The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-07-14
NEWS NOTES.


1t is rumored that Lotta was
in Washington, D. c.,
on the 4th.
The salvation army's property at
Patterson, n. j., has been attached
for debt by members.
The report regarding the crops
along the Northern Pacific says that
crops of all kinds are looking well.
The Chicago, Milwaukee Il st.
Paul railroad begins running din
ing cars between st. Paul and Chi
cago to-day.
Fourteen hundred Mormon emf.
grants, bound for Utah were landed
at Chicago Tuesday by the Michi-
gan Central.
There is no foundation for the
report that the French flag had been
hoisted on the New Hebrides island
by French gunboat.
General Crook left Washington
on Saturday, for Cresson Springs
where he will remain a few days
and then proceed direct to Arizona
Hanlan went through the formula
of winning boat race at Lowell.
on the 4th. His opponents were
Hosmer, Hamm, Conley and Cay
sell.
The new buildings in New York
for the first six months of this year
cost s32,7S2,8OO. This exceeds the
same period last year by $685..
495.
Adiutant General Drum leaves
Washington on Thursday on a visit
of inspection to military posts on
the Northern and Union Pacific
railroads.
At Muskegon, Mich, lumber ship
ments during the past week were
II, 100000 feet, and since the open
ing of navigation to date III ,2O0,-
100000.
For criticising the Tower city
pa school board, J. r. Nelson
editor Of the Echo, was horsewhip.
ped by Mrs. McElwaine, wife Of one
of the directors
The Union Pacific Railroad com.
pany has made a contract to trans.
port 1900 tons Of rails from Chi.
cago to Denver for the New Mexico
Central & Northern railway.
The party Of distinguished gentle
men who have accepted Rufus
Hatch 8 invitation to visit the Vel
lowstone Park will leave New York
for the Northwest on the 10th
inst.
The convention between the
Uuited States and Mexico, provid.
ing that no troops Of either country
shall cross into the other in pursuit
of Indians, has been prorogued fol
one year.
NJ. S. Nichols Il Co., Chicago
brokers who recently failed, have
sued % Watertown spectators to1
between $4,000 and $4,000 mar
gins on wheat, the firm advanced to
carry their accounts.
The loss to the Central railrod Of
Mexico, caused by recent rains is
estimated at 100000. The des.
truction of bridges delayed the
completion of the road toAgua Cali.
ents a month and half.
An alarming number of crop
mortgages are being given this yea,
by Texas farmers. Thirty-twc
were filed with the Galveston coun.
ty clerk last week, while go have
been recorded since Jan. l.
The negroes of the lower Missis'
sippi region are making an exodus
in large numbers to Northern Lou
isiana, Arkansas and East Texas tol
fear Of yellow fever breaking out in
their old homes this summer.
The two infected vessels, Norwe'
gian barks, Guild Bringa and Tn,
gundomenter, at Pensacola, Florida
are to be transferred to Ship Island
quarantine, telcgraphic authority
to that effect having been received
to-day from Surgeon General Ham,
ilton of the marine hospital service
4 number Of lumbermen OF Eau
Claire and Chippewa Falls have
formed Il syndicate for the pur'
chase Of an extensive tract OF pine
land in Manitoba, along the Cana.
dian Pacific road. The tract COM.
prises some of the choicest OF tim.
ber, and the investment will prove
exceedingly profitable.
DR.. Lee Pinkston, residing l.
miles from Montgomery, Alabama
cnm,mitted suicide. He placed q
double barrelled gun to his head
hlowin0 If off He ATTEMPTED tC