He said he is now confident
the war can be brought to a successful
conclusion by the men already in the
field
During the absence of soldiers the cat
tlemen OF California have been feeding
their stock in the sequoia national park
4 force Of deputies has been sent to eXpe
them.
Near Daleville, Ind, peaches have near
ly all fallen from the trees and the tree:
themselves have been much injured by in
sects. Apples are scarce and Of inferior
quality.
A hint from Lord Salisbury prevented
English merchants at Manila from Join
ing the Germans in petitioning the Unit
ed States for indemnity for losses caused
by the war
A treasury statement issued Monday
shows that about 100000 persons will get
the war bonds. This demonstrates that
the bonds will be widely distributed
among people of small means.
The mining town of Eveleth, Mimi, is
to be removed to the top of mountain
several thousand feet from its present 10,
cation, valuable vein of ore having
been discovered under it.
George Irodd, who shot Count Won
Arco Valley of the German embassy at
London, has been declared insane.
The Chicago Commercial Association
is laying plans for trade carnival~to be
held there October 3, to cost 100000
Thirteen submarine mines were picked
up in Guantanamo bay, near Santiago
by the cruiser Marblehead last week.
| 4 New York man offers to donate a
$4,000 ice plant to the National Relief
commission for use of the troops in Cuba
CONSERVATION was caused recently in
the Russian court by an order from the
ezarin;i forhidding cigarette smoking in
her presence.
Gen. Joe Wheeler has written from CT
ba to his constituents in the Eighth Ala
bam;l district that he will be candidate
for congress this fall.
The shipment Of green fruits from Cal
lfornia this season exceeds that of 1891
notwithstanding there is shortage in
the aciduous fruit crop.
A movement has been started in New
York for organizing a national league
whose object jwill be the furtherance OF
the project for bringing about an Anglo
American alliance.
The question of Cuban and Puerto
Rican debt and the disposal OF the claims
of citizens of the United States against
Spain are ineXtricably interviewer with
the main question Of peace.
Won Neldtheim, who shot and killed
Mr. Woolf joel the trustee of the estate
of Barney Balnato, the South African
millionaire, was acquitted OF the charge
OF murder at Johannesburg.
G. c. Copeland and II. IL. Brewer, who
left Moberly, Mo-, last winter to dig gold
in the klondike country, have returned
and report poor success.
Thomas Talbot, a pioneer citizen OF
Lafayette township, near Charleston, ILL.,.
has become crazed by reading too much
war news. Imagining his family Span
iards, he drove them all out of the house
recently and tried to kill them. He Is
nearly SO years old.
An chronological student in Chicago
recently pinned gigantic beetle to the
wall of his room with 500 scarf pin
While the students attention was direct
ed elsewhere the beetle pulled the pin
out OF the woodwork and scared away
with it.
The authorities at Havre, France, have
abandoned the prosecution of Austrian
sailors OF the wrecked steamer La Bour
gogne, whe were accused of brutality to
ward passengers while the ship was sink
ing, on account of lack of evidence.
At the outset Of the war Prof. j. I
Hatfield, who taught German in the
Northwestern university, enlisted in the
navy as a comon seaman. He was as
signed to the auxiliary cruiser Yale, and
his first service was rendered in scrubbins
the decks.
Lola mall-Jackson-F Ford, daughter o.
Rev. Sam Small, the evangelist, will make
her debut on the stage in New York, thi:
fall. Although only "a years old, she
has been twice married and divorced
She is said to be very handsome woman
and decidedly talented.
All submarine mines have been removed
from New York harbor
Slight snowfall occurred at Kimbal
Neb, near the Wyoming line, on July 81
The war balloon will be kept at Tampa
Fla, pending developments at Puerto
Rico.
Work in all of the navy yards is con
tinued vigorously notwithstanding peace
prospects.
The expenditures on account of the wal
up to the end of July have been about
$9O,OOO,000.
The Eskimos, inland from Point Bar
row, Alaska, are starving, and going t.
the coast for food.
San Francisco merchants organization
are petitioning the president to retain th'
Philippines.
Permanent organiza ton of the Cuban
American league was effected in New
York recently.
During recent hail storm at Chicago
window glass and skylights worth $3.50,
600 were smashed.
Martin Thorn, the murdered of Viii
liam Guldensuppe, was electrocuted il
fha nrison at Sinp Sinp N Y