Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-03-16

The gorge at Miles City, Montana, has BEEF
broken by blasting, and several miles of blocke,
ice floated down stream, and the water recede,
to the channel No damage was done by til,
break, and now the danger which menacet
Miles City has happily passed
Col. Thomas F. Barr, Judge Advocate, U. =
A., late private secretary to Gov. Ramsey, ant
have been ordered on duty at Gen. Sheridan'i
headquarters at Chicago where Col. Barr is tt
take the position of judge advocate for that di-
vision.
Lieut. George Il. Wright, Seventh infantry,
commanding at Fort Stevenson, Oak, died last
week. He entered the war as private in the
First Wisconsin cavalry, and thenceforward as
volunteers. The death of Lieut. Wright, pro-
notes Second Lieut.. Edward E. Hardin.
Col. Darius Hunkins, mayor Of Galena, ILL.,,
died Friday morning of disease of the throat, at
the family residence in East Galena. The de-
ceased was born in Sanbornton, Stafford county,
N. H., 1872 In 1882 he embarked largely IN
the building of railroads, and made that his
time he had not been engaged in active pursuits.
Gen. Terry has received a telegram from Col.
Whistler, commanding at Fort Keogh, stating
that eight lodges of hostile Sioux, forty-five
people in all, had arrived on the north Dank of
the Yellowstone for the purpose of surrender
ing to the military authorities, and their desire
would be grat6ed as soon as the subsistence of
the flood allowed of their being crossed over to
the south side
There has been an enormous increase in
rents at Chicago The condition Of affairs arises.
according to real estate men, not from the
scarcity of building operations during the past
year, for very many large and commodious
buildings have been erected, but from the rush
toward tie city of new business firms. House
rents have also advanced, and a dispatch says
it now looks as though many people would be
entirely homeless, although according to build
ing statistics recently telegraphed, over 5000
residences were erected during 1880 in Chi
cago.
The reckoning with the old Philadelphia ring.
ousted at the late election, has begun, and set
Elements are fast being made in the cases of
spring to defraud the city. Judge Finletter
Overruled the motion for new trial and in ar
rest Of Judgment, and sentenced the prisoners
Haines was ordered to pay fine of $500 and
costs of prosecution and to undergo an impns-
onment Of eighteen months in the eastern peni-
tertiary. Clements and Nusky were sentenced
to pay like fine and to imprisonment of one
year each in the Eastern pententiary.
The case of Chas j. Folger, chief justice of
New York court of appeals, and prominently
mentioned for secretary of the treasury, to col
lect from the government $185,296 as COM
missions for the sale of revenue stamps, was
decided against him in the United States SUI
preme court. Folger was in 1869 and 1870
assistant treasurer at New York. He claimed
that the sale of revenue stamps was not one OF
the duties imposed on him by the act creating
his Office that the commissioners put this extra
duty on him, and he asked for 5 per cent. COM
mission on the sales he made of revenue stamps
and 10 per cent. of the sales of over 5000,
900 of proprietary stamps. The court affirmed
the former decision of the court Of appeals ad-
verse to Folger.