Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-09-05
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
The Wabash strike still hangs fl

best of friends.
Northern Minnesota was visited BY
killing frost last week.
Chas. A. Gambrell, a wealthy Bal
timore merchant committed suicide.
John Mccullough, the great actor,
cannot live more than few months.
The Grant monument fund in New
York last week amounted to Sc, ,932.
The National Swine Breeders asso-
ciation will meet at Chicago, Nov. IL
Recent tests at Newport show that
the Howell torpedo is a perfect failure.
Rev. Robert West, editor Of the
Chicago Advance, is very i'll in Sara
toga.
The Southern Utes in New Mexico
are reported to be in a starving con
dition.
The national Prohibitionists are
holding camp meeting at Ottawa,
Kansas.
Senator Eyarts will deliver at least
one speech in Ohio after the LIST Of
October.
The rice cropin Southern Louisiana
was seriously damaged by the storm
last week.
A shot tower will be erected by Du-
buque and Kansas City parties in
Kansas City.
The easteln states have recently
been visited by numerous destructive
wind storms.
Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia have
collected about $4,000 for the Grant
memorial fund
Influential citizens Of Los Angeles,
Cal, are about to organize a crema-
ton association.
Francis J. Colman, son Of Commits
sioner of Agriculture Colman, is dy-
ing at Washington.
The California watermelon crop this
year yields melons weighing from $50
to $50 pounds each.
Jack Chinn, the Kentucky horse
man, has sold Ben Fox for $4,000 to
Mr.. Hagen of California
Brooks, alias Maxwell, has been
reading David Copperfeld'' since his
incarceration in St. Louis.
Two divorce decisions We're render
ed at Chicago within thirty minutes
each of the filing of the papers.
A destructive hail storm passed
through Clinton county, Penn, last
week, destroying the tobacco crop.
The Baltimore & Ohio telegraph
system will be extended to Little Rock
and Hot Springs, Arkansas, within
month.
All the life saving stations on the
Atlantic and gulf coasts were opened
September l and Will remain open un-
til May l.
The Venezuelan government is
building q breakwater at Lagnayra,
near Caracas, which Will cost ten mill
ion dollars
There is much whisky in Calgary,
in spite Of the laws. It is said that it
is smuggled in from Montana by way
of Macleod.
The silence Of Gen. de Courcy, the
French commander in AMMAN, is sup
posed to be due to his visiting towns
in Tonquin.
Since the beginning of the cholera
epidemic in Spain there has been
156,077 cases Of which 61,521 have
proved fatal
Field, the new government superin-
tendent Of the Hot Springs reserva-
tion, has thrown open the waters for
free bathing.
The recent Delaware river cyclone
has led to the organization Of storm
insurance company in Chester county,
Pennsylvania.
Ex-Goy. Cornell of New York says
S5,000,000 can be raised for the Grant
monument fund in that city, with
proper effort
The o. S. Treasurer has made a
ruling which will seriously embar-
rass the court commissioners in the
Alabama claims
The demand for cotton ties from
the South is unprecedented. Two
mills in Pittsburg are running on or
ders Of 14,OOO tons.
Prominent Maryland Democrats
say that Senator German will be re-
elected United States senator by near
Iy unanimous vote.
The last Office which the quidnuncs
have provided for Anthony NJ. Kelly
is that of United States district at
torney at Richmond, Va
Gov. Knott of Kentucky has patch