Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-04-23
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
CONDENSED NEWS OF WORLD
Crimes and Casualties in All Lands
Paragraphs About Prominent
PersOns-Husiness Conditions in
Brief-PecuIiar Incidents Ra
corded by Many Observers.

The recent cold weather has done great
damage to fruits and vegetables through
ont Georgia
Rapid work is going on to transf, rm
the vessels at the Brooklyn navy yard i'll
to auxiliary cruisers.
At COMMERCIAL Ky, the 3-year-old son
OF Nat Corbin, While playing about Il fire
Ill the yard, was burned to deaf th
The Uncompahgre and Ute Indians are
sald to be ugly over the dilatory tactics
OF the land allotment commissioners
Diphtheria at Waverly, Mo-, has put a
stop to all church and social gatherings.
Everything is being done to check the
conta"ion.
The total output of coal in the United
States i'll 1897 approNimated $3.50 900
short tons. with an aggregate value of
/ Sl9s 100000
Postal Clerk Hart, arrested in Chicago
on Il charge of theft, gave as an excuse for
the crime that he could not live on Sl2 a
week
! Fire i'll Toxic. Japan. DESTROYED over
100 houses and rendered 900 people
homeless.
Masked white men tarred and feathered
Mrs Charles Saunders and HALLS Atwood
and rode them on a rail out of South Lin
coin, Neb
A man in Wabash, Ind. has built up a
paying business in rabbit breeding, hav-
ing secured Il kind that are edible in sum
mer as we'll as winter
Captain j. L. Bernier of Quebec is en-
deavoring to induce the Canadian gov
cnment to give him financial aid for his
proposed expedition to the north pole.
\ system of improvement of the public
highways has been inaugurated in Pettis
county, Missouri. The county court has
ordered an election on Tuesday, April 26,
to vote upon a proposition to establish
siN-mile road district, with Scdalia as
the center.
After a pretty tight contest in which
tho Canadian Pacific railway lobbied with
great persistence and effect the Corbin
railway bill was defeated in the house of
commons at Ottawa by A to g. The
French Canadian members from Quebec
opposed the bill almost unanimouslv
Great excitement prevails in the Hal
Wallan islands about the threatened elup-
ton of the great volcano Muna Loa. The
cooled lava has dropped down the mount
ain side 1000 feet, the great volumes of
smoke are issuing from the era ter There
had been constant earthquakes and heavy
rainfall for two weeks previous to the
sailing of the Alameda, which brought
the news to San Francisco last Thursday.
l,a
China, has completed arrangements for
putting to sea.
Thomas II. Tongue was renominated
for congress by the republicans of the
First congressional district of Oregon.
The Cincinnati chamber Of commerce
1as passed a resolution in favor of re-
'iprocity with Canada and Newfoundland.
The number of lives lost in the snow
lideat Chilkoot Pass. KIondike. will
each 100. SiNty-nine bodies have been
ound.
The postot1ice department has prepared
information for the postoilicc employees
nd poStmastcrs who enlist Their places
rill be reserved for them
Having been surprised by the police,
burglar at Montreal Canada, jumped
0 feet from Il window into a SNOW bank
nd escaped, apparently uninjured.
\ cableoram from London says that Mr..
ladstone may not survive longer than
Nty days. That is the opinion of his
hysician after having carefully dag
osed his condition.
In 1877 Falcon island, i'll the Friendly
roup. began as smoking shoal Ter
ears later it was a volcanic island 300
et high and over one and ii half miles
ING. Now it is disappearing.
A dispatch from Pittsbllro, Pa. SAYS
lat the Carnegie Steel Company has re-
lived an order for the steel plates and
ateral for 100 torpedo boats from the
overnment. The work can be done in
yo weeks.
The governor of Michigan has sent to
c legislature a message recommending
OF a war loan of $5OOOOO.
scene of enthusiasm followed the read
g Of the message and the bill was
used within half an hour
\ company has been chartered at To
ka, Kan, with Il capital stock of So
% 1000, to colonizc land grant of 1000
10 acres in the central part of Mexico
th 25,G0O Indians of the five civilized
lbes who are dissatisfied with the Dawes
paty.
The Illionis buttcrine law has been de-
,red unconstitutional by the state SUI
eme court. The judges decided that
have constitutional
sht to color butterinc or oleomargarine
How OF imitation, which was prohib