The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1883-03-17
DOMESTIC NEWS.


The Missouri river ia opened at Yank-
ton
The Lower Mississippi has been falling
all week.
Lieutenant Colonel Browne, of the First
infantry, is dead skts-
The Philadelphia mint turned out a66,-
600 silver dollars last week.
The ice gorge in the Mississippi at
Dubuque started Wednesday.
Three hundred clerks have been dismissed
from the pension department.
Rhode Island independents nominated
William Sprague for governor.
fThe Downing high license bin has passed
the Missouri legislature, and is law.
The Pennsylvania anthracite companies
have resumed operations on full time
The friends of Polk, Tennesssce's default
/ ing treasurer. offer to settle his deficit.
~ bill to prevent cremation has been in
trodacedin in the Pennsylvania legislature
A. O. Bourn, of Bristol, is the republic
can nominee for governor of Rhode Island.
John s. Tezerang, a murderer, was
lynched in the Beaver Head country, Nom
tana-
The civil service commission has rented d
rooms at Washington, and is getting ready
for business.
Clarence Hite, one o. the James gang,
pardoned by Governor Crit,snden not long
since, is dead. tfa
The situation presented by the Arkansas
floods is brighter now than since the Nater
pressure set in.
The United States treasury contains
1858, s,1ss, ,946. of which S179,6S5,0os is in
gold and bullion.
Nathan H. Pratt, the defaulting treasurer
of the Reading tPennsylvania) savings
bank, was found guilty.
Colonel John s. Chandler, of tho staff of
the governor of Georgia, was fatally in
jured by the cars at Atlanta,
New York courts decide that the Passion
Play is play, but that the recent rehearsal
was not public performance.
An extensive cave occurred in the High
Land mine, Deadwood. All except one
miner escaped with their lives.
In the Illinois state legislature the house
passed a bill to punish wife-beaters by
whipping. The. bill is now a law.
The superior court of New York has de-
cided that scat in the stock exchange is a
part of the assets of a bankrupt firm.
The New Jersey legislature has passed q
bill prohibiting the sale OF cigarettes or to-
bacco to minors in any town in the state.
The Arkansas train robbers, who are
now concealed in the mountains, will be
run from their quarters to-day by blood
hounds
road burned at o'clock on Tuesday morn
ing last All the passengers escaped, some
half clad.
The secretary of war has requested the
pFesidea. to appoint q committee to invss-
tigate General Hazen's administration of
Jose Gallegos and John Dutton, Las
Vegas cattle and horse thieves, were sent
enosd to the penitentiary for five years
each on Monday.
Hood & Calls lodging shell, at Browns
night. Eleven men were burned to death,
and four others seriously injured.
Great suffering and much sickness, con-
sequent upon the recent floods, prevail at
all river towns along the Ohio river.
Thousands are utterly destitute, and many
are down with the pneumonia
Patrick Eagan, former treasurer of the
Irish Land League, arrived a. New York
on Tuesday. He says he came over to
visit our flour manufacturing centers, Us
his firm, in Dublin, deals largely in Amer
lean hours-
The National Labor Unions Committee,
organized by authority ofthe last congress,
in its report, denounces, the majority of
the senate as lawyers retained by federated
capitalists, demands an extra session ofcon-
gress as remedy for impending strikes,
and advises all workmen to join the
Unions, and present IN unbroken front,
Hon. NJ. L. Dukes was acquitted for
killing Captain A. l.. Mutt, of Pennsyl-
vania- There was great Indignation ut the
verdict. Dukes and the jurymen were
hung in effigy, and at one time it was
thought mob would hang Dukes. A
meeting of citizens was held Thursday
evening, when resolutions strongly condemn
ing Dukes and the jury were passed. The
aurymen were hissed ON the street yester-
day. They left town as soon as they could,
and Dukes went home to his mother.
EOREVGN NEWS