Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-05-24
News Summary.

Both houses of Congress have
agreed to adjourn on the 18th of July.
Several Senators, who favor the
bill abolishing ranking, state that
there is very little chance for its pas
sage this session.
1t is said that the Know-Noth-
ing movement is being revived in
Washington, with the omission, how
ever. of the tenet against Catholic
ism.
President Grant is confident that
treaty for the annexation of San
Domingo TO the United States will
pass Congress before tho adjourn
| ment.
Gold has averaged for some
weeks about 1i49, as compared with
currency, and from present appear
ances may remain at about that fig
ure for some time.
--Prominent members of the Ad-
ministration, like Senator Sherman,
have proposed that the office of Sec
rotary of the Navy be abolished, and
that its duties develope upon the War
Department
"A report from Cheyenne states
that the Big Horn Expedition has
been entirely abandoned About $50
members now camped two miles from
there, will go to Sweetwater mining
district.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue is preparing for suits against
ex-Colleetors Of Internal Revenue
who are in arrears. 1t is estimated
there is charged against them on the
books of the Treasury Department
not less than three million Of dollars.
The vote on Washington i'm
provements shows the following
Western United States Senators to be
opposed to the removal of the capt.
tai Howe, Trumbull, Drake, Ram
sey, Norton, Thayer, Upton, Cole,
Corbett, Nye, Stewart, Rice, and
Mcdonald.
Our Government will not Coop
crate with England in any interior
enco with affairs in Cuba. The Span
ish Minister here has indicated that
it would be needed by Spain. He
says that from information Just re-
ceived the instruction is on it's last
legs.
The Committee on Claims has
decided to report forthwith on the
claim for four hundred thousand dol
lars, brought by parties who suffered
by the Border Ruffian raid in Kansas
in 1856. The claim is based on the
fact that the Government is bound to
afford protection to its citizens against
law essness.
The Ways and Means Commit
tee has been in discussion Of the in
come tax section of the Internl Rev
enue bill. No action was taken, but
from the opinions of members of the
Committee, it is probable that they
will report in favor of exempting 81
600, and levying tax of three PER
cent on all incomes over that sum.
"A war party of Ogalalahs, dress
ed in clothing furnished by the Gov
eminent, called at the cabin of a
settler living on the Nebraska river,
100 miles north of Sioux City, and
while shaking hands with the mans
wife, shot her, then killed her little
son, aud took her daughter, aged
thirteen, prisoner. The husband
escaped. The excitement in that re-
gion is very great.
LATER-.Sioux City dispatches OF
May 2lst state: The body of the lit
tie girl carried off by the Ogalalahs
has been found riddled by bullets.
The previous report of an extern
sive Indian raid along the line of the
Kansas Pacific Road, IN process Of
construction between Kit Carson and
Denver, is confirmed. Probably be-
tween twenty and thirty men were
killed aud as many more wounded,
and over 100 bead Of stock run Off
Arrangements have been made to in
tercept end punish the Indians, who
are expected to cross the Union Pa
cifc Railroad on their way north
with The plunder.