Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-04-10
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

capes are reported.
The Sensational stories about whole
sale thefss by students at Vassar col
lege are authoritatlvely denied.
Boston expects to expend sl5,00O,-
600 for new buildings this year. The
boom is greater than at any time since
1874.
The Chicago board of trade has just
discovered that the chamber of com
merce owes it Sl50,O00 for rents lie
gally collected.
The number OF insane persons in
the asylums and a%lmshouses Of New
York is SO per cent. greater than five
years ago.
There are over six thousand persons
on the pay roll of New York State, to
whom there is annually paid about
S5,000,O00.
A bill passed the Connecticut legis-
lature prohibiting employers from dis
counting wages advanced to employees
before pay day.
Temperance speakers are swarming
into Rhode Island, and a great effort
is to be made to carry the p~rohibitory
amendment.
There is said to be some prospect
that ex-Coagressman Buckner Of Mis-
souri, will succeed President Ramsey
Of the Utah commission.
Fifty mechanical engineering stu
dents Of Cornell university are making
an inspection and study of the great
steel works Of Pennsylvania.
Louise Michel, the French agitator
is expected to arrive in New York IN
a few days, She will deliver lectures
throughout the country
After June l, Detroit CA1ich.) bank
ing institutions will only pay 3 per
cent interest on deposits, having been
forced to meet the Eastern rivalry.
The Pottawattamie Indians have
| summoned a council to see if some
thing cannot be done to prevent the
overrunning Of the reservation by
cattlemen.
Every hamlet in Vermont is being
thoroughly worked by the Democrats,
who are trying to secure the election
of e1-Gov. Smith to succeed Senator
Edmunds.
Detroit (N1ich.) assessors have rails
ed the valuation of real estate ano
personal property $17,151,C00 oye'
that of last year, and the taxpayers
are indignant.
Ex-Congressman Do1ey Of indiana
has been sued for $4,000 damages fol
the alleged seduction Of a handsome
woman. It is believed to be g black
"o1"
mailing scheme.
Mountain lions are committing e1
tensive depredations on the stock IL
Wyoming. Sheep + attacked anc
devoured on the prairie in open Ola.
in sight of the herders.
Dealers in firearms at Chicago So.
the communists for some time pas
have been quietly arming themselves
and laying in an abundant supply o
ammunition.
New York letter carriers complain
that while by the schedule they ar
credited with six to eight hours wor]
per day, they really are employed TO
twelve hours.
A discharged employee Of the Balti
more & Ohio railway is suing the com
pany for the amount deducted from
his pay as his contribution to tn
compulsory insurance fund.
Controller Chaplin of New York, il
a Especial report. favors special taxation
of special forms of wealth, thus reach
ing the bondholders and relieving til
real estate owners.
A bill passed the New Jersey 1egls
-
lature providing for a cent q mil
rate on all railroads within tWent
miles Of New York in the early morn
ing and evening for the benefit Of TIA
working classes.
A bill in the Massachusetts legisl'
ture prohibits the employment {
women and children in manufactul
ing and mechanical establieement
!, for more than ffftysix and half hour
, per week.
! Jake Sharp's skilled TALENT hay
concluded to transfer their operation
to the New York assembly, whore the
!, think sdeckers' can be made, and tt
repeal of the Broadway Surface raj
road charters prevented.
All the estate of the late j. T
D~evereux, president OF the Clevelan'
Columbus. Cincinnati & Indianapoli
is left to Mrs. Devereux. to be divide
! at her death among the four childrel
The estate il worth $4,000.