The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-05-23

2 LATB NEWS 1Tnlfe.
The Arkansas river is booming,
and many plantations are under water.
s llocnsts have appeared in immense
{ quantities near Lexington, Ky.
j On Friday a man named Sim
: mons, in, Chicago, shot his wife aud
then himself.
Coal oil used as kindliug caused
the death Of four children in Memphis
on Saturday night.
| 1t il asserted 10 New York that
Hon. VIM. H. Seward will support
Grant for reelection in opposition to
Greeley.
Stokes is now designated Is the
man who was present when Colonel
Fisk fell down stairs and killed him.
self.
+ The Imperial army band of Berlin,
by consent of the Emperor, will sail
shortly for America, to take part in
the Worlds Peace Jubilee at Boston.
! Tho Common Council of Boston
has ordered the trustees Of tho public
library to open the reading room on
Sundays.
Stokes was arranged yesterday
for the murder Of Fisk. His counsel
wanted to adjourn to Monday, but the
request was refused.
| Thomas A. Scott has been elected
President of Erie, G. Stebbins Vice
Presldent, aud Edward Pierrepont
Treasurer.
Miss Laura Ream, Of the Iudian.
apo}is journal, has been elected DELE
gate to the Republican Congressional
Convention. Miss Ream accepted.
Col. W. B. Brown, wealthy
stock raiser residing just outside Kan.
sas City, was assassinated in his yard
Oh Thursday evening BY an unknown
person.
Two thousand masons in New
York city have agreed to adopt the
eighthour system Of labor on the first
Of June, the wages to be four DELAYS
per day.
Petroleum V. Nasty, it is said,
makes 81, 900 per annum by lectur-
Jog and by his notable letters. Mark
Twain made $4,000 by his elmo
cent Abroad" and expects 10000
for "Roughiug It."
-General Sherman and Lieutenant
Grant lately luncbed with the Sultan
Of Turkey, the first time 10 the history
Of that country that private individuals
have been entertained in this distin-
guished manner.
Horace Greeley, in his "Essay on
Farming" says that tho only way to
efcctually destroy "widow's Weeds"
which seem to thrive in some kinds
Of sill, is for the husbaniman to say,
"Nit thou p They generally wilt
The case Of The People against
Tweed, 1ngersoll, Fields, the Mayor
of New York and R. 3. Connolly,
came up for argument in the circuit
court at Albany, New York, on Tues
day, but was postponed until the
jury trials were over.
The pigeon trade is developing rap
idly in Michigan, 6ny-seven barrels
having been shipped in one week from
a single county, averaging tventy.three
dozen per barrel. The whole cost of
catching and shipping, including COM
mission, is only about twenty-five cents
per dozen.
Tho claims of Mrs. Fitzhugh, a
relative Of the family of Gen. Wash
ington, for s385,000, for wood and
timber taken from her estate for the
Unitod States army during tho REBEL
lion, has been filed before the South
ern Claims Commission. Among the
papers is safeguard to the lady's fam
lily and property, from Gen. Winfield
Scott.
"A report received At the War De.
partmeut, dated At Fort Le.ven worth,
9th inst., says Gen. Granger reports a
collision between the troops anl 4
thieving..band Of Utes, at . point north
west Of Arbiquar, on the 9Th inst.
Ono Indian Was killed and one soldier
severely wounded. The attack was
made by the indians, in the presence
Of tho Indian agent, and the troops de.
Tended themselves after repeated in
suits.
During The prevalence of the high
wind on last Saturday afternoon,
skif in Lake Peosta, near Dubuque,
Iowa, containing party of six, three
young mon and three young women, was
upset, and three Of the p.rty-Neliie
Connolly. Katie Louergen, George Be- K
were drowned. The other young NO.
man Bridget Fseuey, was saved, but
lies in = preoarious condition, from
fright.
TIE New York World appesrs to
understand the attitude of the Re-
publican party, with regard to Horace
Greeley, much better than any other
Democrat or Liberal Journal Il says
Of him: