Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-02-12
A LOOK ALL AROUND.
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Items of Informa ton Gathered From
II Wide Area-Political Happen
ings and Industrial Notes-Crimes
and Accidents.

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district Of Washington.
The burning of the Mclntire block in
Winnipeg caused loss Of 100000.
A Toxic paper states that there are
some 10000 troops in Vladivostcck ready
to take the field at moments notice.
The Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, ID. D.,
IL. d., former missionary bishop Of Idaho
and Wyoming, has been enthroned as
bishop of the central Pennsylvania dio-
cesp of the Protestant Episcopal church.
On December "a, the japanese merchant
steamer Nara Maru ran on a hidden rock
of the Pescadore group and sank imme-
diately. OF her so passengers and crew
seven only reached the shore. The drown
ed We're all japanese.
According to the statistics o. the Jap
anese customs authorities, l6 foreign seal
ing schooners, II British and four Amer
lean entered Hakods;te and Yokohama
during the year 1897. Their aggregate
catches were 1852. decreae of Is, IA com
pared with that of 1896.
Harry Albury. Is years old, is dead in
the hospital at Brooklyn, n. Y, Of lep
rosy. He died of tubercular leprosy. and
it is said that there are not more than
half dozen such cases in the country.
Thousands Of sheep are reported to have
perished from cold and starvation in west
ern Wyoming. The cold has been intense
for 60 days and old-timers say that it is
the hardest winter they have seen for 10
years. Carbon COUNTY has 100000 sheep,
and fockmasters there fear the loss will
amount to - Der cent Losses among
cattle will not be 50 leavy, as owners had
been preparing for several years to feed
their stock during severe weather.
The Sawyer and Goodman sawmill at
Maronette. Wis, was DESTROYED by fire
Thursday. The plant was valued at
$l50O0O.
The First Presbyterian church at New
Albany. Ind the largest in the city, was
destroyed by fire Thursday night Loss.
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The CherokeeL Lanvan Spelter Company $
large plant at Rich Hill, Mo. was de-
stroyed by fire. The plant was valued at
$l50,O00.
4 revolution has broken out at San
Jose, Costa Rica.
The japanese government is seriously
considering the retention of Wei Hal Wei
for an indefinite period, even aften China
pays the war indemnity
A COW derailed the north bound Texas
special on the Iron Mountain road, SO
miles south of st. Louis, resulting in the
,f4 nd
slight injury to two passengers.
1t is reported that the Cross river eX-
petition composed of Niger coast protec-
torate troops, was massacred While de
stroying towns about Assay creek. The
Royal Niger company has sent a force OF
constabulary to rescue the prisoners.
Six firemen, including a district chief.
captain and lieutenant, We're killed
at Boston fire. which burned out the
interior of a fivc-story building on Mcr-
rmac street. occupied by G. W. Bent &
Co., manufacturers of beds. bedding, etc.
An order reducing the shop forces be
tween Omaha and Ogden has been issued
by the Union Pacific. Two hundred and
seventy five men are dismissed from the
shops at Omaha. Grand Island, North
Platte, Sidney, Cheyenne, Laramie and
Ogden. One hundred Of these come from
Omaha The officers of the road decline
to say how long the reduction will be
in force. The Omaha shops worked 1000
men 40 hours during the week.
The United States canal company is
about completing its examination of the
western division, including Lake Nicar-
aqua and westward to the Pacific, on
Monday next. The commissioners have
examined the ground several hundred feet
deep bv boring. The commissioners will
travel on foot from NrhA TO the Caribbean
sea at the rate of about three miles a
day, examining both sides of the route
and wading 20 miles through the swamp.
"A cablegram received at the war de
partment from DR.. jackson at Alton.
Sweden, announces that the Mantoban.
chartered by Lieutenant Devore for the
government, had Just sailed from that
port for New York with $50 reindeer and
Is Iaplandcrs to care for the animals and
drive them. The war department is now
making arrangements for the transporta-
ton of the deer across the continent from
New York to Seattle.
The war department has recalled the
attention of congress to the need Of ad-
ditional military protection in Alaska.
and in this connection says: "Informa-
tion received at this department indicates
the necessity Of legislation to provide eff
derly element among the large number
of people now focking to Alaska, and for
preventing persons who are without an
adequate supply Of food and clothing from
entering the territory to perish during
the severe winters, unless relieved by the
government"
r. W. Flanagan, Sol Frost, Henry
Swart and c. G. Forster of Milwaukee
wealthy lumber men, have gone to Sc
attic, where thcy will purchase 0OOOO,OOC
feet of sugar pine with sawmill plant
in northern Oregon, near the border line
The deal will involve 100000. Fred
Carney and his son Frederick, with foul
Chicago, capitalists. including Pcrley Lowe
and II. Wilbreck, have also left Wiscon
sin for California, where they will close
deal for sawmill plant and 100000
feet Of sugar pine on river in the north
ern part Of California, near the Oregon
border The deal involves 100000.
A dispatch from Santiago de Cuba an
nounces the arrival there of the Austrian
third class cruiser Donau.
Dispatches from Manila, capital OF th(
Philippine islands. announce two hundred
buildings, some Of Importance, have beer
destroyed by fire.
A fire which originated in the Academy
of Music, at Atlantic City, n. j., destroy
ed half a block of buildings, entailing ;
loss Of about $4,000. The origin is
mystery.
Queen Victoria has accepted as jubi
lee gift from private person the engray
ed signet ring Of Queen Mary H., wife o