The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-08-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS IrElp.
Disastrous floods are reported
from Calcutta. s
NJ Not one exp President left, and
only two ex-Vice- Presidents, Hamlin
and Colfax. s.z
The miners in the Black Hills
have been given until August 18th
to vacate. ." =, -.-
"A white frost was quite visible
at South Bend, Ind, on the morning
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"A new levy Of 100000 men is
soon to be made by the Madrid gov
eminent in Spain. "h" -. /
San Francisco was yesterday Wis
tied by a disastrous fire, which was
raging at last accounts. .ss-
Twelve families have fled Viii
hanson county, ILL.,, to escape the ven
geance of outlaws who overrun it. i
Gen. Custer is satisfied that the
murder of Robert Henry. near Bis
marck, was committed by Indians.
In a recent fight between whites
and Indians, near Fort Peck, the lat
ter were driven off with one killed.
The Northampton anchor, tape
and webbing company of Springfield,
Mass, has failed. Liabilities $50, 900.
About fifteen thousand persons
are attending the national Methodist
camp meeting at Old Orchard Beach,
Maine.
BY the bursting of a water-spout
over Kern, in Rhenish Russia, many
houses were destroyed and thirteen
persons drowned.
| By the breaking of a reservoir
at Selma, Ohio, much damage to
crops resulted, and two or three per-
sons were drowned.
The extensive saw mills of G. L.
Coleman, Of La Crosse, were burned
Thursday nj ht. Loss, $4,000 to
100000; no insurance.
-Grasshoppers have again ap-
peared at points along the Union
Pacific railroad, in Nebraska, and
are destroying the crops. i. :
The Madrid government denies
that it intends negotiating a seven
million dollars loan to indemnify the
Porto Rico slave owners.
1t is asserted by a Cincinnati
newspaper that no Ohio farm, how
ever carefully managed, yields more
than 8 per cent. average profit.
1t is estimated that the canned
| goods business of the United States
now amounts to about 100000 900
annually, and is steadily growing.
The census of New York City
has been completed, and the total
population is shown to be 1,O64,272,
an increase in five years of 91,166.
Some of our Eastern cotton mills
are about to ship an invoice of their
bleached goods to England, with a
view Of opening up a market for
them.
Hereafter the Prussian Govern
ment will levy tax on beer and on
stock operations, in order to meet a
deficit Of $5,000,000 in the annual
budget.
The Official Gazette at Madrid
will soon publish the Ministerial de.
cree appointing Commissioner for
Spain to the Philadelphia Exposi.
ton.
Eighteen additional cotton mills
involved in the Oldham strike, in En-
gland, have closed their doors, and
the number of operatives idle is in
creased to 10000.
"A dispatch from Gaitreau, Cana
da, says three children while picking
berries in the brush were killed by a
bear. Only the feet and arms Of one
child can be found
Mrs., Austin Drake, of Eau
Claire, drowned one of her children
I and committed suicide. She attempt
ed to drown two others of her child
rem but they escaped.
BY a terrible railroad accident
in Chill, on the night of the 9Th,
twenty-five persons were crushed or
burned to death. The accident was
caused by a rotten bridge.
Preparations are being made to
meet the attack of the Indian M0r-
mons on the Gentiles at Corinne,
Utah. Three companies Of troops
have been sent to that point.
1t is now believed that the four
young men whose bodies were recent
| ~ found in the river at Cincinnati,
and who were supposed to have been
drowned, were murdered by robbers.
Crops Of all kinds in. portions of
Alabama and Georgia have suffered
terribly for want of rain. It is SO
| dry and hot that even trees are dy-
ing and shedding their leaves like
| autumn.
Lockwood is thename of the En-
glishman who has invented process
of condensing beer into powder. A