Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-09-19
NEWS POINTERS.

NEWS POINTERS.
Martin Ewing, colored, of Dalton,
Ga, is 100 years old.
Oil has been struck at Zaliski, Ohio,
at a depth of 2,113 feet from the sur
face, boring through a cave 200 feet
deep.
Even the statue of William Cullen
Bryant is needing,money badly. Tie
New York committee I begging for
subscriptions Of $3.50 each.
No horse or carriage is maintained
at the governments expense by any
interior department official, except
the commissioner OF pensions.
A French syndicate are opening up
rich copper and silver mining proper
ty, purchased for 100000 a few
months ago in Lower California.
Joseph German has been arrested
in Montreal for running a crooked
whisky mill and telling farmers how
to make SS4.6O whisky for so cents.
Lieut.. Wissman, the German ex-
plorer, has found a region on the up
per Congo fertile and healthy, and
with a climate like that of Alabama.
The drilling on the great gas well
at Mayville, N. Y, was completed at g
depth Of 1889 feet. The wells pres
sure was found to gauge 800 barrels
Charles Emory Smith, editor Of the
Philadelphia Press, is anxious to &C
to congress and the political mana
gers are going to let him try his hand
Adyices received from the sugar
producing parishes of Louisiana are
to the effect that the cane crop prom
Uses a larger yield than that of 1884
A Pittsburg dispatch says that ex
cept in eight pits, the strike of miners
is general in the first three pools. The
men in the fourth pool are still a
work.
A toadstool f%fty-fve inches in cir
conference and weighing seventeen
pounds was found recently in Rut
land, Vt. It will nearly fill a bushe
basket.
Mrs. Nathaniel S. Northrup, an es
Unable lady, forty-six years of age
whose husband is division master O
the Pawtuxet Valley branch of til,
New York, Providence & Boston rail
road, was frightened to death in Nat
ick by a party of boys.
Capt. Hall, of the United State
secret service, says that the story O
the discovery at a point on the Hi
nois shore, opposite GAINESVILLE, Mo.
of S10O, 900 in SIS, $40 and $50 coun
terfeit bills, on the Traders Nationa
Bank, Chicago, is untrue.
The New York Commercial Bulle
tin estimates the fire losses in th
United States and Canada during th
month of August at S5,500,0 ZOO. Thi
is decided improvement upon for
mer records, the average aggregate 0
fire loss in August for ten years pas
being 100000.
Mary Miller killed her child b.
throwing it under a railway locomo
tive at Buffalo, New York. She the
tried to commit suicide by THROWN:
herself under the train. Her arm
was crushed badly. She will recover
John w. Porter, editorof the Ports
mouth (Va.) Enterprise, assaulted j
D. Brady Of Petersburg in Norfol'
last week. They were separated. Tb
,'oubIe grew outof published attac.
| aUu COULTER dGbuChS.
Work is in progress on the CHG
necto ship canal, sever miles long
connecting the waters Of the Gulf Q
ST. Lawrence with those of the Ba.
OF Fundy. The cnt will save vessel
the long TIP round the peninsular c
Nova Scotia.
J. Griffith Nestbrook, a young la,
student in Kingston, N. Y, a ava,
and took his mothers bank book an
drew some money before leaving. /
is supposed he went to New York wit
a comely young Irish girl name
Mary Hyland.
Three boys, aged about ten years
were shot, last week by William Kim
ball, a farmer near Dayton, Ohio
while helping themselves to nutmeg
In Kimball's field.