The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-01-30

near Baltimore. and identified as the
person who bea; Joseph Rynar to death
with billiard cue in New York saloon.
The man who has successfully worked
the bogus check dodge in various Iowa
cities, purchasing coffins for deceased
children, has been arrested at Sioux
City.
Joseph McCready, aged eighteen, form
erly page in the house of representa-
tives at Washington, but latterly copy
list in the pension Office, was arrested in
Boston, charged with raising check
from s. to 500, and with attempting to
pass it.
At Yanktn James johnson, who stole
horse, was given year and four
months joseph Sues, convicted of rape,
was sentenced twenty-five years and four
months As he is already about forty
five wears old, this is equivalent to a life
sentence.
Edmund Tappan, charged with the
murder of the Maybee woman, at jana
ica, L. l., made supplementary confes-
sion, in which, it is said he acknowledged
that he. and not his brother John, COM
mitted the crime, and he indicated where
the property stolen from the Maybee was
hidden
In fight last night at 35th Crosby
street, New York, among Il party COM
posed of drunken Italians, knives and
pistols were freely used Joseph Ricco
received five stab wounds, Antonio Ferro
was shot in the abdomen and Giovanni
Fillipo in the side and thigh. Several
arrests.
The members Of the special commits
sion appointed by the president to in
spect the Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany's extensions have arrived in st
Paul. The commission consists of Gen
A. Anderson, John C. Wyman, Hezekiah
Watkins, J. n. Knapp, T. II. Trusdall ard
VIM. Bradford.
An army chaplain is accused of dnpli-
eating his pay account. Good gracious,
the chaplains do not play poker, do they?
The people are inclined to laugh when
an army officer duplicates his pay account
owing to losses at gambling, bat when
the army preacher does it, the thing has
a serious aspect. But I'VE are all poor
creatures
A Bozeman man, in Il sleeping car on
an Eastern railroad, recently went
through terrible accident in which the
sleeping car rolled down an embank-
ment. The man was not Thoroughly
awakened by the jar. bnt it was noticed,
however. that as the car struck the bot
tom he murmured: Don't Jane. don't !;
I'll get up and start the fire. Butte
Miner.
\ West Side man thinks his boar ling
house keeper is trying to even up the
pork market, and make up for the loss OF
trade by the action of the French and
German governments, as they have pork
three times day. The probability is
that the fact that pork can be bought for
seven cents pound, while beef is firm
at twenty cents, has something to do
with it.
While the railroad managers are at
tempting to convince the wheat growers
of north Dakota that they should be
serenely happy and imagine that the
goose hangs high, the farmers obstiiately
insist that they won't be placated by
| honled words as long as 1t costs about as
much to ship their wheat to Minneapolis
as the charge is to New York Or Europe
They know that freight tariffs should be
but little higher west Of St. Paul than
they are east of there. They mean to
keep discruntled and peeging away till
secure competion and living rates.
A late dispatch from Bloomington. ILL.,.
saws: The Acknowledgement OF the
United States recently decided that post
masters are not entitled to fees from
money orders in postofiice in which
the money order business is done by
| clerk instead Of the postmaster I'D per
son, and that such fees taken by th'
postmaster must be returned. Tn,
amount of money already taken by post
masters in this way is estimated at from
quarter to a half million of dollars. Th'
order to get a definite ruling in this mat
ter in the case Of Ge.,. Dicks, po3tmaste
at Bloomington. mas been inatl, !, tes
case, and will be decided b. Judge Drum
| mond, of the Federal court at Chicago
\ number of postmasters similarly stu
ated have been appealed to and are re
al to defend the suit. 1t is runlored tina
the clerk who actually did the none.
order work at the Bloomington postotic
has decided to bring suit ageinst Post
master Dicks for fees collected ami re
tanned by the latter
A dispatch this morning SAYS that tn
Holman resolution in relation to the tol
feiture Of unearned land grants ami de
claring the policy of this congress touch
ing abuses Of the prc-emption law, was
surprise TO the public land cuulmitte'
which has been tryingto get lis forieitur
bills before the House for action as 500
as practicable, but that committee mad
no objection beyond little grOwln
from Chairman Cobb. and the only ser
Gus opposition came fio,u Horr, of Micl
igan. and Reed, nf Maine, who seem
fear that some railroad company woul
be unjustiy deprived OF its gratnitous ci
dowment in land. Mr. Reed, rs cilai
man Of the Judiciary comnittee Of ii
last congress. was chiefly responsible Il
the defeat ii, that time of the general II
sire on the part Of the democrats an
some republicans to declare forfeitures
unearned grants. The vote was rccorde
so that members are fully committed {
the questions raised by Holman's resol
ton, and the public lands committee h;
the satisfaction Of knowing that the lir
of its work touching land grants is a
proved by an overwhelming malorit
Mr.. Holman says he had no intention