Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-03-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Inc second volume OF \JfGnL S me-
moirs will not be published until
April l.
Pneumonia is epidemic around
Huntington, Pa. The majority Of cas-
es are fatal.
The Fort Pitt tannery and stock at
Braddock, Pa, were burned last week.
Loss, $4,000.
Queen Victoria will hold two draw
ing room receptions in person at Buck
ingham palace this month.
The Yale College Boat club has dis
charged it's professional coach and
will depend upon its own resources.
Edward f. Pratt, a prominent bus
mess man Of Milwaukee, died sudden
ly on the street at Rochester, n. Y.
The First Methodist church at Woos
ter, Ohio, was destroyed by fire last
week. Loss, 5000: 0:insurance, So, 500
Bishop Bowman at the conference
Of the Pennsylvania Evangelical asso-
citation, strongly denounced the use OF
tobacco.
Pittsburg is excited over a sudden
failure in the supply of natural gas.
A scientific inquiry will be made to
discover the cause.
The South is waking up to the i'm
portance Of the dairy industry. Mis-
sissippi is the only state in the Union
having dairy chair.
Farmers in the vicinity of Canton,
Ohio, have organized Il vigilance com
mittee for the purpose of breaking up
a large gang Of horse thieves.
Robert Giffen, statistlcian to the
London board of trade, has written an
enthusiastic paper to show that Ire
costs more than she pays.
Cornell university is considering an
offer of Buffalo parties to establish a
law and medical department at that
place under the control of the univer-
sity.
Alexander Fitzhugh Of Hartford,
KY, fatally stabbed the deputy town
marshal, George Burgers, last week.
The marshal had levied on hosse
Natural gas is being introduced in
to the large iron works at Pittsburg,
taking the place of coal
During drunken row at Glasgow,
KY, recently, Will Cooke fractured
the skull Of James Dennison with a
two-pound weight. This was the cul-
mination of an old grudge.
John Thompson of Collinsville, Ky.
shot and killed Amos Fight, a few
days ago, when in dispute about
politics. Thompson who has killed
two men, excaped Fight was peace
full man.
An Erie Pa laborer out Of employ
ment has become a raving maniac
through hunger. For many days he
refused to eat anything, giving his
share of food to his wife and famish-
ing children.
An unknown man at Suspension
Bridge took a carriage to the rapids
last week, aud thence to the falls,
where he went on the ice-bound base
OF the American fall. He fell Or
jumped over and was lost.
A street car on the Metropolitan
railroad, in Washington, was run into
the other day by Baltimore & Poto-
mac train. The street car was badly
wrecked, and three persons injured,
but none seriously.
A double tragedy occurred recently
twenty miles west of Cameron, Tex.
Constable It. &. Newman was search
ing for Walter Lane, charged with
cattle stealing, when Lane nnexpect-
edly came up and both men fred at
the same instant, and both fell dead.
A recent telegram from Matamoras
to the effect that the government is,
about to reissue nickel money was in
correct. The government has sold all
Of its nickel coinage in England, and
intends merely to issue copper cents
to supply a lack Of small change.
Five prisoners escaped from the
Topeka Kan. Jail last week. Among
them was the murderer, Kellum, who
while attempting to rob Santa Fe
train at Coolidge in 1883, shot and kill
ed Engineer Hilton and wounded the
fireman. A large posse of men is in
persuit. The escape was made by the
prisoners securing the jailors keys,
which he had left on table in his
office.
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The Building Fever.
The Wyoming Legislature pro-
poses to build a fine capitol at Chey-
enne. and grand university building