Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-10-19
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today nominated Geo. ID. Chaffee.
CHICAGO, October 1o.-Jomuars Column
bus, Ohio special says: The Republican ma
i~orities are continually increasing, and the
strongest candidates will have over 10000
majority, while Barnes will get nearly
1900.
TORONTO, Canada. October 13.-Ihe
schooner Maggie Hunter, Captain Nixon, OF
Toronto, coal ladcned, is reported to have
gone down with all hands during the pas
sage from Oswego to this port.
CHICAGO, October 13.-The Ti15uue's
Washington special says the reason why tho
West Virginia vote is so largely Democratic
Is because the disabilities of a great number
of rebels awe been removed since the last
election.
MEMPHIS. October 15.-The Republicans
of this district to-day nominated VIM. M.
Randolph for Congress, vice Barbour Lewis,
who declined on account of dissatisfaction
among the white Republicans.
The Democrats fired 100 guns over the.
Indiana election.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, October 13.-Last night
at 8 o'clock, the bonded warehouse Of I'll. y.
Owings, in Edwards county, was destroyed
by fire. Owings was absent at the time and
the place was in charge of the government
storekeepcr. -Four hundred barrels of w1is-
ky were destroyed. Loss, S27 600; insur-
ance, $l4, 600.
KANSAS CRY, October ia Denver spe-
cial says that La Plata county, claimed by
the Republicans, gives 1O3 Democratic ma
jority for Paterson for Congress. Hinsdale,
Saywin and Rio Grande counties must be
officially reported to determine the result,
though the Republican State ticket will be
successful by d meagre majority.
WASHINGTON, October 11.-Gen. Young,
of Georgia, q Democratic ex-Member Of
Congress who was i'll the real estate pool in
vestigation, who is just from New York,
represents the outlook in that State for I'll
den as decidedly encouraging as Gov. Til
den told him a week ago that if he couldn't
sweep the State he would move out OF it.
New YoRK, October 13.-Vhe Times In
dianapolis correspondent maintains that the
Democratic gains in Indiana are nearly all
on the border and the result of Kentucky
importations. They were not in the coun-
ties bordering directly on the river, but 4
short way inland, to throw off suspicion. 1t
will be impossible to repeat this in Noven,-
Der because they will be needed to vote at
home.
PHILADELPHIA, October 12.-Statistics
prove that there is no reasonable ground for
the stories that Philadelphia is suffering from
an unusual prevalence of typhoid fever and
bad disorders. The death rate form these
causes since the exhibition opened has been
three-fourths Of that in Chicago, tiye-eighths
Of that in Brooklyn, and four-seyenths OF
that in New York.
BosToN, October 13.-The steamboat ex-
press train from Fall River for Boston came
In collision this morning with a freight train
at Randolph. The two engines of the
steamboat train and the engine of the freight
train, with the baggage and crate cars were
completely wrecked. One fireman was
killed, and engineers Deerow and Crosby.
and passengers John Male and Jas. NJ. Wat
son, of Boston, We're severely injured;
CHEYENNE, Wy, October 13.-General
Merritt left Custer City with 500 men OH a
scout to-day. His destination is not pos
itively known, but it is surmised to be the
Belle Fork of tho Cheyenne river. The re-
mainder Of the command is still at Custer
City.
The party Of Indians who killed Monroe,
near Fort Laramie, a few days ago, also rail-
cd the ranch of Nick Jones, on the old Red
(Mop1 ,ood ctaol;nr 1S ho,uoc Moproo,c