The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-08

THE government was informed by tele
graph from Gen. Miles, on the goth, OF the
crossing of Milk river by Sitting Bull, and
his encampment between the Milk and MIS-
souri, rivers, in the neighborhood OF Little
Rocky Mountains, and about fifty miles
southeast of Fort Belknap. Sitting BulP'
presence again in the United States with
large force will cause additional action al
the War Department in dealing with the In
dian problem.
SENATOR CoCKRELL, in a letter to the
treasury department regarding the claims
for use or occupation of private property by
the Union army during the rebellion, de
sres the department to send good officer
to Missouri to investigate such claims.
THE government paper mills at Glenn
Mills, Pa, will be closed on September LIST
The stock now on hand for bank note and
internal revenue purposes is so large tha
an additional supply will not be needed fol
year. Treasury clerks will superinteno
the transfer of paper from the mills to
Washington.
MAIL service has been ordered -on the
Cincinnati Southern railroad from Ludlow
to Somerset KY.
BY direction of the President a letter has
been addressed to Revenue Collector kis
singer, of the fifteenth Ohio district, re
questing his resignation at once. His sue
cesser will be decided upon this week. A
special treasury agent has examined the ac
counts of the office and discovered discrep
encies. The Collector was also found to be
addicted to drunkenness Hence the change
SECRETARY SHERMAN returned to Wash
ington from Ohio on the Goth inst.
GENERAL.
Four additional indictments were found
at Columbia, S. c., on the 3lst ult., three
against i. Cass Carpenter, late collector OF
internal revenue of that state, for forgery
and one against Woodruff and Jones, clerks
in the senate and house, and the principals
of the republican.
The engineers, firemen and brakemen OF
the c. III. & d. road refused to move freight
trains ON the 31st ult. All is quiet, but the
men are determined not to submit to the
recent change made by the road
ADMIRAL SEMMEs, of Alabama fame, died
at Mobile on the 30th.
A. b. HAYNES, grand master of the Ten
nessee state grange, and a leading farmer
died at his plantation near Memphis on the
Goth, after brief illness of congestion of the
BRAIN
GEN. BEDFORD FORREST, the famous con.
federate cavalry officer, is dangerously i'll al
Bailey Springs, Ala, from chronic diarrhe
His friends have but little hope of his re.
covery.
CAPT. EADS, engineer of the Mississippi
jetty scheme, has prepared plans for bridg-
ing the Bosphorus, thus connecting Pera
with the Asiatic shore. The bridge is to be
6,OO0fee long, entirely of iron, granite piers,
with a roadway 120 feet above the water sur
face.
ONE hundred and sixty cigar-makers in
the employ of Krohn, Friss & Co., Cincin-
natl, on the 28th, struck, alleging as cause,
that journeymen were now able to make
only S. per week.
THE Pennsylvania coal company's miners
resolved to resume labor when they get 10
per cent advance.
THE General Grand Chapter of Royal
Arch Masons, in session at Buffalo adjourned
on the 25th inst, after inviting the Grand
Chapters of West Virginia and Texas to be-
come constituents, and providing that nine
members constitute quorum to open the
Royal Arch Chapter for business.