The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-26

fprlvate eiti3en Of the sstatSs 81 Iowa. The
managers on the part Of the House than asked
for time in which TO consider thu ple.. and I'M
adjournment was had until Wednesday, the
18th. az <!t.. = =
!, r.. Miscellaneous News 1a.ms. = IL
Queen Victoria has returned from
her foreign.trip. / { r! y
Spain has closed negotiations with
the Pope on the subject of religious unity.
/ The New Jersey. courts have de-
cided that election bets are not good in law.
1t is now regarded as certain that a
formidable Indian war is at hand on the
upper Missouri. >.
The greatest snow storm expe-
rienced for years visited parts..of England on
the 18th inst
The freight pool from: Chicago to
the seaboard has broken and rates have de-
clined ten cents .i.~... - =,
The Centennial grounds have been
closed to visitors until May 10th, the time
set for the grand opening.
The steamer D. A. Mcdonald collid-
ed with bridge pier at Keokuk, and was to-
tally wrecked. Loss $4,000.
The Moody and Sankey meetings in
New York were closed on the 18th. Over 3d.
600 people attended during the day.
A recent demonstration in favor of
the release Of tho Tichbourne claimant called
out over ten thousand people in London.
Reports from the broken levees on
the lower Mississippi indicate greater dam
age by the spring floods than for many years
past.
The terrible plague has broken out
in Persia and in one city the deaths number
| over hundred daily. The disease is rapidly
spreading.
Europe continues to be much ag-
| itated by the condition of Turkish affairs, and
general war would not be surprising
| denoument
The revolution in Hayti is triumph
ant. The President has fled and the Vice
President and General of the federal army
| have been shot,
Crop reports to the Inter-Ocean from
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois reports damage to
| the peach crop, but wheat and other crops do
ing well on the Goth.
Gov. Hays has issued proclama-
ton to the striking miners in Ohio, that all
lawlessness must cease at once or the militia
will be called upon to preserve the peace.
The proprietors of the Missouri
State Lottery have brought suit against the
police commissioners of St. Louis for $780,
600 damages for breaking up their business.
Ex-Gov. Hoffman, of New York, act
ing as referee, has decided that the re-mar-
riage Of persons divorced is illegal This
will put stop to rather popular amuse-
ment.
The mayor of Chicago, who was
lately asked to resign by meeting OF chest
citizens" replies that he will not resign until
the chest citizens" come forward and pay up
their back taxes.
Garvey and Kensey, two of the
Tweed ring contractors in New York are ready
to make restitution of all money plundered
from the city as soon as the amount can be
ascertained, and have filed pleas to that effect
Chicago hald a supplementary elec-
ton on the 18th, which passed off very quiet
~, business houses being generally closed
and the best citizens going to the polls.
Hoyne was elected mayor with little oppo-
sition.
A riot lately took place at Leaven-
| worth, Kansas, between a party of striking
miners and q number Of negroes whom the
mine owners were going to set at work. Pts
tolls, clubs and knives were freely used, but
no deaths are reported.
A break in the levee at Quincy, ILL.,,
overlooked the bottom lands and drove the
entire population to the bluffs, leaving every
| thing behind them. First reports failed to
give any estimate of the loss which must be
very great, as many buildings and other pro-.
perty was swept away.
A party of Black Hill emigrants had
fight with the Indians about forty miles
south of Custer City and Mr.. and Mrs. Metz,
of Laramie, were killed. Four men were
wounded seriously and the others escaped.
Remains of several wagons have been found
indicating fight ana the killing OF the ell
tire party.
!. A violent street fracas took place in
Limerick, Ireland, on the 18th, between a
party of nationals" representing the re-
manning Fenian organizations, and process
sion Of s'home-rulers." The latter party.
numbering several thousands, was attacked
by several hundred Of the former, and des-
perate fight with sticks, stones and knives
took place. About a hundred persons were
injured, of whom six have died.
Eads' jetties are not as successful as
the great engineer would have us suppose if
the leading ship agents and masters can be
believed. They say that a bar is forming
across the mouth of the jetties which is rap
idly shoaling. The danger now is now that
New Orleans will become thoroughly land