Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-12-12
NEWS OF HI WORLE.

Insurance rates in Galveston are 50
per cent greater there now than be
fore the fire.
An East Saninaw, Mich, citizen
has collected 721 rare coins, the oldest
of the date 1o4 B. c.
Galveston merchants have endorsed
the Tehuantepec ship railway at q
meeting held there recently.
It is rumored at Monterey that i've
frontier Mexican states will soon Sc
coed from the Mexican republic.
A small subscription to the Grant
monument fund was received in New
York last week from St. Peter, MINI.
The total amount Of press kilograms
sent over the Western Union lines
reaches a thousand million words q
year.
Mrs. Mary Ferris Of Brookfeld.
Mich, has recently had 2 pension
claim allowed, and will receive $4,000
back pay.
The Baptist ministers OF Boston
have voted to expel Rev. ". W. Downs
from the conference, and disclaim all
fellowship with him.
A great relisious revival is shaking
UP the people, of the Schoharie valley,
New York, under the preaching OF
Evangest Earle Of Boston.
At Girard collsge, PHILADELPHIA,
on Thanksgiving day, 1,100 persons
sat down to dinner. There wa one
turkey for each party OF five boys.
An uprising is expected in Den
mark hourly against the stupid des-
potism of King Christian. The crown
prince and crown princess have gone
home.
Federal officers captured three large
illicit distilleries and 1000 gallons Of
mas in Cherokee county, Ga, a few
days ago, and destroyed the property.
The opening bull fights on the
plaza in Monterey, Mexico, last week.
were witnessed by 10000 spectators.
The picadors We're in frst-cl2ss fight
ing trim.
Rev. Joseph Delk, q colored Bap-
fist preacher Of Camden county, Ga,
has been sentenced to FIVE months IN
jail and 500 fine for Illicit whisky
distilling.
Lord Randolph Churchill has made
much political capital out Of the Bur
nah success, for he insisted on down
ing Theebaw, and planned the war in
the Indian office.
The president has ordered a horse
from his friend Mowry Of Syracuse
to trot ever with Dan" his favorite
roadster. Dan" was named after
Secretary Dan Manning.
A sparrow-hawk darted after a
sparrow in Weschester, Pa, with such
force as to be unable to control its
speed, and passed through a window
pane with but little injury.
During November ,lSOimmigrants
arrived at Toronto, Of whom 1919
went to the Western states. The ar
rivals for the same period last year
were $4,000, 3,100 going West.
The Cherokee council at Ninta has
adopted a pane law prohibiting all
expectation from the Cherokee nation.
This is done to stop the great slaugh-
ter Of game for export purposes.
It is proposed IN New York that
the governors Of tho states and the
mayors Of the cities be made members
Of the Grant memorial committee, to
whoop up subscriptions for the
shrine.
A petrifed boot, with part Of the
leg broken off, has been found near
Bellefonte, Pa. It is supposed the
foot and part of the leg vas petrifed
in the boot. The relic weighs seven
pounds, and has been sent up to the
Smithsonian Institution at Wash
ington.
While a laborer was engaged in ex-
cavating q lot at Vallhjo, Cal, his
pick brought up a set Of elegant
jewelry. Among the articles were a
necklace and locket, handsome chain,
pin, stud, earrings, bracelets, etc, all
gold, end set with a medium grade Of
diamonds.
While the funeral Of John Harvey
was IN progress at WestyieW GENE
terry, at Atlanta, Ga, it was naticed
that the coffin was very light. This
induced the opening of the lid, when
it was discovered that the coffin con
tanned no corpse. Harvey had died
in a hospital, and the doctors had
made away with the body.