, 1878-02-02
GENERAL NEWS.

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HARTFORD, Jan. 24.-The house o.
representatives yesterday passed reso'
lutions opposing Bland's silver ILL and
favoring resumption of specie payment
DEsMo1NEs, Iowa. Jan. 24.-The gen
eral assembly to-day took vote for u
S. senator. In the senate the vote
stood-Allison 80. Miller II. In the
House Allison 81. Miller %, Gates 3.
BISMARCK, Jan. 24.-Oficlal iHforma-
ton from Gen. Niles post at Fort Ke-
ozh, says news is received there that
Sitting Bull is at Frenchman's creek
with over o thousand lodges, including
the escaped Nez Perces end refugees
from agencies. These last number 800
warriors and Sitting Bulls own camp,
1880. all we'll armed. The principal
hostile chiefs are with him. Red Bear
and two companies of infantry have
been sent to Fort Peck to hold it. In
dams from Sitting Bulls camp have
been seen within ten miles of Peck.
An attack upon both that and Keogh is
among the possibilities. Miles has 500
men.
New YoRK, Jan. o. A Washington
telegram says the attorney general de-
MES the truth of the report that U. S.
Grant, Jr., has been appointed assist
ant district attorney for New York. nor
had he been sent to San Francisco by
the attorney generals Office.
OMAHA. Jan. 25.- Ar important and
interesting poisoning case is now in
progress at Fremont, Nebraska. DR..
George St. Louis is charged with the
murder of his wife by arsenic. She
died in June last under such suspicious
circumstances that q post mortem ex-
animation was deemed necessary. and
as a result of this action the stomach
and liver of the deceased were sent to
Chicago for chemical analysis at the
hands of DR.. Walter S. Haines, well
known expert. who, it is said discov~
cred four grains of arsenic in the liver
Of the deceased, and is present at Fre>
mont to testify in the case. Nearly all
the doctors of Omaha have also been
summoned as expert witnesses. The
reason assigned for the murder is that
DR.. St. Louis was on intimate terms
with q Mrs. Bloomer, and wanted to
put his wife out of the way.
Last night Mary Ellen O'Sulliyan,
aged Is, was enticed into notorious
den and there outraged by negro. as
sisted by two white women. The vie-
tim S screams brought aid but the ne~
gro escaped. His accomplices were arr
rested.
New York, Jan. 25.-The Tribune's S
Washington special says the sab-com>
mittee of the house on Pacific railroads,
which has under consideration the ap.
plicat;on of the Northern Pacific Com
pany for an extension Of time within
which it shall be allowed to construct
its lines and receive the land originally
granted. have substantially reached a
conclusion. A report will probably be
adopted recommending that the time
for completing the main line of the
road from its western terminus at Bis
marck shall be extended for ten years,
provided that 100 miles of road shall be
built during each year, and that 25 or
80 miles of this shall be constructed on
tie Pacific end. 1t is not probable the
land grant for branch lines will be re-
newed.
Tie senate railroad committee held o
special meeting to hear further argu>
ments on this bill. McGilvra, of Wash
ington Territory. appeared in behalf of
the interests OF the Seattle and w. W.
Railroad. He made no objection to the
Salt Lake road proposition, but insisted
that the bill should be so amended as
to aid the Seattle road also.