The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-04-30
ASSAYS FOR THE WEEK.


The Sny levee at Hannibal, Missou-
ri, broke on Monday.
The remains of Lord Beaconsfield
were buried on Tuesday.
The floods badly demoralized busi-
ness at Chicago last week.
Congressman O'Connor, of South
Carolina, died on the Goth.
The loss by floods at Mank ota,
Minnesota, is estimated at $3.50, 600.
The Sioux Indians are driving all
whites off of the Little Missouri river.
The winter wheat crop of Kansas
is reported in all excellent condition.
James T. Field died suddenly in
Boston on Sunday night of heart dis
ease.
Senator Edmunds will soon leave
Washington not to return this session
of congress.
The Philadelphia mint is coming
gold dollars at the rate of 5000, ,00(
per month.
Mrs. Howe, of notorious banking
fame III Boston, has been found gull
ty by jury.
\ contract has been made to bring
10000 immigrants from Sweden and
Norway to America.
Two hundred and fifty cabinet
makers in the Pullman car works at
Cleveland are on strike.
The Union Pacific has sued the
government for 81, ,161, ,720, alleged to
be due for carrying the mails.
The custodian of farm near Cliff
den, county Galway, Ireland, was
killed by five men OH the 26th.
The town of Buena Ventura, South
America, was destroyed by fire on
the 18th at loss of 81 100000.
On the 9th inst. there were 127
small pox and 10T typhus fever patti.
ents ON Blackwell's island, n. Y.
Four companies of the Fourth U.
s. cavalry have been ordered from
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The Minnesota and Red Sioux
rivers in Minnesota were very high
this week doing considerable damage
Mormon men. women and children
to the number of 1877 arrived in New
York on the 2Ith, from Scotland and
Wales.
Third Assistant Postmaster Gen
iiaZen has been transferred to the DO
sition of law officer of the postoffice
department.
Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia
has been sentenced to life imprison.
ment for completely in the plots o.
the nihilists.
The Mississippi river was very
high on the first of the week, at keo
kuk, Iowa, reaching within foul
inches of the high water mark o
1874.
Whitelaw Reid, of the New Yorl
Tribune. and Miss Elizabeth Mills
daughter of d. Q. Mills. the Califor
MIA millionaire, were married in New
York City, on the 25th.
Assistant Postmaster Gen. Brad,
has resigned. He is accused of cor
ruption in the Star service" con
tracts. Richard a. Elmer, of New
York, has been nominated to take
Brady's place.
The settlers in Canon Largo, eight
cen miles from Pennington, New
Mexico, We're robbed by a party o
MeSicans led by four white men
few days ago. One hundred head o
cattle were taken by the robbers ant
four settlers killed.
An address to the car has been is
sued by the nihillsts, pointing to til,
indiscriminate execution of those coI
cerned in the assassination of Alex,
ander II. as only having served tc
strengthen the ranks of the nihilists
by driving many luke-warm into the
extreme faction of the party.
A vessel arrived just Off New York
Monday with several cases of small
poS on board. The diseased person:
were taken to the hospital, the shir
put in quarantine and the passenger:
required to be vaccInated. About
$50 Russians and Poles refused and
made fuss. Part were forced tc
submit and part were taken to SiA
Island to be Kept there till they con,
sent to be vaccinated.
Another terrible flood commenced
coming down the Missouri river on
Saturday last and on Tuesday the
water was twenty-three feet and ten
inches above low water mark al
Omaha and five miles wide. A great
deal of damage was done to levees
aud railroad tracks. AT Council
Bluffs the river was seven miles wide
ovcrtlowiug more territory than ever.
Tho town of Waterloo, twenty i've
miles west of Omaha, was complete
ly flooded. AT Kansas City the
levee built to protect Harlan, on the
opposite bank of the Missouri, broke
on Saturday night and all of the rail-
road tracks were oyertlowed.