Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-06

| September 4th
The Pennsylvania Coal Company's
miners have resolved to resume labor when
they get 10 per cent. advance.
The old John Brown monument at
ossawattomie Kansas, was dedicated onthe
30th IN presence of ten thousand people.
The sixth Baltimore regiment, two
companies of which did the fatal shooting at
the beginning Of the strike, has disbanded.
A dreadful fire has occurred in the
Rosario mine near the city of Mexico, In
which "a lives were lost and many persons in
jured.
The coal miners strike in Lehigh val
ley is virtually ended the late reduction OF
wages having generally been restored to the
laborers.
1t is reported that the Baltimore s.
Ohio railroad company have negotiated loan
| in London sufficient to fund the floating debt
and leave surplus.
In the grand parade of the Knights
Templars at Cleveland on the 2Sth, there were
175 communicates in line numbering not les s
than 5000 swords.
The Public Printer has discharged a
onsid cradle number of printers and other
employees of the government printing Office at
| Washington.
The famine alone has already cost the
government of India eight million pounds
sterling, and is costing five hundred thousand
pounds per month.
An agent of the American bridge Co.,
at Omaha, says the broken span of the bridge
will be replaced by trestle work and Howe
truss inside of twenty days.
The q. s. consul at Liverpool, has in
formed the State Department that neither
skilled nor unskilled workmen from abroad
can find employment in England.
Twenty-Five carpenters, the last of the
800 under engagement for three years with
the Manchester building firm. sailed from
New York for England on the ssth.
The prospects Of a large fall trade in
st. Louis are reported to be extraordinary
good, and it is believed the volume of trade
will be greater even than before the panic OF
1873.
The Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton
Railroad proposes hereafter to make ninety
miles days run instead of sixty as hereto
fore, and a strike among the freight engineers
and brakemen is imminent. s-.-- g.. ~
The Indians heretofore reported as
having turned back under Joseph to fight
Howard, were merely on a horse-stealing ex.
petition. They came within % miles of Vir-
ginia City and drove off 800 horses from Mad
ison Valley.
The Sandwich Savings Bank of Boston
Mass. with deposits aggregating $1,100,Oo0,has
been declared insolvent. The difficulty is said
to be due to shrinkage in value of property in
Boston and other places on which mortgages
valued at 100000 are held
Howard had slight skirmish with
Joseph's band on the Goth, in which one man
was killed and seven wounded The same
night the Indians stole 200 of Howard's horses
The Montana volunteers are returning home
Disguised, many of them on foot.
A s r;ke of the miners of the Philadelpbis
& Reading Coal and Iron Company has been
quashed by the announcement that the wages
fov August would be an advance of ten pei
cent. on July rates. In consequence, better
feeling prevails in the Schuylkill REGION.
Since Brigham Young's death the gov
eminent of the Mormon Church has passed
into the hands Of the twelve apostles, two o.
whom, Joseph Smith and Orson Pratt, are ir
England. 1t is not likely president of the
Church will be appointed for some time.
The Papal bull regulating the pro-
cedure to be observed by the conclave of car
dinals in case of the death of the Pope, has
been completed at the Vatican. It empowers
Cardinal Camerlandi to summon conclave
Immediately or await the arrival of foreign
cardinals.
At Des Moines Iowa, On the 31st, dur.
ing the7 consideration of the famous lows
Central Railroad case, the charges of Isaac
NJ. Cate of Boston affecting the fairness and
impartiality of Judge billions judicial action
were considered and pronounced untrue, by
the counsel engaged therein.
An incendiary fire broke out on the af.
ternoon of the 31st ult, in the town of Paris
Texas, which destroyed large portion of the
city, and resulted in the loss of several lives
The loss is estimated at from 100000 10
81, 100000. The supposed incendiary has been
arrested and lodged in Jail.
Gen Terry having reported at Washing.
ton that Sitting Bull with 1900 warriors had
crossed the line, the proceedings in reference
to appointing a commission to arrange fol
his return has been temporarily suspended
Sitting Bull is encamped between the Uill
& Missouri River near the Little Rocky
Mountains.
A train on the Missouri Pacific rail
way, at road crossing near Laclede, about
eight miles from st. Louis, on the 2Sth, raI
into a covered wagon containing w. F. Richly
wife and two children. Richly was killed in
stantly, his wife died in few minutes, one o.
the children is fatally injured, and the Older
had thigh broken.
The strike, which was imminent among
the employees of the Cincinnati Hamilton
Dayton Railroads on account of the roads
frightening days run to ninety miles instead
of sixty as before, with extra compensation
for the labor, has been quashed by the roads,
acceding to the demands of the men who
waited in body upon President Shoemaker
and explaining the situation to him. The orde
for increases distance was thereupon prompt,
revoked.
The bar Association of Cleveland Ohio
have telegraphed Gov. Grover of Oregon, nov
U. s. Senator from that State, relative to w
B. Higbee who is proclaimed by members o
the association without regard to party, as al
unmitigated liar, Charged with forgery ana
embezzlement, obtaining money under FALSE
pretenses and adultry, and as having been ex
PEELED from the association. Hgbee hat
made affidavit before Morton's investigating
committee that money had been used to in
fuence Growers election to the U. 8. Senate
On the 26th, Lieut.. Schofield from TIT
top of Mount Washburn Montana, oh
served the Indians when they killed party o
, white men and captured and carried off tw'
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