NewYork, June IV.^Ex-Senator T. C.^Piatt will start on an Alaskan trip to-day.^He and Mrs. Piatt will leave at 6 p. m. for^Detroit: there they will meet Gen. Alger's^family and friends and go with them to the^Pacific coasL Gen. Alger will be accom^^panied by Mrs. Alger, two unmarried^daughters. Fay and Frances.his oldest son,^Russell, and the wife of ^^en. O. E. Poe,^formerly Gen. Sherman's chief of engi^^neers, but now in charge of the harbor at^Detroit, Col. George EL Hi pkins, chair^^man of the Michigan republican commit^^tee, and K. K. Hawley, of Cleveland, (ien.^A'ger's partner will go as far as San^Francisco. President John M. Thurston,^of the republican national league, will joia^the party at Tacoma, but Mrs. 7'hurston^will meet the car at Omaha. Possibly^Senator Jones, of Nevada, will go along.
TlieMining Kngineora.
Denver,June IV.^The delegates to the^Mining Engineers' convention assemoled at^headquarters this morning and at 10 o'clock^took a special train to the Omaha and^Grant smelters. A thorough inspection of^the workings of the smelter was made.^Kx (r^ v. Grant accompanied the visitors^and called their attention to every feature^of interest. The session was called to^order at the high school building at 2^o'clock by President Pearce, senator^Wolcott delivered an address of welcome^which was received with a great deal of^interest. This was followed by an address^^nj President Pearce upon the subject of^'linking a Shaft Through Quicksacd.^^after which the convention adjourned.
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