The Columbus journal., 1878-12-04
THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4, ISIS.
SxALL-Pox OF a malignant type is
al GRIND Forks. pakot

until trade rerives.
AT Umatills, Oregon, every In
dian found beyond the limits of the
reservation Is killed by the whites.
THE High Court of Edinburg has
indefinitely refused to admit to bail
any more Glasgow bank directors.
POLICEMAN McAuliffe, of Omaha
drank concentrated lye instead of
liquor and died Saturday evening.
IT is said that the United States
laws are such now that horse steal
ing, either by whites or by Indians,
can not be punished.
IT is suggested that the coming
legislature make provision for sub
mitting the selection of U. S. Senator
to vote of the people.
IT appears by recent accounts
from the seat of war that the ad-
vancing Britains overpower the
Afghans at every point.
LIVINGSTONE, Russell and Rich
ardson have been indicted at Yank-
ton, ID. T., by the U. S. grand jury
for alleged Indian frauds.
JOEL T. ROBERTS, Of Central City,
accidentally shot himself the other
day in the right side, and il is feared
that he is dangerously hurt.
ORA Cook, of Omaha, aged seven
teen years, while hunting the other
day, accidently shot himself in the
left breast, and died instantly.
Gov. J. c. FREMONT, has express
ed the opinion that the Indians
within his juridiction should be
placed under military control.
Ir is announced that the COM
mittee of congress TO consider the
transfer of the Indian bureau to the
war department, will sit with open
doors.
WELLINGTON BIRD, agent of the
Indians at Fort Peck agency, Mon
tana, has been suspended and Elias
III. Webb, of Illinois, appointed in
his place.
RECENT advices from Mogador by
way of Madrid state that there is an
average of sixty deaths daily from
an epidemic, which, however, is not
believed to be cholera.
A RECENT fire at the Virginia
penitentiary burned a three-story
brick building over 200 feet long. in
which were cooper, carpenter, shoe
and machine shops. Loss, $4,000.
FROM Becharest, we have this
item of news: eight thousand Rus
sian troops, the advance guard of
the reinforcements for the army in
Bulgaria, will arrive at Galatz next
week. ....
A LOT OF renegade Oregon In
dians were recently captured at
John Day valley. Eight of the
principal chiefs 60 to Vancouver,
and the remainder will be sent to
Warm Springs reservation.
The Georgetown, Leadville and
San Juan railroad, with a capital
stock of s5.OO0,OO0, has been incor-
porated. and will be laid to run into
Georgetown and Leadville on the
southern boundary of Colorado.
Nor many weeks ago a band of
white thieves stole about one hun
dred ponies from the Spotted Tail
Indians, brought them to OgaIlala
and sold them, and the recent raids
by Indians have been in retaliation.
A MAN at Omaha writes to the
New York World that he knows
the body-snatchers of A. L. Stewart,
and where the body is seereted. He
wants no reward, but a pardon, and
will expose all, as they have betray-
ed him.
De LAMATYR, greenback con-
gresham elected from Indiana,
claims that his party will hold the
balance Of power in the next house
of representatives, and insists that
they should have the Speaker, and
some patronage.
The case pending in the United
States court at Omaha against John
q. Compton, OF this city, was on the
Goth inst, in consequence or the
illness of Mr.. Compton, continued
10 the January term of said court,
to be held at Lincoln.
THE steamer Pommerania was
run into by the Welsh bark Noel
during q fog, about eight miles
southwest Of Folkestone on the oath
ult., and fouBdered in about ten
minutes, sending about fifty of her
passengers to a waiery grave.
RECENTLY about seventy tenn
porary clerks, mostly women, have
been discharged by the treasury de-
partments, the appropriation being
exhausted. IL Is stated that Secre-
tary Sherman will not recommend
the renewal OF the appropriation.
A SUIT is pending in New York,
wherein j. A. Whalen is plaintiff
and Gen. Sheridan defendant in
which the plaintiff claims damages
TO the amount of $4,000 for dis