Stevens County tribune., 1878-07-04
MISCELLANEOUS

Silver combs are again all the style
for headwear. Ladies will please make note
of it.
A dispatch from Gen. Howard CONFIRMS
ing the report of Bernard's battle with the In
dians, where 40 redskins were killed
A letter from Havana says the cam
paign of the Spaniards against the Cubiani
cost the government eighty thousand men, n,and
the island is a vast cemetery.
On the gath of June N. B. Van Styke
was on trial at Madison, Wis, charged with
whisky frauds. Nothing damaging was de-
veloped against him. The case was not con-
cluded.
About hundred newspaper men were
in Madison, Wis, on Monday night, June
oath, to attend the meeting of the editorial
association of the Badger State which was to
convene on the 25th.
w III. Vanderbilt has obtained control
of the Michigan Central railroad. The Off
GERS OF the road now are: President, W. Fl.
Vanderbilt; Treasurer, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
(son of the President) Secretary, E. D. Wor.
cester; executive committee, W. Fl. Wander.
bilt, Augustus Seized, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Samuel F. Boryer.
B. Solomon & Sons. prominent furni-
ture dealers in New York, have assigned.
Liabilities 100000. It was the oldest and
| largest furniture house in the country. Cause
| of embarrassment, heavy draft on the capital
by B. L. Solomon on account of assessment,
for taxes and interest on non-productive real
estate
At Chicago, Judge Harlan of the
supreme court, granted a petition requiring
| the Wabash railroad company to reserve from
| its gross earnings sum sufficient to satisfy
| the claims of Eastern mortgages and stock
holders, which should be allowed by court,
and put the company under bonds to begin re-
ceiving such sum on October first. The
amount claimed by the petition of plaintiffs
| jointly, is hundred thousand dollars.
The Shipment of all kinds of grain at
Buffalo, N. Y. for the month of June were
| 1891 $50 bushels. Receipts since the opening
of navigation, including to-day, "a. .2S4, ,657
bushels. Movements by canal for the season,
1912 $50 bushels. Shipments by rail, $685..
500 bushels. Receipts. of canal tolls for the
season aggregate $204, $40 to $SS,7l4 for the
| pcIlOu ldSG ycdI SNuuUoF Ol
canal boats cleared 1905, against 1893 last
year.
| A positive order has been received from
the secretary of war directing the removal OF
the army headquarters from st. Paul to Fort
Smelling by July 1st. At all events, said the
order, no rent will be paid by the government
after that date. This order is issued under the
law requiring army headquarters to be at mil
itary posts, and it embraces Gen. Hancocks
department of the Atlantic, and removes him
from New York city to Governors island in
the harbor. Louisville headquarters go to
Newport barracks, Omaha, to Omaha barracks,
/ etc.
| A Portland dispatch says it is the be-
lief of old residents in Eastern Oregon that
all the Indians in that section are disafected,
and that they will be ready on slight provo
cation to take up arms against the whites.
Even the Warm Spring Indians, who have
heretofore been strong friends of the govern
ment, and who have on several occasions
rendered efficient service against the murder
GUS tribes OF their own race, refuse to join
their forces against the Bannocks, and it is
thought that large party of them will join
| the hostiles. 1t begins to look as If the Indi-
ans intend to do their worst this summer.