The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-01-04
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

"A voO,UOO nre occurred. 10 Q1e.
be on Thursday. f.
Tho smallpox is still on the in.
crease 10 New York city aud Brooklyn.
Paris pspers assert that Bismarck
is seeking pretext for the reneoura-,
ton Of the evacuated French provin.
oes.
Alexis spent New Years in Chica.
60, visiting various points Of interest,
in making calls, and receiving visitors
at his hotel.
Fisk is reported to have secured
the suppression Of his correspondence
with Miss Mansfield, and 4 discontiu-
uauoe Of tho suits BY the payment Of
$4,000.
-Jem Mace is out with = challenge
to any man in the world to fight for
$4,000 side, or for any greater sum.
The fight is to be bis last.
"A London telegram Of yesterday
says it is stated authoritatively that in
the Geneva Conference England will
demur to all claims by the United
States for iodirect damages.
The storm in California, Oregon,
and Nevada, is undated. 1t is raining
necessarily, the rivers everywhere over
flowing, and the mails, telegraph, and
travel interrupted.
r.. Ripley, gold clerk in the Bank
Of New York, committed suicide in
= room Of the bank on Thursday, by
shooting himself with = revolver. No
cause ie yet assigned.
The total annual product Of Ala.
X in fars, fish, oil and timber il worth
about $2,50o,Ooo, aud is likely to be
largely increased in the future. The
receipts Of the government are about
eight per cent. Of its investment-so .
magazine writer estimates.
The committee of tho French AS
sembly on the reorganization Of the
army proposes to maksethe terms Of
military service five years on active
duty, four years in reserve and six
years in secondary reserve.
Mr.. Manning, agent for the Pas.
s.io Zinc Company, Of New York city,
Vas robbed Of 843, 900 OF their bonds,
Thursday morning, by boy who fol-
lowed HIM into his office and stole the
bonds while bis back was turned.
The thief escaped.
"A man named Browning, in
Bracken county, Kentucky, undertook
to drive q negro from his house, and
was shot by the latter. Duncan, the
negro, was put in Jail, whence he was
taken at 9 o'clock on Sunday night,
BY a band of armed men, and hanged
to tree.
Mrs. Sickles, the new wife Of our
Minister to Spain, il said to be =
"charmiag woman, Of noble presence
aud expressive face" She does not
speak English, but her husband has
learned to speak Spanish with great
auency. Sickles' first wife, We be-
Iieve, was an Italian.
-Tsylor's famous saloon and restau-
rant Of Broadway, New York, was sold
under the hammer, on Wednesday last,
Colonel James Fisk, Jr., becoming the
purchaser. It IS his intention to e.
move bis acquisition to tho Central
Park garden, Of which hs has recent
~ become tho proprietor.
AT fire in Philadelphia the other
day, child lying i'll with smallpox
in one of the burning houses, was res
cued by police sergeant named DON
nelly, who rushed into the building
aud, wrapping the child in his over
coat, removed it to place OF safety.
That officer will some day "pass up
higher"
The disbursements of gold by the
government from the lst of January to
the end Of March, for interest and tho
redemption Of called-in bonds will
amount to 100000. The disburse-
meut Of 80 large . sum will have q