Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-01-15

THE NEWS Of THE WEEK
GATHERED FROM ALL SOURCES
Deaths of Noted Individuals-Record
of Fires-Business Affairs at Home
and Abroad-Trend of Political
Events and So On.

| of Fires-Business Affairs at HON c
Events and So On.
A fire loss of $5OO,0OO is reported at
Stockton, Cal, by the burning of wheat
warehouses.
Captain Rosendahl, commander of the
German warship Friedrich Karl, has been
appointed commander of the German
forces ashore at Kiao Chau bay.
Charles Page Bryan will be made min
ister to Turkey in the place of DR.. James
B. Angel of Michigan, who will be sent
to China.
Leander P Mitchell of Indiana has been
appointed assistant comptroller of the
treasury; John Fox, to be collector of Gus
toms for the district of Oregon; Herbert
Squires of New York, to be secretary of
legation at Pekin, China; Lloyd d. Car
ter to be receiver of public money at Red
ding, CAL; Frank NJ swayse, to be regis
ter of the land office at Redding, Cal.
The Pittsfield (N. H. cotton mills have
given notice to their $500 operatives OF a
10 per cent reduction in wages.
Notice of a reduction of wages averag-
ing about II per cent has been given to
the 1000 operatives in the mills at He
bronville and Dodgeville, Mass.
The directors of the Valley Falls and
Albion cotton mills, at Pawtucket, r. T.,
the two companies in the Blackstone val
ley which had not announced reductions
in wages, will follow the example of their
competitors. and notices will be posted.
The Rhode Island mills in the Pawtucket
and Blackstone valleys employ about
100 operatives. The average wages of
the male spinners in these mills is IS to
$500 per week.
The 1900 men employed i'll the York
cotton mills at Saco, Me-, have received
notice of 10 per cent reduction in wages
to take effect January II.
Spain is considering a formal request to
the United States to use its good offices
to stop the fighting in Cuba. limitations
have been received at the state depart
ment that the Sagasta government has be-
come convinced that the only way to save
Cuba was to accept the often proffered
good offices of the United States. All ef-
forts of Spain to bribe the subordinates of
Gomez to surrender on the basis of home
rule have proven futile.
Gales and floods are reported in several
parts of Portugal.
J. A. McRae of Vancouver. B. c. has
Just received letter from his brother
Archie McRae, at Dawson City, in which
he states that he refused $500 for 200
pounds of supplies Flour viii! probably
be scarce before spring, but fresh meat is
plentiful at ST per pound. He reports that
claims worth working are selling for
ss5ooG for 20 square feet. In one day three
men shoveled into the sluice boxes of
claim on Bonanza creek $4,000.
Under the auspices of the bureau Of
travel of the international committee of
the Young Mems Christian Association,
large party has just left on two months
trip to Egypt, taking in London, Paris.
Rome, Malta and Palestine ell route. In
London the party will be joined by Sir
Lambert Playfair and Douglas Sladin,
who are noted in journalistic and scien-
tifc circles, and who will discourse to the
travellers as one after another of the most
interesting points are reached.
The United States government has
made contract with Chicago company
to transport $50 tons Of supplies from
Dyea to Dawson City by means of steam
locomotive snowsleds, such as are in use
in the woods of Michigan. Cyrus Robin
son, consulting engineer of the company,
is in this city for the purpose of having
the bobsleds and boxcars made. He states
that the engines, boilers and all parts ex-
cept the framework of the snow ,ocomo
tives are on the way to the Pacific coast
from the east.
A 'Lexow" committee is investigating
the Chicago police department.
President Mckinley has nominated
George W. Temple to be postmaster at
Spokane and Albert S. Dickinson 10 be
postmaster at Waitsburg, Wash.
United States Consul Powell at Seoul,
COfea, caDleS lle uedln Oh lue eIl lt)PfOl.
The comptroller Of the currency has de-
clared a dividend i'll favor of the First
bank of Helena, Mont, of 10
per cent.
a party of so Michigan Catholics in
charge of Rev. Fathers Francis Mueller
and Paul Gutiwski of Detroit, left here
today for six months tour in the Holy
Land The pilgrims will be received by
the holy father while in Rome.
The interstate commerce commission
has notified Chairman Caldwell of the
Western Passenger Association of the
suspension for one year OF the long and
short haul clause regarding rates into the
kootenay district of British Columbia.
The western roads asked the suspension
of this clause in this district in order that
they might meet the reduced rates made
bv the Canadian Pacific into the same
territory.