The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-05-12
THE WEST.

Inc WOrkS OF the Alta Mining com.
pany, at Wickes, Montana, valued at nearly
$S0',OO0, have been swept away by the flames.
The United States grand jury at
Deer Lodge, Montana, has indicted ten Nor
mons for un]aw:ully voting for delegate to
Congress, and four of the offenders have been
arrested by a deputy marshal.
The governor of the Mexican state
of Arispe, has asked the cooperation Of Gov
ernor Fremont, Of Arizona, in roofing up the
band of horse thieves operating on the border.
The indications of an outbreak
among the ties were sufficiently serious to
cause the dispatch of six cavalry companies
from the contiguous forts to White river.
With the exception OF Maud $. and
St. Julien, for whom a special purse will be
offered, the name of every flyer of national re-
nown appears in the list of 1S7 entries made
for the summer trotting meeting at Chicago.
Several companies of troops have
been ordered to Fort Buford to escort the Sioux
prisoners to Standing Rock agency. Sitting
Bulls emissaries have been in their nelghbor-
hood endeavorinS to persuade them to rally
around ho standard ard follow his misfortuncs,
nehce tniS plecautlOn.
a fire ut Ottumw;.. IT,. May E, dc.
stroyed the First National Bank and scyera,
other adjoining buildings involving a loss #
5175,OOO.
Mrs. Hope Adds, of Grand RAPIDS,
Mich, secured decree Of divorce with $33, ,GUO
alimony.
The Attorney General of Ohio, has
rendered an opinion adverse to the issue of
certificates of incorporation to societies guar
anteeng their members a specified sum Of
money on their marriage.
The order that keno games must
cease in Chicago, was some time since given
out by Mayor Harrison. Walpolc, in South
Clark street, paid no attention to tile warning,
and the police escorted eighty men from his
rooms to the armory.
LII the case of Payne. the Oklahoma
raider, the United States Court at Fort Smith
decided, after reviewing various treaties and
acts of congress, that the lands in question
are not subject to pre- -emptiun or homestead
entry. Many representative Indians were
present at the trial.
-Four engineering parties have start
ed out from Winnipeg to explore the noun
tain passes for the Canadian Pacific railway.
Similar expeditions have been dispatched cast
ward from Victoria, B. G..
The wife Of Rector Vandeburg, of
Springfield, H., becoming enraged at her hus-
band, cut his coat, vest and shirts into shrcds,
aud then turned upon him with the knife,
when he ran out for u warrant
The New York, st. Louis and Chi.
cago road has been voted $4,000 by the peo-
pie of Valparaiso, Ind, and the rails are to be
laid within half a mile of the court house.
a new national bank is to be start
ed at Cincinnati, with the following gentle
Joseph K, Brown, William Wood. John K.
DeCamp, and Myron H. Tilden.
The switchmen employed in all the
yards at Chicago, entered on strike May 2,
demanding $500 per day, besides over time
and Sundays.
a special telegram from Fort Blu
ford to the Chicago Tribune says that posi-
tive information has been received from Sit
ting Bull, now fifty miles from that point,
that he will not surrender; also from Poplar
Creek that emisarries from Sitting Bull have
melted several of the young bucks to leave the
agency and join him. Sitting Bull refuses to
surrender because he believes the government
wants him simply to complete the list, when
all the Indian chiefs will I've hung. He told
Capt. Mcdonald, of the Northwestern Mounted
Police, on the Goth, that lie would not sur
render.
FOREluN.