Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-02-03

The Turks have been compelled to retreat.
The West St Louis Savings Bank has fail

The West St Louis Savings Bank has fail
ed.
A destructive fire is reported from Mont
gomery, Alabama.
1t is reported chat the entire South will re-
fuse to participate in the centennial.
Carlists are concentrating their disorgan-
lied forces in the Bas Pyrenes.
The legislature of New jersey has refused
to tax church property.
Two hundred and twenty thousand dol
lars has been subscribed to the Lee Monu-
ment Fund.
Forty thousand pounds went into the
Bank ofEngland ON balance day.
Lena Edwards, the actress, is to marry
a son of Ex-Governor Hoffman, Of York.
Mr.. Window, from the Senate Commit
tee on Transportation reports in favor of i'm
proving the Upper Missouri.
Montana Indian agencies are to be placed
under the exclusive direction of general
Gibbon.
Charles O'Connor is rapidly regaining his
health, and now able to ride out.
An attempt was made to rob the night
express going east from Chicago on the
night Of January Goth. The car contained
$270, 900 in currency, and over $125,OOO in
bullion.
In the recent North Hampton bank rob-
berry, 100000 in securities were taken, most
OF which belonged to special depositers.
Jonathan Earle, Treasurer of the Nor
folk and New Brunswick Hosiery Company.
is a defaulter to the amount of $142. 900. He
has turned over property and other securi-
ties sufficient to cover the dedication, but
the latter are not convertible at the pres
ent time.
War is imminent between Guatemala and
San Salvador. Both countries are arming.
A government commission has been ap-
pointed to examine the Panama Railroad.
Heavy suits for violation of contract have
been commenced, and the Columbian Gov
eminent threatens to demand %abrogation of
the contract.
Oliver A. Patton, Register of the Land
Office at Salt Lake,> and Gen. Maxwell.
United States Marshal for Utah, are in
Washington, trying to secure a revision of
the jury law, by which p~olygamists shall be
excluded from service as jurors. The Presi-
dent is said to sympathize with the move
ment.
Yhe authorities of Massachusetts, have tel
egraphed to Representatives Harris and
Pierce at Washington, asking their influence
with the Minister from Holland to induce
him to have delivered to our Government
the body of Winslow the fugitive $780, OO-
forger.
The. 81, $780, 900 Centennial appropriation is
likely to pass the Senate.
On January %, Adolphus Moore was IA
tally shot by Geo. w. Swepson, at Haw riv-
er, N. G.
Ill. Il. Starkweather, representative from
Connecticut, died in Washington on the
morning of the 2Sth ult.
Prof. Seelye's proposition to transfer the
control of the. civilized Indians whose reser-
vatfons are in the States to State govern
ments meets the approval of the Indian
Commission.
70. G. Watkins, US Indian Inspector,
has visited each of the capitals. in II
the Indian Territory. He has seen leading
men in each of the different nations, and re-
ports the schools in a lonrishing condition,
with a good attendance of scholars.
A freight and passenger transportation
line IS to be put on between Fort Pierre, on
the Missouri river, and the Black Hills
mines, a distance of 100 miles.
"A Chicago Tribune special from Lincoln,
Neb., says that large bodies of men, bound
Tor the Black Hills. are passing through
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