Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1878-01-15
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az ES. SftlCACO.
Application has been made al the
| General Land Office for the re-suryey of
the old Post Dearborn military reserva-
| ton, on which portion of Chicago is
now built. The application is based upon
the theory, that the sale of the reserva-
! ton was not authorized by law.
KEY MAY RETIRE.
P. NJ. General Key, will go out of the
Cabinet next summer, if he is nominated
for Governor of Tennessee.
A GENERAL SHOE STRIKE.
The shoe business Of Lynn, Mass, is
suspended by general strike, Three
thousand are thrown out of employment.
coNsrANr1NoPLE
is being crowded by Turkish fugitive=.
Turks are burning the towns they evacu-
ate, before the advancing Russians. The
Porte has asked Russia to state what con-
dit1ons she will grant peace on.
AT HIS WITS END.
The Spanish Ambassador, at Paris, is
put to his wits, by Ex-Queen Isabella's
determination to attend the marriage of
her son, Don Alphonso, notwithstanding
the Royal decree, forbidding her to enter
Spain.
THE LARGEST FIRE
in London for many years, occurred
Saturday evening, on Waiting street.
Loss, 81 100000.
AID FOR TURKEY.
One steamer loaded with million dol
lars worth Of wal material for Turkey, is
awaiting orders i'll Long Island Sound.
Another has arrived at New Haven for a
similar cargo. s..
COAL FIRE.
All the coal mines near Pittsburgh, Pa,
have suspended on account of fire in the
shafts. Immense veins of coal. hundreds
of feet below the surface, are all burning.
THE DEMOCRATS
of the House, hold caucus, to-day, to
consider the causes of general dissatis-
faction with their clerk and door keeper.
THE BUFFALO BANKERS
have unanimously resolved to cooperate
with the N. Y. City bankers in their op-
position to the Bland silver bill.
ST. PAUL, Jan. L 5, 1878.
MITCHELL AND THE n. P.
In the Senate. yesterday, Senator
Mitchell, Of Oregon, presented petition
from Oregonians favoring the bill intro
duced by him for diverting part of ::the
N. P. R. r. grant to the Oregon and Salt
r. R. He repudiated the report, that he
misrepresen:ed his section in introducing
this bill.
BORDIR OUTRAGES.
Gov. Hubbard, of Texas, publishes a
three column letter to the President, de-
failing the border ontrages for twenty
years, including the capture Of Browns
vile by Cortinas in 50, robbery of Gus
tom House, murder of officers, killing of
hundreds of men, and scores of other
outrages, millions Of property stolen from
Texas, and Mexico furnishing an asylum
for robbers, and refusing extradition;
also Indians sheltered in Mexico, who
wage savage warfare upon Texas, and
have carried children into Mexico, where
they are now held as slaves. He says
that Texas does not want war, but pre-
lection. He says the mob who shot
Howard, Mcbride and Atkinson, was
largely composed of Mexican citizens.
THE RUSSIAN COLUMN
is headed towards Adrianople, and con-
tinues to advance. Twenty thousand
fugltives arrived in Constantinople last
week. The Russian Duke Nicholas,
agreed to negotiate for an armistice when
the Turkish delegates reach him, but
cannot give conditions dnti; then.
n. p. EXTENSION. -... .-
A memorial to congress was introduced
in the Wisconsin Senate, yesterday,
favoring the extension Of the time Of the
n. P. r. r.
Halls new Daily Globe appeared this
morning
A Board Of Survey, consisting Of
officers detailed from Fort \. Lincoln
convened yesterday morning, at Bis
marck, for the purpose Of counting
one shundred and eighty thousand
BRICK, for which Capt. Lee A. G. ".
U. S. A. is responsible. These brick
were brought to Bismarck over ,he
Northern Pacific Railroad in the fal! OF
1876, and were designed for the con-
struction of the military posts erected
last year at Tongue river and Big
Horn, and arrived too late to be trans