Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-01-08
POINTS IN GENERAL NEWS
HOME AND FOREIGN OUTLOOK.
Accidents and Crimes All Over the
WorId-Business Affairs and Po-
Items.

Charles Manning Foster, we'll known
banker and broker of New York, is dead,
aged A. With Henry CleWs he founded.
20 years ago, the firm of Henry Clews &
Co.
According to special dispatch from
Shanghai, the British Admiralty has re-
Questioned three of the Empress steam
ships belonging to the Canadian Pacific
railway
An English syndicate has secured con-
troll of the Trinidad Asphalt Company,
and after the first of the year the head
quarters OF the concern are to be located
i'll London instead of in New York, as
heretofore. The capital of the company
Is to be increased from $3,50O000 to S.
100000.
A fire at Port-au-Prince, Hayti, destroy
ed 500 houses, including a number of
warehouses, a hotel, a church and It's par
sonage. About 5000 people ~ rendered
homeless.
The overtnning of a lamp for heating
glue in Whitney's planning mill started a
fire which destroyed property valued at
and threatened to wipe out the
city of San Bernardino, Cal. Fourteen
residences, an Episcopal church, skat-
ing rink and a hardware store were burn
ed, and the fire was only got under con
troll when needed help arrived from the
towns.
The representatives of the powers have
refused Turkey permission to replace 1900
t!me-eXpired troops on the island OF Crete
1t is conceded that the cotton mills in
Maine will fall into line with other New
England mills and reduce the wages of
operatives. Twelve thousand employees
will be affected.
Hugh Mclaughlin. who for 90 years
has been dictator of the democratic party
i'll Brooklyn, has definitely announced his
retirement from political leadership He
will be succeeded according to the present
by Bernard J. York
The large works of the Herring Hail
Marvin Safe Company at Hamilton, Ohio.
have been closed on orders from the court
Receiver Fittou borrowed money to pay
all employees and it was announced tc
the large force Of workmen that the plant
would be closed indefinitely.
Mrs. Annie Fowler, aged IS, was burned
to death in the house of Frank Graham at
n. j. The house and adj
joining property were consumed, entail
ing loss of $25 900 Graham's family
was aroused by the mewing of a cat in
time to escape.
The Farmers & Traders State bank at
Iowa, has closed its doors. The
following card is on the door: This bank
will receive no more deposits, but will at
once pay its depositors in full as fast as
their claims may be presented The bank
had found business Improbable.
The senate and house committees on
public lands and territories are at work
on legislation for Alaska, preparing the
way for action by the two houses. The
matter has been talked over in the com
mittees and there will be some decisive ac-
tion shortly after the holiday recess. The
chief problem is to provide for better gov
Gales and floods are reported in several
parts of Portugal.
Judge E. Fl. Bennett, the venerable dean
of the Boston law school, is dead.
The usual quiet of New Years day was
disturbed by a false report that Prince
Bismarck was dead.
Rain is still badly needed in Australia.
A Sydney newspaper estimates that the
loss of stock in the last three years has
to S5O,OOOOOO.
Confirmation has been received from
New Guinea of the murder of the German
governor and police by ma tives. The bodies
of the victims We're cut in small pieces.
The grand jury at Chicago has return
ed indictments against Aldermen John
Powers and William OBrien for running
gambling houses.
Vice Admiral Sir Ward Herbert Sey-
mo,r, X c. b., who has been appointed
British commander-in-c on the China
station, succeeding Admiral Boiler, has
started from London for Hong Kong, ac-
by his staff
The gold output of Colorado in 1897 is
estimated at $22,5O0,00O, an increase Of
Sc 100000 over that of 1896. The silver
produced was worth $l2,s07 ,O76; lead,
S2,74l6 6z2; copper 81, ,209,o53.
The agents of the leading cotton man
ufacturing corporations in Rhode Island
have decided to reduce wages. The cut
down will average II per cent. 1t will
take effect January II.
Theodore Durrant has again been remov-
ed to the death cell in the San Quentin
(Cal.) penitentiary to await the hour of
his execution. which has been fixed fo,
1920 a. H., January I.
Captain Rich, formerly chief engineer
of the Wisconsin Central, and later con-
nected in the same capacity with the SEQ
line, has been appointed director of rail
ways in China.
At the commencement of 1898 the Unit
ed States has ls4,464 miles of completed
railway. If the average of the last lC
years is reached in the next two years, as
seems not unlikely, the year 1900 will
open with l9l,500 miles.
The sash and door plant and planning
mill of G. J. Hamilton & Co., at Buffalo
n. Y, has been destroyed by fire, together
with an immense stock of lumber. The
total loss is $4,000, with insurance Of
$4,000
The friends of William J. Bryan have
prepared a little surprise for him on his
return from his tour in Mexico in the
shape of proffer of the fusion nomina
ton for congress from the first Nebraska
district Some believe he will accept. 9th
ers say he still confidently expects to bt
the democratic standard bearer in 1900
The district has been represented by {
republican since Mr. Bryan retired.
New England farms are to be reclaimed
restocked and reoperated on plan tha
is primarily philanthropic and secondaril.
commercial. A corporation has beel
formed with the secretary of the New
York stock exchange at its head to pur
abacn arab b1o 1and and farm hui1dinpS il