Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-01-20
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Jews GOBBLED FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.

Jews .GOBBLED FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
Tho Reno Investigatteu---t.tra
Textineny---savaEe Stoux---Gen.
Sherman Upholds the Xflitfa---Tho
Geneva Award Bill PAssed---The he
Army BllI--- -1Iiscellanco us Notes.
Especial Dispat to The Tribune.
RENO.
ST. PAUL, Jan. eO.-Girard's testimony
before the Reno court Saturday was more
adverse to Reno than any yet given. 1t
was substantially as predicted in the Bis
marck dispatches.
THE SIOUX.
Two runners from the hostile Sioux
camp in the British possessions reached
the Cheyenne agency Friday. They are
Ninncconjos, and say there are about 400
lodges of Minncconjos and Tansars that
won't come into the agency and settle
down.
UFHoLDs THE MILITARY
Gen Sherman, in III interview, rigor,
'ously upAolds the actisn Of the military at
Camp Robinson in the late Cheyenne diff
Aculty, and says the Indians were treated
Just as they deserved to be. They had no
more regard for the lives of the soldiers
ahaa they did for dogs, and it was folly to
try to cxtenuate their crime by soft words.
ENLISTED SIOUX.
Red Cloud, in an interview with Lieut..
6chuyler, Of Gen. Crooks staff, consented
to allow some Sioux scouts from his band
to b. enlisted to hunt the Cheyennes
GENEVA AWARD. .. ..
The Geneva award bill or substitute Of
fercd by Frye, passed the House by 113 to
SO. 1t relegates insurance premium
claims TO the third position, and deducts
any sums paid back in diminutlon of said
premiums, 50 that only actual losscs shall
be valid before the court. Wi.
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
A noticeable feature Of the caucus Of
Democratic senat .rs for tue last few days,
10 the absence Of southerners. The object
Of the caucus was to adopt a plan of action
on Edmunds' resolution, and for an extra
session. There WAS no decided action
reached Thurman said the Senate had
virtually acknowledged the validity Of the
late constitutional amendments d+,zcn
times, and that he would read the records
when Edmunds' resolution came up.
BUTLER OPPOSES.
Butler will oppose the motion that Pot
ter will make in the House today for Il.
shority to Investigate the cypher dispaf ch-
e, en- the ground that they were pri cate
kilograms s..-....' 's..-
PETITION TO CONGRESS-.
Mrs. Emellne B. Wales and Mrs. Emily
Young Williams, two Mormon ladies
from Utah. are in Washington to petition
Con yress against the hardshil,s which the
decision Of the supreme coart will work
upon the innocent and the women and
children. d
PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION
Hendricks is in Washington looking
over the presidential question, aad says lie
pcrceives the drift is towards Thurman,
rather than himself. He is said to be en-
dcavoring to reconcile the difference in
financial policy between eastern and west
wn Democrats, and he assures the eastern
men that the west will meet them on an
acceptable policy.
NO PROMOTION
The principal clause in tho new army
bill as adopted by the committee, is that
there shall be no promotion above the
rank of captain, except ia the engineer
corps, and that no officer below the rank
Of Major shall be transferred to the re
tired list except he he unfit for service.
ARRESTED.
United States Marshal Turner, District
Attorney Mayer, and Dimick, clerk of the
United States court, have been arrested at
Selma Ala, on writ of the State court,
for refusing to produce before the latter,
the bsllot boxes, ETC., being used as evi.
dence in the United States district court
The district attorney has leen released on
habeas corpus, but Turner and Demick
are still in custody.
GOING TO RESUME.
1t is announced on good authority that
tDodd, Brown & Co., of st. Louis, are g.
ing to resume business
PAN1CKY FEELING.
Recent fires in New York has caused s
pAnicky feeling among the weaker insur,
ance companies.
sUsPENDED.
WIN. Leads, chief clerk Of the Indian
bureau. has been suspended for difference
sfopinion with Commissioner Hayt