The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-11-05
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
The public debt statement will proba-
bly, no. be published till Friday or Sat
urday, full returns from various sources
not having been received.
Negotiations for the settlement of the
Alabama claims will undoubtedly be
settled in few days. England is
willing to pay the American claims.
The British Government declines to
recognize the rights claimed by the
Hudson Bay Company in the territory
between Canada and the Pacific
Coast.
Albert Head, Collector of Internl Rev.
enue for the Sixth District of Iowa, has
rendered his resignation and it has been
accepted. No other person has yet been
appointed.
Report says the Directors of the Erie
Railway have bought Pixies Opera
House for ss3o,0oo, and contemplate es-
tablishing their offices in the front
building, renting the Opera House for its
legitimate purpose.
The Postmaster General has issued or
ders prescribing in detail uniform
which shall be worn by all letter carri-
ers in the country while on duty. This
is in accordance with the law passed
by Congress at the last session.
Three Of the most expert counterfeit
ers in the country, Hector Anger, Geo.
st. Mitchell and Isaac Martneau, have
been arrested at Lawrence, Mass, and
taken to Boston for examination.
The case Fl. b. Lamar against ex-
Assistant Secretary of War Dana, claim
ing 800, 900 damages for false imprison-
mcn:, was up to-day on motion to have
the order removing the ease to the Uni
ted States Court set aside. Decision was
reserved.
Fcmaie engravers at New York earn
about so per week. and the number of
lady Artists is largely increasing.
Anew insurance company in England
has started To compensate such Of its
members rs may be turned out of house
or workshop in consequence Of voting
Oh the wrong side.
\ unclaimed express package was
opened in Memphis the other day pre-
yious to its being sent to the sale of a
quantity of such bundles to pay expenses
Of transportation, and found to contain
twenty five thousand dollars in coun-
. terieit fractional currency.
Trains on the Union Pacific are again
running regularly. General Augur has
made ample provisions to guard against
any disturbance on the road by the Indi-
ans. Scouting parties report no Indians
visible in the neighborhood where the
train was thrown Off the track on Satur-
day night.
\ Madrid special says all the con-
servatives favor Ferdinand, of Portugal,
for King Of Spain, while the democratic
clubs have unanimously selected Gener,
al Prim for Chief of State, on condition
that he will take the title of President
of the United Provinces of Iberia
Our Government has furnished near
ly six thousand limbs to its MANNED he
roes. The distribution is as follows: legs
3,7s4; arms, ,2S4; hands, IA; feet, 8.
An Omaha dispatch says the Indians
displaced rail on the Union Pacific
Railroad, near Sidney, Saturday, by
which freight train was thrown from
the track, and the fireman killed. The
wrecking train going west was obliged
to return in consequence Of the appear,
ance of large body of Indians. Troops
from Forts Russell and Mcpherson have
been sent to protect the railroad men.
Five men attempted to rob the First
National Bank ut Alton, Illinois, early
Saturday morning. While they were
at work dliiiias the vault, NJ. II. Fuller
private Waterman, arrested one of the
parties, who was outside watching, when
the rest Of them assaulted him and cut
his head d.eadfully with a steel bar and
shot him through the heart so that he
died in moment. The robbers escaped.
but left all their tools behind. A thou
sand dollars reward has been offered for
the murderers.
The aggregate number of persons reg
istered in New York city amounts to
10000, an increase over last year of
IL ,06i. In Brooklyn the number regis
tered is 6, 307, an increase Of Il, 80.
An iudefati-ab,e French statistician
has calculated that if the cash assets of
the Bank OF France, one and quarter
billion francs, were In one LOO fir. notes,
they would weigh over 500 kilogrammes