Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-03-13
NEWS eE Mm 14z WEEK
Saturday. Feb. 20

w. M. heeler and M. Warren OF
VI San Francisco are in the city.
III ST Marks of Butte, representing an
4 eastern clothing house, is in the city.
sd Mr.. and Mrs. j. Sieben and Olive c..
A Barrow arrived from Cascade yesterday
S Mrs. Fred Anderson will 60 to Great
Falls this week to join her husband
EIewistoWn Democrat.
@# A marriage license was yesterday is
Issued to jeremiah Kelleher and Miss
y Martha Jane Brooks, both OF Monarch.
af The lowest temperature at Great Falls
for the "A hours ending at 6 p. III. yes
terday was 7 degrees; the highest. q
degrees.
s Judge Benton yesterday set the trial
N. .of John Sebastian, charged with the
murder, October Is, last, of his wife, for
u Monday, March lG.
g l. Phster and family arrived in Great
Falls from Omaha yesterday morning.
MI. phster expects to remain here and
engage in some kind Of business.
sS The annual state convention of the A.
UP. A. society, recently concluded at
Anaconda, has selected Great + als as
Il the place OF meeting for the next annual
,convention, occurring in March, 1881.
Mr., Daniel Payne of Monarch wishes
4 u thank many friends and nClghburs
for sympathy and kind acts extended
Before and after the death of his wife,
recently deceased.
$S The Welsh people, who celebrated st,
Davids day with sunday school enter
tairment, desire to thank their patrons
and those who helped them. They
cleared about 545 for the benefit OF the
church.
In the case of the State vs. Lew
Henry, charged with assault in the sec
sond degree on the person of William
larkin of Kbbey, Judge Benton yester,
day ordered subpUnas issued, on behalf
of the prosecution for, William Larkln,
.Jr., and DR.. G. r. X. Vidal OF Belt.
Marcus DAILY of Anaconda. accompa
nied by his family. passed through Great
Falls yesterday morning IN his private
car, No. OlO, B., A. and p, which was at
tached to the east bound passenger on
the Great Northern. Mr.. DAILY and
family are ou their way to st. Paul anc
other eastern cities on pleasure trip.
5 Judge DuBose, who is in this city, yes
terday received letter from Sheriff Me
Laughlin, at Fort Benton, who informt
him that he has in Jail a man nance
Meadowcraft, from Big Sandy, who If
violently insane Mac diagnosed the
case as originating from AN overdose OF
WHISKY Which produced the strange CT
feet Of producing inside the man brood
of angels who keep Meadowcraft in
formed of the judges every action. IRON
this reliable and voraclous monitUl
Meadowcratt learns that Judge DuBost
is now at Great Falls to secure rope
with which to hang him. and he is con
,stantly begging the sheriff to shoot HIN
before tho judges return. AS he has
tried to murier Il couple or men, lh'
sheriff is anxious TO havc the Judge re
turn and coasign him to the care of tht
insane aaylum.
The record kept by c. L. Herzog, vol
uptary observer of the gOvornmen
weather bureau at Great Falls, shows
that last month was the warmest Fehru
Rry since the bureau was established
Dec. |, 1881. The mean monthly temper
atuye was 80 8 degrees The next high
est mean for February was in 1892, 'U.:
degrees. The lowest was in 1891, 20 de
prees. The maximum last month Wa
70 degrees, on the 10Th and ODD; ths
minimum, G degrees, on the 29'h. The
lowest emperature ever recorded II
February VAS AZ degrees, on the lat
1853; tho highest, So degrees on the 2oh
1892 Last month, the total precipita
ton, rain, hail, s(eet and melted snow
was II of an inch; snowfall, 80 inches
clear days, Is; party cloudy. I; cloudy
7. The total snowfall in February o
othor ye9rs was AS follows: 1891, a:
inches; 1893 inches, Last month, The
number Of days on which the precipita
ton was Oh Of an inch or more was 4
the prevailing direction of the who'd
southwest; hail, on the l4th; sleet, Oh
the ;jth.