The Columbus journal., 1879-01-29

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the Black Hills.
JACK HAINEs, who drives a heavy
coal-wagon in Omaha, ran over
Katie Schuh on the 25th inst, caus-
ing internal injuries that resulted in
her death. He was arrested and
placed under bonds.
o. p. HULL, of Wassonville, Ia,
rose on the 25th, and with an axe,
split open the head of his daughter
Emma, aged Is years, and imme-
diately thereafter shot himself. No
cause is known for the rash act.
The state lunatic asylum of Mo.
was burned on the afternoon of the
18th. About $50 patients were
safely removed. Tho building was
erected at q cost of $4,000, and
will be total loss, as there was no
insurance.
OUR western exchanges still con-
tinue TO report the stealing of large
numbers of horses by Indians from
the western ranches. Forty-fve
horses were recently stolen from the
rancho of Z. S. Newman on the
Running Water.
A DISAPPOINTED lover by the
name of John Rowley, at Findley's
Lake, N. Y, dug his own grave the
other day and then shot a bullet
through his head causing instant
death. He left the request TO be
buried in the grave he had prepared.
News from Ft. Robinson, under
date of the oath, states that all the
Indians now at the Fort are under
strong guard, and will be taken to
Ft. Leavenworth. Private Hantz,
of company E, Sd cavalry, who was
wounded the day of the outbreak,
died on the oath.
THERE is an application pending
for new trial for Mrs. Cobb, who
was recently found guilty of poison
ing her husband and sentenced to
Imprisonment for life. a sworn
statement has been procured that
Mr.. Cobb was in the habit Of taking
solution of arsenic incidentally.
The following are officers of the
State Horticultural Society for the
ensuing year: President, r. w.
Furnas; First Vice President, c. E.
Mathewson; Second Vice President,
+. N. Grenell; Treasurer, G. Hart
man; Secretary, ID. III. Wheeler;
Directors, S. Barnard, Hon. L.
Crounse and ID. w. Kaufman.
Gov. FREMONT recommends an
expenditure of half million dollars
by the Secretary of the Interior in
the construction of roads and the
establishing of a bureau and assay
Office at the capital of Arizona; also
the erection of a government refin-
cry at which to receive ore and pay
gold or silver, or in refined bars.
GEORGE REYNOLDS, the Utah
polygamist, who was recently con-
victed and sentenced in the United
States supreme court for ten years
imprisonment, with hard labor, has
petitioned the court for rehearing,
alleging that his sentence was un-
lawful, for the reason that the law
says nothing about hard labor.
News from London under date of
the 23d reports extreme cold wealth
er and much suffering and destitu-
zion throughout the kingdom. 1t
is also stated that violent snow
storms block Russian railways
Large numbers of laborers are en-
gagged in opening communication
between Moscow and Sebastapol.
THE recently-quoted prices in the
Deadwood market are 60 cents a
dozen for eggs, butter so cents per
pound, potatoes 4 cents, onions 10
cents. The Deadwood merchants
are having a good trade this winter.
The gold and silver districts in the
Black Hills cover over two thousand
square miles. In this, 1900 quartz
and placer mines have been recorded.
VICE PRESIDENT WHEELER on the
oath submitted the memorial Of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan b.
Anthony, and other officers of the
national woman's suffrage associa-
ton, praying the passage of joint
resolution proposing an amendment
to the constitution prohibiting states
from disfranchiSing persons OH ac-
count of sex. The resolu tion was
properly referred.
The amount claimed to belong to
the State treasury fund and not
shown up by eX-treasurer Mcbride,
is $6,74097. Mcbride explains by
saying he exercised his discretion
in the payment of certain bills, and
in other investments for the benefit
of the State. The Omaha RepubH-
can says his explanation is not
satisfactory enough to Bartlett to
warrant him in making a receipt
for the same.
LINCOLN Journal: zone of our
prominent attorneys, who was en-
gagged in a suit against the Nebraska
State GranUe had occaeiop m looE