The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-03-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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India.
The alleged murderers of tn
Crouch family are on trial a
Jackson, Mich.
Cooper & Co., of Eau Claire, Wis.
have failed. Liabilities, s8O.OO(
assests, $4,000.
The whisky bill was laid aside ir
the House on Saturday last by q
vote of 127 to lis.
Single tickets for the Patti concert
in San Francisco have been sold by
spectators for from $40 to $50.
The Western Kansas Stock Grow
ers Association, representing $8,.
100000, will meet in Dodge City,
Kan, April 2.
Another row in the Transvaal is
impending owing to the action OF
the Beers in encroaching upon the
native chiefs.
England and the European pow
ers have agreed upon concerted
action in dealing with anarchists
and dynamite fiends.
VIM. Henry Smith general agent
of the Associated Press has info rm-
ed the Senate committe that the
Associated Press is not a monop-
oily.
A snow slide carried away the
whole village of Woodstock, Colo,
on Tuesday. Seventeen people
were killed and five or six seriously
injured.
The Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton has had a hearing before the
Senate committee on woman
suffrage and before the house COM
mittee on judiciary.
The Senate committee on terri
tories has agreed to give the name
Of Lincoln to the new territory
which is proposed to be made out
If the Northern portion of Dakota.
Considerable loss of property and
interruption to Railroad travel IN
California has been caused by the
Use and overflow of the rivera in
the central and southern portion
Of the state.
The paymaster's safe of the Chi
,ago, Burlington and Quincy rail-
'oad in Chicago was robbed OF
;27 900 by a sneak thief while the
was at lunch. No clue
% the robber.
The house committee on appro-
oriations has given the Senate a
eft handler by tacking on an
which will preclude
he payment of the Senatorial
private Secretaries.
The Treasury department, in
Iiew of the prevalence of the foot
ind mouth disease in Great Brit
an is considering the propriety Of
prohibiting the importation of
cattle from that country.
The West Indian Colonies have
been informed by the British
Colonial Secretary that the govern
nent is not prepared to allow them
o enter into any reciprocal agree
nent with the United States.
On Tuesday the first fast mail
rain over the Burlington route ar
lived at Council Bluffs from Chi
,ago, making the run in Is hours,
IND bringing the Chicago mail IA
hours quicker than any previous
ime.
The Provincial building and the
of the acknowledgements
It Halifax have special guards and
he sentinels at the navy yard are
instructed to use extraordinary
'igilance owing to information re-
,eived of the movements of dyna-
niters.
The Lasker resolution of our
House of Representatives led to
stormy scene in the German
aeichstag on Friday last. Liberal
peakers expressed thanks to tho
American Congress for ther token
# sympathy, and conservative
members protested.
E. J. Edmunds. correspondent at
Y Washington of the New York Sun,
las been summoned before the
louse committee on postoffices and
,ost roads to explain how he Sc
ured certain information contained
n papers asked for from the post
naster-general before such papers
cached the house. He declines to
tate.
Nathan P. Pratt, formerly treas
lrer of the Reading, Mass, savings
,ank, convicted of embezzling funds
n 1879, was sentenced on Monday
O four years Imprisonment at hard
abor. Though nominally treasurer
lis son, Sidney Pratt, conducted
he business and disappeared when
he defalcation became known. Pratt
enior is 73 years of age and has al
eady been confined for five years.