The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-03-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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dad last.
The "plumed knight" expects te
to net quarter of a million from
his political history.
The Maryland Legislature refused
to prohibit Western dressed bee
in Baltimore markets.
A charivari party at East Sagi
nav, Mich, ended in the death o.
a young man named Cleve.
Leading New York printers have
formed a society to improve the
methods of the art preservative.
Gen. Grant is in Washington re.
ceiving treatment for rheumatism
with which he has been afflicted
for some time.
The House of Representatives re,
jected the resolution appropriating
s50O,OOO to prevent the inu ndation
of New Orleans.
The National Inventors Conven-
ton assembled at Cincinnati on
Tuesday and are still in session
1000 delegates are present,
| The cyclone season APPEARS to
have set in, several villages in
Ken1ucky have been devastated,
but no lives are reported lost.
VIM. Riley, the sixteen-year-old
boy convicted of killing his father
with shot gun at Adrian, Mimi,
has been sentenced to Imprisonment
for life.
The steamer Thetis, purchased at
Dundee, Scotland, by the U. S. gov
ernment for the Greeley relief ex-
pedition, arrived in New York on
Sunday.
1t is now reported that the fun
eral of defaulting State Treasurer
Polk of Tennessee was a frst-class
fraud, and that Polk is alive in
Mexico.
Cheyenne. Wyo., had a s15O,OOO
fire on Thursday the mercantile
establishment of F. G.. Warren &
Co., being destroyed. The loss is
covered by $4,000 insurance.
Sam Frayee was taken from the
Jail at Marysville, Kan, on Satur-
day last by an armed mob and
hanged. Frayee had been convict
ed of the murder of John Peming-
ton and wife.
On Saturday last the North
bound passenger train on the Mil
waukee road ran into an cmigrant
train, wrecking two coaches and the
engine; Is passengers were injured
but none fatally.
The House committee on naval
affairs regard DR.. Collins as mono
maniac on the subject of the report
ed trouble between his late brother
and the other officers of the
Jeanette expedition.
Kit Joy the last Of the Deming
train robbers who broke jail at
Silver City, New Mexico was capt
ured by the sheriff after a hard
fight. He is badly wounded and
lies at the point of death.
Deputy U. S. Surveyor Geo. w.
Fairchild Of Nebraska, in a report
to the commissioner of the general
land office, states that all the agri-
iultural land in that section has
been fenced in by cattle men.
The physicians who have been
investigating the Kansas cattle dis
ease report, after a thorough exam
ination, that the disease is not the
foot and mouth disease, butts caused
by an excess ergot in the food eaten
by the cattle.
A call for the formation of an
Independent Republican Associa-
tion has been issued in Chicago,
endorsed by so leading citizens
comprising some of the most prom
inent business and professional
men Of Chicago.
The Marquis of Lorne is deliver
ing lectures in England on emigra-
ton and pointing out the advant-
ages which Canada possesses. Can
ada will doubtless reap some bene-
fit from the emigration which the
speeches of the Marquis will induce.
The bill introduced in the Senate
for the admission of the state of
Tacoma provides for the erection Of
the present territory of Washington
and part of Idaho into state and
it's admission into the union at
some time subsequent to March 4,
1885.
The subcommittee of the Nat
ional Republican committee met in
Chicago on Saturday last to decide
in what building the convention
should be held. The local COM
mittee on arrangements is said to
be composed of II Logan men and
three for other candidates.
The latest Egyptian advices indi-
cate that the whole country south
of Berber is in revolt. Rebels have
surrounded KhartOum and cut off