Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-05-29
GENERAL NEWS.

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The Senate has confirmed n. s.. Porter.
of Nebraska, Indian Agent at Fort Peck
Agency, Montana.
Five Thames bridges, namely, Lambeth,
Vauxhall, Albert, Battersea and Chelsea,
will be freed from tolls.
The Woodruff Scientific Expedition
around the world has again tailed. The
loss is estimated at $SO,00O.
The Committee on Public Lands have au-
thorized the chairman to report favorably
on the bill for the establishment OF land dis
tricts in Montana and Dakota.
William Gordon, a mail clerk in the en-
ploy of FL. B. Claflln & Co., arrested cnarg-
ed with swindling his employers out Of
nearly $4,000, confessed his guilt.
The Southern hotel will be rebuilt at st.
Louis and will be one Of the finest in the
country. The builder is Thomas Allen,
president of the Iron Mountain railroad.
A London dispatch of May Oath says: A
correspondent at simla says the treaty with
Yakoob Kahn will probably be signed on
Monday next.
lICIC was d pdSillS III Roih"i IA S~tAsS
quence of placards announcing that the
town would be burned OH the 18th of May.
The fire brigade paraded the streets all
night. The st. Petersburg police have been
reinforced by $50 soldiers.
A Madrid letter says there is a deficit of
eighty million francs in the Spanish budget
for the current year. 1t is expected next
year that there will probably be a greater
deficit.
The President has nominated VIM. j.
Gilbraith, OF Iowa, Associate Justice OF the
Supreme court of Montana, and John F.
Morgan, of Illinois, Chief Justice of the SUI
preme court of Idaho, and Norman Buck. of
Idaho, Associate Justice of the same court.
Information from the Indian Territory is
to the effect that portions of the Indian riv-
er valley, in the Chickasaw Nation, is in
tested with lawless white men who are dep
redating upon the property Of the ndian
and violating their PERSONAL rights, and il
the government does not protect the In
dams and put a stop to this unlawful inva.
sion there will be very serious trouble.
San Francisco advices of the 10th, says L,
Langbehm, a German living OH a vegetable
ranch about five miles from Antioch, Con-
ira Costo county, last Friday took his little
boy and girl, aged respectively six and foul
years, into the tules, beat them to death
with a club and then cut their throats. He
! then went to the house his own brains GU
with a shotgun. The family had always
! lived happily together, and the act is at
! tributedito temporary insanity.
, A Paris dispatch Of the 22d says: In
committee of. the Darien Congress yester
day, Sir John Hawkshaw spoke strongly
against the Panama route for the canal will
a tunnel. He declared that the TUNE
. would become the receptacle of all the wa
tiers of the Chagres basin and be liable to bt
completely blocked.
: An official dispatch has been received BY
: the Minister of War, at Athens, announc
ing an engagement between Turkish troop!
e and insurgents in Thessalay. The Tmk
lost $50 in killed and wounded. and the in
s. surgents only seventy, including their lead
iers.
Tie House committee on foreign. affair
!, instructed Morton to report to the House
u joint resolution authorizing the. appoint
h ment of a commission to represent tn
United States at the International Exposl
y tons to be held in Sydney and Melbourn
in 1880 respectively. The measure. vii