The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-03-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A $4,000 fire at Fergus Falls last
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week.
Lisbon, D. T. had $500 fire
on the Goth ult.
C. 8. Palmer of Yankton has been
appointed to the vacant Dakota
judgeship.
1t is expected that the Washing.
ton monument will be completed
next December.
The loss by the recent flood in
Southern California are estimated
at two million dollars.
The steamer "Sansalito," owned
by the North Pacific Coast railroad,
burned Monday. Loss $4,000.
The legislature of British Colum-
bia proposes a law limiting the
amount Of land which any one man
can hold to GAO acres.
Griswold, the discoverer of the
Lisbon, D. T., gold fields, is making
active preparations to develop the
mines in that section.
The total loss by fire at Char
lottetown, P. E. l., is 100000. The
postofhce, custom house and saw
ings bank were burned.
Lieut.. Colwell, who was with
Darlington, has been designated to
take part in the Greely relief expe-
dition, now being fitted out.
Richard George Radway, pro-
prietor of the alliterative patent
medicine, died in New York re-
Gently in his tifty-sixth year.
The Manitoba and Northern Pa
cific roads have been requested to
furnish transportation to British
territory next week for 1900 men.
The body of salmi Morse of Pas
sion Play notoriety, was found on
Friday the 22d ult., in the Hudson
river; suicide. He was So years OF
age.
The house committe on public
buildings has agreed to recommend
the erection OF a public building
at Port Townsend, Wash, to cost
$57 600.
Replies to a circular sent to the
leading Republicans of Maine show
that Blaine is the favorite tor Pres
ident and Robert T. Lincon for
Vice-President.
The earnings of the Northern
Pacific railroad from July l to Feb.
IA, show an increase Of &2,53S, 779
over the corresponding months of
the previous year.
A call has been issued for a Nat
ional Convention of Wool Growers
of the United States to meet in
Chicago on the fth Of May next
in the general interest of that in
dustry.
Through an explosioi'of firedamp
in a coal mine at West Leisenriag
near Uniontown, Pa, 19 miners lost
their lives. Most of them were
married men, and left a number OF
children,
The Minnesota deputy surveyor
of logs estimates the cut this year
at 26O,OOO,OOO feet. More logs have
been cut with smaller crews than
ever before, and the outlook Is gen
orally favorable.
The Minneapolis Tribune states
that the report of proposed Irish
American invasion of Manitoba was
started by a Fargo crank named
Mcclure and has not the slightest
foundation in fact.
James T. Harderode and Robert
Mcfarland were murdered neal
Humboldt, Kansas, on Monday by
Hugh Gulland, assisted by three
sons. The murder grew out of a
land contest. The murderers were
arrested.
The Fargo Republican announces
that DR.. J. B. Hall has retired and
is succeeded by A. C. Jordan, for
merly managing editor of the Min
neapolis Evening Journal, as man
aging editor, and Col. c. w. Plum
mer as associate editor.
At Morgantown N. c. on Feb. 21
Two revenue officers named Ray
and Anderson killed three men
named Hortod, Miller and Burt
ickson, and wounded another man
named Burtickson at work in a
mica mine in Mitchell county.
The House committee on public
lands has agreed to report in favor
of the absolute forfeiture of 100000
600 acres granted to the A, & p.
Railroad company, leaving 5,OOO,-
900 earned by laving track be-
tween Albuquerque and the Color,
ado river.
The Commissioner of the Gen.
eral Land Office recently cancelled
forty-six fraudulent land entries in
Colorado, forty-one in Dakota, seven
in New Mexico. two in Michigan
and one in Minnesota. Montana