Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1886-09-09
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An alligator skin tannery has been ,
started in Florida. /,
Couu,i,rr both sides. 900 feet OF the
Cascade tunnel is finished
wyoming broncho has been shipped
10 England for Rosa Bonheur.
Electric lights have been introduced
IN railroad trains in Germany
There are sixty-six different styles OF
Mrs. Cloveland's photographs.
Northwest Territory cattlemen wiz
have 5000 head of cattle to export 'i''s
fall.
II is proposed to,r ,he experiment
of shipping crude OIL 10 Europe :"
bulk.
Cem.i,ries are To be abolished ~
Naples and cremation made cohl"i-
sorry.
two-year-old boy in Vermont was
drowned n few days ago in barrel 81
sour ilk.
The s,arfish in Long Island sound
nave ca en- over 81, 600 bushels OF oysters
in one bed.
Thirteen Buffalo milk dealers were
recently fined SD each for seii'ng
watcred milk.
The movement of wool from oregon
and Idaho this year VIII exceed Ten
million pounds.
Maud Dollars, pretty Chicago .grl; IS
IN hmm from the BROOKLYN bridge for
purse OF 81 ,Wo
The czar has given $4,000 to the
Pssteur institute fund, which now
amounts to $320,OO
The federal government has expenueu
&J.515.5i5 in Washington Territory
since its organization.
The hop pickers in New York state
are to be superseded by newly IN
vented hop picking machine.
Lord Salisbury will conduct the ex-
neriment of cutting field OF oats with
an electric machine.
st. Louis sent "A train OF ten cars OF
provisions to the people III the drou'n-
.mitten districts Of Texas.
There is bad feeling between the
Nhites ana nail bfctus az i'hSS &''''
resulting from the rebellion.
According 10 Prof. Woodward, the
falls al Niagara are reccding ut the rate
of about mile in 300 years.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. now
sev.ntv-threc years old, will never again
do any writing foI publication.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, chief secre
tary for Ireland. is accompanied by q
special detective wherever he goes.
The socialists and anarchists Of st
Louis. gave "a picnic, last Sunday, TO
the benefit Of the Chicago d.fens'
fund.
Roger Sherman. the millionaire
bookseller and publisher Of the Ency
.clopedis Britannica, died at Philadelphia
recently.
Lending California wInennkers bt
1ieye the coming season VIII be III
worst that industry has ever had J
that section.
An organ of the colored people !
the South says that the people oi I'M
race in the south pay taxes on s9V,ooo
400.
II is probable that another call Il
xl5.OOONW 3 per cent. bonds Will |
made during the second week OF Sci
tember.
Mr.. James +. Voorhees, youngest Sc
of the Indiana senator, will return
the stage and open as tragedy star
Washington.
One of Gen. Phil. Sheridan's o
scouts has Just sent him from Utah
gift of a particularly lively wildcat
lighting order.
Gov. Gray of Indiana, offers REVEAL
of $1,000 for the apprehension and Sc
tence Of any ono engaged III past
future lynchings.
A reward 81 elO0 has been offered
England for the proof Of n case
drunkenness that has been cured wit
out total abstinence.
In the tive-cent savings banks
Charleston, :. G., the coiored peol
have $l2i, 1856 80 on deposit. The larg.
.deposiior has 5000 to his credit.
Col. John b. Brownlow, son Of Pars
Brownlow of Tennessee, is q clerk
the postoiiice department in Washii
ton and lives in olsurity in that city
The American fish bureau repo
the catch of cod by American fish
mon to Aug. 70, this season, at 81, "a
900 pounds, ard halibut, 80 80 poun
Recent experiments show that lie
ons and lines can he AS well and sat
grown in Florida rs in spain. One I
year old tree this year bore 1000 lin
The wealthicst cnlored man i'm
United States il said to be Tonic Lut
a French .gualroon of New Orlea
whose fortune is estimated at - ,1Oo,'
The money and the accounts at
Philadelphia sub-treasury balance
penny. The experts counted ct
s27 100000, Of which Sl5,0o0,00o Wa
silver.
Buffalo is to have the largest G.
in the world. The dial will he tive
five feet in diameter, and the cent?
the dial will be Sol feet above
street.
All the new iirst-rate vessels III
construction for the navy by law
have to be named after the states.
,erond-rates will be named after Il
and rivers.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rodgers has
.,,p..i,t oil ,nusfer work man of Dis