The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-06-13
THE WEST.

THREE companies Of the Fourteenth In
fantry have left for Fort Hill, Idaho. News has
been received there by the Government from
Camas Prairie confirming tho news Of the In
dian outbreak and murders.
THE recent cyclone in Wisconsin was SO
has made it the subject Of a special message to
the Legislature, now convened in extra ses-
sion.
THE Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific d.
rectors, whose time had expired, were reelected
in Chicago on Wednesday, as follows: c, r.
Marvin, +. H. Tows and Jay Could Of New
York, and H. II. Porter, Of Chicago.
The bonded debt of ST. Louis is go, $780,
900, on which the rate per cent. Of taxation is
$50, being q reduction from last year.
The Union Pacific railroad company
has purchased a sufficient number OF guns to
arm all the employees on the overland passenger
trains, for protection against train robbers.
AN attempt was made to arm the Ohio
Medical College at midnight one night last week.
This is the college where Scott Harrison's body
was found. There is much feeling against the
College ON account of its body-snatching pro-
pensities, and the students seem to fear viO-
lence.
THE Terre Haute car-works are turning
out box cars for the Erie and Pacific Dispatch
at the rate Of sixty per week. This car compa-
ny builds 500 of the 300 new cars this COM
pany expect to have in service by October l.
. MIX. VI. ~. SAMPSON, ASslStiiilt SoIlHilS-
sioner OF Kansas to the Paris Exposition, sailed
for Europe June st by the Anchor Line steam
g Ethiopia.
A PORTLAND dispatch says the election
returns indicate that Whitaker, Democrat, is
elected Congressman by a small majority. It
is conceded that the Legislature will have n
Democratic majority on joint ballot, yariously
estimated ut from four to twelve.
THE Richmond NIo.l storm, June LIST,
was terrific in its work OF destruction. Twelve
persons were killed outright and about sixty
1--WE or seventy severely injured and crippled
It is estimated that the loss of property will ex-
coed quarter OF million dollars.
AT the recent races in st. Louis, Nc
whirter," celebrated race-horse. broke both
his fore-legs and ran a quarter Of a mile on the
ragged stumps. the bone projecting through the
skin, and the hoofs flying around loose.
POSTMASTER LoGE, OF Cincinnati, has
been sued by J. J. Crone for alternating sc. 900
worth Of Mrs. Cropeis affections from her hus-
band. There seems to be a mine Of wealth in
the affections if one only knows how to make it
pan out.
THE Illinois State Prohibition Conven-
ton met in Decatur on Friday and had about
one hundred delegates.
In q railway accident on the Texas Gen.
trail, last Friday, the ladies and sleepers
rolled down embankment one hundred and
twenty FIVE feet, killing the Rev. Knowles Shaw,
the evangelist, and seriously wounding Todd
Miller, G. W. Henry and wife, G. c. Mountcastie
and two children and twelve others are pain
fully but not dangerously wounded.
The Ohio Republican Convention meets
next Wednesday, and that of Iowa the wednes-
iay follcwn1-June i2th and 18th. The Repub-
hcan Convention of Michigan meets on the
18th.
THE contest for the control OF the Chi
ca@o & Northwestern railroad seems to be over
at last. 1t is stated that compromise has
been effected by which President Albert Keep
remains in control