Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20
EVENING STAR.
LATE TELEGRAMS. &c,

" IL stated in Ottawa that no official account
o. the troubles in Winnipeg Territory have been
received from Governor McDougall, nor has any
military force been asked for to escort him to his
Capital. The Montreal News says that Nc
DOugall - very obnoxious to the Indians on ac-
count ~ their belief that he was instrumental in
q fTapdIIlg them out OF their lands, and suggests
t. the Government that he ought to be recalled
at once
The csse of Mrs. Bridget Trainor, widow, and
three children, OF John Trainor, against the
Baltimore and Chic Railroad Company for
damages, resulting from the death of the hus-
band and father by an accident on that road,
was decided in Baltimore yesterday in favor of
tie plaintiff, the jury returning a verdict for
$500. The Company moved for a new trial.
In the Alabama Legislature yesterday a bin
was introduced to vacate all the municipal OH :
Ccs IN Mobile, yesting the right of appointm. emit
III the Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the
House and the Attorney General. Resolutions
we're offered to abolish the School Commission
err. who. ii is alleged, absorb all the funds and
Keep the schools closed
Yesterday morning part of a new stone-front
building IN St Louis fell, burying IN the ruins
some ten OF twelve men who were at work in the
hast ufen- Six OF them were gotten out during
the day, several of them dreadfully crushed, but
surviving Exertions tor the rescue of the others
were being made.
A mail train on the Harlem railroad was
blown from the track near Boston Corners, dur
ing the gale on "Wednesday morning. and fell
down an embankment The express mail and
baggage cars, with their contents, were de.
stroyed by hre. Several persons were injured,
and one, boy Of thirteen, was killed.
Ii appears that the switchman on duty at the
scene OF the recent catastrophe on the Western
he could not, therefore, tell from the timetables
when trains were due, and that he did not even
know which train had the right to the track.
1t rained here steadily last night from seven
O'Clock; weather mild. kilograms from the
South state that it rained hard in Montgomery,
Ala, all day, and that the Alabama river was
rising rapidly. 1t rained necessarily in Louis
Vile from the previous evening.
Sioux Indians recently made a raid in the vi
Gritty of Fort Festerman, Wyoming Territory,
and killed two white scouts, McAllster and
Mchenra- The third scout escaped to the Fort,
and a company of cavalry were sent after the
Indians, but failed to find them.
9Apother severe gale was experienced on the
lakes Thursday and the night previous. Nu-
merous wrecks are reported on Lakes Erie and
Ontario The brig Concord, of Detroit, was
sunk. and the Captain and four men were lost.
Judge Barnard, of New York, has denied the
motion 10 send the issues in the suit of the Erie
Railway Company against Vanderbilt to the
jury and the case has been set down for trial be-
lore the special term for the 18th inst.
The Society of the Cavalry of the West met at
Louisville on Thursday, and elected General
JAS. ;. Wilson President, with seven Vice Pres
itemts. Major L. NJ. Hosea, OF Cincinnati, was
designated Historian.
Three sailors belonging to the United States
steamer Lincoln, were drowned at st. Paul, Ice
land, by the upsetting OF a boat Their names
were John Beck, kewis Garlin and Richard
Livingston
The schooner Arrow was wrecked on Tuesday
evening fifteen miles north of Chicago, and her
officers and crew, eight in number, were
drowned while attempting to get to land in a
Efe-bOat
A vessel from Sitka, for San Francisco, ran
INTO an unknown island in the North Pacific
Ocean. some time ago, in latitude 80 degrees p
minutes longitude 40 degrees minutes east.
rha vxhn tata of
York show Nelson's majority to he 20 1856. The
total vote was oil ,196. Republican decrease
leS,Gs- Democratic decrease, 80, 476.
An important meeting of the master Ship
wrights and JOiners' Association, in New York
was held yesterday TO consider the best means of
reviying American slipbuilding.
An immense rink in Chicago was crushed last
night b. the weight OF snow ON the roof com
rletely demOlishing it. The walls are of brick,
and the roof arched with twenty feet pitch.
The Erie-Great Western Railroad cases are
not yet settled at Akron, Ohio, as stated few
Gays ago In court yesterday the judge post
lOned further hearing until Friday next.
\ report that the Dominion government had
Threatened Ia retaiiate IL the present CONNER
Sial restrictions are continued by our govern
Inent - denied by an Ottawa dispatch.
The engineer and fireman of an express train
were killed by collision on the Grand Trunk
railroad, near Kingston, Canada, Wednesday
morning.
coIored prisoner set fire to the Jail in
Hampton, Va, hoping to escape, and he and
several other prisoners came near being burned
TO death
Pere Hyacinthe spent two hours in Hartford,
Conn, Yesterday visiting places OF interest, and
leit on the noon express train for Boston.
Christiana SteingOther. wife of Alexander
SteingOther, hung herself Thursday, at Buffalo,
during mt Of temporary insanity.
a dispatch from Fort sully says that all the
annuity goods for the Indians at the Cheyenne
Agency Lave been destroyed by fire
Advices from SItka represent the troops in
good health, the natives loyal and the Indians
friendly.
The labor reform party i'm Boston have nomi-
mated Nathaniel E Chase, a stove dealer, for
mayor.
ST. JOSeph's Convent, at Toronto, was de-
StrOyed by IRE Oh "Wednesday night.
The Truckee railroad, California, was CON-
lletedt to Virginia City on Tuesday.