The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-02-09

el Printers on the Evening Wiscor
e sin Of Milwaukee struck last Satul
: day because proprietors would nc
: pay female compositors the sam
rate per thousand ems as was pai
other employees.
) Pittsburgh and Allegheny ar
excited over the almost unpreced
ented rise Of the Allegheny ane
Monongahela rivers which threatel
he lower portions of those citiel
with complete inundation.
Morrison has, this week, present.
ed his tariff reduction bill for the
consideration Of Congress. It leave,
several of tho articles now included
in the tariff untouched and con.
templates an average reduction OF
20 pc: cent.
Consul General Denny was per-
emptorily ordered to occupy a GER
ain building in Shanghai which
it transpires was owned by George
/. Seward. This order results in
scandal "f which Seward il the
central figure.
1t is now reported that Mai.
Wasson, who is at present serving
a term in the penitentiary on q
court martial sentence will be re.
i ased and restored to rank and
luty on account of some Irregular
ity in his trial.
The jury in the case of Maj. Ed.
wards of the Fargo Argus against
the Republican for libel awarded
the plaintiff one cent damages.
The defendants costs are said to
exceed $4,000, while those of the
plaintiff do not exceed $50.
Deon Cronson, who embeszled
$4,000 worth of diamonds from
Goldsmith & Kahn in New York,
has been captured in Chicago.
Property valued at $1,000 has
been recovered and the detectives
nave hopes of securing the re-.
mainder.
Secretary Folger has referred the
application of Mrs. Mary Mills for
a license as master of a steamboat
to the local inspector of the New
Orleans district, with instructions
to inquire concerning her qualifca-
tions for the position, and if found
competent, to issue her a license.
Wen lell Phillips breathed hi. last
at 6 p. m. on Saturday. He had
been i'll only one week and it was
not until Thursday that his con-
dition was deemed at all dangeous.
The deceased orator was in his 73rd
year, having first seen the light at
Boston on the 29th November 1911,
The bill presented by Represen.
tative Hatch for the extirpation of
pleuro-pneumonia in cattle seems
likely to become a law at the pres
ent session of Congress. The pass
ing of this bill will be a boon to
the stock interests of the country
at large, and Montana and Wyoming
in particular.
The firm of Fowler Bros. have be-
gun suit against Peter McGeoch,
Daniel Wells, Jr., and other men,
bers of the firm of McGeoch, Ever
ngham & Co., to recover $500, 600
iamages for assertions made by
the latter firm against the purity Of
certain lard that plaintiffs were put.
ing upon the market.
A petition signed by 1000 citizens
# the District Of Columbia pray
ug for the pa sage of a bill to pre-
vent the manufacture and sale of
alcoholic liquors within the District
,f Columbia and the territories was
presented to the Senate last week by
ar. Blair. The petition was re-
erred to the committee on the Dis
srict of Columbia where it will
slumbef with its predecessors. Let
It rest.
A suit was begun on Saturday at
Neb., in the name of the
United States to vest title in the
of 50, 900 acres in Custer
county Neb., known as the Brighton
'anch, which has been fenced in by
he brighton Cattle company. The
dill asserts that the company has
10 title to the land and that it be-
ongs to the public domain. The
question is one OF great interest to
J, ttlers.
Alexander Trimble, a Texan. ar
ested by the State Rangers on the
'harge of being one of the Mexican
National tram robbers, has been
eleased by order of Secretary FIRE.
lnghuysen, Notwithstanding that
J precedent, established in 1877 by
he Mexican authorities surrender
ng the leaders Of = party OF Mex
caais VINO raided the the Jail IN
tlo Grande City, woulA seem to
Justify the surrend OF Trimble.