Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1878-02-26
T-l5I 81 & BISMARCK D. 4, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
BY TELEGRAPH.

BY TELEGRAPH.
Special to The Bismarck Tribune.
SIS. PAUL, Feb. IS. 1878.
IN THE MINORITY.
The peace meeting attempted in Lon
don was broken up by the war party, and
resolutions supporting the minority were
adopted.
RETURNING BOARD vIcIAI.
Col. Anderson, of the louisiana re-
turning board, was sentenced to-day to
two years imprisonment at hard labor.
A motion for an arrest of Judgment in his
case, and for the transfer of the cases
against Wells, Cassanave and Kenner to-
the United States court, will be argued
this week. 4 ..
THE SILVER BILL
went to the president to-day
RANDE,
the St. Elmo desperado, has been con-
victed, and sentenced for life, and taken
to Joliet prison. ~ a-,i
DENIAL
Gen. Crook contradicts the report that
he is fitting out an expedition for the
North, and d1scredits the rumor that
trouble may be expected from Sitting
Bull :, y1~Ss}
NEWS FROM EUROPE
to-day, indicate progress in peace ne
gotiat1ons.
IS BEN. F. WADE - +
is sinking fast, and an early death is ex-
pected.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 26, 1878.
& 3 THE LAND GRANT BILL.
The House committees bill fo-feiting
railroad grants including the n P, was
reported for printing yesterday.3E =
RErERRrtD.. / = : 49,
The Bill transferring the Indian bureau
from the Interior to War Department
was referred to the committee of the
who'll. Scales, ehairnaan1of the commit
tee in the report accompanying the bill,
shows that large saving would be 1nade
by the transfer. : - !
A FAVORABLE REPORT FOR THE n. P.
The House committe on Pacific rail-
ways, yesterday, ordered favorable re-
port on the bill extending ten years the
time for the completion. Of the Northern
Pacific. An amendment has been made
authorizing the company with the assent
of two thirds of the stock holders to is
sue bonds to the amount Of $4,000 on
each mile Of road.
THE SILVER BILL
went to the president, yesterday. MI.
Bland has Introduced a supplementary
bill providing for tree coinage of silver;
also providing for an issue Of certificates
alike for gold and silver bullion deposited
at the mints.
ANoLD GANG OF MoLL1E MAGU1REs
has just been discovered at Tlain's sta
ton Pa Two of their number confess to
numerous deeds of arson and murder.
TALBOT QUARREL.
Ben S Wadsworth and John McTigue,
at Lead Lead City, Black Hills, quar-
relied, yesterday, over the possession of a
lot resulting in the former emptying a
double barrel shot gun into the bowels of
McT,gue, killing him. Wadsworth was
arrested.
MAI LEWIS CAss
the only son of the late General Cass, died
at Paris on Sunday. He had resided
abroad for many years.
GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS
and escort arrived Sunday at San Sseino,
a surburb of Constantinople, where the
peace conditions will be signed. Russia
has modified the conditions by withdraw
ing the demand for the surrender of the
Russian fleets and by extending to 3
years. the time for Musselmen to migrate
from Bulgaria. The only remaining
grievance Of England appears to be the
fear that Egypt may be some way mort
mortgaged as security for the payment
of the Russian indemnity
At WEST POINT.
Sunday morning, Michael Tobin being
Jealous of Peter Albers on account Of
Tobin's woman, crept up to Albers in the
barracks and shot him dead. Both were
enlisted men company ''E'' engineers.
4 BIG CHANGE.
1t is reported from Rome that the en-
tire personal pontiic1al court will be
changed so as to eliminate the .host1lities
which have excited the diplomatic rela-
tions with the powers maintaining such
reIof1o1c with the Vatican r. will he r..