The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-04-01
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News Summary.

Legislature have ratified the propose
suffrage amendment To the Constitntio,
Advices from Spain render it certai
That Montpcnsicr will DO proclaime
/ King. He will arrive in Spain With
fortnight.
Il General :-hei idan on Saturday issue
general order, assuming command q
\ The military division of Missouri, will
headquarters at Chicago.
General Stoneman has issued an arle
removing Governor Wells, of Virginia
d and assumed the duties of the offic
I himself Mayor Burgess, Of Petersburg
/ was also removed from Office.
The Union Pacific Raiiroad is com
pleted .a57 miles west of Omaha. TIKI
1 gap between the two roads Is only ons
hundred aud twenty-six miles. 1t Il
4 thought that Monument Point will b.
/ the place of junction.
It il understood that regiment FOR
Cuba Is being raised In New York, COM
posed Of Americans and Irish, to be
commanded by an American officer -
The funds were supplied by several
wealthy Cubans now in New York.
Late advices from Yokohama, Japan,
give the appalling news that the steam
er Hermann was sunk outside Of that
harbor, and go lives were lost. There
were 400 passengers, nearly all Japan
csc, on board, bou d for a port near
uadodadi.
Seven steamboats,, most Of them load
cl aud ready TO leave for the Upper
Missouri, were burned at st. Louis
last Monday night. Loss about $500,
900. o~@
The United states Senate, on Mon.
day, voted for = joint Committee of
Conference with the House Oh the Ten
ure. of Oi'i..e act. The House on Tues
day. rejected Il motion to recede from its
disagreement with the Senate, aud sub
Hsequent!y vote for Committee of
conference was carried.
Hon Edward Bates, who was the first
Attorney Gencralof President Lincoln's
Cabinet, died n. st. Louis last Tues
day.
1t Is now thought, by members of
Congress ofboth parties. that an adjourn
ment sine die will not take place before
the middle of April.
+ John NJ. Buckley was duly sentenced
10 pay = fine Of 500 and costs for his as
sault on Deputy Commissioner Of In
ternal Revenue Hnrland.
Only thirty miles of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad re-
main 10 be built to complete the roSd to
the Missouri river. connecting with the
Union Pacific Railroad.
Nearly all the nominations before the
Senate were confirmed the Goth inst.
No nomination made by President
Grant has been rejected. Longstreet's
was passed by because everybody
knows it vii! toad to a long discussion.
The Governor of Massachusetts has
rendered the .]udgeship on the Supreme
Bench Of that State, made vacant by
the resignation OF Attorney General
Hoar, to Congressman Dawes, and he
has the matter under consideration.
The Cuban Commissioners have been
received unotlicially by The Secretary Of
State, who talked with them about the
revolution in their island, but declined |
o receive any formal documents, or
rive any opinion on the questions
'ni>ed, They have not yet seen the !
President
The House Committee on Military
Affairs has agreed upon joint rcsoIu-
ion extending for one year the law al
owing soldiers sixteen dollars per
month. Unless this is passed the pay
II soldiers will be reduced in August to
he same il was before the war. The
committee is for retrenchment, but OPP
,osed To it in this direction Till the pay
lf officers can also be reduced
In one of the appropriation bills Of the
{ seven thousand dollars for the repair
nd preservation of property at Mount
.sernon, to be expended under the d-
,ection of the Superintendent of Public .
Buildings, and General Michler went
own there recehtiy, to look at things !
nd decide how the money shall be I
,sed. Everything about the house and /.
rounds isto be put in good order u,
nee.
Z President Grants revocation of Cen !
raj Sherman order, by which the lat /
81 attached the heads of all the depart
,bents 10 his staff, is the theme of very
eneral remark in military circles 1t
bpears that Sherman order was in
Collation. Of several laws, and quite Il
''1umber Of army regulations. This d.
:ction Of the President restores the
sgar Department to the same condition
o existed before General Sherman AS
ebmed command of the army
1.-THE new Tenure-of-Otlice bill was
Ie5posed in the House Of Representa-
nves, Friday, by General Butler and the
Democrats, and, on coming to "A vote. it
itas rejected by 20 to 80. 1t is thought
bhat committees of conference Of the
Drvo houses will now lie appointed, and,
81 possible, Il bill satisfactory to lnli, he
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