The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-04-21
NEWS NOTES.

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| The Canadians are suffering from river
Hoods,
The cashier Of the Union Pacific road to
Council Bluffs is defautcr
Skating matches are going on in Manito-
| ba as though 1t were midwinter.
At Essanaba, Mich, on the 10th, mine
caved in taking the lives of eight men.
Morris, Minn., is afflicted with smallpox
brought there by labOrcrs from the lumber
woods.
\ severe thunderstorm, accompanied by
brisk gale, visited st. Paul OH Thursday
| evening last.
Forts Cameroa. IN Utah, and Hall. in
Idaho, will he discontinued on the 1st day
| of May next.
&. The trial of SchclIer for instigatinS the
Newhall hotel holocaust seems likely to re.
suit in an acquittal.
Judge MoKeivoy, of the seventh judicial
district IN Minnesota, has resigned after fif-
teen years of service.
ID. I. Edmunds, of COrrectionvile Iowa
| shot Andy Hose fatally. for improprietie,
with Edmonds wife.
The Black Hills do lot deserve the name
just now. They are covered with snow to
a considerable depth.
A boiler in the Hudson chair factory,
Chicago, exploded on the l2th and one man
was killed and number injured.
The Bismarck Tribune reports a gorge at
Fort Stevenson. The fear of a food at Bis
marck and Mandan is not yet past
Allen Arthur, the Presidents son, is do
ing the honors at the White House in
Washington, in his fathers absence.
Twenty prisoners broke from the Tarrant
county, Texas, Jail ,overpo wered the guard,
took all the arms and ammunition they
could find and fled
Mrs. Rose Howard. Of New York, nine
n-year-old W.f,, i'll a fit of delirium kill
cd h??sr Jas. born child, AN infant three weeks
old. She is now raving mad.
Harry d. McDonald has been nomiaa.e&.
by the democrats of Georgia, to succeed \.
II. Stephens as Goyern2E. He will bic elect
ed as the republicans have declined to nom
in2aN;e,
At Rice Creek, on the Manitoba road, an
up-treight ran into cow, and sixteen cars
and dead engine We're thrown down a
! thirty foot clAbankment, making a bad
| wreck.
Twelve armed tramps captured a freight
train near Lexington, KY; and ordered the
conductor to take them to Lexington. The
conductor started the train, bat telegraphed
for assistance and had them arrested at the
HeN. station.
| Capt. Thomas P. Fuller, war officer,
but now L. S. internal revenue collector
for Montana, has been appointed adju'
tant general on Governor Crosby's staff
and will rank as brigadier general OF
Montana's militia.
The Northern Pacific is now negotiating
for the purchase of the Wisconsin Central
railroad. This, with small connecting
link that is to be built, will give the n. 2
control of a through line from Duluth tC
New York, via. Milwaukee and Chicago
and tho Grand Trunk and West Shore lines
1t will be powerful corporation.
Charles Smith, a farmer in Delaware
county, Iowa, has added another black page
to the horrible record of crime annals. Or
the morning of the 18th he arose from bed
seized an axe, and with one blow crushed
his wife's head to a jelly, killing her in
stantly. He then rushed to the barn where
were his two sonsAgcd nine and fourteen
and dashed out their brains with the sam,
weapon He then went to neighbQriDs
grove, and with a razor, cut his OWN throat
from ear to ear. I!e Was insane, it is chari
to'piS w ~ail'o"e:
Ey-Presidcnt Hayes is a very genial and
melting man. His farm in Dakota has Sc
far partaken of his qualities that the snow
has entirely left it and seeding upon its
rich and mellow ridges has already begun
Mr.. Hayes has undoubtedly carried the
Cancellation policy of his administration
into farming. The telegraph is at pains tc
inform the world that seeding on the ex
presidents farm nsar Bismarck has begun
Mr.. Hayes thus leads the grangcrs Of Da
kota, and if it We're possible to escape
spring free2e-up, he might reap very
early harvest. -, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Associated Press dispatch Of the l!th
-Four hundred troops have been sent tc
protect the Apaches az San Carlos. Tomb
stone rangers have taken the field and arr
being reinforced all along the line. A
Hermoseillo special says that Gen. CIooI
arrived this afternoon from Guaymas.
conference will be held between Crook
Carlo, Topcta and Gov. Times to arrange
for joint action against the Apaches. Al
Palmo ranch ten men were killed last Tues
day. Two women were hung up by the
hands and ripped open. From one chile
was taken and was found mangled at it,
mothers feet. The bodies Of the men were
horribly mansled.