Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1884-05-16

FOREIGN land holders own in America, tracts
of land aggregating an area about the size Of
Indiana .s'
IT is olaimed that the first newspaper pub
lished west of Cincinnati was the Sun of Vim
cennes, Ind. It's first issue was in 1906.
BEFORE Vanderbilt left for Europe he loft .
special deposit of $4,000, 900 worth of govern
ment bonds to protect any raid that might be
made on bis stocks. T@'s: -.
CHAIRMAN JorEs, of the New York State
Greenback party, has written to General
Butler, asking if he will accept nomination
for the presidency. u
THE most gossipy newspaper in Michigan IL
said to be the Mendon Globe, which is edited by
. woman, not man being employed about the
establishment in any capacity.
THE failures recited in the dispatches are
CHIEFLY speculative firms and banks who dealt
with them. There is no cause for general alarm
as q general panic is not possible at present.
ANNA E. HAYES, who is on trial in New York
for bigamy, in marrying one N. L. Halves of the
American Bank Note company, turns out TO
have seven husbands and for each she wears q
ring. -
ENrERPR1s1Na Chicagoians now diecu. g the
feasibility of building an island one mile out in
Lake Michigan for a summer resort. 1t is said
it can be done for 81, ,0O0.0 0.0O0-an island of four
acres area.
The New York common coun,il has adopted
an ordinance limiting the height of dwellings on
streets GO feet wide to 60 feet. On streets ex.
ceedine 60 feet in width the structures may be
built 70 feet high.
REV. GEO. B. STEVENS, of Watertown, N. Y,
once Presbyterian minister at Bismarck, and the
son of the late Rev. Stevens, at Fargo, has been
called to be president of the Presbyterian uni
versity of north Dakota.
EVERY spring Tongue river overhows its banks
and makes it uncomfortable for Miles City.
Now a petition is being circulated asking
congress to appropriate $4,000 towards build
3 levee to protect the town. =.
AVERmoNT jury bad to be provided with
dozen copies of "Da-id Copperfeld" recently,
in order to estimate in libel suit the amount
of damages the plaintiff had sustained in being
compared to "Uriah Heep."
WM. F. G1aa1N. "Kerry Eagle," on trial at
Miles City for the murder of Dan MCCARTHY, has
been acquitted. On bearing the verdict he
crossed his breast and cried, 'Thank Almighty
Godv' he forgot the jury.
The N P. Ains~orth bridge, spanning Snake
river, stands next in magnitude to the great
structure and cost large sum of n.oney. The
bridge has been in use since the 23d ult.
JOHN w. POWER, brother of Tom. Power, we'll
known all over the northwest and especially
married at St Louis last week to Mics Nellie
Kelly handsome lady and society belle.
The Yellowstone Journal leans that Forts
Custer Maginnis and Ellis are to be abandoned,
and their garrisons concentrated at Keogh. The
Livingston Enterprise says: This may be true
of Custer and MaRinnis, but not a. to Ellis.
PEMBROKE, q new town in Potter county, con-
sisting of two blacksmith shops and ne1s-
paper, is represented by the latter as booming
beyond description. It says that other towns
in the locality look upon PembRoke's two
blacksmith shops with envy.
DURING the last ten days it is claimed that
over thirty women have graduated as doctors
from Chicago and Baltimore alone. If this
thing goes on there will soon be 10 much sick
ness among the male population that the bust
ness of the country will suffer.
TIE pedestrians who participated in the late
Madison Square garden walking match have
received their winnings. Tho money WAS
divided a. follows: Fitzgerald, %. .46a16; Rowell
43676.27; Panohot, e2007.s9; Noremao, $l.-
1885; Herty, $848.8l; Vint, e679.06; Elson,
S509.28.
JIM KEENE cleared up couple of millions in
California and then went to New York to knock
Jay Gould out of time. With what effect tho
public il aware. Jay Gould said in 1876, when
it was given out that jim Keene had started
from San Francisco in palace COR with bis
money to clean out Wall street, well send him
back in . freight car"
SPEAKING of Gen. Grants failure tho New
York Morning Journal remarlu: The legal
paper which General Grant deposited in tho
County Clerks Office WILL it is very probable,
become one of the great historic relics of tho
present day. It was the first surrender in his
life. -Four years Of splendid service in tho
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