The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-03
THE WEEK.

! The WEEK.
Gen. Sherman has decided to move
from st. Louis to New York
Senator Cockrell slipped up on the ice
and seriously injured his hand.
Twentythree Nihilist conspirators were
arrested at st. Petersburg, Friday.
The New York Senate asks Congress to
make law suppressing the manufacture
Of oleomargerine.
Attorney General Garland is looked
upon as a representative of Jacksonian
democracy in the Cabinet.
Twenty-eight counties in Kentucky
have adopted the local option prohibition
law of the old Bourbon State.
st. Paul had 1925 900 fire Friday
night. The Ryan Drug Co.. Schultz & Co..
and Dennis Ryan were burned out
The Queen has accepted the resigna
ton Of Lord Salisbury and his cabinet,
and has summoned Mr.. Gladstone for
consultation.
The House Committee on Pensions
have agreed to report bill giving pen
sions to the soldiers and sailors of the
Mexican war
The third game of the Schaefer-Vign-
aux billiard match was won by Vignaux
Friday night The first two had been
won by Schaefer.
The National Letter Carriers Associa-
ton will try to induce congress to extend
the eight-hour governmental rule to
their occupation,
Gen. Cullom, of New York, writes that
the alleged dispatch of Gen. Halleck to
Gen. Mcclellan charging Grant with
drunkenness, is forgery.
is now understood that the Com
mittee on Agriculture of the House will
report bill making the Commissioner
of Agriculture cabinet officer.
The three story brick hotel to be
erected at Billings in the spring will
have frontage of 100 feet on one street
and so on another, and will cost SIS, 900.
The failure of the great fishing firms
of Robin & Co., and Leboutillier Bros
has reduced the fishermen of Bona Ven
ture country, Canada to starving condi,
ton.
The British authorities are endeayor-
ing to raise a number OF native battalions
to garrison Suakim and replace the
British and Indian troops now stationed
there.
The coinage committee of the lower
house of congress is reported to be in
favor of the issue of silver certificates of
the denomination of one, two and four
dollars.
Secretary Lamar has recommended to
the Attorney General that suits be in
sitituted against Harris Williams and A,
A. NTH of Butte, Montana, for cutting
two million feet of pine.
Eighty prisoners confined in the Louis
viIle KY, Jail refused to go to their
cells The turnkey fired a charge of
buckshot, wounding two men; the rest |
scampered to their cells.
Murat Halsted editor of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, and j. I. Mcdowell
business manager of the Enquirer, have
been arrested on charge of publishing
lottery advertisements.
John Mcmahon. former collector of
Hoboken, who fled two years ago, leav-
ing deficiency of about $4,000 in his
accounts, was arrested on Thursday He
says he viii make regulations implicat-
ing many prominent politicians of New
York.
Paymaster General j. 4. Smith, ofthe
navy has been dismissed from the service
for "scandalous conduct tending to the
destruction of good morals and for
@culpable inefficiency in the performance
Of duty"-all of which means that he
absorbs too much whiskey.
Senator Mcmillan presented in the
Senate memorial of the st. Paul cham
Der Of commerce, setting forth thatthere
were 1900 miles navigable above Bis
marck, on the Missouri, and 400 on the
Yellowstone; that 100000 pounds of
freights, mostly from st. Paul were con-
veyed over these routes by steamers last
season; that the bulk of the appropria-
lions has been expended on the lower
part Of the Missouri, where there was a
great amount Of water and small
amount Of commerce.