Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-13
MISCELLANEUUS.

Civil war is reported imminent in
Samoa.
There are now $500 engineers on
strike in London.
Quarantine against the plague is order
ed at all Spanish ports.
The Prussian MINISTRY have approved
the import duty on grain, cattle and horses.
The steamer Peace from Philadelphia
sunk in Havr harbor, supposed to have struck
pite.
The business center of the town of LIE
| $4,000
Feb. 5, there was a $4,000 fire at
Gilman, III, and $4,000 one at Topeka,
Kansas.
A Naples telegram says Passanante
who attempted to kill the King has been pro-
nounced sane.
E. Morrison & Bro, flour and produce
merchants of Halifax have suspended. LA
bilities estimated at $120 900. Assets $4,000.
A bill is to be presented in the con-
| gressional House for the transfer of Chief
Joseph and other Nez Perces to the Indi an
territory -
The excitement in Russia on account
of the plague still continues. The report is
contradicted that it has appeared in village
near Moscow.
England has concluded convention
with Turkey, purchasing the state domains
in Cyprus with the exception of the sui JAMS
private estates. - ..r.-~ go
The ice gorge at st. Louis gave way
on the evening of January 2Sth. The ice
came down in a great mass, but no damage
had been reported.
81. A dispatch from Berlin states that in a
village near Astraehan the populace have
massacred the doctors believing that they
poisoned their patients.
Count Itchy, Austrian ambassador at
Constantinople, telcgraphs to Vienna that
typhus fever and not the plague is prevalent
near Xanthe, in Thessaly.
The Ottawa, Canada, council has pass.
ed an order prohibiting the importation of
cattle from the United States for three
months from the first of February
A disastrous fire occurred Feb. 3, at
Waunakee, ten miles north of Madison, Wis
by which some eight buildings were destroy
ed including large store and hotel.
| A dispatch from st. Petersburg of Feb
uary Sth, says no case of plague has occurred
at AsJoachan since the 9th of FEBRUARY. Gem
eteries are being arranged for the dead
A FEBRUARY 9th dispatch from Sidney,
says snow remains to a great depth, and
thousands of cattle are perishing on both
; Platte rivers and on the plains between.
i The st. Paul, Minp., city council have
resolved to ask the right to issue SAC, 900 worth
of bonds to build Market House on Seventh
street, on the site of the present building.
/ st. Petersburg newspaper bitterly de-
nounce Austria and Germany for adopting
precautionary measures against the plague
declaring that said action is inspired by hostil.
Il ity to Russia and desire to ruin her trade.
A correspondent at Liverpool estimates
the number of sailors now on strike at Liver
pool at from 1000 to 5000. The authorities
are arranging for speedy landing il neces
sary, of $50 sailors and marines from man
of-war.
A telegram from Bucharest of FEBRUARY
Sth says the government has given eight days
notice at ST. Petersburg OF the prohibition O
certain imports from Russia o. Bulgaria, and
OF sanitary supervision over persons crossing
the frontiers.
At Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 18th, the
LIE nmeyer Touring mills. the largest in Ar
kansas, exploded a boiler, killing the engi
neet, Horace Burns, and making an utter
wreck of the engine house. Burns has
wife and two children in st. Louis, Mo.
Peter Pfeifer of st. Paul, MINI, hal
resolved to enlarge his present Hall OF
Wabashaw street. St. Paul, by an addition
48 by 90 which will make it the largest hal
this side of Milwaukee. When completed
according to the plan 1t will be an ornamen
to the city. islF1
The relations of the United States will
Russia, In regard to codfishiDg, are OF Thu
friendliest character American fisherman
, are allowed to approach within one marine
league of the Siberian coast while fishing, ant
as they have no need to land, except for wa
ter, there is no chance for q conflict of author
. | ity.