The Grange advance., 1874-12-22
ST. PAUL AND RED WING, MINI
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TUESDAY, Dec. l5.-Mr. Walsh, OF St.
Louis, has been appointed supervising ar
chitect o. the Treasury. NV. H. Jones,
of Somerville, Mass, murdered Mrs. .. s.
Barry Sunday, and then cut his own
throat, doing botI deeds with razor.
The Republic newspaper, started in New
York about two months ago as an admins
traticn paper, suspended yesterday 80.
The chic: engineer of tbs St. Louis gas
works was killed Sunday by an explosion.
Seventeen THOUSAND dollars " worth Of
tenement houses were burned at Brighton,
o., yesterday. :. Martin Keith, & Co.'S
shoe factory at Campbell, Mass, was
burned Saturday night. Loss $l50,000 Z;
insurance $4,000. Nearly 200 hands
are thrown out Of employment. Five
children of John Dotterich, OF Preakness,
N. j., playing on the ice Sunday, broke
through and were drowned. ....A fire at
Boston last night destroyed ten buildings
1.-THE report o. the Commissioners to
wind up the freedmen's savings bank,
say the total liabilities reach nearly Sc, ,000,~
COO, with only about 100000 assets.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. l6.-Several disas-
trous fires occurred yesterday. One at
Boston destroyed properly to the value OF
nearly half million; another at Charles
town, suburb Of Boston, with a loss Of
between two and three hundred thousand
collars; the nail factory, rolling mill, ma
chine shops, etc., OF the J. & j. Rogers
iron company at Au Sable Forks, N. Y,
with loss Of about Sl25,00O, and the
Champion cotton mills at Charleston, s.
c., involving losss of about $3.50, 900, all
partially insured. 90. The Merchants Ex-
have united in a memorial praying Con-
yress to grant the aid asked by the Texas
Pacific railway -. Mayor Cobb was re-
elected Mayor of Boston yester-
day by $4,000 Majority The
murder of the two Kelly Brothers,
some fifty miles from Bismarck and OF a
Sweae at Heart river, six miles !ron Bis
marck, Saturday, is reported. No par
tculars. ...U. S. Deputy Marshal, C. J.
Miller, and H. c. MCCARTHY, sheriff OF
Bu,leigh county, while driving n the
Missouri river above Bismarck, Sunday,
drove into an air hole and both men and
team we're drowned. 80. The Dakota leyis-
ature has unanimously adopted memo
rial to Congress for the division Of that ter
, ritory by an east and west line. ). The
nomination of Marshall Jewell as Postmas-
ter General was yesterday confirmed by
the Senate =. King Kalakaua was formal
ly presented to President Grant yester-
day Small pox is prevailing to an
alarming extent in St. Louis .. The trial
of Count Won Arnim is concluded and
judgme It will probably be rendered Satur-
day.
THURSDAY, Dec. IA military force
Y,.s started out from Forts Rice and Sully
after the white miners reported in the
Black Hills country. %. The committee on
the part Of the boar.l o! Indian Commis-
sioners, who recently visited the Indian
Commissioners, recommend lst. A
Territorial gov"rnment whose executive
shall be appointed by the President Of the
United States, and whose legislative body
shall be elected by the people Of the terri
tory. I'd. The establishment Of U. s.
Courts within the Territory, and, Sd. A
delegate in Congress. The President and
the Cabinet returned the visit OF King Kal7
akua yesterday. The King will visit Con-
gress Friday. 1.-The Baltimore & Ohio
railroad have secured the exposition build
ings IN Chicago for a depot. . Frauds OF
magnitude have been discovered in the
Char]estown Mass, navy yard, and the
official concerned has been suspended,
pending investigation at Washington. A
schooner supposed tc b. the Robert Pettis,
Of Providence, R.. :, capsized in squall
Monday night, and ths crew Of five men
persisted, all leaving families. -. The Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania has signed the war
rant for the execution Of Samuel Re:ghly
January 10th, for the murder of Joseph
Kerr....h severe storm has been raging
in the Bay Of Biscay for several days.
Many boats and seventy persons are miss
ing from the port Of Santander. =. Tie i'm
vestigation into Pacific mail matters is in
progress, but the committee decline to dis.
close any of the testimony -. The House
committee ON the Judiciary have agreed
on NV civil rights bill to supplement
the present Senate bill. It establishes
seps rate schools lor colored children with
the same equipments, etc., as those furn-
isl.ed whites. The penalties instead of be-
ing cumulative as in the present bill, are