, 1875-04-24
LATEST NEWS
BY Telegraph and Mail.

Cooke and others against the
Northern Pacific Railroad, asking
the appointment Of a receiver.
G.W< Cass vas appointed receiver.
Intense excitement exists in po-
litical circles in New Orleans.
On April goth a terrible fight
occurred near jacksonville, Ore
gon, between Mrs. johnson, her
two sons, and Daniel Dolby. A
gun, pistol and clubs were used.
One of the Johnsons was fatally
shot and the other dangerously
wounded. Dolby gave himself up.
Two hundred immigrants are
detained at Rawlins, on the u. P,
Road, by the unprecedented flood.
The Company have to furnish
them two meals day.
A heavy frost occurred in Mem
phis on the 18th, killing vegeta-
bles and damaging the fruit crop.
Rhode Island went Republican
at the election held there the 10th.
On the 18th the mercury was at
zero in Chicago, and the water
pipes all frozen up.
The high water which for sew
eral days past has delayed the
trains on the Union Pacific, has f.
nally become so high that travel
is entirely suspended between
Laramie and Ogden. The Union
Pacific officials advise travellers
for the Pacific coast not to start
till notice of the blockade being
broken is given.
The miners of Pottsville, Pa,
are becoming very sick of the
strike, and are leaving in consid-
erable numbers for other parts of
the country. They anathemize
the Miners Union in very strong
language.
Mrs. E. L. Irwin, highly re-
spectacle widow lady of Hanni-
bal, Missouri, tied a clothes line
around herself and little daughter
six years old, fastened the other
end to a stake in the ground, and
then took the child in her arms
and deliberately walked into the
river. Both were drowned. Fl
nancial embarrassments and disap-
pointment in love are understood
to be the causes of the act.
Another half million of Tweed's
property has been attached in
Westchester County, N. Y.
J. W. Scoonmaker, a travelling
agent for Kane & O'Leaoy, of San
Francisco, committed suicide in
New York on the 18th by shooting
himself. A gold watch and chain,
several articles of jaWelry, and
s940 were found on his body.
| A dispatch from Fort Laramie
says Capt. Mix's company, who
were sent after mining party that
were going to the Black Hills se-
cured the whole of them, consist
ing of sixteen men, one woman
and a boy. There are heavy
SHOWS in the Black Hills. A war
party of Sioux and Arapahoes are
reported to have left for the Sho-
shone country.
The spinner's strike is over in
New Hampshire, and the men are
returning to work on the terms
proposed originally by their en-
ployers.
Senator Spencer, of Alabama,
exhibits so much interest in the
discovery of the mail contract
frauds that some think him impli-
Gated, while others think it is on
account Iof. several friends who
will be brought into trouble.
A dispatch from Ottawa, dated
the 18TH says: Surveyors with a
large staff of assistants will leave
here nextweek for British Colum-
bia, to locate the position of the
Pacific Railway from the Rocky
Mountains. They will be en-
ployed chiefly on the Rocky
Mountains. Other parties have
been organized to prosecute the
location Of the survey. The tele-
graph line from Edmonton to the
Pacific coast will not be built till
the railway is finally located.
Reliable private Cuban dispatch
es announces the continued burn
ing of sugar plantations by the in
surgents.
The difficulty between the Mer-.
chants Bank Of Canada and the
Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad
has resulted in placing the railway
in the hands of a receiver.
A battle of Lexington celebra-
ton took place in Massachusetts,
on the 18th inst. The President
and Cabinet, Mrs. Grant and
daughter, attended it.
The design for the 20-oent silver
piece is a sitting figure of Liberty
surrounded BY thirteen stars. Be-
meath the figure is the date 1875.
On the reverse is a figure of an
eagle, with the word twenty cents.
The edge of the coin will be per-
feetly smooth, to distinguish it
from the 25-cent coins.
Two colored murderers, Bunch
and Hardee, were sentenced to be.
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