Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-01
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Bishop Ames of the NJ. E. Church is
dead.
Gen Garibaldi will go to Albsno,- .du=
ring the month OF April. S
The wife of Admiral Pathan, French
ambassador to England Is dead.
Gen. Jehn A. Dix died at his residence
in the city of New York, April 81. He was
81 years old.
The Emperor of Russia wears q suit Of
Ane mail under his ordinary clothes as q
protection against assassination.
Italy has pledged herself to support
the claims of Greece to the utmost limits of
the frontier assigned by the treaty Of Berlin.
United States Senator Whyte, of Mary.
land declines reelection, and says he may
resign before the expiration Of his term in
1881.
Gen Sheridan and Gen. Terry are about
making :our of observation together, to In
speet the military posts on the upper Missouri
river.
The funeral of Gen. Dix took place,
April "a, from Trinity church, New York
which was filed in every part by most dis
tinguished citizens.
Rev. Thomas Gibney died at San Fran
eisco April o., He was pastor of st. Peters
church and former vicar General Of the Arch
Dioceseof San Francisco.
The Durham, Eng, miners, strike still
continues and has reached large proportions
April 81, the miners resolved by o vote of
2,6SS to 294 to continue the strike.
The .. S. Senate has confirmed Edwin
W. Keighley, of Michigan. third auditor Of
Baltimore, Nd, U. 8. Consul at Ameri.
Gen Ewing has introduced into the
House bill to tax incomes. It provides that
oyer q, 600 be taxed 21S per cent; over $40,
COO. s per cent. and over 10000, 10 per cent,
The trial of Dr.. Livingstone, at Yank,
ton, D. 7. ex-agent at the Grow Creek Indian
Agency, ended April 26, In his acquittal b.
the jury. The trial lasted eight days. The
charge was the Issuance Of q fraudulent pay
roll.
Gen. Ewing has introduced into The
House bill to provide for reissue of paper
fractional currency interchangeable with sill
Yer dollars or silver certificates at any O
the enb-treasuries and making fractional cur
rency legal tender for $40 In any one payment
On the night of April %, at Chicago
an unsuccessful attempt was made to assas
sinate Edwin Booth, the tragedian. The pla1
was Richard III and when the last act shai
been reached, and Booth had the stage alon,
In the prison scene, theaudience was startlet
by two pistol shots in quick succession. A
the time OF the shooting the stage was quit.
dark, and 1t is probably owing to this fact tina
the would be assassin missed his fire, and tn,
bullets instead Of entering the person of tn
actor penetrated the scenes and buried them
selves In the stage floor, from whence the,
Nere extracted after the curtain fell. TIL
man who fred the shots was at once ARRESTED
and he gave his name as Mark Gray. Mr.
Both knows nothing Of this individual, AM
cannot divine why he should be singled on
as the target for his bullets. The suppositiol
10 that Gray ID some crazy fool, or was drunk
The funeral of Gen John A. Dix tool
place on Tuesday. April %, at Trinity church
New York. The pail bearers were Hor
Hamilton Fish, Thurlow Weed, Edwar
Pirrepont, ex-GOy. Morgan, Gems. Cullur
and Rathbone, John j. Cisco, Chas. O'Conno
and G. A. Law. The remains win be tempo
rarity placed in the family vault IN Trinit
churchyard. The following order has bee
issued April %: RxRcuTIvE MANSION, Apr
a2-The President, IN making public On
nouncement Of the death OF Ma. Gen. job
A. Dix, which occurred during last night 1
the city Of New York. desires 10 commend
the attention Of the people 81 this countr
the great public services through long an
eventful life OF this eminent citizen, and th