Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-16
DOMESTIC.

liquidation, and the Secretary had been in
structed to pay out no more money.
The dog that bit Mr. William Mccormick,
of New York. who recently died Of hydropho-
bia, has been found and positively identified,
and scientists who have examined him pro-
nounce the dog perfectly healthy, and the
theory is advanced that the bite Of any dog,
whether mad or otherwise, may cause hydro
phobia.
At East Cleveland, Ohio, a few days ago,
Christina Ross, a servant girl while endeavor-
ing to replenish vapor stove with some com
bustible fluid, supposed to be gasoline, missed
her footing, and accidentally spilled some
Of the liqtid on the stove. The flames
communicated to the measure contain
ing the fluid, and enyelopcd her
person. Minnie Brammer, another do
nestle, in endeavoring to cYtinguish
the flames, set fire TO her own clothing, and
died in few hours after.
A recent Des Moines (Iowa) dispatch says
the management of the Chicago, Rock Islnd
d Pacific Railroad had determined to obey the
new law Of Iowa for the regulation of passcn-
ger and freight rates, as matter OF expert
ment, they still denying the justice and con
stitutonalty Of the law.
A verdict was rendered by the Coroncr's
jury on the Mill River disaster on the Sd. 1t
censures the Legislature for indifferent legis-
lation, the mill-owners for their parsmony,
the engineers for blind and obscure directions,
the contractors for poor work and the County
Commissioners for accepting work so mani
testify poor and insecure
A destructive fire occurred on the afternoon
Of the 4th ut Allegheny City, Pa, caused it
was supposed by tirc-craekers. One hundred
houses were burned, and the total loss by the
cOnflagrution was estimated mt S250,0O0.
Firc-crackers were the cause of a destruc-
tive confagration at Pontiac, H., on the
morning Of the 4th. Several of the largest
blocks in the town were consumed, involving
loss of $4,000
Judges Davis, Drummond and Hopkins, of
the United States Court have decided that the
Potter Railway law of Wisconsin is valid, and
denied the injunction sought 10y foreign stock
holders of the Northwestern Railway. An APP
peal was taken to the United States Supreme
Court. Some of the collateral questions are
to be argued hereafter.
The new bridge which spans the Mississippi
at St Louis was formally opened to public
traffic on the 4th. The event was celebrated
with music, speeches, professions and fire
works.
A half.dozen boys celebrated the Fourth in
Chicago by filling bottle with powder and
setting fire to it, The result was the killing
of Gilbert McCune and the serious and proba-
bly, fatal wounding of Willie and Werner
Schafer.
The Fourth was very generally celebrated all
over the country. Orations We're delivered by
speakers of greater or less renown, and there
were paradcs of military, civic, and other or
CARNATIONS, with the usual fatal accompani-
ments.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says that
of the per cent National Bank reserve re-
CURED to be kept in the Treasury 100000
had been received, which is onc-half of the
total amount TO be deposited under the new
law. Applications for bank charters had
reached $1,000 600, and the circulation surren
dercd 100000
4 lN ilNu o'1'N uNltlbl'iN 1Il ~ lfliiNplh
Neb., has, by direction of the President, been
removed to Bloomington, in the same State.
\ Washington dispatch of the It'll says the
new Commissioners Of the District Of Column
hia had unanimously agreed upon a general
system of rctrcnchment.
On the It'll the Illinois Board of Railroad
and Warehouse Commissioners reduced the
grain inspection fees throughout the state 25
per cent, and ordered that the word new
shall be inserted in each certificate of iuspcc-
ton of a newly-harycstcd crop of wheat, rye
and barley until the lst day of September; of
oats until the LIST day Of August, and of corn
until the Goth day Of April Of each year
According to dispatches received from the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs ON the It'll,
serious outbreak had occurred among the
Indians in the Indian Territory 4 The, Chcy
cmcs, C,'oimcn, and. Hiowas III the number
Of 2p't had gone upon Tue wSar.path. aud
wct,r everywhere committing q xcdutians at
teudSd with unusual barbaritcs' Fiys W.
particS were thought to bc moving from me
north t6yk OF the Canadian River in the dircc-
ton of the >trai from the agency to Caldwell,
Kan The agent tclcgraphcd that the Indians
had said they would clean ont every white
man and rancho 10 that region An urgent
demand had been made for troops with which
to rrprl the maraudrr,
\ Madison wis Dispatch of the Sth says
That ON that morning the Attorney General
had filed in the Supreme Court of WISCONSIN
hill in equity, complaining Of violation Of
the laws OF the state regulating railroad, BY