Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-23

Milwaukee. Wis. Nov. pa successful
public test of wireless telegraphy under
the Johnson-Fortier system was given to-
night. Messages We're sent $50 feet and
through half a dozen partitions in a lead
ing hotel. The apparatus used in the
sending and receiving of messages con-
sists of the ordinary key and sounder in
connection with an induction or spark
coil. The system is altogether different
from Marconi's invention. The distance
Which a message can be sent is regulated
by the size of the induction or spark coil.
The characters transmitted can be re-
corded as we'll as read by sound. Pending
the issuance of patents the secrets of the
system are Withheld.
Washington. Nov. 22.-Secretary Long
VIII recommend to congress a programme
fer new naval construction which will be
IN accordance with the policy that has
been pursued for the past three years.
lie VIII ask for three arrnored cruisers of
about $4,000 tons displacement. three pro-
tected cruisers of about 5000 tons and a
dozen gunboats of 500 tons. making Is
shlps In all. The arnlored cruisers will be
enlal ged Brooklyns. improved in many
uetalls, and will be the biggest ships in
the United States navy. having great
speed. The protected cruisers will be of
the Olympia type. The gunboats will be
about the size of the little Marietta, of
light draught.
Blackfoot, IDAHO, Nov. 2o.-Former
Senator Dubois, who is chairman of the
executive committee of the national sill
Yer republicans, left for Chicago to-
night to attend a meeting of his COM
n1lttee on Nov. %. Teller. Towne, Hart
man, Congressman Wilson and Shafroth
ana other national silver republican
leaders will be present. Mr.. Dubois say
the plmetallic issue is still the important
one and that the next national fight can
be won With Bryan and the Chicago
platform. He does not think Imperialism
OF expansion will be an issue, that it will
settle itself before the next campaign,
1T cannot, in his judgment, in any event,
divide the bimetallic forces.
Atlanta, Co, o 22.-The Willingham
bill, providing for state prohibition. was
passed by the house of representatives of
the general assembly of this state to-day
after the most exciting debate the house
has known in years. If the bill passes
the senate and becomes a law it means
the humiliation of the saloons. Every
plant for the brewing of beer or the
manufacture of whisky must be closed.
1t viii not interfere With banquets or pri-
Vate entertainments, but the law will not
allow any club to sell or keep for the use
Of members Intoxicating liquors Of any
kind.
London, Nov. 22.-Sir Thomas Upton,
when questioned to-day regarding the
report that he was to challenge for the
Americas cup next year With a schooner
said: II do not intend to challenge next
year, but it live will certainly challenge
IN 1901. Nothing has Yet been arranged
about a challenge nor will there be until
Mr.. Fife has recovered. There is no
truth in the statement that l have ar
ranged for a Watson schooner. I have
not discussed the matter with Mr.. Wat
son at ALL"
Napoleon, O., Nov. 22.-Frederick Kiln
der and his son Henry, farmers near
here, We're arrested to-day charged with
the murder Of Mary Kinder in 1894. The
woman's body was found in the garden
near her nome with her throat cut n
a knife wound near her heart. Suicide
was advanced. The weapon which has
caused her death was found tightly
clasped in her fingers. The woman was
Frederick lind second Wife. His
son was by his frs, marriage. Two
months ago Henry Kinder, While an
gerously i'll, confessed that himself and
father had committed the murder, which
was unprovoked.
New York, Nov. 22.-An informal APP
praisement of the imitation pearls seiz-
I'd from Francis Book of Providence, r.
l., a passenger on the French liner La
Bretagne, which arrived last Sunday,
was made to-day by the appraisers. One
of the pearls was taken ~hadphaZard from
| a box containing about SO, 200 and weigh
ed. The result of the examination fixed
the value Of all the pearls seized at about
81, 500.
Pensacola, Fla, Nov. 22.-The body Of
West Lawrence. a negro who recently
! brutality raped Mrs. Bowman of this city,
was found swinging from a tree near the
scene of his crime riddled With bullets.
He was captured by an armed posse and
taken to the home of Mrs. BOWman last
! night, where he was positively identified
and about midnight he was lynched.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Nov. pa special
from Yankton, S. D.. to the Journal says
the Yankton Savings bank closed its
doors at . o'clock this afternoon. The
de%falcation OF Treasurer Peterson, who
was known to be a heavy depositor, pre-
cipitated a run which has been in pro-
gresS a day and a half.
New York, Nov. 2.-The Cromwell line
steamship Hudson, which arrived at her
pier in North river to-day, was set on fire
at sea Monday night, but the blaze was
e~xtinguished before much damage was
done. Nothing could be learned of the
damage, but it was admitted that the
cargo in the after mold was on fire. Smoke
was seen issuing from the after-hold and
the matches battened down.. The steam
or arrived from New Orleans with 80 or
40 passengers. and carried a cargo of
cotton and molasSes.
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