Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1878-02-19
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SILVER BILLPAsSED. -.
ST. PAUL Feb. 1S.-The silver bill as
passed by the senate requires the coinage
of not less than two nor more than four
millions month from the bullion pur-
chased by the government for the puI-
pose at,market rates and provides for the,
calling Of an international conference
within SIX months to agree upon the ratio;
of silver to gold in the coinage of all
countries adhering to the double standard.
a-E SENATORS DRUNK. ~.
Specials say number Of senators were
disgracefully intoxicated during the all
night session ending Sunday morning,
- nz-s RIVER OPEN. .rr-}F gs2;
The Mississippi River is open from
Lake Pipln to the Gulf s27& 1.i -
49, THE LORD FAMILY :.
quarrel in New York has been settled by
the old man turning his property over to
trustees for the benefit of his. sons, and
Mrs. Lord, the late widow Hicks, aband
oning all dover or heirship right, in the.
same. Mrs. Lord is worth half a million
Her husbands property is over million:
~5r THE BRITISH FLEET -lsg,
has withdrawn to Medina bay, forty miles
from Constantinople. The Russians will
not occupy Constantinople. The peace
prospects are improving. The London
Observer says Russia has represented to
England that the United States as great
maritime power should participate in the
Congress-. England doesn't object but
takes advantage of the proposal to sug-
gest that Greece also be allowed to par
ticipate. p,
\. 5. HARMON,
of Fremont, Nebraska, formerly express
messenger on the Uu1on Pacific, was ar
rested in Chicago charged with stealing
an express package last fall en- route from
New York to Fort Benton, containing
fifty thousand dollars in FIVE dollar bills
on the Bank of Montreal; FIVE thousand
was recovered. Harmon confesses the
rest Is hidden. aF .-..'1 a Ill.
JUDGE PAGE TO BE 1MPEAcHED.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 14.-The majority of the
Minnesota House committee wifi report
to-day in favor of the Impeachment Of
Judge Page on the twelfth and fifteenth
coants in the petition for his impeach-
ment. y
THE RONNH CARDINALS ,-.
entesed their cells last evening and will
to-day take two ballots for pope.
THE ADvIcEs "
regarding the Eastern question are vol
luminous of predictions. and contradictions.
The London papers report Austria
Hungaria quietly making immense prep
arations for a conflict with Russia. The
continental journals, however, represent
that Russia's late concessions have been
granted for the conciliation Of Austria,
at the request Of Bismarck; that Austria
Is well satisfied. An angle-Austrian al
lance is improbable and the Kaiser
Bund, or the three emperors' alliance, 10
stronger than ever, having for Its chief
purpose to destroy the British influence
abroad.. @ e.. . w..
THE CONGRESSIONAL SILVER UNION,
at meeting last evening, decided to re-
fer the amended silver bill to-day with
authority to report at any time and to al
low full debate on the amendments.
s- SENATOR CAMERON,
of Pennsylvania, has introduced bill
providing that all officers of the army who
served therein more than twenty years,
and served also during the rebellion who
were wounded and breveted for gallant
service and who were honorably mustered
out under the act Of July 18th, 1870, be
reinstated and relieved as of the date
they were respectively mustered out
r- TnDEN OPPOSED.
The Louisville Courier Journal charges
that Tilden was opposed to the electoral
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