Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-06-12


VOL. l3, NO 2.
NEWS NOTES IND COMMENTS.
The Cleveland and Pittsburgh iron strikes
are ended. .;S5 sE;.s5
Big Bear is leading Middleton a wild
n goose chase ls ss i$
a cremation society has been organized
y in Kansas City. N ss
FL Mahdi proclaims his intention to in
wade Egypt and Arabia
Huron democrats find the ragged edge of
suspense particularly painful.
J, Minister Phelps finds English taffy ex-
ceedingly sweet and palatable.
Philadelphia has 5000 liquor. saloons, or
one for every twenty-five voters.
What doth it profit democrat if he gain
the whole country, and lose the Offices.
Mr.. Warmers silver compromise does not
suit either side of the fiscal controversy.
Grants publishers have received orders
for over 100000 copies Of his Forthcoming
book. :5@
The Canadian Pacific has decided to take
4 second class passengers from the Manitoba
again.
There have been from 5000 to 5000 head
of cattle shipped into Stutsman county this
spring. Il +. a.. u 81 s
The Brooklyn bridgeis a profitable finan-
cial venture. In two yearsit has earned
$1,OOO.OOO. #s3 . @ s&
Dakota's Grand Army posts now number
eighty eight, with an aggregate member
ship Of 5000. 5
Reports from Virginia forecast great
falling off of the wheat crop as compared
with last year. ~
A Missouri postmaster who was short
$500 has blown out his brains, but that did
i not relieve his bondsmen.
The locusts have reached Washington,
and it has been remarked that no offensive
partisan garden patch is safe.
The Hot Springs settlement in the south
p1no o1>
dented immigration into that region.
The Woonsocket Times says that farmers
in that vicinity are cultivating corn, and re-
ports all crops in splendid condition.
Minister Phelps is warmly indorsed by
the London Times Twenty-four years ago
that paper warmly indorsed Jefferson Da-
Wis. ...- 6s- u sss~ ..
The Louisville Courier-J Journal says the
administration of justice in Kentucky is
divided between the circuit judges and the
mob.
Joaquin Miller say that Mrs. Crook, wife
of General Crook, is the handsomest wo-
man he ever saw, and wife OF. the brayest
man. '.F
The democrats are very uneasy over the
enthusiasm with, which General Logan's
victory has been received by the republi-
cans. E ~ 3a&-a{ls F.tEI@2sE it&5 :a
There was found among the rubbish of
an old cellar in st. Louis recently, a fine
and somewhat famous portrait in oil of
General Lee. S5. A., es5- y..,.s-. ..syas . 1 -
The New York grand jury found two
more indictments against Ferdinand Ward
and James D. Fisk for larceny in the first
degree yesterday: RI III NY /
The Dunseith Times relates that man
who set fish traps in Willow river in that
section took out 800 pounds of suckers and
pickerel at one time. @AEf&
The New York mugWumps are spotting
offensive partisan" postmasters for Cleve-
land. The mugwump is now nothing more
than spOtter and infOrmer. Sfl
Miss Cleveland's reply to DIR. Crosby on
temperance was not a sudden inspiration.
She wrote it in 1881 as a temperance tract.
and served it on Crosby cold. Il;
Forest fires have been raging in the Tur--
tie mountain region, destroying thousands
of dollars worth of timber. They are sup
posed to have been started by Indians.
The opinion of Attorney General Garland
that Indians can not legally perform post
masters duties, has called out an opposi-
b ton that leads the postotfice department to
take up the matter for investigation,
Miss Lulu Eustis and Miss Nellie Thorn,
chaperoned by Miss Eustis, will pass the
summer at Manehester-by y-the- Sea: The
party are now in New York for brief yis-
it, and thence will go direct to Manchester.
John L. Sullivan says that he had no oh,
lection to supporting two or three Of his
wife's relations, but he did not care to sup
port the whole of Rhode Island. He
ought not to make fuss about such lit