Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-11-19

from Fort Sill and the Indian country. He
reports that the Indians who had been on the
war-path were pretty thoroughly subdued,
having surrendered their arms ard ponies to
the Government troops. He uticipated no
further difficulty in that quarter.
Prof. A. B. Smith, ex-President of the
Arkansas Valley Collegiate Institute pub
fishes in the st. Louis papers of the 10th a
statement in which he says there are fully
10000 people in Kansas and Nebraska who
are either now or win shortly be in absolute
want of the necessarics of life
There was recently received at New York
from Cologne, France, mail which should
have been forwarded. Oct Is, 1872, since which
time it had been unaccountably misplaced in
French offices
Several of the Eastern manufacturers of
fancy cassimeres have agreed to stop %
per cent. of their machinery for three
months, because Of the present low price of
their productions.
A telegram of the 10th states at POO men
had been discharged from the Brooklyn Navy
Yard and that a further reduction Of the
force would soon be made.
dispatch received at 81 Louis
on the 10Th from Gen. Pope, through
Gen. Sheridan, announces that Big
Horn, Cheyenne chief, with twenty war
riors, forty-eight women, twenty-nine chill
dren and over 200 horses, surrendered uncon-
disionally to Co. Hall, at the Cheyenne Agency,
on Nov. 4. The warriors were held in contine-
ment.
IL IGth1 10 Va lrlD thn ],
says: a very sharp letter to the War De-
partment has been written by President orion,
OF the Western Union Telegraph Company
demanding why, in a time of peace, their
wires were cut, and the matter has been re-
ferred to Gen. Emory for report"
In Terre Bonnie Parish, La. on the Sth,
negro Sheriff who was elected on the
compromise ticket was attacked by
seven other negroes. Simms ran from
the party three squares and, being
pursued, turned upon them and fired, killing
one and wounding another. Simms imme-
diately surrendered himself and was sent to
jail. Judge Trimble on the 9th at the in
stance of citizens, RENTED the fine and re-
voked the order of imprisonment against
Lieut.. Hodgson. Selye was still in prison
Five st. Martinsville prisoners, charged with
violating the Enforcement act, have given
bonds for their appearance before the United
States Circuit Court.
The Bee Keepers Association Of North
America met in fourth annual session in Pitts.
burgh ON the llth.
counterfeit live-dollar note on the Traders
National Bank Of Chicago made its appear
ance in Philadelphia on the 18th.
The Chicago dailies of the 18th state that
the Baltimore Il Ohio and the Crank Trunk
Railroads had refused 10 join the famous
Saratoga agreement, whereby the Eastern
lines hoped to control the freight tariff be
tween the West and the East The Trilatne
says that the announcement that the above
named roads "had not joined the combina-
ton was greeted with much satisfaction by
the managers OF the Western railroads, all
of whom, with single exception, look very
unfavorably upon the compact"
An Omaha dispatch of the 18th says Gen
Ord had received notice that the Commissary-
General had decided that the supplies were
barely sufficient for the subsistence OF the
army, therefore no rations could be issued to
the sufferers from the grasshoppers in Ne
braska. Col. Dudley, United States army
had completed the inspection of the grass
hopper district, and had furnished an elabo-
rate report of facts Many settlers would be
destitute of food in a few days; the butlaloes
had gone, the domestic animals were mere
Skeletons and the resources of the Nebraska
Aid Society would be entirely inadequate.
According to Salt Lake dispatch of the
18th snow storms had completely blocked the
roads in the several mining districts. The
winter business prospects were discouraging.
The Secretary OF the Interior has reversed
the decision of Commissioner Drummond of
the General Land Office, on the Esd of Janu-
airy, 1874, refusing to consider an account in
favor of Nebraska for per cent. of the value
Of public lands lying within her limits, in
Guided within the reservations made by treaties
with Indians. The account will be, there
fore, at once prepared and forwarded 10 the
Treasury Department. This decision will
control the pending claims from several other
States.
At Montrose, Pa on the 18th Daniel 0'Mara
aud Patrick Irving were hanged for the murder
ofOMara's mother and sister In September Of
last year. At Westchester, Pa, on the same
day, William +, Undertook was executed by
hanging for the murder in June, 1878, Of Win
field S Goss his partner in a conspiracy to
defraud insurance companies,
A convention of the temperance womea of
Massachusetts met at Boston on the 18TH.
Further failures of business liruls are re
ported In New York city.
1t is said that at least 10000 men audwomen
in New York city are out of employment, and
thnt ,,.hnln finn lins nrn NNithnl1 TIN, nnrnSsa-