Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-12-05
NEWS OF II Y

Sonsul siler reports from Cape
Colony that the ostrich feather bust
ness has been overdone, and that
feathers which, a.short time ago, solo
at $3.50 a pound will barely bring s5C
now.
Mrs. Hulberstadt Of Cincinnati is
suing John Robinson for $4,000
damages from being run over by q
horse IN Robinson's circus, which
ezcaped from the ring and ran over
her.
The Brooklyn Eagle shows tia!
baby merchants ply their trade regu-
larly in New York and Brooklyn.
selling babies for adoption. at from
$50 to $3.50 esch. The profits are
large.
At the investigation into the man
agement OF the Illinois state insane
asylum in Chicago, several witnesses
swore that they had frequently seen
nearly all Of the charity commissions
ers drunk.
As George Robert of Plainfeld.
n. J., was getting off the cars with
his bride, just after the wedding, his
father had him arrested for stealing
$500 from him, and George was put
in jail.
Friends Of Senator Logan and Mr..
Morrison say that the terrible po1iti-
cal struggle Of last winter in Illinois
has not cooled tho warm friendship of
the the two men. They are strong
personal friends.
Mrs. Reilchilin. a widow Of Stock
ton, Cal, hearing that some one was
going to sue her for breach of prom
Use, drew her cash $3.50 out of the
bank and gave it to n Klober to
keep for her. Klober ran off with it.
DR., J. B. CASTOR of Atlanta, who is
in correspondence with DR.. Frere,
who is so successfully with yellow fever
NEGOTIATIONS in Brazil, urges that orr
government enter upon experiments
on the plan used by DR.. Frerer.
A dispatch from Tonquin says: A
military force escorts the Franco
Chinese commission to delimit the
Tonquin frontier in the direction of
Langson. News Of the progress Of
the commission in the Black Flag
country is awaited with uneasiness.
Rev. Dr.. Hawthorne, Baptist
preacher Of Atlanta and prohibition
champion, and Julius Brown, a mem
Der Of his church, are Safeguarding
each other fercely in the Atlanta
papers on account Of their differences
on the liquor question. It is though,
a duel may result.
The local executive committee in
Chicago Oh the reception Of Parnell
has appointed a committee Of twenty
five to make preparation for the de-
monstration to be held at Central
Music hall, and another committee of
200 representative citizens was chosen
to charter g special train and meet
Parnell and receive him in a BETTING
manner.
At the farm Of the late Bryan Hurst,
near Lexington, Ky, died the trotting
mare Belle Patchen (2:3O4), by
Mambrino Patchen. dam Sallie Char
v%ester, dam of Protine (2:1S), Belle
Brasfeld e: 20). The was dam of
Baron Wilkes, record 1851, at two
years, and Of P~actolus. his brother,
for which colt $4,000 was refused as a
yearling.
professor" Soleder, the reformed
cannibal. arrested in Alexandria, Va,
last week for being drunk on the
streets, and who was put in the chain
gang in default of a fine Of SIS, has
been released. His church friends
who found him a great card at lectures,
wherein he described how roast
missionary tasted, have determined
to give him another trial.
It is said that trouble is brewing
between Shoemaker, of the Indianapo-
lis Sentinel, and the Democratic state
committee over the old Blaine libel
suit, and that when Blaine brought
his suit Shoemaker wanted to publish
a r%etraction, and that he had it all
written, but the state committee pre-
vailed upon him not to do SO, agree
it is said, to bear all the costs.
The bills have not been. paid, and
Shoemaker is not in the best of humor
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