The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-04-12
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.

Cincinnati city returns a Demo-
cratic mayor and board of alder
men.
The charges against Gov. Murray
of Utah seem to be frivolous and
without foundation.
Forest fires in North Carolina
have destroyed an immense amount
of valuable property.
James Stephens is organizing a
new Irish party opposed to dyna-
miters and also to Parnell.
The Oxford Cambridge boat
race on Monday resulted in an
easy victory for Cambridge.
The Wyoming Stock Growers
convention held their 11th annual
meeting in Cheyenne on Monday.
Bailey McTaggart, London,
Ont, bank clerk. has levanted, a
defiulter to the amount of $50, 900.
The miners and laborers of Penn
sylvania are endeavoring to rid
their towns of the obnoxious Hun
garian.
Construction work has been re-
sumed on the ST. Paul & Northern
Pacific from Minneapolis to Sauk
Rapids.
Senator Blair's educational bill
passed the Senate on Monday, two
thirds of the Democratic Senators
voting for it.
Wisconsin is somewhat excited
in relation to the alleged discovery
Of diamond fields near Eagle, Wau-
kesha county.
Three boys who were driving
over a railroad track near Cincin-
natl on Saturday last were killed
by a locomotive.
Gall, prominent Sioux chief,
and Sitting Bull are at daggers
points. and an outbreak Of the
| factions is feared.
The vote on the restoration of
the tariff on wool, which came be-
fore the House on Monday resulted
in 126 nays, 119 ayes.
The province Of Nova Scotia is
making, through its Legislature, a
vigorous kick against the confedera-
/ ton of the Dominion.
Gen. Gordon's position in Khar-
toum is reported desperate, nothing
having been heard from him direct
| " for over two weeks.
John Jay Knox has resigned his
position as comptroller Of the cur
rancy to accept the presidency of a
New York banking house.
The Manitoba Electric Light
company is suing the city of Win
nipeg for s25O,OJO for breach Of the
contract for lighting the city.
1t is reported that there is an
aerarian rising in Sofa. Russia, and
many conflicts, in which several
gen d'armes were killed Or wounded.
The Standard Oil company is
putting up fine granite block on
Broadway, New York, nine stories
high, with four passenger elevators.
Samuel Wright, Of Fersusonville,
: Delaware county, n. Y, suicided
on the west-bounI train while
stopping at AIandan on Sunday
last.
Fifteen hundred acres OF land
have been taken in mining claims
in Hot Springs county, Mo. Every
/ BODY is wild over the discovery OF
gold.
The Cuban filibusters who left
Florida with U. S. revenue cutter
in pursuit have, it is reported, sue
caeded. i'll making a landing IN
Cuba.
An island 500 feet long and foul
feet above the summer level Of the
Hudson river was formed just be-
low Albany by the high water this
spring.
, On Sunday last the tug Peter
Smith exploded her boilers of
Vermillion, Ohio, killing three
men and badly injurlng three
others.
J. w. Thompson, telegraph
operator working in st. Paul, was
fined 800 in Lacrosse for voting
twice at the late election In the lat
ter city.
An old shaft of the Albright 4
; and Wilmington Coal Co. was
flooded on Saturday last while two
! hundred men were at work. They
, all escaped.
Col. Breckinridge. president o
the First National bank Of Sar
, Antonio, has closed the purchase 0
= 25,OOO,OOO acres of land In the state
of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
| The four alleged anarchists ar