The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1883-09-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.


In less than four weeks the State
election occurs in Ohio.
The Bismarck Advertiser has lost its
grip. 1t expired last week.
Nitro-glycerine is being used as a
medicine under the name Of glonoine.
Hundreds of acres of cucumber
pickles have been ruined by frosts near
New York.
At Dundee, NIB, John Macdonald,
in a struggle with bull took hold of
its horns and broke its neck.
instantaneous photography is getting
to be a profitable pursuit among the
lady bathers at Coney Island.
Princes bay oystermen declare the
oyster crop poorer than for years. Some
disease seems to effect the bivaNes.
Systemized effort is being made in
New York in behalf of the lockout
lady telegraphers. Edison gave $50.
Portions of Dakota, Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Iowa have been visited
by heavy frosts.
St. Paul is agitating the building of
smelling works in that city, now that
the Northern Pacific is completed.
Water in the Prospect park Brook
lyn) lakes is so stagnant swan and
geese are dying. 1t is proposed to
pump air into it through perforated
pipes.
Mrs. 4. 4. Stone is doing a thriv-
1 ing business in Chicago as profess
ional letter-writter for people who are
unequal to the task of writing their
own letters.
At the instance of the Northern
Pacific Express Company the Wells,
Fargo Express Company has been en-
Joined against establishing agencies IN
Washington. Idaho and Montana.
Henry Willard purchased 100 copies
of the boom issue of the Bismarck
tribune and gave to his guests. The
Bozeman Chronicle goes one better,
printing 1000 for gratuitous distrlbu-
ton among the distinguished guests.
A Connecticut man passed through
. Laramie the other day bound for the
head waters Of the Yellowstone, in
! Montana, whence he will start for New
4 Orleans in a skiff This distance from
the starting point to destination IS over
D 5000 miles.
$ Butler has been beaten again in a
@ law suit. Mrs. Cummings proved
adultry on her husband and was about
|. to get a divorce, when Ben undertook
: to fasten a like charge on the plaintiff.
> The supreme court decides that if true
the charge does not throw her out OF
j. court.
At Havre de Grace a stand occupied
D, by about I, 900 women and children al
d the Tournament of the Grand Army o.
/ the Republic fell with a crash. Many
= were badly hurt, and several had to be
r at once removed to their homes fol
t surgical treatment No fatal results
is followed.
y At a reunion Of confederate veter-
k ans in Richmond, Va, the stars and
Ie stripes and an old battle flag of the
,g confederacy were carried at the head
- of the procession. The confederate
= flag had been used as a sign in store
v v and bore the legend, Confederate
> bonds, money and postage stamps fol
y, sale here"
j, Willie Morris Of Brooklyn, died the
~ other day from general nicotine pos
r. oning. He was fifteen years old anc
y employed in q lawyers office. HI
began by smoking cigarettes, anC
passed to chewing. When he wa
not smoking a cigarette he always ha'
some tobacco in his mouth, and occa
t. sionaly. combined the two.
= A syndicate of capitalists purchase
Is a large tract OF land Immediately SUI
n. rounding the great ShOshone falls c
nd the Snake river, Idaho. The falls ar
ne surrounded by some of the grande:
ly scenery in the world. The syndIcat
ld will build a mammoth hotel, put
Ie steamer on the river and endeavor
M make it the Niagara Of the West.
nj 4 war dance was given the Villar
party at Grey Cliff, Mt, in which &c
no Crow Indians took part. The GER
- mony was conducted by chief Tw
- Belly. The town was alive with Ind
~ y, ans, members of the tribe. 1t IS esi
'iu mated that 1000 were present. 4