The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1882-03-25
Rofs and FLASHES.

Rots and Aas1es.
Sergeant Mason arrived at the peniten.
tiary in New York on the 18TH.
Petitions for the pardoning Of Sergeant
Mason are pouring in upon the President.
In the House tie Senate bill passed ex
tending the northern boundary of the State
Of Nebraska.
The President has signed the commission
Of Frederick Solomon to te Surveyor Gen.
eral for Utah.
The Senate has passed bills for the ercc.
ton Of public buildings at Deaver. Col.
and Terre Haute, Indiana.
Eight million francs are required 10 d..
fray the expenses OF the Tunis expedition
for the first quarter in 1881.
Among confirmat;ons bv the Senate on
the 18th WAS that of II. NJ. Vanarnin, Of
California, to be Secretary Of Arisona.
The trains on the Central Pacific have
been blockaded by snow slides carrying
away the sheds at Emigrant Gap and fam.
imarack.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has drawn on
Miss SWEET, Pension Agent, for $4,000 the
amount Of the pension recently granted by
Congtess.
The Secretary Of War has instructed the
Ccnmissary General to issue fifty thousand
additional rations for the relief OF the desti-
tute Of Arkansas.
The Mexican government has decided to
accept, with notifications, the terms of thu.
treaty offered BY Guatemala for the settle.
nent Of the pending difficulties.
Frederick A. Palmer, late Auditor Of
Newark, has been sentenced to State prison
for twenty years for obtaining none. from
the Treasury on forged warrants.
A handsome sum has been subscribed in
the various departments for Sergeant
Mason's family Petitions for executive
ccmcncy are pouring in from all quarters.
1t is stated that General Skobeloff, reply.
ing to the Cars serious reprin,and in rela-
tion to his speech in Paris, pleaded in ex.
cuse that he did not know himself what he
euid
The final agreement between the Anglo
American and the American cable com
l,a,ies has t~.en concluded through Cyrus
W. Field and Jay Gould here and the
English officials in London.
Mary Ann Hermann, an inmate Of the
Asylum for the Insane at Charleston, In
diana, died last week, after refusing to take
food for sixty three days and twelve hours.
She drank water freely. Her death was
painless.
General Meigs, who built the Capitol
wings, says the raising OF the dome fifty
feet, to provide library room, would spoil
the symmetry and endangcr the safety Of
the building. This will settle the matter
and secure outside accommodation tor the
library.
It Is stated that the Gar has received
convincing proofs that the Nihilists are de-
termined to abandon their policy oi assas-
sination. Imperial clemency will conse.
quently be extended political prisoners and
executions will be reduced to the utmost
limit.
The report sent Of an earthquake in
Costa Rica was taken from an official dis.
patch, which proves to have grossly exag.
gerated the disaster. Advices from Costa
Rica bv mail do not confirm the statements
made In the official dispatch as to the
destruction Of towns and loss Of lives.
Tie St. Louis bicyclenne who recently
set out tn ride Goo miles in six consecutive
days has completed her task with l7H
miles to spare. The score for six days
617H miles, actual riding time 81 hours,
36 minutes. Time off the track, 20 hours,
- minutes. This is the longest biby Gle
ride on record.
Small POx Scourge.
A Reading dispatch Of the 18th SAYS:
The smallpox scourge is making terrible
havoc in the districts reported to-day for
the first time, all along South Mountain,
from McCrong.e's, Lehigh county, to
Shamrock, Derks couhtv. The plague Is
spreading.
The small-po epidemic In South Beth.
lehcm still prevails with great violence,
and the authorities are powerless to stay
its progress. Two hundred cases are re.
ported.
Shooting In Colorado.
Information has been received ut Den.
Yer of shooting affrav at Caracas, Color
ado, resulting in the killing Of one Mcxi-
can and the dangerously wounding OF
another, by j. II. Mobray, an employee OF
the Denver 4 Rio Grande Railway. Mo.
bray owed the Mexican four dollars and
offered to nav him, but the latter claimed
eight dollars The dispute resulted In the
NcAtCilII UGAtulS "''. ~ -
tense. The high position Of the Mexican
created bitter feeling among this element,
who were about to lynch Mohrav. lie
was taken to the Chama jail for safety,
from whence he has escaped.
Lynchlng In Oregon.
A Dalles, Oregon, dispatch says: Luctan
L.angaon and ,nan in his employ named
Harrison, were arrested at Langdon's res
idence on the charge Of killing 4. II
Crooks and S. ]. Jory, by posse OF citi:
zens and turned over to the Deputy Sheriff.
After reaching the hotel party OF masked
men overpowered the guard and sho'
Langdon dead. Harrison was hanged
to the trestle work OF a bridge. None Of
the perpetrators have been identiheo
Nothing has been ascertained to tmpi.cate
Harrison in the murder Of Crooks and Dry
and his only offense seems to have been
that he was in Langdon's employ
Reasonable Apache Scouts In n. NJ
The following dis patch was received on
the 18th by Governor Sheldon from Gap
tain Black of the Shakespeare GUARDS,
Territorial militia company. dated LORDS
burg, Southern Pacific Railroad, Marc''
18TH: "Sevcnty mounted Apache scouts
en- route to the reservation, went "l"," ~ ,"s