The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-02-28
General News.

hanna and CarhOndale. and fell down
an enhankment seventy-five feet, in
stantly killing conductor ]. r. Hard.
ing, engineer Cramer. fireman Daniel
Cramer. and brakeman Thomas Rip.
Dates to the 23d from Cheyenne are
as follows: General Baker. a noted
Indian fighter. arrived here Yesterday
and left for the front TODAY. Gen.
erals Sheridan and Ord reached Fort
Laramie in safety this morning.
Nine Companies Of Infantry and seven
of Cavalry left here to day for the
vicinity of Red Cloud Agency. Con-
siderable snow has fallen and the
weathe" cold.
Members Of the House judiciary
Committee say that the Geneva award
distribution will not probably be ready
to report for weeks.
At Detroit. Michigan. on the 23d. a
heavy east wind drove the ice from
the mouth of Saginaw river into the
Bay. It wa' reported that three hun
dred fishermen were on the floating
ice. and At last accounts they were five
miles from land. 1t was feared that
the ice would break mp before the men
could be rescued. and a fearful loss of
life would result. Lmer-A later re-
port from Schewaing this evening
says that fifty men have made a land
ing there. Other reports from diff
ferent points say about two hundred
men have escaped and that two men
are known to be drowned. The ice
is solid and ranges from twelve to
twenty inchrS in thickness and cannot
easily be broken mp.
The following named postmasters
have been appointed for the Pacific
coast ChaS. r. Botsfor1, at OSwego,
Clackanas county, Oregon; James
Lister, Scottsburg. Douglas county,
Oregon.
Dispatches from Nagasaki. Japan,
say the insurrection is spreading, and
that the situation is critical. The in
surgents are advancing on that place,
and at last accounts were so near that
foreign residents We're preparing to
leave.
4 Londoa Times special from India
gives details of the distress by the
famine in Bengal, in two districts, of
which 2S0,00 are in distress. 1t is
estimated that in the famine-stricken
territory halfa million would perish
were it not for Government aid, by
which alone they now subsiSt.
On the 24til in Congress Senator
Kelley presented Il petition from cit
liens OF Oregon, asking for the passage
of the bill 10 aid in the construction of
the Portland. Dalles & Salt Lake Rail
road, which was referred to the Com
mittee on Public Lands.
The sub committee OF the House
Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom
the matter was submitted. have agreed |
TO recommend that all claims for
Indian dcpredations be turned over
for adjudication and settlement to the
United States Courts for the respective
districts where the depredations have
been committed.
Il. X. Lindsay, has been nominated |
u. S. Attorney for Nevada; IL. Car
penter postmaster for Hamilton, Ne
vada.
Dispatches from all parts of Ohio
where the temperance movement has
been started, report immense tem-
perance mass meetings and general
activity.
Steve LOwery, the last survivor of
the Robson county, N. G., outlaws,
passed in his checks recently while
tuning up his banjo preparatory to
playing for some wagoners, Three
citizens fired at him, and three balls
entered his head at about the same in
slant of time. The killing etttsed the
greatest rejoicing among the citizens
Lowery. when shot, carried a rifle.
three pistols and a knife. The $4,000
offered for his body will be equaliu
divided between the three young men
who killed him. /
At one o'clock on the morning of
the 25th, at Newcastle, Delaware,
twelve masked men entered the Jail
and seized, gagged and bound the
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