The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-01
AROUND THE WORLD.

Paris, Dee 31-A dispatch from Cairo
announces that the French expedition has
occupied Fashoda on the Nile.
St Petersburg, Dec SIN. Tep'oy,
councillor of state. has been appointed
consul general for Russia at New York.
Vienna. Dec. 31.-An imperial decree has
been gazetted directing that the respect
i've contributions of Austria and hungary
for the revenue be the same for 1875 as
fixed for the tariff of 1897
Chicago, Dec. 3l.-The city of Chicago
for the year closing to-day shows a death
rate the lowest in this or amy other city
of more than 100000 inhabitants. The rate
is less than IA per loo Of population.
New Bedford. Mass. Dee. 31.-The own
ers of cotton cloth and weaving mills in
this city have voted u 10 per cent rednc-
ton in wages to take effect Jan. Is. The
eut aewn Will affect nearly 10000 opera
tiNes.
Nashville. Tenn, Dec. m.-Fire originate
ing in the bakery Of Price IL Wilson, at
Lebanon. 80 miles from Nashville. at mid
night destroyed eight of the principal
business houses in the town. Losses ag-
gregate $4,000; fully insured.
San Francisco. Dec. 3l.-Quarantine Of
ficer Rosenau has received authority from
Washington to refuse pratique to vessels
which cross the quarantine line or allow
the pilot or anyone else 10 60 ashore be-
fore the quarantine officer has come
aboard.
Philadelphia. Pa. Dee. 31.-Through
carelessness iii backing shifting engine
OH the track in the yard of the Nnrton
boiler works this afternoon Walter Greg
Dry and Philip McNeley were instantly
killed and three other men probably ia
tally injured.
Washington. Dec Sit is ascertained
al the navy department that the decision
of the patent office experts recently sub
mitted in the matter of patents for Hafe
veyized armor plate may result in with
holding the payment OF royalties ON ar
NOR furnished by the large plate compa-
MES
Florence. Kan. Dec 21.-At home tai
ent theatrical given in a hail at Cedar
Point last night the flooring gave way,
preeipitating 80 people distance of y
feet one man had his leg broken. another
his ribs crushed and about 80 others were
scratched and bruised, None are fatally
hurt.
Santa Fe. n NJ Dec. 31-Many Catho-
lie priests OF the territory are arriving
| here from day TO day 10 bid adieu to
Archbishop l.. l.. Chappelle. who departs
carly III 1898 for New orleans. Report has
! ii that either Bishop Maatz of Denver or
| Bishop Bourgarde OF Arizona Will succeed
| Chapele AT Santa Fe.
! San Francisco, Dec. 3l.-The United
| States steamer Mohican. now at the Mare
/ Island navy yard Will 20 in commission
/ fur ii cruise around the world with a crew
! of naval apprentices. The hoNs must he
/ between the ages 81 II and Il and must
be shipped with the consent of their par
ents or guardians until they are = years
of age.
San Diego. Cal. Dec. sl-As the out
come of a dispute among some members
OF the crew of the ship Bohemia, now
i in port. First Mate Holman and Seaman
+ Charles A Benjamin. the former with
t his face badly cut. are in the county jail
and Charles f. Steadman. another sailor
is al the hospital with a bullet in his
+ thigh. The men may recover
Oakland cal. Dec 3t.-The estate of
The late Josiah II. White. the pioneer
miner who made fortune with Walter
T. Dean IL Tombstone, Arizona, has beer
appraised al S1Ss 49,. The inventor ?, wiliet
was hle3 Yesterday iii the Alameta coun-
~ court. discluses valuable personal ans
+ real property in Alameda and Sonoma
counties and in Bloomington. Ill.