Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-30

and says only nine Cheyennes. all of them
wounded, were captured. The balance of the |
party, twenty-three in number, were killed. |
Seventeen are still uuaccounted for. 1t is
supposed some died from wounds and others
escaped. ~. "a
The Secretary of the treasury estimates
that it viii take $l5O,OOO,OOO, to meet the re-
quirements of the new persion law, just pass
ed both Houses of Congress, but not yet
signed by the President, and says if that
amount should go out of the treasury, 1t will
create deficit. The cabinet has had the bill
under nsideration but came TO no decision
as to how It should be dealt with.
At Toledo, o., january oath, Dayton &
Michigan cOmpany's elevator B, with con-
tents. consisting of 100000 bushels Of grain,
mostly corn, was destroyed by fire, Est
mated loss $S5, 600. The building is insured
| in Cincinnati for $25 900: Insurance on grain
$4,000. The fire started in the cupola and Is
supposed to have been caused by friction In
| the machinery. ~ go @f-e3 10
In New, York, city January gath,
Augustus Phillips, alias Oofty Toofty, and his
mistress, Mary Hopeley, quarreled at their
residence, 142 West Sixteenth street, and she
shot him in the side, it is thought fatally.
About four hours later Phillips attacked the
woman and beat and kicked her SO severely
that her life is said to be in danger. Both
were taken to The hospital in an ambulance
A Faribault. Mimi, telegram of Jan.
81 says the examination of Bryant, the
teacher, through whose instrumentality
Sammy Crossett's leg was broken has been
closed, and from the evidence of the score of
witnesses examined, it would seem that it
was an entirely uncallcd for transaction, and
a disgraceful affair all through. The most
brutal feature of the whole affair was the
utter lack of common humanity as displayed
by the teacher, who, when it wss well known
that the child's leg was broken, did not offer
to take him home or seem to care much about
the case any way.
In session of the Potter committee
Gen. Butler made statement that certain
dispatches had come into his possession early
last spring. He found them upon his private
table, but had no knowledge how they came,
these dispatches, it was said, were part of
those printed in the Tribune. If SO he had
nothing to do with their publication. They
had been furnished to the Tribune before they
came into his hands. During the summer
they were missed for several weeks and sub
sequently they were found again, when he
had them numbered and stamped and put in
) place of safety. He was willing to place
them at the service of the committee. In do
ing so he commended they should be printed
and made public or placed within the power
of any member of the committee to make
public. at the same time he protested
against the whole system Of Investigating the
dispatches, and insisted it would be wiser fol
both parties not to inquire into them. How
r ever, upon proper receipts being given, the
committee could have the dispatches thai
were in his possession. A short discussion
, followed, when the committee adjourned.
At cabinet session at Washington
January 21st Secretary Schurz stated that hi
had received report from the Indian agent
at Cheyenne agency, to the effect that infor
nation had reached that place of the recross
ing the Canadian line into the United States
of the noted chief Sitting bull with his PEG
7 pie, and that they are exceedingly anxious tt
return to this country and come under the
t supervision OF the Indian bureau and be dis
: tributed in the Indian country as are othel
8 tribes. This news was not confirmed by an,
: information at the war department, but i
r was thought worthy of consider alton and LEI
Y to some discussion in the cabinet 1t is re
G ported that 5000 lodges, or nearly Is 600 PEG
!, pie, are with Sitting Bull. The subject will
q receive the immediate attention of the Pres
e iden and secretary of war and interior de
: partment. kilograms will he sent to the off
GERS of the war department as well as to India1
c agents, requiring them to give the authori
If ties here all the information they can obtail
e on this matter. The report is that Sittin
Bull comes with the most peaceful iuten
ton, but in the present disturbed condition
of Indian affairs it is not known what may b
his meaning .. ..a