Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-12
is producing no little excitement there and In

is producing no little excitement there and In
milwaukee,
At Cumberland river shoals, near
Somerset, KY, by premature blast explosion
in aquarry, two men were fatally injured,
and one man seriously,
Gen. MeGcham, of the army, testifying
before the Indian bureau transfer commission
gave as his opinion that the savage must be
civilized, and that this cannot be done by the
army
a heavy snow storm occurred in Kansas
City, and other portions of the South on
December 8, at which place 1T measured ten
inches deep. The storm extended from st.
Louis, Missouri, to Abilene, Kansas.
A London Telegram says, the Chatter
ly Iron company has refused the offer of 900
men to resume work at reduction of 5 per
cent Extensive discharges of workmcn in
the neighborhood are impending.
A bank at Montreal has received a
cable dispatch announcing the suspension of
the West of England bank, headquarters at
Bristol. Capital stock 81 100000, and it has
forty nine agencies. Trouble caused by loss
OF the iron trade.
The funding board of Louisiana are
trying to make such arrangements as will
enable the State TO pay the January interest
on consuls. 1t is believed that at least $780,
coo in addition to the interest fund then on
hand will be required.
A New York telegram of Nov. 95th,
says the case of James A. Whalen against
Gen. Sheridan, owing to the absence of Gen.
Butler, of counsel for plaintiff, is postponed
i'll Monday next. The suit is to recover
$416, 600 for losses alleged to have been incur
red by plaintiff being deposed from his sugar
plantation near New Orleans by Gen. Sheridan
in 1857.
A Yankton dispatch says the case of
the government against E. E. Hudson late
trader at Grow Creek agency, for alleged
forgery of twenty three vouchers, on trial
before the United States commissioner, was
d smissed the prosecution failing to back up
its charge. This Is one of the most important
cases in the large batch brought up against
river Indian men.
Arthur and Willie Gauthier, of ST..
Paul, Minnesota, sons of DR.. Gauthier, aged
II and IA years, were at play at Sphinx & Sons
vinegar factory on Seventh street. on Sunday
Dec. 9Th, when they fell a distance of only
three feet, Arthur's whole weight coming up
OH the stomach Of Willie, knocking his breath
out of his body. Willie ceased to gasp in {
| few minutes, and was dead.
An extensive and destructive prairie
fire below Crook City, D. T., has swept in ar
easterly direction, burning up hay which hat
been cut and stacked for the military posts a
Bear Butte. The military quarters narrowly
escaped destruction. Many ranches were
burned to the ground. Sturgis City, which
lay in the path of the flames, wasE saved by al
slight rainfall, which stopped the fires prog
ress.
At Youngstown, Ohio, terrible ex-
plosion occurred on the 9th inst, at the upper
Brierhill furnace. The furnace men were il
the act of turning on a blast when the ex
plosion occurred, throwing the not blast il
every direction and covering the men
Robert Lowe, of Newcastle, thigh broker
and otherwise seriously injured; recovery
doubtful George Anderson, legs and heat
badly cut. Patrick Saunders, head and bod,
badly cut. The boss had leg broken an(
was otherwise seriously injured. Cause o
the explosion net known.
1t is stated by q Waukon paper, on
what is asserted to be reliable authority, tina
the Waukou s. Mississippi narI ow gauge rail
road, recently purchased by the leading stock
holders in the Dubuque & Minnesota road, Il
to be transformed into standard guage road
and the work of extension up through Mime
sofa commenced early next spring with
viewt TO reaching st. Paul. The line will prob
ably pass through Preston, High Forrest
Kaseon, ana 80 on through Dodge, Goodhu'
and Dakota counties, and will thus prove
competing through line between St. Paul ant
| Chicago.
AS an argument against transferring
the Indian bureau to the military department
Secretary Schurz alleges lack Of due econo
my in the habits of the military. He says sol
diers never think Of the cost of a thing if it il
thought to be necessary. As an instance hi
mentions that at the close of the Sioux wa
there were about 1900 horses, ponies, ant
mules taken from the Indians for which cow
were to be given them, and it turned out tina
these ponies and mules cost S19400 beside
the COWS, and that to sell them cost SIS, 6S3 ad
| ditional. This was an instance of tho cav
alier way which was not found in the interio
department.