Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-20

has been deposited with the exception OF
about $7SO,00O" z.
The President has directed the land Office
of the lately created Western District Of Kan-
sas to be located at Hayes City, and That Of
the Arkansas Valley District at Larncd.
The Commissioners governing the District
Of Columbia have consolidated the School
Trustees of the District into one Board, con-
sisting of ten white and five colored members.
1t is said this consolidation is not designed to
affect the present relation OF white and colored
schools.
A few days ago girl eight years Of age,
named Ida Kurtz, was burned to death at
Green Bay, Wis, while attempting to start a
fire with kerosene.
In the recent races at Buffalo, n. Y, Gold
smith Maid trotted mile in 2:l51z, being
the fastest time on record.
A Cincinnati dispatch OF the 9th says
forty i've dead bodies of persons lost by
the burning of the steamer Pat Rogers had
been recovered, and all but fifteen had been
fully identified. Two known to be lost had
not yet been found, making forty-seven vic
tins in all, with a possibility of there being
three or four more.
News from Clusters Black Hills expedition,
received ON the 18th, was to the ef
feet that the command was in good
health and spirits. A small party Of
Sioux were met with on the 27th, but
there had been no fighting as yet. Since
the command struck the Black Hills 1t had
been prospecting in continuous line in the
most beautiful valley man ever looked upon.
In Custer Valley rich mines had been discov-
cred, both placer and quartz digging, and that
immense section bids fair to become the Ell
dorado OF America. The march would be re-
sumed on the 9th for the head waters of the
Little Missouri, and from thence to Fort Lin
coin.
Much excitement was caused in st. Paul,
Mimi, on the Sth by the publication of pre-
tended special telegram from New York an
nouncing that Henry Ward Beccher had COM
mitted suicide. The report was extensively
circulated, and much confusion followed
when it was aseertained that the report was
a hoax.
A brutal prize fight occurred near Pitts
burgh, Pa. on the 18th, between Billy Ed
wards and Sam Collyer, Eleven rounds were
fought, when Collyer threw up the sponge.
Arguments in the railroad injunction suit
pending before the Wisconsin Supreme Court
closed on the 18th, and the case was taken
under advisement.
According to Memphis (Tenn.) dispatches
a war between the races was raging on the
18th at Austin, Miss. The town was reported
as surrounded by negroes who had threatened
to attack and destroy it. The whites were
hurrying to the rescue of the beleaguered
town, and the besieging force of blacks was
receiving constant reinforccments. The
cause of the trouble was the shooting of a
negro girl by one DR.. Smith. Dispatches
state that he was attacked by negro, when,
drawing q pistol. he fired at him, but
missed, and killed little negro girl
who was standing near, which exasperated
the colored people to such an extent that
they collected a mob and took Smith to the
woods to hang him, but were dissuaded there.
from by the entreaties of some white women.
On the night Of the 10th an attack was made
on a body of negroes, which resulted in the
killing of ten and the wounding of as many
more.
At Rochester, n Y, on the 10Th, Goldsmith
Maid beat her previous unprecedented time
by three quarters of second, making her
mile in 2:l4sl. Not skip was made during
the entire heat. The other heats were trotted
in 2:l9Is and 2:19a4.
A Memphis (Tenn.) midnight telegram Of
the 18th says that latest reports from Austin,
Miss, state that peace had been restored. The
negroes entered the town but did no damage.
The impression prevailed that few deter
mined men at the outset could have prevented
the whole trouble.
that on the 9th a company Of strolling In
dams campcd near Il remote farm house in
Colfax County, Neb. Two squaws searched
| the house for food and beat the farmers wife
| over the head for Directing. The man came
home, and, seeing his wife wounded, shot one
of the squaws. The other reported the fact,
| and twelve Indians came to the house
skinned the farmer, and cut his hands off and
heart out in the presence of his wife.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court adjourned
on the 18th for two weeks, when it was ex.
pected the decision in the railroad Injunction
case would be rendered.
personal
President Grant has received dispatch
from the President of Uruguay congratu-
lating him upoa the establishment of tele-
graphic communication between the two
countries.