The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1882-12-30
GENERAL NEWS.

Livermofe, Iowa, was partially destroyed
by fire on Sunday.
| There were 1877 business failures in the
| United States last week.
Red Cloud was at Washington this week
trying to bulldoze Secretary Teller.
Near Las Vegas, on Saturday. 15,00O rail-
road tics We're burned. Loss, $1,000.
| Sunday last, all over the United States,
was most prolific of deeds of darkness
President Upton, of the defaultine
Rochester bank, has given $4,000 hail
| A Shawnee county, Kansas, Mrmer this
week sold 5,652 acres of land for S150,OOO.
family were poisoned at Fargo, Daka-
to, by eating canned jelly. One member
died.
Washington Is becoming notorious for
sand bagging and robbery on the streets at
night
The White House has been very much
improved and will to-day be occupied by
Mr.. Arthur.
1t Covington, Georgia, win Smith. 10
years of age, shot three officers dead while
resisting arrest
The past week has been prolific of rail-
road accidents, some of them attended by
slight fatalities.
Charles w. Heyder, retired merchant
of Columbus. Ohio, drank arsenic fnr
whisky and died.
1t is proposed to make the census bureau
permanent, retaining only the expert COLI
lectors of statistics.
The Sioux Indians at the Cheyenne
agency, Dakota, signed the treaty present
ed by the commission.
The number of emigrants arriving at
Garden hat
ed November 30, was 244,6l1I
Seven men attempted to rob a train or,
the Texas Pacific railway, 600 miles west
of Dallas, but were beaten OFT by guards on
the trim.
4 bar of gold weighing $50 pounds was
recently cast in Nevada City, California.
1t is said to be the largest ever cast in this
country
New York clercymen have appealed to
the mayor to prevent the production Of the
Passion Play in that city. 1t should be
suppressed.
The south has seventy-niue mills. which
work up 200 600 tons of cotton seed which
yields 1.000,0 ,000 gallons of oil. valued at
s2s,0oo, coo.
{ Judge Decker, of Denver, was in Wash.
in2ton this week, endeavoring to see.re
the location of Denver's postoffice site On
the labor property.
Five train men Of the Chesapeake & Ohio
I1Isss inc cuuuurIors warcn WIS
thirty minutes slow.
The recent Recommendations of Secretary
Teller, abo1ishiug evil practices existing
among various tribes, have been forwarded
to all Indian agents.
A woman convicted of violsting the
liquor laws of Vermont has been sentenced
to fifty years.
A New York jury decided that because
q man died of delirium tremens an insur-
anee company was not obliged to pay q
$4,000 policy on his life
Colonel c. D. Cox, of Washington, form
erly well-known politician, of Ohio,
walked into the rrTer, ac Chicayo, the
other night, and was drowned.
The heaviest deluge of rain known since
1855, occurred on Monday and Tuesday, in
the vicinity of Opelousas. Louisiana. A
large amount OF damage was done.
William g. Russell, who became the
husband of three estimable young ladies
within short space of time, was on trial
at New York this week for polygamy.
Lucius W. Pond, former state senator
of Massachusetts, sentenced to the peniten-
tiary in 1876 for twelve years for embez-
element, was parloned on Christmas day
Mexican commissioners will meet those
appointed some time since by the United
States at Washington. early in january
next, to arrange O commervial treaty. with
that empire.
,,h;,.s., ,.or.,, .-, - ;,
to Washington territory and British Colnm.
bia as slaves. Those taken To the Emeri-
can side from yictoria are disguised "a
Indian women.
A ,.,,.r .,r-;.- ,,-.s,,, =, c,,;,. g.
riti;ng tha mails has m,,da ris,ps' iu'
fession, in which important revelations are
made. The confession is, for advisory
reasons, withheld from the public.
A youny mechanic of St. I.onis has in
vented an apnaratus which will automot.
ically indicate on the face of a dial the
name of a street or station be,n.- ,,nuro,ehed
by street car or railroad train.
Judge Kelley. chairman of the wavs and
means committee. gives positive assurance
that his commi,tee viii mot recommend !,
A reduction of the duty on lead and ,;n..
disiavored by the tariff eommission
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