Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1868-11-05
NEWS SUMMARY.

other paper isa the city.
Mrs. Caroline Miller, OF bit. Pleas
ant, Iowa, being in feeble state o
healsh. willis walking In an appsl
room, tainted and FELL dowu stairs
on last Friday, which threw her In
70 convulslons, producing death In .
few hours.
Extensive robberies in connection
with the post Office have been dis
covered. A package containing as
teen registered letters was sent from
Toronto last week by tho Grand
Trunk railroad. The missing pack
age Ia the third one stolen during
the past week. No trace OF them
have been discovered.
The report that compromise hai
been effected between the Express
Company and the robbers, now In
Jail at Toronto, Ia incorrect. Tae
case Is now under examination al
! Lsndwich.
The republican members Of the
House Of Representatives Of the Or
egon Legislature have resigned, and
the Governor has accepted their res
ignatIons. This leaves the House
without a quorum. No apPropria'
ton bill passed. Great excite .aien'
exists at Salem.
The court of st. Louis county, Mo-,
ordered on Friday that's proposition
to subscribe two millions Of dollars
towards the building of the Chilli
cothe and Council Bluffs Air Line
Railroad be- submitted to the voters
of that county at the election next
Tuesday. This proposition has been
urged by many prominent citizens
of that city, and il Is not iInproba-
bic that 1t win be carried.
A despatch from Salem, Oregon,
18th inst, states that thesmoke from
the late wide spread fires still hlags
over the valley. Wild beasts are
being driven into the valley from
the mountains, and are doing much
damage to the stock Of men living
along the foothills. Several in
stances have occurred within the
hast ten days where children have
been attacked by cougars; one girl,
nine years of age, was killed and
eaten by cougar last week, in Linn
county,
The three upper stories of the new
northern wing of the Treasury De
partment viii be finished by Dec. /,
and will be occupied by the Internal
Revenue Bureau.
The track Of the L. p. r. r. Is
now laid to the S94th mile from its
initial point in this city, and an ay-
erage of five miles is laid between
sun and sun of each day. The road
/ Is all graded 10 Salt Lake and it Is
expected that the road will be finish
cd to that point by the first day oil
January next.
From the Colorado Register 9th:
Yesterday morning DIR. J. Ball, oil
Empire, showed us a fine, bright
and clean rctort, weighing forty
ounces, taken from four and a half
cords of ore from the Couqueror
| lode.
4 new contract has been made be-
| tween the Postoffiee Department and
Wells, Fargo & Co., for the trans
portatiou Of the Overland Mails to
California. BY its terms the con.
tractors receive 81 .750, 900 per annuu
for carrying the mails 800 miles and
as the progress Of the Pacific Roa2I
deere, ses the distance of transporter
ton. the price paid to be eorresponof
ingly deci ,esised.
The Fashion, Course Fall meetir1
commenced day before yesterday q
q trot for a purse of $500. Six hung
red to the first and t,7o hundred
the second horse; mh2 heats; Dep
three in FIVE, in harness, foS horsss
that never beat 230. Won ~ orfe-
ley in three straight heats.
Captain General Lersunni of Qua,
has received satisfactory news fran
ManzilIo. 2O0 insurrectionists hSge
surrendered to the troops Snt
against them.
The latest advices fron the iHe~
rior report the Government OTHERS
acting with vlgoF, but the rebelshre
saeking and robhing the planlatilns.
The relnforcements had not arrived
at the scene of disturbance.
II l. reported that the negroes nth
the insurrectionists have under item
white servants, whom they compel
to address them as masters.
The statement published In seferai
Eastern papers, and the dispatches
from Washington and New Y0k 10
the effect that Hon. George II. PEN
dleton advised or desired q change
of candidates on the democratic
tickle , or that he ever wrote OF teie-
graphed on the subject, l. aushori-'
tativeiy denied.
Some extensive robberies in the
Toronto, Canada, Postoffice have