Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-29

with the requirements Of the law, and In ac-
cordan with the instructions of the Depart
ment furnished to them. This report will re-
quire the approval Of the President and the
formal acceptance OF the road as a completed
structure before the patents will issue for the
land grant
A dispatch received at the Attorney-Gener-
ais Office in Washington on the 10th from
the United States Marshal at Montgomery,
Ala, states that forty-two more arrests OF per-
sons guilty of outrages upon Republicans
and of stopping the United States mails had
been made.
A party OF seven men, en- route for the Black
Hills, were attacked by Indians on the llth
at the mouth OF the Little Platte, and des
perate fight ensued in which one of the party
was killed, one fatally and two slightly
wounded Ten Indians were killed or wound
ed. The whites Immediately started back
and reached Yankton on the 18th. The In
dams are understood TO express determine
ton to prevent white men entering the hills
at all hazards.
The Baltimore express due at Cincinnati
on the morning of the 18th met with an acct
dent at Obanyon Bridge, east OF Loveland,
Ohio, by which the locomotive and tender
we're wrecked, both Of them going through
the bridge The engineer, Dan Perdue, and
the fireman, Joseph Parent, both of Chilli
cothe, were killed instantly. Both might
have saved themselves by jumping, as the
train was not running over twelve miles per
hour They died at their posts and thereby
saved the passengers, not one of whom was
hurt.
A Washington telegram Of the 10Th says no
official information had been received by our
Government or by the representatives OF for
eign Governments at Washington contrma-
tory of the newspaper accounts that Spain
had paid indemnity to Great Britain in salts
faction of the damages in the Vrginus
case. Correspondence between the United
States and Spain continued, but with
no prospect of settlement by that means;
therefore it was probable that our claims for
indemnity would become the subject of arbi-
tration according to the terms OF the Fish
Polo protocol.
The managers of the Michigan Central
Railroad having refused their consent to the
crossing of their track by the Baltimore u
Ohio Railroad, the Circuit Court of Porter
County, Ind, and the United States Court
were appealed to, and decided that such
crossing should be allowed near Lake Station,
Ind Being notified that resistance would be
met with, Notwithstanding such decisions,
the managers Of the e. Il Q. Road called on
the Sheriff of Porter County to aid them in
making the crossing, and on the 18th went
with posse Of citizens to the point where the
crossing was to be made, and there found the
main track of the NJ G. Road INSTRUCTED by
construction trains, and barricades of ties,
rails and wood on each side of the crossing
between the main track and the fence,
each barricade being manned by
number of armed men in the employ
of the NJ. G, Company. An attempt was made
to dispense the opposing crowd but without
success. The Sheriff read the Riot act and
called upon the Governor OF the State for as
sistance. An attempt to arrest the leaders of
the NJ. c. gang was successfully resisted.
Gov. Hendricks telegraphed to President JOY,
of the NJ. c. Road. calling on him to inter
pose his authority to suppress this rotous
demonstration on the part OF his men and to
disband them. The opposing parties en-
camped on the field during the night of the
10Th. Two companies of militia were
ordered by the Governor to the scene OF dis
turbance.
The trial of the safe burglar conspirators in
Washington began on the Goth Whitley
asked for postponement Of his case till next
term, which was denied.
The Souhegan National Bank at Milford,
n. H., was robbed on the night Of the 10th of
800, 900 in currency in bonds. The robbers
secured the cashier and, putting cord around
his neck, compelled him to accompany them
to the postotice, where he was in the ha bit of
depositng the keys of the bank Tor greater
security. Obtaining the keys OF the bank
they visited that institution and robbed it of
the amount specified above
| A New York dispatch of the Goth says steer
age rates to Europe had been advanced to
twenty dollars.
Phelps, New York State Treasury official,
| who was convicted on indictments charging
| him with enlightenment, larceny and forgery,
has been sentenced to the Penitentary for
| fifteen years.
A $4,000 fire occurred in Memphis, Tenn,
on the morning Of the Goth
| Eighty-eight men were recently arrested
| for attempting to cut the shy Levee below
| Quincy, III. Had the attempt succeeded, the
| expenditures ofth Commissioners, which have
! aggregated $4,000, would have been Tor
naught The embankment was threatened
because it cut of the supply of water from
the mill of Rupert & Shaw, who claim that
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| Commissioners were not authorized 10 Cd