The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-06-17
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

There was a reduction of 724 in
the number Of breweries in this count.
ny last fall.
Ten to twenty more harbors in
Japan are to be opened to foreign
trade.
The Duke of Geneva died in
Kentucky lately, worth $4,000. He
was only a bull.
-OBrien, the Irish giant, died |
poor but his skeleton sold for $780,
600. So they say.
In the last eight years nearly one
hundred millions of dollars worth of |
church property was sold in Italy,.
Philadelphia has to expend ST.
100000 to provide the needed in
crease Of water supply for the Gen.
tennial.
Immense swarms of grasshoppers
have appeared at Plattsmouth, Neb.,
destroying everything edible. They
are going northward.
The treasury department is conf
dent that the proofs already obtained
are sufficient to convict all the crooked
whisky distillers.
The Worcester Young Mems
Christian Association employs a cler-
gyman to frequent saloons and billiard
halls and talk religion to young men.
DIR. Eccleston, of West Phila-
delphia, has not accepted the Epis-
copal Bishopric Of Iowa, but will
The opposition to him is dying out.
The sentence of Jesse Pomeroy,
Of Boston, having been committed,
Piper, who killed only one little girl,
should be honorably set at liberty.
The workmen's societies of Paris
have opened national subscription
to provide for sending delegates to the
centennial exposition at Philadelphia
Gen. Butler will not appear
actively in the coming political cam
paign in Massachusetts unless he sees
an opportunity of hurting some of his
enemies.
BY an accident on the Southern
Minnesota railway Tuesday, Lieu
tenant Governor Sherwood had his
arm broken and received serious in
1juries on his head.
Two small boys were hauled be-
fore the Preston, Conn.,, police court,
and fined one cent each for the helm
GUS offence Of calling one William
Armstrong a "sundower."
Bennett, of the New York Her.
aid, appears to have gone to Europe
to buy dogs, as he is announced about
to return with four pointers, at an
expense of $4,000 apiece. =
"A Memphis special says the
young crops of corn and and cotton in
the valleys Of the Arkansas, Yazoo,
White, St. Francis, and along the
main rivers farther South to the Gulf,
were never more promising than now.
The Grand Jury presented four
indictments against Chas. Clinton,
| State Auditor of Louisiana-two for
misdemeanor in Office, one for: ex-
tortion, and one for embezzling $780,
900 of State funds. His bail is fixed
at $23,5O0. :
| The headquarters of the National
Grange ofPatrons Of Husbandry,w which
ever since the organization of the or.
der has been located in Washington,
WILL probably be removed to Louis
vile, KY, in short time.
| in the German federal council
Friday, the president of the imperial
chancellor, submitted several votes Of
supply to meet the expense of a prop
er representative Of Germany at the
| United States centennial exhibition.
"A committee of three gentlemen,
appointed by the Black Killers who
have suffered loss by the destruction
of property by themilitary, sued the
government officers Friday, at Omaha,
who destroyed it. Damages claimed,
$4,000.
| Charles G Fuller, president and
! u. T. Mowry, treasurer, of the Chaplin
paper company, Norwich, Ct, have alb
seconded, leaving outstanding obliga-
lions estimated at $4,000, the greater
part of which is believed to be forged
notes.
! "A couple ofwhite men are re.
ported to have had a desperate fight
with a band of Cheyenne Indians in
Rawlins County, Kan. The encoun-
ter lasted four hours, and the redskins
were driven away with loss of seven
of their number. H.
! The cattle-stealing raids Of the
| Mexican thieves continue with un-
abated frequency: Twelve of the
creatures were wiped out of existence,
however, by Capt. McNeely and some
of his Texan troops in fight Satur.
day. The force of the thieves mum.
bered exactly twelve.
| The election of directors of the
Milwaukee and ST. Paul railway Fri
day resulted in the success of what is
termed the reform party among the
stockholders and the defeat of Mr..
Russell Sage, whose name, for the first
time in many years is dropped from
the list of directors.