Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-01-09
NEWSOF THE WORLD.


treasurer of Peekskill, N. Y. died
Thursday. -:.
The consumption of anthracite coal
has been larger this year than ever
before -
A site has been selected at Albany,
N. Y. for magnificent union Jewish
temple
A fire in the rag warehouse of
Philip Jacobs & Son, St. Louis, caus-
ed loss of $4,000.
The Brown woolen mill at Occum,
Conn. was burned. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
A certain Scotch firm. through
their agent at Boston, has been fined
$500 for undertaking goods.
Frank Quinn, who was nearly one
hundred years of age, burned to
death in his house at Lewiston, Me.
| John FL. Lester. member Of the
Wall street firm of J B. Colgate &
Co, died in hack of heart disease.
Thomas Fl. Hill, for ten years past
member of the Woburn, Mass, board
of selectmen. was bound over for for
gerry.
| The wagon manufacturers at HON.
er, n. Y, have ordered their employ
es to give up the Knights of Labor
or quit work.
D. M. Graham, prominent manu-
facturer of Pulaski, Tenn, commit
ted suicide on the cars near the place
dy shooting himself.
W. G. McCray of Terra Haute, has
| little old-style fat-iron with which
his great grandmother used to iron
Washingtons frilled shirts.
All members of the Democratic
club at Canton, Ohio, who had hand
in hanging out an efigy of Senator
Payne, are to be expelled.
The reduction of wages in the ship
building industry in England during
the past two years aggregate from
IT. per cent to Is per cent.
Rev Daniel James Noyes, D. D.
who for nearly half century was
one Of the most valuable instructors
in Dartmouth college, died last
| Thursday.
! A Mennonite preacher at Reading
Pa, is a strong advocate of faith cure
and is making many converts and
baptising them in the river
John Gourlay. of the Skipped by
the Light of the Moon company, re-
Gently thrashed Mr.. Dalziel, editor of
the Chicago News Letter, for an
attack on the company.
The first case of cremation was per-
formed yesterday at the crematory of
the Buffalo Cremation society. The
name of the deceased was withheld
for private reasons.
Fire at Artesia, Miss, destroyed
every store in the place The insur-
ance is nominal, and is all in New
Orleans companies, except S2,250 in
the PhGnix of Hartford. Loss S22,-
600.
A man giving the name of Morr1-
son, and claiming to be from Guelph,
Ont, claims to have been robbed of
$3,70O at Detroit Mich. Jack Cum
mings was arrested charged with the
robbery.
Gen. George c. Burling, a well
known official of the Pennsylvania
railroad, died at Philadelphia. He
served all through the war and was
breveted brigadier geeeral for bra
very at Gettysburg.
James McDade, the owner of the
6OO-acre tract on which oil was bis
covered at Kane, Pa, sold the same
| for 1916, Thomas Griffths, the
adjoining tract, has realized about
/ 100000 out of his land
William E. Cory, who for twenty
years has lived hermit's life IN the
woods near Browns Mills, N. J., died
Thursday. He was a man of more
than ordinary intelligence, and was
led to adopt that life by domestic
| infelicity.
In short time. it is said, the lead
! ing downtown wholesale houses in
New York, many Of which now close
| at 3 or 4 o'clock on Saturdays, will
| close at [. There is also strong feel
ing IN favor of the movement among
the publishing houses.
Mayor Grace ordered that the dog
pound shall be opened today, and
thus given his sanction TO the pop
ular notion that dogs are going mad
in December Dog fanciers and
owners of valuable hunting dogs
doubt whether dogs are really dying
Of rabies.
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