The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-30
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
A SPECIAL from Winnipeg says there are
now rumors of trouble with Sitting Bull.
He is making efforts to embron the Cana
dian Indians with the mounted police
EMIL THOMAS, late sheriff of st. Louis,
having failed to pay over the fees collected
was on the 18th inst, sued for $4,000 on
his official bond. There are o.her claims
against him.
THE Cincinnati Gazette published dis
patches from fifty-seven points in southern
Ohio, Indiana andnorthern Kentucky, from
which it appears that the prospect for
large crop of wheat is exceedingly good.
The average sown last fall is larger than
ever known. Not one report is favorable,
though from few points there are aPpre-
tensions of rank growth.
THE total number of hogs packed at Chi
cago from March 1, 1877 to March 1, 1878,
was 4,0O9,311; average weight of summer
packing 1860 9-100, and average yield of
lard 1880, against an average weight of
1879 and Weld of lard of 29.10 for last
summers season. The winter packing for
the regular season was 2,501, 1856; against
1918, 084 last season. The average weight of
the winter season was 1887 and lard 1905
pounds, against the weight, last year, of
81 ,597 pounds and lard yield of {, $50 pounds.
The manufacture of products necessarily
shows heavy increase.
THE snow blockade on the Union Pacific
is raised. Some of the cuts which had to be
shoveled out were 80 feet deep. There is a
clear track from Omaha to Ogden. and tele-
graphic communication is open to Custer.
Many head of stock persisted in the storm.
Two men have been frozen to death in the
vicinity of Cheyenne.
A. n. ROBINSON, who was treasurer at the
time of the robbery of the Clermont county
treasury, at Batavia, Ohio, some months
ago, has been arrested for the crime.
A CORRESPONDENT transmits the intelli-
gence that Sitting Bulls braves are at the
point of starvation and would gladly surren-
der on condition that they could keep their
ponies.
JAMES HAMILTON, the well-known
marine painter, died at San Francisco on
the night of the 10th inst
wAsHIN aToN.
THE house committee on reform in the
civil service, investigating the affairs of
Colonel Polk, doorkeeper of the house of
representatives, have agreed upon report,
by vote OF seven to three, charging him
with violations of law and loose manage
ment in his Office in the matter of appoint
ments, and they recommend his removal
THE Hon John Edwards L leonard, repre-
sentative from Louisiana, died at Havana
on the 10Th inst, of yellow fever.
COLLECTOR BRAYTON, at Greenville, SC.
telegraphs to the commissioner of internal
revenue, that he has organized force of 80
men, who are now on their way to Pickens
county. Redmonds with thirty men, fol-
lowed Captain Hoffman's force of eight men
all day on the 18th inst, they being power
less to centend with Redmonds' gang, re-
treated to Easily, waiting reinforcements
Redmonds has ordered the citizens at their
peril not to furnish food or shelter to the
revenue officers. Warrants will be procured
for the jail-breakers and other revenue cui-
prits. They will either be captured or be-
come fugitives.
THE treasury on the 14th inst. received
10000 silver dollars from the Philadelphia
mint. The three first silver dollars of the
new coinage were received on the 18th, and
one was delivered to the president, one to
the secretary of the treasury, and the other
to the director of the mint
IT is Understood that the house committee
investigating the affairs of Doorkeeper
Polk will nearly unanimously recommend
the abolition of the office, and the transfer
of its duties to the sergeant-at-arms.
THE three suits against General Howard,
for deficiencies in the Freedmens bureau
funds, SO long pending, came up for trial
before the District Court, of the District of
Columbia, Judge Wylie presiding, ON the
18th and 18th inst. They were all decided
in favor of General Howard
PROFESSOR JOHN BRAINARD, died at
Washington on the 18th inst.
4 BILL was introduced in the house bv
Representative White, on the 18th inst, to
repeal so much of the annual appropriation
OF the act approved March 3, 1877, as pro-
vldes Tor the payment of certain southern
mail contractors. Itappropriates 1875 900 to
pay the amount due the mail contractors
for service performed in the states of Ala
bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Mississippi Missouri,
North and South Carolina, Texas Tennessee.
Virginia. and West Virginia in the years
1859, 1860 and 1861, and the aforesaid states
respectively, engaged in the war against the
United States provided, however, that any
such claims which have been paid by the
confederate states the government shall not
be again paid.
AT the request of Commissioner General
Mccormick, the secretary of the navy hiss
directed that the Constellation be detailed
to carry goods TO the Paris Exposition.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A SPECIAL from Hot Springs reports an
other fire there on the 18th inst. Four
wooden buildings on the east side of Valley
street, adjoining the recent great fire, were
destroyed. Loss, $4,000 or $4,000
A FIRE near Fl. Madison, Ia, on the
night of the 10Th inst, destroyed the dwell
ing of Henry Grazer-he and his wife per-
iShing in the flames. Indications of foul
play were found about the ruins, and the
coroner's jury brought i'll verdict of muir.
der.
MAGGIE ADAMS, aged three years, who
has been visiting with her grandfather,
Thomas Adams, i'll Patterson, N. j., ran be-