The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-02-06

TELEGRAPHIc GLEANnNcs.

TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINes.
A large fire took place at Cleve-
land (0hio) on the 31st of January.
Total loss about 100000; mostly
insured.
It is reported that Ex-Governor
Yarmouth has gone to New York to
evade the service of Gov. Kellogg's
requisition.
A serious afffay occurred at Beaver
Falls (Pa.), on the Both, among the
Chinese in the cutlery works. Ten
or twelve were wounded-two seri-
ously.
Mccoy Casey, a wealthy farmer
living near Newbergh, Indiana, was
murdered on the afternoon of the
Both by an unknown assassin, who
shot him down in public road
The second game of billiards for
50, 900 and the championship of the
world was played on the night of
January 30th at New York, between
A. GARNER and Francois Ubassy.
The former won by 800 to 456.
The President has sent the follow
ing nominations to the Senate: L. j.
Curtis of Idaho, for Secretary of the
Territory of Idaho; Joseph Pinkham,
United States Marshal for Idaho, and
Joseph W. Huston, United States
Attorney for Idaho.
Great apprehensions are expressed
by the owners of large herds OF cattle
which range between the North and
South Platte, and settlers who live
near the Union Pacific Railroad and
on Republican River for fear of gen
eral attack from Red Clouds and
Spotted Tails bands OF Sioux, and
from the Cheyennes, Dakotas, Ara
pahoes and others combined.
A Havana letter says that number
of families of Cubans in the field have
been brought from Baliqui, Puerto
Principe, and other cities of the Cen
trail and Eastern Departments, and
by the authorities. 1t is
q piteous spectacle to see slow pro-
cessions of feeble old men, hollow
eyed women, some with babies in their
arms, and troops of little children,
carrying, some of them, immense
bundles, making their way over
rough streets to jail, The prison
ers numbered 200, and were sent
afterward to the Isle of Pines. The
greater part were sent from Puerto
Principe by General PortilIo, who
designated them as ''vecinos pelegro-
SOS" dangerous neighbors).
A most daring robbery of a rail-
road train was committed at Catskill
Station on Iron Mountain ten niles
below St. Louis on the afternoon of
Jan 31st They took from the mas
senpers about 81 600 and n LARGE
amount of iewelry. from Adams
EXPRESS MESSENGER over 81 000 and
rifed the mail. The robbers then
left in southerly direction, and after
the release of the train men the train
started south. The robbers left
note ON the train, of which the fol-
lowing is a copy: "Ihe MoSt Daring
on Record. The south bound
train on the Iron Mountain Railroad
was stopped here this evening by five
heavily-armed men, and robbed Of
dollars. The robbers arrived at the
station five minutes before thearrival
Of the train, arrested the agent and
put him under guard, and then threw
the train on the switch. The robbers
were all large men; none being
under six feet. They were all masked,
and started in southerly direction
after they had robbed the train, all
on fine blood horses. There
is great excitement in this part of the
IRA A. MERR1L1.
The robbers offered no violence to
any one on the train, and did not
harm the train men.
Gen Sherman has been before the
House Military Committee and cave
his views with REGARD to the army in
connection with indian affairs He
pointed out on the man n repion of
country in Texas 100 miles vide and
/ 900 miles long, comprising half a
, .o1
lozen organized counties, which,