The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-04-23
BRIEFS.

ton has paid $4,000 for a lot and will
build club house.
The Haytian government has put intt
circulation the dreaded additional 81 600,
600 Of paper money.
The Annapolis naval academy has be-
gun its annual practical exercises in gun
merry and torpedo practice.
A woman Of seventy-seven in Belfast
Me-, is suing man of seventy-nine fol
breach OF promise.
Charles Cobb, Of Wrentham, Mass, is
suing for divorce. His wife went of
with Mormon. Cobb tried to take two
wives.
Pipe line statements for March were
given the oil trade Friday. They show
that during March the net stock of oil
increased 154, ,SS2 barrels.
The old Elisha Graves house at North
'aii,sosi, lass, vas burned Friday, caus-
ing loss of $500. 1t was probably the
oldest house in Northampton.
A fancy bloodhound attacked Mrs.
Eckert at Rockaway Beach, tore off one
of her ears and stripped off the flesh
from her shoulder to her wrist.
Men are digging graves rapidly at
Lynchburg, Va, for the victims of the
Pocahontas mine disaster. Unidentified
bodies will be put in one long trench.
A Baton Rouge special says the river
is steadily declining. Planters hope to
save the greater portion Of their seed
cane, and are using drainage machines.
George Butterworth, ex-chief of police
and councilman, as well as a prominent
citizen, of Dayton, Ohio, dropped dead
Friday, aged fifty-seven years.
Charley Wright, the negro boy in New
York. who saved several lives at the
World fire in 1882, saved the like of John
Payne, whose clothes caught fire from a
lamp.
Jean B. Patron, wealthy and highly
respected ex-speaker Of the territorial
legislature, was assassinated at Las Vegas,
N. NJ, by Mitch Nancy, a cowboy, who
will probably be lynched.
The ship Mercury, from Port Town
send, reports she passed Pitcairn island
January IL. The inhabitants came
aboard and reported los persons on the
island, 50 males and SO females
James Kelly, better known as Austria
lian Kelly" the pugilist, was assaulted
by two men in New York, one of whom
struck him powerful blow, while the
other robbed him of $40.
The trial of Thomas Simon for the
murder Of Mrs. Ford, James Ruddy and
Ruddy's tourteen-months'-old son last
fall, has ended at Tacoma, n. H., and
Simon was sentenced to be hanged April
IA, 1886.
Willie, six-ycar- son of Policeman
Black, died from injuries received by
being kicked by Dominic Brett. The
boy was playing, and accidentally ran
against Brett, who kicked him in the
back. Brett was arrested.
The body of Mrs. Cecilia BusL, an aged
woman. was found in the thicket near
her residence at fredericksburg, Md,
Thursday. Her skull was horribly
crushed and her throat cut from ear to
ear. Nm clue to the murderers
The general store of hammers, Ure &
Co., at Heron Lake was burglarized
Thursday night. A lot of valuable jew
elry, gold watch and other things were
taken. Entrance was made by breaking
open the back door with an ak. No clue
to the burglars.
The Niagara Oil company has struck at
the Rush well, near Middletown, the
largest flow of gas iE the world, beating
that of the McGucan well, in the same
vincinity. The tools were sent from the
bottom of the well, 1,100 feet deep, high
into the air with such force as to break
the derrick all to pieces.
The postmaster at Forreston. a small
town in Clarendon comfy, South Caroli-
M, has been removed and a colored man
appointed in his place. The white peo-
pie of the town are indignant, and will
not mail letters in the Office, but post
them Oh the train, causing the obnoxious
officer to lose his pay.
One man who broke into Pickering Is
hardware store during the Cincinnati
riot, was indicted by the grand jury yes
terday, but not for riot. The charge was
burglary. Judge Matthews directed the
grand jury TIC withhold indictments for
murder in the first degree until the pend
ing legislation affecting capital cases is
disposed Of
A fight occurred between a gang OF
sixty Italians and equal numbers of Irisl,
laborers on the Canada 4 Southern rail.
way at St. Thomas, Ontario, Yesterday
caused by the Irish objecting to the Ital.
ians. The police, with the assistance Of
citizens. succeeded in stopping the figh!
after several on both sides had been
severely wounded.
Mrs. Margaret Stenssy, Of Monroe, Wis
consin, passed through GAINESVILLE, Wis
consin, yesterday on her way to Wanpun
She was sentenced for life for being ac
cessory to the murder of her husband on
November 5th, 1882 Barchard Bran
her paramour. who was sentenced fol
life last March, accompanied her, also hel
brother, who goes for one year
A six days go-as-you-plsase race is ar
ranged for at Madison Square garden, tt
begin the 2sth inst. Thirteen men have
entered. The first man gets 20, the Sc
cond 20, and the third 10 per cent of the
gate money. Those entered are Row
ell, Fitzgerald. Vint, Noremac, Herty
Hart, Campana. Ellison, Dry, Elbow, Har
ris, Lownsbury, and Thompson.
The petition prepared for circulation
| among workingmen, advocating twenty
per cent. reduction in the tariff, is no
regarded favorably by prominent iabo