Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-08-21
GENERAL NEWS.
Americans in Paris offer to take shares in

the Panama canal.
The directors OF the Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern railroad have resolved to buy
Il controlling interest in the Chicago g. Can
ada Southern railroad at $500 00.
Joseph L. Fry. Of Boston, u dealer in
hides and leather, was found murdered on
the 10Th at his residence. The safe had
been robbed of its contents.
4 st. Paul dispatch Of the 18th says a
telegram from General Miles, dated Fort
Butord, August IL, says a detachment of
the fifth infantry, under Lieutenant Wheeler
captured fifty-seven Indians and one hun
dred ponies, from the Crow agency, On the
Rosebud, who were on their way to join
Sitting Bull.
A San Francisco dispatch of August Is,
says the Alaska commission steamer st.
Paul, from Ounalaso, reports that the Arctic
exploring yacht Jeanette arrived there Au-
gust 3, and would sail tor st. Michaels Au-
gust 6. All on board were well.
Among the passengers by the steamer St.
Paul from Ounalasa were Col. II. Coates
and Capt. j. IL. Moulton. of the United
States Treasury department, who have been
making 8 tour Of the sea islands in the in-
teresr of the department.. They report that
the revenue cutter Richard Rush had been
through Behring's straits, and within 1854
miles of Wrangel Land, and within seven
ty-five miles of East cape, near which Prof.
Nordenskjold is supposed to be frozen in.
Her officers report the sea clear as far as
Visible, with no signs of ice. Winter in
the. Arctic has been unusually favorable for
explorations. The weather is warm, and
the ice broke up early.
The commissioner of the general land
office has issued to VIM. A. Richardson a
patent for the California rancho San Cello,
containing 1851 acres, on the bay of San
Francisco. The title to this property has
long been in litigation in the us. supreme
court, and the present patent is issued in
conformity to a decision Of that court last
winter at the final settlement Of the case.
Four bodies were taken from the ruins of
the hotel that burned at Locust grove, N.
Y. The remains were recognized. as those
Of j. w. Pierce, w. Scherchardt, Kate Raj
ter and Louise, the cook.
The remains of A. 7. Stewart are again
reported to have been found, this time in
Montreal, to which place they were brought
in q canal boat from New York, in Novem-
Der last.
Four persons were killed and thirty
wounded in a collision on the Argenthan
& Granville. railroad, near Paris, France.
A. Dorsc tho oh,aryo,,oo rf NonoIocr3 c
tets or the 18th of August, was omitted fos
the first time in thirty years.
Berlin advises of August 16, state that it
has been proposed to hold an international
congress in May next to elaborate q uniform
patent law for adoption by the nations rep
resented in the congress.
The death of Mrs. Sartoris, daughter OF
ex-President Grant, occurred on the 9Th
inst, ut the Warsash house, Tychfield,
Hampshire, England. Her death was sud-
den.
Frank Eanbett and wife. at Folsom, CAL,
were attacked in bed on the night OF the
18th, by an unknown assassin. Mrs. Lam
bett was killed and Lambett badly wounded.
The Bishop of Belgium declares excom-
munlcated all teachers in schools establish
ed by the state under the new education
law.
A correspondent at Vienna, discussing
the chances of war between Russia and
China on the Culdja question, says the
Chinese have available over 100, 900 men and
300 guns.
AT Los Angeles, California, on the 18th
inst, j., ID. Lynch and VIM. A. Spaulding,
editors respectively of the Herald and Ea-
-anoanol IL, q chnntinm nffcar On the