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Show TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. Governor S. T. Hauser, of Montana, President of the Helena & - Wickes Railroad, Rail-road, has completed arrangements with the Northern Pacific Railroad for. the building of several branch roads for that system which are to start from Helena. An alarming revolt took place to-day in the prison at Chalons. The" military had to be called in to quell the disturbance. The authorities have ordered an inquiry to be made on the complaint that the treatment by the prison officials was intolerable. in-tolerable. " Panama advices of the 16th instant say that a series of murders have been committed com-mitted at Abatedas, in the State of San-tander. San-tander. An entire family was assassinated. assassi-nated. The assassins, six in number, are Antonio Ertaban.Francisco Marciales , Miguel Flores, Pantalon Rono and a deaf and dumb man. The President of the Republic has directed that they be tried by a military court-martial. The apprehension appre-hension of the assassins has led to the development and has brought , to light other crimes of a revolting character. The chief sensation of a session of the House of Commons the other night was caused by the detection of a House of Commons reporter for one of the most prominent morning newspapers in the act of eavesdropping. The reporter was promptly accused and vigorously denounced de-nounced by the members whose conversation conver-sation he sought to overhear, and the fact of his offense was reported to the Speaker. The affair created considerable excitement, and will result in the exclusion exclu-sion of the offender from both Houses of Parliament.- |