Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-10-16

VOL. l3, NO. I9
p NEWS NOTES And COMMENTS.
Parnell denounces boycotting.
Servia Is enthusiastic for war. So is
Greece. 1.-sa ~
Miss Mary Anderson, the actress, has re-
turned from Europe.
Canon Farrar occasionally reels offs
sentence of 800 words.
Storekeepers who keep open on Sunday
are fined in Saltwater, MINI.
At Elkhart, Indiana, some one pried out
the corner stone of Zion church and stole
the coins it contained.
Captain Eastland, farmer near Living
stone, Alabama, mistook his wife for bur-
glar and shot her dead.
President Diaz has restored the Los
Cources mines to their American owners.
They are valued at 100000,
General L. M. Meilley, of Ohio, incurred
expenses of $4,000 while waiting in Wash
ington for Office, and then didn't get it.
Jumbo having departed this life, the Utica
Observer suggests that David Davis will
please step little east, so that the earth
won't tip over. e.
Senator Jones, of Nevada is in luck again,
as he has large interest in gold mines on
Douglas Island Alaska, which are yielding
him $25o,OOO year.
Belle Boyd, the confederate spy, has sued
the Chicago Tribune for $4,000 for publish
ing dispatch alleging that she jumped a
board bill in St. Louis. .
Mrs. Eva Watson, of Greensburg, Ind,
wants divorce from her husband because
he sealed her lips with court plaster in OF
der to stop her talking. -.'s.
Esteline Bell: "Under God the people
rule" is the proposed motto for the pro-
jected state of Dakota. They don't unless
they get out of the caucuses.
Thirty counties in Kansas have nOmi-
mated prohibition tickets, and it is expected
at least an equal number of prohibition
tickets will be chosen in additional coun-
ties.
There are not less than 5000 white opium
smokers in San Francisco. Many joints in
China Town having been closed, "opium
fends" get their own apparatus and "hit
the pipe" in their own rooms.
Mr.. Russell B. Harrison, who for some
years past has been the United States as
sayer at Helena, Mont, has resigned the
office, and is now directing the affairs of
that immense corporation the Montana cat
tie company.
G. D. Lester, a stock dealer, committed
suicide at Burlington Junction. He was
well known man and an old friend of
President Cleveland, having been deputy
sheriff of Erie county, n. Y, when Cleve-
land was sheriff. No cause is assigned for
the deed.
The retirement of Captain W. E. Kings
bury, Eleventh infantry, promotes First
Lieutenant John Whitney to captain, COM
pany B, which takes him from Fort Sully
to Fort Abraham Lincoln, and Lieutenant
William, 81. Wheeler to first lieutenant,
which takes him from Fort Buford to Fort
Sully, Dakota.
A Washington special of the 10th says:
General Toombs condition is worse today
than it has been during his illness. He has
lost now all memory of time, and has not
for several weeks been cognizant OF his
whereabouts His mind wanders continu-
ally to the stormy days of the war. He is
surrounded by his relatives and friends.
and death may come at any moment. 1t is
probable, however, that he will linger sew
eral days, but the end will surely come
soon. The physicians have given up all
hope, and are calmly waiting the end"
st. Paul Globe: A recent writer at
Washington says: "If we 90 to the Inte-
rior department., we will find M. Fl. Day and
Dan Maratta. They are there every day,
and are working the boom for Ziebach for
the governorship of Dakota. They will
win. Barney Caulfield is making good
run for the place, but Ziebach will get
there. About the only opposition to lie
bach grows out Of the fact that he has been
identified with the division interest. Ma
rata wants Slattery for postmaster at
Bismarck Col. Thompson is working
for his son, but it is believed Mayor Bragg
Is the coming postmaster"
A Paris dispatch says: At cabinet
council in Paris, a number of consular dis
patches were read, showing that the serious
war preparations Of Turkey have consider
ably cooled the order Of the war party in
Servia and Greece, and affairs in those