Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-07-24

PRICE FIVE CENTS.
NEWS NOTES Ind COMMENTS.
The mayor of Helena, Mont, is barber
named Sullivan.
Cholera hasnever entered copper mine
or attacked copper miner.
The baby blanket of Samuel Adams is on
exhibition in Boston store window.
General Grants article on "Vicksburg"
is to appear in the September Century.
Unless there is rain forthwith throughout
Russia, the crops will be a complete
failure. -
New Orleans, the Picayune observes, is
still too proud to use in making change coins
Of less value than half dime. Z
Dakota has an Indian population of 3D..
600, and these have lands amounting to A.
941 square miles-above 800 acres apiece.
1t is stated that John L. Sullivan has
agreed to meet Paddy Ryan in Cincinnati,
August 18th, the contest to be with soft
gloves. '.f.,<
Miss Cleveland's book is having an ex-
traordinary sale, and her publishers are
unable to get enough on hand to send out
press copies. -
the last twenty years in the second audi
tors office, was stricken with paralysis and
died at his desk this afternoon.
Chicago now has regular establishment
where ladies can speculate in grain. The
establishment Is on La Sale street, and Is
called the Ladies' Grain parlors.
It was just nine months Wednesday that
General Grant walked into DR.. Douglass
Office to seek his professional aid for the.
cancer that has done what foes and war
could not .
Judge Lambert Tree, Of this city, has in
his possession the original draft of the
challenge sent by Abraham Lincoln to,
Stephen A. Douglas to engage in that IA
nous debate.
A dispatch received in London states that
the king of Dahomey, with a large army
has massacred the French IN the protected
villages. The king has also captured 1000
French prisoners, and he and his followers
propose to eat them. ...: :... III ,i% Il
Professor Dodge, of the Washington
agricultural bureau, says that while the
| worlds wheat crop for 1886 is below the
average, the amount of old wheat on hand
is, nevertheless, so large that it will be
number Of months before the shortage will
be felt. IT,. as.5
Bridgewater Oakota) Journal: A baby
was born last week in McCook county
which only weighed two pounds. A quar-
ter of dollar will completely cover the
palm of its hands, and finger ring makes
nice bracelet for it. Both mother and
child are doing well.
Minneapolis Tribune When one reads
the reports of the sale of white babies to
the Chinese, it is with loathing and dis
gust, and it is hard to realize that such un-
natural mothers exist. It shows state of
degradation certainly lower than that the
Pail Mali Gazette has exposed in London. =
The Northwestern Miller thinks that
Minneapolis will soon lead all other cities
in the amount of capital invested in grain
QIaxyofOrc Thie roforc po on &<,
houses and capacity as to the lines of ele-
vators built and building through Mime
sofa and Dakota, and controlled in Mime
apolis. r
Mr.. J. H. Lichtiter, of the Office of the
commissioner Of internal reqenue, went to
Philadelphia last night to superintend the
counting and packing of 100000 pounds Of
indestructiye paper, to be manufactured
there for internal revenue stamps. Thirty
counters will be sent on tonight and to-
morrow to assist him. =.
. 1t is said that the most valuable train
load Of freight ever shipped over the North
ern Pacific passed through Bismarck early
last week. 1t consisted of four carloads Of
untanned sealskins from Tacoma, Wash
ington territory; eight carloads of wool,
ten cars Of ore and five Of salmon, all Of
which were consigned to eastern parties.
A man named Westcott has been arrested
at Brainerd, under the name of West, for
bigamy. 1t seems he has wife and family
near Milbank, Dakota, but becoming infat-
uated with a Miss Jessie Mann, of the same
place, eloped with her. This was last fall.
Nothing more was heard of the couple until
last week, when Westcott was found at
Brainerd, Minn.
Pierre journal: The Raymond men
builded better than they knew last fall. At
the territorial convention in Pierre, Ray
mond promised transfer Of the land of
fee from Deadwood to Rapid City, in con-
sideration of the four votes from Custer
county to himself. The votes were forth
coming Raymond kept his promise, and
an executive order shortly afterward issued