The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-04
THE --LATEST NEWS.


Wis, owned by A. J. Webster of Mena-
sha, which was burned a few days ago,
was worth $4,000 and employed seventy
men.
Influential Iowa Republicans propose
to test their influence in Washington
against that of young Mr.. Holm, in the
case of the freezing out of Collector Sher-
man of Des Moines.
The total lake shipments from the
Michigan iron mines this year, up to
date, amount to 4l6, 268 gross tons, or less
than half the total for the corresponding
period last year.
"Ov course l wanted to come to
country phare gould was plinty ard
Everything was Free" said Mr.. Dennis
Moran, pauper immigrant who landed
at Castle Garden the other day.
The loss on Heasley's -four and saw
mill, Delano, burned on Wednesday, was
81 900, and on contents $500; insured for
$1,000 in the Home of New York and one
other company.
Gen. Henry Harnden, squeezed out of
the Madison, Wis, internal revenue
Office, was commander of one of the regi-
ments that captured jeff Davis, and he
received portion of the reward.
The Cincinnati saloon keepers tax
paid in amounted to SlO4, 800. The board
of public works has prepared an ordin-
ance to appropriate 500, 600 ofthis money
to the street repairing fund.
David B. Parker, chief of postoffice in
spectors, has caused a sensation in WASH
ington by declining to give up his posi-
ton, with a $1,000 salary, for $4,000
position. There must be some perqui-
sites.
The exports of the products of packing
.houses and dairy farms of the country
during the five months ending May 81
were $43, 1886, 694. For the same period
last year the exports were s37s,Ooo
more.
Licenses of Washburn, Moen & Co., for
the manufacture of tarbed wire, met in
Chicago last week. They claimed the
royalty charged was too high, and ap-
pointed committee to negotiate for a
reduction.
In a pamphlet recently issued by the
mayor of Philadelphia containing rules
and regulations for the management of
the police of that city, it is made the
duty of the men on the force to remove
all orange peel, banana skins and rinds
of fruit carelcssly or with malice afore-
thought thrown upon the pavement.
3. F. Asper of Pittsburg, and S. B. Ben
son of Philadelphia, have received pat
ent for a mechanical coal digger, which
they claim will do the work of thirty
men, with one man to run the engine.
Among the stockholders are Senator
Malone of Virginia, ex-senator Blaine,
and ex-senator Davis of West Virginia.
Belle Harris, a polygamous wife at Salt
Lake CITY, has been in Jail two months
for contempt in refusing to tell the grand
jury who was the father of her babe.
The supreme court of Utah has decided
that she must remain in prison until she
answers. She says she will stay there
forever before she will turn against her
husband.
James R. Davis, appraiser of teas in
New York, has spent week on cargo
from China, and has rejected 3, 100 pack
ages. Some of these he found mixed
. with sand or gravel others consisted Of
dust and paste rolled in pellets. He also
rejected $40 packages from Japan, in
which dust and mineral substances were
found.
A story is printed in Pittsburg that
Western dealers have been forced to sell
the goods of the Diamond Match COM
pany and no others. Some of the local
merchants are fighting the monopoly,
because they have had to buy this year
without knowing the prices, as the big
monopoly refuses to make known its
rates under the repeal of the match tax.
It is said that there are no troubles fur
ther east than Pittsburg.
Gen. Sherman was asked by st. Paul
reporter if he couldn't tell something
about his future:- No; I've got through