Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-05-22
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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county, Neb.
The English sparrow has made its
appearance in California
The business portion of Pataskala,
Ohio, was wiped out by fire last week.
It cost Kansas $500 for military.
service during the recent strike at
Parsons.
It is generally believed in Wash
ington that Congress will adjourn
about July 1st.
Illinois will vote this fall for $ atate
treasurer and a state superintendent
of schools.
Louisville society is. excited over a
great fight arranged for between a
one-eyea dog and a coon.
Thirteen towns in Maine at the
spring election abolished the district
system Of schools.
There are four hundred liquor
saloons in Lowell, Mass, and only
twenty-four bakeries.
Omaha receives $4,000 a month
from licenses granted to keepers Of
houses of i'll repute.
Farmers in southern Nebraska are
selling their ORR in. the field for 10
cents a bushel.
Black diphtheria is raging with
terrible violence at Big Rapids, Mich.
Every case proves fatal.
Al j. Stuart, a pugilist Of consider
able note on tho Pacific coast, COM
mitted suicide at San Francisco.
The Boston & Albany railroad has
q circulating library Of two thousand
volumes free to its employees.
The first arbor day in Manitoba
wes generally observed throughout
the province as a semi-holiday.
One hundred and forty medical
students at the university of Vermont
have boycotted an obnoxious professor.
Dr.. James S. Mackenzie, one of the
best known physicians in the United
States, died at Baltimore of heart
disease.
German war vessels have been or
dered to the North sea to protect Ger
man fisheries against Englishmen
who take unfair advantages.
An incendiary started a fire in the
Madison street theatre, Chicago, We'd
nesday night, which was extinguished
after a tritiing loss.
John Doynton Hill, who drafted the
original Maine liquor law and wrote
histories of Mason and Old Dunstable
died at Temple, n, H., recently, at
The age OF ninety.
a syndicate represented by Secre-
tary Of State Timne of Wisconsin has
bought the the Valley iron mine in
Northern Michigan, paying s15o,ooo
for the property.
There were 1900 volumes in the
library of Congressman Hewitt recent
ly destroyed by fire. He intended
giving them to Cooper institute as a
special library.
Wyoming lakes are so charged with
soda chat it accumulates in great
quantities around the edges, whence
it is hauled away and worked into
commercial forms.
During a violent wind storm a Mr.
and Mrs. Jackson and their babe we're
smothered to death under a tent at a
camp meeting in johnson county,
Kan. Many others were injured.
Minnie Wallace, a handsome young
singer in Stetson's Milkado company
died at Boston of selfinficted injur-
les. She died refusing to reveal the
name of her seducer.
While the supervisors were investi-
eating the management of the San
Francisco house of correction, six des-
perate prisoners cut a hole through
the walls and escaped.
The Ohio treasury rs bankrupt, asa
result of democratic extravaganza and
mismanagement, and it is probable
the states paper will go to protest be-
fore the June taxes are collected.
Providence, r. L, liquor dealers and
others have petitioned the supreme
court to abrogate the constitutional
amendment prohibiting the sale of
liquors, claiming the amendment was
not legally adopted.
DR.. Ameden Of Glenn's Falls, N. Y.
who has been experimenting with rat
tlesnake n as a remedy for lock
jaw, thinks it will also prove eficaci-
Gus IN rabies.
Chief Mangus, one of the Apache
Indians, has been missed during the
recent raid, and is believed to have