Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-07-04
News Of the Week.


The Emperor OF Morocco is dead.
-Schyler ColfaX is lccturing in Utah.
The Queen of Spain is supposed to
dying.
minneapolis had an $4,000 fire on IL
9th nit.
The Oregon Democrats elected the
Governor by Il small majority.
1t is estimated that the appropriation
by Congress for the year ending June. ISL!
will amount to Sl7O.0O0.OO0.
The Idaho hostiles have stripped :
miles of the Winnemucca and Camp NJ,
Dcrmt stage line OF i'll its stock.
An Idaho photographer has gone on
with the troops. and is taking sketches q
the fighting grounds, camps, etc.
The Peace Congress is still in session
and as yet have not settled the terms O
peace between Turkey and Russia.
"A portion of a tunnel near Schevelen
Germany, fell on the 2Sth nit. burying 2.
persons. Seven bodies had been rec oyerct
ut last accounts.
The sundry civil bill appropriates so.
600 each for the Wheeler and Powell sur.
Neys OF the Territories, and $4,000 for the
Hayden surveys.
They have a female vigilance commit
tee in Virginia City. Nevada. the principal
duty Of which, is to look after husbands
out late at night.
Providence, Il. L.. June 3O.-Assignecs
OF Green & Cranston. bankers and brokers.
who failed more than year ago announce
Their readiness to pay all claims in full.
principal and interest.
"A destructive fire in Fairbault, Ninn..
last week. burned the principal business
part OF the city. comprising nearly all the
buildings on Main and Elm streets. be-
tween Seco:d and Third streets. The loss
VIII probably exceed $4,000.
The frontier regiments are to be in
creased TO their maximum strength by d.
rection OF the Secretary Of War. By this
means the army will be increased to p, 600
men and give Montana several hundred adj
ultiOIial SOlulcfS.
Albany, y. w.. June 3O.-An oil train
was thrown from the track on the New
York Central railroad last night by the re-
moval Of Il rail and 10 ears WRECKED. The
oil took fire and a brakeman named Truax
was burned to death. The engineer and
fireman were injured.
The Dakota Indian superintendent is
discontinued ut close Of the fiscal year.
the 10th of June, an amendment TO the |
Indian apportionmcnt bill to that effect
having been adopted. It was considered
that the Indian superintendency for Dakota
was unnecessary for the future.
1t is the old story repeated. Russian
armies victorious in battle but decimated
by disease in the malarous country of the
Turks. Twenty-Five per cent. of the re-
crtlits raised for the Armenian campaign
in lS11 are dead. and fifty-five thousand
Russian troops are sick in the Balkan pen
insula.
The Methodist Church at Salt Lake
rot out Of paying its acknowledged indebt-
,lncss OF $3.50 to the sexton. by the mo-
ion ofJudgc McKean that the suit should
Ne dismissed for the reason that it was
made against the church as Il corporate
'ody. lie denying that it was corpora
ion.
-ConSrcss. at the recent session. pro- ~,
'ided by get that newspapers shall be paid ,
rates for all Government adj /;
ertisiDg, and that all such advertisements :
Inserted by the Government since April 10, :
S11. shall he paid for at like rates. The
'ress of the country is largely indebted to
enator Blaine for this just legislation. !
The House of Representatives. by an /
unanimous vote. concurred in the Senate d
asOlution that the treaty with China g
iOuld be modified so as to restrict the 9
IMMIGRATION of Chinese to America. This h
the first step that has been taken BY the II
government in response to the appeal of O
le people Of the Pacific coast. but the vote
lOws that Congress has become alive to d
le necessity OF Elking some steps in the n
after. n
The investigations of the mint bureau v
e very damaging 10 the superintendent. N
p. Lindernan. The facts We're brought b.
II by an old and trusted employee Of the "a
mint. I.inderman is charged &
th paving $4,000 more for silver than a,
2 sam" could have been purchased in m
en market. and also with large number lie
other specu!atiOns. The Secretary has 0,
tied that no action will be taken in refer to
ce to these allegations until they have az
N fully investigated by persons compc- til
i to do justice to the Government, and tn
see that no injustice is done to DR.. er
ldernan. against whom the House In ~
tiyation seems to be particularly d. ~
led. ID