The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-11
THE LATEST NEWS.


Nebraska Republicans hold their State
convention at Lincoln, Sept %.
Timothy Goggins rolled off from the
roof Of a fiye-story tenement house in
New York and survived.
Since the passage of the pension law
the number of attorneys before the Office
has increased from four thousand to
seven thousand.
The Tennessee State prison with its
convict labor was leased to the Tennessee
Coal and Iron company for six years at
SlO1 600 per annum.
A nine-year-old boy in New York
celebrated his Fourth by shooting . cat
with toy pistol. The cat was fatally
injured, and the lad jerked into the po-
lice court.
The sanitary police seized 5000 decay
ed cocoanuts in New York Wednesday
that were about to be used by Geo. Gar.
nier, wholesale confectioner in making
cake and candy.
The Philadelphia branch of the ma
tional league has been yociferously dis
cussing a proposition for teaching the
Irish language in the branches of the
league, and allowing S. month to pay
expenses.
Four hundred Italians, employed in an
oil factory at Marseilles, struck, and en-
deavored to wreck the factory. They
were dispersed by the police, who charg-
ed on them with drawn swords. 1t is
feared that there will be renewal Of
rioting.
The hot wave increases the death rate
in New York. July 4th the number Of
deaths was $50; on the 5th, l39; and up
to noon yesterday, 2O5. A large proper
ton of the victims are children under
five years, living in crowded tenement
districts.
Official State reports from nearly all
hThdl1StS COuulACb UAAAlOu1ASN Vss0S CAsV
wheat crop has been gathered. The
yield was not as large as was anticipated
at the beginning of the season, but in
point of quality the crop is above the
average, the berry being plump and
sound.
Michael Horrigan. one Of the star route
jurors, contemplates bringing suit for
$4,000 against the St. Louis Republican.
His ground for complaint against the
paper is that it charged him with being
a common drunkard and a disgrace to the
star route jury and the country.
George Wampel, barkeeper at Kan
sas City, while fooling with one of Char
lie Ford's pistols, shot and instantly
killed poor teamster named Webster
Charlie Ford will be remembered as one
of the men who killed Jesse James. He
left this revolver in a saloon, and the
barkeeper playfully pointed it at Web
ster.
The total number of deaths during last
week in New Orleans was III, of which
40 were among the floating population,(
in the hospitals, etc. Causes were small
pox, II; consumption, II; malarial
fevers, IL. Every precaution is being
taken to stamp out yellow fever, if it
should come but there seems to b,
much fear this season of cholera.
The executive committee of chairmen
of the committees on Mississippi river
improvements, which have been appoint
ed in various cities and towns of the val
ley, will meet at the Southern hotel, st.
Louis, July 18th. A meeting of the local
committee was held yesterday, at which
a programme for the conference and en-
tertainment was arranged.
The st. Louis house ofdelegates passed
an ordinance which was previously
adopted by the council, establishing high
license for dram shops in conformity
with the State law passed last winter. It
was expected that licenses for beer and
wine saloons would be made uniform |
with those for dram shops, but it was |
finally concluded to let them remain as |
heretofore, which is only about one
quarter as high as for dram shops.
BERTHE Morris, an Atlanta, Ga, miss of |
twelve years, was badly wounded in one
of her legs while working with sewing
machine, the driving rod-of wood
swapping in two and one piece penetrate
ing the feshy part of her leg below the
knee, tearing the flesh in terrible man.
ner. Some of the broken rod entered
the child's flesh. The machine stopped,
and to remove the wood the wheel of
the machine had to be turned by hand.
The turning of the wheel drew the wood
from the wound inch by inch.
The bequest of Henry seybert endow-
ing chair of moral and intellectual
philosophy in the University of Penn
sylvania, was accompanied with request
that the incumbent should, alone or in
with a commission appointed
by the university, investigate so-called
modern spiritualism. In pursuance Of
this request the trustees appointed the
following commission to act in conjunc-
ton with Prof. Provost Pepper, chair
man, and the Rev. w. G. Fullerton, Prof.
Leidy, Prof. Thompson and Prof. George
A. Koenig.
A Set Not to be Broken.
man in Taxaa WAS arrested for r1ln.