Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-09-18
BRIEFS.

Chicago has had 500 burglaries in three
months.
Cholera returns for Italy; New cases,
81: deaths, As.
The funds of Yale College have been
increased $4,000 in five years.
Hundreds of baby alligators are sold as
laeies' pets in New York yearly.
The lad anniversary of St. Dayid's
Episcopal church was celebrated in Phil
a%aeiphia recently.
Louisville has 10000 colored people,
many of whom are prosperous and some
of whom are rich.
The original meaning Of the word Hal
flax is red hair, of Colfax black hair, OF
Fairfax blonde hair.
A company with 100000 capital has
been formed to supply the city of Port
land Or, with water.
There are fifteen men in Portland, Or,
worth q million or more who came to
Oregon without q dollar.
It IS proposed to carry carrier pigeons
on the steamers on Lake Winnipeg, to be.
used iii case of accidents.
Harvey +. Price, the postmaster at
~TIoaEton, Miss, has been arrested On
charge of forging his official bend.
Great excitement prevails in the noun
tains south of Pendelton, Or, over the
discovery of gold-bearing quartz.
The striking brakemen Of the Pittsburg
( Western railroad have -esumed work,
their demands having been granted.
jules Herbette, chief under secretary
in the French foreign office, has been ap-
pointed French ambassador at Berlin.
Many pauper childrenar are shipped from
England to this country. Several were
found o. a steamer at New York recently.
Bishop LeaIly, of the diocese of Dro-
more, Ireland, is recovering from his i'll
ness and is row believed to be out of dan
ger.
Thousands of yachts are lying idle of
Southampton, England. The Yachting
season is the worst known for fifteen
years.
At Cambridge, Nd, one hour after his
mother had died, james Boyce, aged four
teen years. shot himself through the
heart.
M. sedwick, in a letter to the New
Post, again denies the the report that he
behaved improperly in the City of Mex
ice.
a Salisbury q, b man, who had been
Ill for Il few days after drinking eopioas-
y OF water, yomited up u live lizard, and
feels better.
It IS said that everybody in the town of
1akutsk, Siberia, gets drunk on New
Years day, the bishop soIennly setting
the example,
The agitation in California against con
Wet labor in trades has led to the develop
ment OF the jute industry in San Quentin
p~enitentiary.
The shipments Of foreign ore to Phila-
delDbia during the last two months have
been the largest ever known in the histo-
~ of the port.
Il is asserted that Coun. Aubigany has
been appointed French minister 70 Egypt
to combat English influence in the kne-
dives dominions.
The accounts of Robt Anderson, super
intendent of the Southwark Water com.
pany. Chester Pa, are five TO eight thous-
and dollars short.
A threatened rebellion on the Klamath
reservation was fortunately quelled a
week Or so ago. The Indians went so far
as to war-paint their cheeks.
A little girl wrote in her composition
OIL Boston recently house is
a handsome building on Beacon street,
With a huge abdomen on top"
In climates where the variation in TEN
perature is 70 degrees, 400 miles of rail
road track will change over 300 yards in
length-nearly a yard to a mile.
The four new cruisers, which will be
ready for sea shortly, will have not a sin
gle broadside gun. Bow and stern chas-
ers of small caiiber have been provided.
The Hon. William Baxter of Indiana,
who gained an almost national reputation
by the introduction of the famous Baxter
temperance bill, is dead.
Dr.. Mendenhall, of the scientific de-
.partnlent of the signal service bureau,
has become president of the Rose Poly
technic institute at Terre Haute, Ind.
The French will engage extensively in
lobster fishing on the Newfoundland
coast, A joint stock company has been
organized in Paris for the purpose.
New York business men are alarmed at
the grounding of the steamer Alaska in