Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-01-02
GENERAL NEWS.

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Bank of England increased s944, 900 in the
past week. Proportion of reserve to liabil-
ity, 27a per cent.
HoSG KONG, December 27.-The fire
which broke out Christmas ragged all day
yesterday. The lossSis very great.
CAIRO, December 27.-Aldin Palace, the
winter residence of the Khedive, was half
destroyed by fire yesterday.
LAHORE, December N.-Yakoob Khan,
son of the Ameer of Afgianjstan, has come
into Jellalabad. This is,regarded as equiv
aient to submission to the British.
PEsTH, December 27.-Rumors nave been
current of ~atternpts>on the life of Fracis Jo-
seph. The police guarding the palace
where the Emperor, Empress and Crown
Prince are spending the holidays have been
increased.
BERLIN, December 27.-The statement of
the Imperial bank of Germany shows a de-
crease in specie of 2S2, 900 marks.
New York, December 27.-It is reported
that Vanderbilt is about starting a line OF
eighteen steamships, connected with the
New York Central railroad, to be called the
Unicorn line, the first departing January
10th. They will run to- Liverpool, Havre,
Hamburg and Antwerp, carrying grain,
cattle, fresh beef, and produce-no passen-
gers-making a trip in ii days.
WASHINGTON, December 26.-Col.. Fred
Grant leaves Philadelphia tomorrow to
join his father in Europe.
NEW YORK, December pa report from
Au Paix Pugh says: Many persons and
houses were swept away by the river,
which changed its course and crossed the
town. Del horde, about three miles from
Port Au Paix, is reported entirely. de.
stroyed.
PORTLAND, Oregon, December 26-A
Victoria, British Columbia, dispatch says :
On the 18th of December Jno. Boyd killed
i'll a cowardly manner Thos. O'Brien at
Fort Wrangelr Alaska. The citizens tried
him by a jury ofhis own selection, found
him guilty, and hung him the next day.
CHICAGO, December 26.-Chas. L. Otto, a
jeweler at PEORIA, reported to the police
there this morning that he had been robbed
of $4,000 cash, and $4,000 in goods. Ar
investigation indicated Otto himself as the
thief, and he was arrested. His brother
Bright, was held as an accomplice. Otto is
q young German who moved in the best
German society there..
CRY OF MEXICO, December 27.-Rob:
bers attacked the train for Vera Cruz near
Pueblo on the 18th, killed the baggage mas
ter, wounded the conductor, and escaped
with $27 600 in silver
WASHINGTON, December 26.-Tliev COM
mittee of the Senatej appointed underr the
Blaine resolution, adjourned until the reas-
sembling of Congress, when the Senate
viii be asked to authorize the use Of the in
yestigation fund now declared unavailable
by the treasury officers.
WASHINGTON, December 26.-The Secre-
tary Of the Treasuryto-day secured all the
bullion he desired at prices below London
quotations.
LONDON, December 26.-One hundred
thousand men are involved in the impend-
ing strike in York and Derbyshire.
LONDON, December 26.-Itis feared that
the steamship State of,I.ouisiana, on a rock
Lorne Loche, will be.lostvwith much of her
cargo.
MARYsvILLE, Mo-, December 26.-The
county court house was burned yesterday
and the records destroyed Loss, $1,000, 900.
LONDON, December pa correspondent
at kuram Says An Afghan sold Ter in the
British service was hanged for firing to
warn his countrymen of the advance on Pei
war pass. Eighteen others have been sem
fenced to terms of from ten TO fourteen
wears penal seyitude for desertion.
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