Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-09-25


Order Ct He'd Ien began its session in
Detroit, dlica., the other day.
1t ID estimated that over one hundred
thousand species of Towering plants are
known 20 botanlsts.
Abahy was seized as security for rent By
an irata -l&nd1ady in a little Pennsylvania
town the other day.
The strength Of the Prohibisionists in
New Jersey is causing anxiety in the
ranks OF the Republicans.
The sultan demands the evacuation Of
Egypt by the English, and Russia sup
ports the Turkish demand.
An explosion in the %zylonite works at
Adams, Mass, killed Ambrose 5. jerks
and Charles +. himball.
.Therresi1ent appointed Simeon H. Cal
houn collector Of internal revenue for the
district OF Nebraska.
4 secret organization for the sole par
pose Of purifying the politics Of Pitts
burg and Allegheny City has been formed.
Seven men were arrested at Kansas
City recently, charged with stealing
freight from cars for several years past.
A boarding house in the CatskiiI noun
tain region Of Ulster county, n. Y, is
kept exclusively for colored city board
ers.
Out Of go representatives in Vermont
the great ~SFerolt' against Mr.. Edmunds
secured six who will vote against him.
4 Cherbourg France paper reports the
arrest near there Of several German spies
who were travelling disguised as priests.
Nebraska S~candinavians have united
aad Will press the Republican state con
EentioH u give them ii representative on
the ticket.
San Francisco has a local ordinance re-
stFicting taxation to one dollar on the
hundred, which prevents any care of sew
eTs Or streets.
Robert Melancholy, a saw mill owner
and postmaster at Kagawong, Ont, has
&hsconded leaving debts amounting to
$4,000; assets nominal.
The controller Of the currency has au
thorized the First National Bank Of
Douglass, Wash, to begin business with
"a capital Of $4,000.
Minister and Mrs. Cox left CONSTANT
nop}e last week for New York, on a two
months leave of absence. They will
spend q few days in Bucharest.
Trooper Mellon, of Company C, Ninth
United States infantry, at Fort Robinson,
Neb., was found murdered at his post.
No clue to tie murderer was found.
Gordon S. Hubbard, the Oldest resident
of Chicago. and one of the first white
men to visit the site of the city, died last
week. He established the first line Of
lake vessels from Chicago.
The aggregate coinage Of standard sill
yer dollars to date has just reached an
amount equal to the amount Of gold coin
and bullion held by the government.
Each is about $3.50, 000, GOO.
The number of farms in New England
increased from 187,06i in 1860 to 1S7, 252
in 1880. The value of these farms iu-
creased in the same period from s476, 2O4-
Al to $3.50, f721 ,438.
Lord Annesley has issued 100 eject
ment notices against tenants on his es-
tates in County Down, Ireland. The ten
ants are suffering from want of money
owing to the lateness Of their harvest.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey are ar
arranging for a centennial celebration of
the adoption Of the federal constitution,
II, 1887. It is proposed to invite
til cooperation of all the United States.
William Lyon, alias Kerr, John J..
Jchanner, William Staal, and William
Gagon, who are suspected of being tramps
who murdered George Powers, station
at Marshall, III, on the 18th inst,
were arrested in St. Louis recently.
An eighteen-year-old girl in Colorado
burned a ranch down to secure S., 900 in
money to assist a mother and
son now in the penitentiary for cattle
stealing. A detective courted the girl,
who told the story to her supposed lover.
WI. Davis of Illinois has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the govern
ment Indian and industrial school to be
at Grand Junction. Col. f.
u. Burke of New York has been appoint
ed superintendent of a similar school at
Albuquerque, n. Mex.
The Chinese in New York city are
greatly excited oyer the arrival there of