Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-03-30
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tendent of Education Cordozro.
Cook, from the Committee on Military AZ
fairs reported a bill in the House to reduce
the area of the military reservation of Fort
l. aramie, Wyoming to ffty-four square
miles. Passed.
Williams Mich from the Committee on
Military Affairs reported a bill in the House
repeating the law which forbids the appoint
ment to any position in the army Of anv
person who served i'll any capacity i'm the
military, naval OF civil service OF the Confed-
crate States i'll the late rebellion. Passed.
Banning, from the Committee on Military
Affairs reported a bill in the House to reo,1-
late the pay OF army officers. The bill fixes
the pay as follows: General, $50. 900: Lieu
tenant-General, $4,000; Maior-Gen
$4,000; Brigadier-Gene S., 200; Colonel.
$4,000; Lieutenant-C Colonel, $4,000: Major.
$4,000 Captain, mounted, $4,000; CAPTAIN.
not mounted, ST 1900 adjutant, S .sOO First
Lieutenant, mounted, 81, 900; First Lieuten.
ant, not mounted, $1,000; Second Lieuten-
ant, mounted. 81 800; Second Lieutenant.
not mounted, ST, 400.
Last week Trockmorton addressed the
House, while in Committee of the Whole. on
the necessity of protecting the frontiers of
the country.
Baker introduced a bill to promote the
mining resources Of the United States.
which wa referred.
The Government Of Mexico has imposed
an extraordinary tax of one-half of one per
cent. The French and Spanish residents OBJ
jected to paying it. Foster, United States
Minister, declines to act with the other for
eign Legations ina protest against the tax,
and the foreign residents abstain from ac-
ton.
Paul Dahlgreen, Consul General of the
United Stats to Italy, and son of the late
Rear-Admiral Dahlgreen, died at Rome on
the Oath inst.
Hazel Green, located in the southeast
corner Of Grant Co, Wis, near the Illinois
State line, is a small town of 1000 people
engaged principally in lead-mining. That
town was visited with a disastrous tornado
on the afternoon of March the 10th at about
four o'clock, which proved to be destruc-
tive to life and property. The storm struck
the village between four and five O'Clock
on the west side and then took an easterly
course, sweeping through the entire village,
leyeling to the ground some twenty-five
buildings, and killing outright eight persons
besides seriously Wounding twelve or more
others. The storm appears toshaye been
absolutely resistless. There was no partial
demolition of objects in it's course: no ruin
simply of frail tenements, while stronger
one resisted successfully. All that the tor
nado struck in its full force it destroyed
absolutely, completely. Heavy stone build
ings were crushed like paper boxes, not by
persistent beating about them, butinstantly,
as if a colossal band of iron had struck them
to the earth. No instance occurs to us
where the destruction and loss Of life have
been so great proportionately from such
a cause. One whole family named Rich
ards, together with a neighbour and her
infant child, were killed, and SO suddenly
did the tornado strike the dwelling where
they were assembled, and so quick was the
work, that they were found in the very
positions occupied ere the stroke descend
ed, having had apparently no time to
make even a frightened movement toward
escape.
The town stands out upon the rolling pra-
RE, and hence must nave received the full
force of the fearful storm which bore death
to SO many of its inhabitants. Hazel Green
is noted as the place where the poet, J. s.
Percival, died twenty years ago, and where