The Butte inter mountain., 1902-03-18

present at Puerto Caballo, where she Is
undergoing repairs.
She will soon be ready for service
NEWS STORIES BRIEFLY TOLD 5
WASiiINGTON.-Cap Benjamin II.
Tilly. former naval governor of Tutuila,
Samoa, has been assigned to duty as
captain If the Naval station ut Mare
Island. ,.l.
WASHINGTON.-Aec to an an
nouncement made by Chief Justice
Fuller in the United States supreme
court that court will take q recess
for two weeks from next Monday. sI4
MOREHEAD CITY, N. C.-The un-
known steamship on Cape Lookout shoals
probably went to pieces last night. It
was impossible to reach her The life-
saving crew tried in vain TO rescue the
crew.
WARM SPRINGS. Cal. - The IT.
months-old daughter of j. c. Sinclair of
Palouse. Wash, fell head foremost into
a posthole containing a small quantity of
water, and was suffocated to death be:
fore she was discovered.
NEW YORK.--A site for St. Gaudens
stat tue of General Sherman, presented to
this city by the chamber of commerce
has been chosen by the Park commits
sion. 1t will be placed at the southeast
entrance of Central park.
PEKING.-A conference of the minis
ters of the powers yesterday decided on
the principal of restoring the Chinese at
| Tien Tsin, thus reversing the decision of
| the military commanders. No time for
the transfer has yet been fixed
| NEW YORK.-The proposed Anglo
Australian Parliamentary cable chess
| match may have to be abandoned, saws
l'the Trlbune's London special, and chess
enthusiasts in the house of commons
are now suggesting a contest with the
| United States. elt4.
| ATHENS.-The increase in Grecian
| emigration is seriously alarming the
government, during the year fully 49,
900 people having gone to seek their for
tunes in the United States. The press
Is calling on the government TO intro
| duce a measure to check this exodus.
NEW YORK.-M V. Cheatam, ptesi-
| dent of the Richardson Drug company
of Sherman, Tex, has been accidentally
shot here, says a dispatch from Havana
Cuba, to the Herald His spine was
fractured by the bullets and Major
Ducker, who attended him, pronounced
the wound fatal
NEW YORK.-Dr. ]. Baxter Upham,
SO years old, and once a well-k known
surgeon, who with the late Austin Cor
bin founded the Corbin Banking COM
pany, is dead at his home in this city.
He was born in Claremont, N. H., in the
year 1920 and served during the civll war
as surgeon He was breveted major
NEW YORK.-Narcisse Quelllen, 40
years old, editor of the Journal Ofical,
was run over Monday evening in the
Boulevard Fort Royal by a automobile,
says a Paris dispatch to the Herald.
M. Quellien was taken to a hospital,
but died few minutes after his ar"
rival
SYRACUSE, NJ Y-state Senator
|
White, brother of Ambassador Andrew
B. White, both say that the ambassador
has no intention Of resignng the post
at Berlin. They assert that his health
has improved during the last year and
that he has given no ntimaton of re-
! firing on his 10th birthday.
= AiIh
LONDON.-The vatican has received
confidential news, says the Rome CORE.
spondent of the Daily Chronicle, of a
serious situation in Ireland. The Fenians
have for some months been engaged in
an active propaganda with view to or
ganizing for a general rising. 1t ise be-
lieved the vatican will instruct the Irish
. clergy to hold aloof from the revolu-
tionary agitation. ="
- ,iaae
Storm Has Abated.
Denver, Colo, March 18.-Reports from
the mountain towns indicate that the
storm of the last few days has abated
: and the prospect is for clear weather
e All mountain railroads have cleared their
9 tracks OF snow, and trains are running
1 on schedule time. No loss OF life oi
serious damage from the storm has
| been reported ~