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Newspaper
Butte Miner
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1876
Page
2
A mixed, fragmentary dispatch from western and northern regions notes varied railroad gauges in the United States and abroad, secession rumors near Campo, and frontier tensions. It mentions miners, emigrants, and political debates, with hostile Indian threats around Bismarck and the looming Indian rendezvous near the Yellowstone driven by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
A critique of a corrupt religious zeal, urging a practical faith that condemns deceit and theft. The piece denounces counterfeit goods, inflated prices, and dodgy ethics in commerce, calling for a world-saving religion that honors honest debt repayment and fair dealings. It condemns sly tricks and branded abuses in markets.
Alta California Industrial editor reviews Fryer ore reduction at Grass Valley. Despite multiple public descriptions, the piece questions furnace efficiency and cost estimates, noting 1500 degree heating and a 3000 degree claim. Correspondents see mixed signs of success amid unanswered fuel and maintenance questions.
A newly described floating cofferdam construction launched Saturday for Dock Commission use. It consists of rectangular wooden box walls forming two parallel caissons forming dam sides, with hinged gates and rubber seals, ballast by water, then pumped dry for excavations. The apparatus can be towed into place, moored, and sunk to seal the work area before masonry and pumping wells restore water to proceed.
The morning bulletin notes dispatch of one hundred tons of gunpowder and ammunition from Woolwich to Gibraltar Malta and the Mediterranean fleet. It reports work orders for ships and yard preparations at Portsmouth and suggests Government plans on the Eastern question amid a stronger mood there.
Reports from Constantinople recount upheaval as ministers urge abdication to avert collapse. Abdulaziz advised to flee with his sons. crowds march to the sultan’s palace, police guard, rumors spread of the ex-sultan’s demise, later clarified as alive. In Washington, Belknap impeachment proceedings halt trial jurisdiction and set next hearings.
May 29 dispatch from Fort Fetterman reports General Crook’s column leaving at dawn and camping on Sage Creek fifteen miles out. Gale and Royall command cavalry while Chambers leads infantry. supplies cross the Platte. Indians trouble the region as 1,000 young warriors leave five agencies, and news reaches the city of three thousand miners in the northern camps.
A blaze reported as started by children with matches swept through the center of St Louis suburbs yesterday. It was under control by midafternoon after burning about 700 houses, with insurance estimates unfolding slowly. Residents seek relief measures and shelter in nearby schools as officials assess damage.
Sparks set interiors alight inside walls, quickly found and extinguished with limited damage. Three or four chickens are missing and presumed dead in the fumes. Water supplies lagged, but residents and nearby actions prevented greater loss. The blaze coincides with the anniversary of a prior major fire.
Reports describe a grasshopper plague in the Spin region with swarms crossing the southern provinces. Military action began with 7,000 troops deployed to Radios Estrada to repel the insects, and a demand for 3,000 more troops followed as trains are halted and crops jeopardized.
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