Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-11-28

TO erect an exposition DulldlnSa large
enough to justify it in trying to secure
the next national convention.
Several Mormon missionaries were
driven out of South Carolina over the
boundary line into North Carolina re-
Gently, by the indignant citizens.
The British-American Bank Note
company Of Montreal..is said to have
defrauded the Dominion government
of s150,00o by an evasion of duties.
Gen. A. G. Jones, the retiring Unit
ed States consul at Nagaski, Japan,
was given a magnificent entertain
ment by the leading citizens, recent
ly.
Another Standard Oil scheme is re-
ported. They propose buying all the
wells operated by rival company
for the purpose of crushing out the
latter
Bismarck is said to have expressed
strong disapproval of a project by one
OF the petty German princes to sell
the gems of his art gallery to an
American.
Geo. S. Boutwell, will deliver an eu
logy on Gen. Grant before the Web
ster Historical society about Dec. 20,
IN the Old South meeting house, Bos-
ton.
Since the laying of the foundation
for the Schiller monument, the Chi
cago admirers Of Gothe propose to
honor his memory likewise with
statue
The eisteddfod in Scranton, which
was the largest and most successful
ever held in this country closed last
week. Over $4,000 were given away
IN prizes.
Rev. DR.. Houghton accompanied
| Capt. Williams of the New York po-
lice, last week, to witness one of the
biggest raids made on gambling
houses in that city for years.
Launt Thompson's equestrian stat
ue of Gen. Burnside, to cost $35, 900,
is nearly ready for casting in bronze,
and will be set up in front of the
Providence (R. T. city hall.
Over a thousand prominent and
fashionable people attended the we'd
ding of Miss Elizabeth Kneyals to
Frank B. Wesson, the law partner of
ex-President Arthur, last week.
Carl Schurz's offer for the Boston
Post has been declined and arrange
ments have been made to provide
fresh capital and continue the Post as
a straight-out Democratic organ.
Typhoid fever is alarmingly preva-
lent in South Brooklyn, N. Y Physi-
clans are unable to assign cause, as
the disease is principally in houses
that were closed during the summer
A silver box, shut at wedding in
Hartford, Conn, the other day, is TO
be kept under seal, like that of Pan
| dora, till the time for the silver ami
versary, twenty five years hence.
It is charged in New York that
President Cleveland has subjected
himself to the penalties of the civil
service law by handing Lamont
$1,000 for political purposes in New
York.
Five cases of smallpox were dis
covered in a New York tenement
house last week, and the helth officers
think the family have soWed the
seeds of the disease throughout the
entire neighborhood
The ram which was used as test
of the French Pond, L. T., crematory,
was reduced to white ashes within
two hours, under a heat of 1000 deg.
A human body can be incinerated in
thirty minutes.
George Muller, who has charge of
several orphans homes at Bristol,
Eng, and who makes it a point never
to ask for anything except by iprayer,
announces that something over
| $1,000 has been sent to him this
year.
Minister G. D. Jacob will start for
Bogata, the capital of the United
States of Columbia, on Dec. /. He will
spend several days examining the
Panama canal work, and will report
upon it to the government at Wash
ington.
The board of trustees of Princeton
college have approved the stringent
etSeA0ii VI GlS 1etSuity III iOiSl ShSC w
hazing, and it is understood that
Princeton will not be allowed to play
Yale at the polo ground on Thanks
giving.
At a recent fair given at Sknow-
hogan, Me-. by the W. G. T. T., there
were exhibited piece of lace and
pin ball made by the mother of Ralph
Waldo Emmersen more than 100 years
ago, a Turkish inlaid table. over 250
years old. and squirrel made of
about $4,000 worth of condemned
greenbacks pressed.
Society circles in the town of Be
allesville, West Va, are in state of
turmoil over the simultaneous disap-
pearance of William Riley, Of the
milling and merchandising firm OF
Dixon & Riley, and Mrs John Price,
the wife of well known farmer. All
the parties are connected with the
best families of eastern Ohio,