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Show , 3UTTE NOTES. (Correspondence Intcrmoiintain Catholic.) Butte, Mont., No 9. On Wednesday night Mrs. Miles Finlan, who has been in ill health -for some time, left for a short visit to Michigan. There she will be joined by Mr. Finlan for a trans-Atlantic trans-Atlantic winter tour. They purpose spen'ding the Nmas holidays in Rome. On Sunday last Fither Callahan and his sister, Misr Callahan of "The Lenox," Len-ox," left for Salt Lake City. The former for-mer will spend a few days with his many admirers at All Hallows, returning re-turning home to resume his pastoral duties Sunday. The latter continues on to California for the winter.' Professor 'J.-S. HarTnitin of the Butte Optical company is- absent this week on business around Livingston and vicinity. vi-cinity. . :".., . Butte physicians are -doing a "land office, business" in the Vaccination line, owing' to the appearance of .smallpox. Several city blocks have been quarantined, quaran-tined, and the parochial school in Walkerville has been. cosed. : John McCoy, a well known contractor of Butte, died on Sunday, Nov. 5, at his home a,t No. 12 North Montana street, from pneumonia.- He had been ill but a few davs. '- v The deceased, was . native cf. Cork, Ireland. He came to. America in -1857, locating first in , Dubuque, la. In 1889 he came to Butte, and has since resided here, following the occupation of contractor, con-tractor, several of the big blocks of this city having been built by him. He leave?' a' widow and son who reside in. Butte and . two sons and a daughter who live in Iowa. The remains will be shipped for burial to Dubuque. |