The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-10-06
Tonquin, China, together with the
heads of 80 soldiers killed while
making sortie from Hanoi in
Nav last have been recovered.

MAY last have been recovered.
/ Gen. Sherman will turn over the
command of the army to Gen.
Sheridan Oh Nov. 1 and retire to
private life, although he will not be
placed on the retired list until Feb.
8, next.
tbs reported that Gould, Willard
ct al. have made arrang emens for
negotiation of $15, 600, 600 Northern
Pacific bonds. The money will be
/ placed in the hands of the Company
at once to pay the floating debt, etc.
Frank Sherman living at the
fremont House, Chicago, in prince
ly style, was arrested on Saturday
and brought to Albany to be tried
| on six indictments for forgery and
embezzlement and for defrauding
New York State of s75O,OO0.
The schooner Kodiak, from the
north, brought down to San Fran
cisco four Alaskan mumies, suppos-
ed to be at least three centuries old,
in excellent preservation. They are
similar to those sent to the Smith
sonian Institute some years ago,
and are intended for the Berlin
| Museum.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kanas,
says that the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railroad Company have
closed a large sale of land to Watson
& Thropp, of that city. 1t covers
all their land remaing unsold be-
tween Topeka and the western line
of Marion county, about $50 miles.
The price paid was s3.19 an acre.
The coroner's jury in the Rose
Amber murder case brought in a
verdict on Saturday afternoon that
she was choked to death by some
unknown person. They thoug ht
that upon VIM Lewis, to whom the
girl was to have been married, the
suspicion rested, although: there was
not evidence sufficient to warrant
his arrest.
A collision between passenger
train and locomotive, occurred on
the Northern Pacific about five
miles east of Valley City, D. T., on
Friday. The engines were both
badly wrecked. The engineer of
the passenger train was badly in
Ijured and Thomas Collins the fire
man, was caught between the boiler
and the tender and roasted alive.
At Coolidge, a small town on the
A. T. & S. F. on Saturday morning,
a passenger train was boarded by
twelve masked men who attempted
to rob Wells, Fargo Il Co. S safe but
the messenger repulsed them.
The engineer and fireman were both
fatally shot for refusing to stop the
train and the conductor was shot at
several times. Late reports say
that the robbers, who were COW boys,
got no booty. .. n.
CAPTAIN Davis, speaking at New
York Of the recent cyclone in San
Domingo SAYS that 100 sailors per-
, ished within SO miles of San Do
m;ngo City. Destitution must fol-
low as nearly all the plantain trees,
the fruit of which formed the prin-
ciplc food of the poorer classes
were blown down. Half the coast
villages were destroyed. The build
ings of Captain Hardy of Boston at
ASA were destroyed; loss, s3o.OOo.
: A terrible storm occurred on Lake
Erie on Monday night, The
Schooner York State went down
with all hands, and number Of
other vessels w~,cIled or badly dams
aged. At Buffalo the whole lower
pnrt of the city was submerged and
, railroad tracks washed away. The
wind blew at the velocity OF fifty
, four miles M hour and trees, tele-
graph lines and windows were dc
molished. The roundhouse of the
:. Rochester and Pittsburgh railway
and one other house were blown
, down.
An ingenious method Of raising
the figures On the new postal notes
I has lust been brought to the at
7 tention of the postottice department.
! The fraud consists in punching the
high figure in the note on a piece
of paper of the proper shape and
size to fill up the hole previously
y punched by the postmaster through
: Il lower figure. The written words
| or figures are then removed by acids
and blank filled in to correspond
t. with the punched figures. Some
notes have been changed SO skillfuly
t tha, it is very ,Iiiiic ait t, detect the
G alterations.
!, The managers Of lines west of the
!. Missouri practically closed thei
labors by adopting agreements
- the substance OF which is rs follows
s Portland and San Francisco arc t
It be common points, taking the
l. same rates to a:lu !!Oiu the East