Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-17

No Kansas 3 TexAs..... $50, SAG 947, Ns
St. L., A 3 T. H. tbrnchs) $50 81, soa
| st. L., Iron Mt. . S.. $40, $40 $50, 77S
| st. L., K. Z. 4 Morrill,. 9e9, 8a5 H?O, uS
| st. L. s. San Francisco. S9,6l8 ITO. 7Sa
| st. L. s 8. e. 81 L. Div. 3S,N5 %o,OS2
st. l.. & 8. B., Ken DIV. 2l,56S II, EDS
| st. L. 4 ). f.. Tenn. Div. .. 30 8, SSS
Toll, Peoria h Warsaw. 1oe,645 81, 20
Wabash ................. 367, 7N S26, 669
Total 49,. :. .......... ss,os7, SOS IS, 800, on
The above statement shows much
healthier state of affairs among the
western roads than has been the case
for some time past. Eighteen roads
show an increase in gross earnings OF
1857 ,S17, while six roads only report a
decrease, and that amounting only to
$50, 900.
TEXAS TRAIN ROBBERY.
A Galveston (Texas) Nc,w special of
the 18th reports another train robbery
on the Texas & Pacific railway ut Mer-
Iquit station, % miles east of Dallas, at
10 o'clock last night, when the train
stopped at the depot. The engineer
and fireman were taken from the en-
lgine and placed under guard. The ex-
press messenger and route agent barri-
caded themselves in their car. but the
robbers saturated it with coal, set fire to
it, and forced them out; the express
and mail were then plundered. The
conductor and two robbers were
wounded. The plundering party num-
bered Is to 20. The passengers were
not molested.
IMPORTANT TAX DECISION.
The United States circuit court at
Cincinnati, on the 9Th inst, rendered
an important. decision relative to the
taxation of national banks, is the sub
ject of considerable comment here. A
bank at Toledo contested the collection
of taxes on the ground that its tax
alton was unequal, for the reason
that its capital was assessed in full,
while the ass essment of real estate in
that city is only 40 per cent of its value.
Therefore the bank made tender of
40 per cent. of its tax to the treasurer.
Judge Baxter's decision is that the
treasurer can collect no more. The
object sought in the suit, which was
one is q chancery, was to restrain the
collection of the tax assessed for the
year of 1876 on the shares owned by the
holders of the compliments capital
stock. Judge Baxter held complaints
entitled to a decree and the relief
prayed for. A decree will, there
fore, be entered, authorizing the
compliments to pay to the de-
PENDANT, or into the registry of the
court, 40 per cent. of the taxes assessed
against its shareholders, in accordance
with the tender heretofore made, and,
when this shall be done, an Injunction
will issue perpetually staying the col
lection of the residue of said taxes. The
costs of this suit will be decreed against
defendant, and paid out of the funds re-
covered.
HOLOCAUST.
A New York dispatch under date of
April 9Th says horrible disaster oc-
Cured at Bath about o'clock on Sun
day morning. One L. G. Ford an insane
man, sent to the Steuben County Poor
House from Hornellsnlle, set fire to the
building used for the insane departmen
of the County House, in which upward
of sixty insane people were sleeping
The fire spread rapidly, and made the
rescuing Of the inmates matter of
great difficulty and danger. About
forty were rescued by officers and citi-
zens, and some others escaped; but il is
certain that fifteen of the crazed unfort-
unatees have persisted in the flames,
and one is injured shockingly, and
probably fatally, The scene of disaster
is too sickining for description. The
bodies Of five males and ten females are
among the dead, and the ruins are a
horrible mass of charred human re-
mains, mingled with the debris Of the
building"
An associated press dispatch of the
Sth inst. from Washington states that
accounts from the Texas border show
that recently there has been but few, if
any, iDcufG;ons from the Mexican SIDE
Members of Congress who have the sub
ject Of our relations with Mexico under
consideration say the delay of our Gov
eminent in recognizing that of Mexico
has produced an improved condition Of
affairs on the border, but that the Gov
eminent has not yet done what is re-
quired by our own as prerequisite 10
recognition. One of the most serious
causes of complaint is that our citizens
are not protected from forced loans,
while British and French subjects resid-
ing in Mexico are, it is said, not subiec-
ted to such illegal transactions.
RAILWAY STRIKE.
A st Louis dispatch of the
9TH says the latest news
regarding the strike on the Atchison,