Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1877-02-28
BISMARCK AND The BtlCK HILLS.
Chicago to Dead#esd ;m31.2Days.
Surrender Of 200 Indians and 800
Ponies.
OTHER MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Special to the Bismarck TRIBUNE:


ST. PAUL, Feb. 26.-The electoral COM
mission decided by vote Of eight to
seven to count all three of the electoral
votes of Oregon for Hayes and Wheeler.
The points of the decision are that the
certificate of the Secretary of State is
sufficient to show the election Of the
Republican candidates; that the selec-
tion of Watts by the other two to fill
the vancy was in accordance with law
and that he was eligible when so select
ed, his resignation as post m aster hav-
ing been accepted November 14th.
The
SENATE CONFIRMED.
the decision in the Oregon case on Sat-
urday, the House voting to disagree,
but at the joint meeting Oregon was
counted for Hayes. Objection was made
to the vote of Boggs,
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTOR
appointed in the place of Daniel j. Mer-
rili, who was a Centennial Commissions
er, and Immediately thereafter the
.....-.-- HOUSE TOOK A RECESS ,-.~.5s.'
until to-day when the objection was
discussed amid great excitemen and it
appears that the Democrats who desire
to defeats count and thus force new
election afe3increasedsto eighty. The
Senate, however, overruled the:Pennsyl-
vania objection and the vote was finally
couated for HAYES, when the count was
continued until
+ @ RHODE ISLAND
was reached when objection was made.
to the vote of Slater, who it was alleged,
was ineligible and the houses again
MOTION 70 RECESS
was defeated in the House by vote of
SO to 158 from which it would appear
helmalcontents are not strong enough
to defeat the election of Hayes.
SOUTH CAROLINA
!. ST. P1E,sFebs ~, The objections in
the Rhede Island ease, mentioned .in
dispatches yesterday, 'wereoverruied ~
both houses last evening and the South
Carolina returns were then taken up for
consideration and the two sets of re-
turnss~were~referred. to-,4the. electoral
Commission and argument on them be
fore the commission is now in progress.
GEN. TERRY
has gone to Chicago to arrange with
Gen. Sheridan Tor the early buildingSof
the Big Horn posts and for, an active
prosecution of the spring campaign:
LIEUT. CUMMINGS COMMAND
attacked Sioux village on the Belle
Fourche forty miles north of Deadwood
on Sunday. The Indians fed leaving a
large herd of sheep and small number
Of cattle, is ponies and few robes and
blankets. At night the Indians
ATTACKED THE SOLDIERS
and were repulsed swithga loss Of one
killed. No whites injured. The Indi-
ans had attacked Spearfish on Wednes-
day previous but no miners we're injured.
THE TT. LINCOLN FORAGE
contract was awarded to P. NJ. Black
burn.
SOUTH CAROLINA IN MOURNING.
The President having forbidden a
militia parade in Columbia, anticipating
trouble, on Washington's birthday, the.
flags on public and private buildings
were accordingly draped in mourning.
NOW ITS BUSINESS.
ST. PAUL. Feb. 28.-Men leave here
tomorrow to build stations, stables,
&C., for the use of Blakely, Carpenter &
Clark's Northwestern Transportatio
Company operating between
BIsNARcK AND DEADwooD.
The line will be staked by the com .
sppointed BY the Territorial
Legislature early in. March. The com n
uany has flooded the east and south
With hand bills advertising theirs IS Y