Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-02-11
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wAsHINaToN.
WAsHrsror, Feb. IL Reagan aya
coz has made ill-Setssrd and usgeDsso',a
fings At the house committee on com-
merce. Cox replied and the wangle hs-
tween the two continued fsr sometime.
| Th. bill was then considered. Unnphrcy
said that the Superior harbor, one of the
finest in the world. got, only 5000,
while the harbor At Duluth got t25, 600.
| Not dollar was appropriated fsr the
Mississippi which would benefit the
whole country. II seemed 70 him thai
the opposition came from the representa.
t,ves who did not get what they wanted
for their districts. Regsn then moved
that the committee rise and report tic
bill to the house. Cox raised point Of
order and demanded the reading of the
bill for arsendnMnt. The chair sustained
the point and ruled that the bill must l'e
read BY sections. Reagan afpealed To the
chair, and was sustained By vote Of lS3
to g. After further debate the COMMITTEES
and the house adjourned.
THE RED NAN.
ST. Paul, Feb. 10.-A Poplar river
special to the Pioneer Press says: A de-
tail from 1lges' command, csmposedo {
two companies of the Fifth infantry, have
been sent to the camp Of Dlack Catdshs'
Yanktonais siouxs, near tins post, to de-
mand the surrender of the hostile Unca.
papas. Black Catfish attempted resist.
ance, and the party and troops took pos
session of the camp and arrested the chief
and forty-nine Yanktonais and took them
to the fort. About forty UDcapapas were
captured ct the same time. They are now
under guard at Poplar river, with the
other captured aud surrepdereo hnstiles.
There are now 700 of these captured Sioux
At Poplar river and Fort Buford to i's
disposed Of - the government shall de-
eide. Black Horn, noted hostile chief.
i, among the captured Uncapapas. He
will be taken TO BufOrd in irons.
OIL GaEs uP
81. Paul. Feb. 1i.-At 80 this morn.
ing an explosion occurred in Archibald
Mchurmeier's oil refinery, followed BY .
6re that destroyed the whole works
Tue building and fixtures cast ftom $i5 :.
600 to t2O,OO0. The loss on stock will
reach nearly $4,000 The entire insur.
ance ia about $so, 900. Two men perishsd
in the flamcl
TIE LEGISLATURE.
YANEToN, Feb. 1l.-No notice hos
reached here yet from Washington with
reg, I'd to the extension of time for the
sessio, to sixty days, and it seems prob
able. now that the labon of the present
body are d,awirg to: q close. Much re-
mains to be done vet, and the friends Of
the Pierre capitol and Others are more
than busy.
MORE FOR GOULD.
New YORK, Feb 1.-THE Interest ni
James Wilsoa Brooks in the Evening Ex
press has been sold to IN unknown prin.
cipal. It is ruraorcd tba. Jay Gould
who purchased in accordance with the op
ponent policy, is attempting to obtAit
control Of the New York associated press
COLUMBUS. Feb. 11.-The Sciota rive
has not been 20 high for twelve years y
now, it hnvirg ris.a nine inches siucs
morning The lns tands west and soutf
Of tho city are flooded Families are CON
PEELED to abandon ;heir homes and prop
erty.
-NE~ YORK, feb. ia map Of tn
city has been prepared, winch is dotted {
show places where cases Of small pox hav
been discovered bet~een January lst an,
February 5th. Eighty six cases have bee
reported IN that time-twenty-pine cns
centrated in two acres enclosed by Pear
Park, Chatham and Canal streets, irclud
theew hole Of the old Five Points. Tb
other forty -pise cases are dlstributed ove
Manhattan Island in blocks built Wit
tall and wretched tenement beuses.
NINE DrsAsfHR
SALEM. O., Feb. l0.-An explosioa
FIRE damp occurred in Aaver 4 Co . cn
mine this Afternoon by which hole VI
blown through fifteen feet Of earth con
posing the root, carrying death and d,
struction oil around. Twenty men wei
ct work in. the mine six of whom We
killed outright and nnmbe. dangeroosl
wounded.
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General Manager Sargent has issued