The Fremont County record., 1883-05-12
DOMESTIC NEWS.

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The Texas wool clip will be lighter than
last year.
The president has approved the civil ser
vice rules,
The North Chicago rolling mills will re-
sumo next week.
The California hay crop is being dam
aged by heavy rains
The Tennessee law making gambling
felony went into effect this week.
A cyclone visited North Platte, Nebraska,
on Tuesday, doing much damage.
Jere Dunn's trial, for the killing ofJames
Elliott, Is now IN progress at Chicago.
The Louisiana supreme court decides
that municipal bonds cannot be taxed.
The Commanches are reported to be
raiding in Texas, and running off cattle.
The Galveston News reports the crops
throughout Texas IN q fiouishing condition.
Colonel Henry Rowland, of Chicago, was
drowned in the Erie canal, at Rochester, on
Sunday.
Striking miners at Belleville, Illinois,
set fire to mine, and caused loss of
100000.
The trout found so abundantly in the
lakes in Yellowstone park are wormy, and
unfit for food.
A heavy storm occurred at Omaha, on
Tuesday, and damaged property to the e1-
tent of $4,000.
Nearly all the business part of Browns
boro. Texas, burned on Sunday. Loss,
$4,000 to $4,000.
At Trenton, New Jersey, on Tuesday, the
main tent of Forepaugh's circus was
wrecked by the gale.
The construction of the Atlantic and
Pacific railway through Arizona will stop
at the Colorado river
Fourteen hundred and fifty miles of rail-
way were built in the first four months of
1888, against 800 miles in 1882.
President Arthur will probably be pres
ent at the opening of the New York and
Brooklyn bridge, on the cath instant.
The new route between the oceans over
the Southern Pacific transports freight
from New Orleans to San Francisco in if
teen days.
The Brooklyn public schools and city
Offices will be closed on the day of the
bridge opening, and 5000 are to be ex-
pended in illumiuations.
James Gordon Bennett estimates the
value of the New York Herald at $4,000
600, and says it is paying six per cent. per
annum interest on that amount
Another fifty-miie section of the Nor
thern Pacific railroad has been accepted by
the President. 1t extends to the 6OOth
mile west of the Mississippi river.
Rev. Josiah Henson, the Uncle Tom of
Harriet Beecher Stoves "Uncle Toms
Cabin died in Dresden, Ontario, the 9TH
instant, at the advanced age of 81.
Fanny Baldwin, lately tried for shooting
the millionaire, E. J. Baldwin, has been
pronounced insane, and placed in the
asylum at Tacoma, Washington territory.
The miners in eleven coal pits along the
Panhandle railroad are reported to be
working at the reduction, and the Pitts
burg strikers are endeayorirg to get them
out.
The PENNSYLVANIA house of representa-
tives passed bill prohibiting the manu-
facture, sale or use of any explosives de-
signed for surreptitiously destroying human
life.
Great damage was done by the hurri-
cane of Tuesday along the Lehigh valley,
in Pennsylvania Timber WAS moved down
like grass and railway travel was rendered
precarious-
A ship canal is to be constructed across
Florida large enough to float the largest
ocean steamer from the ocean to the gulf.
The canal will cost $4,000, 600, and $o6,-
100000 is already subscribed.
The threatening aspect of the coal
miners strike near Collinsville, illinois, has
prompted Governor Hamilton to instruct
the authorities to take prompt measures
towards preserving the peace, should an
outbreak occur.
II is claimed that, in disposing of his in
terest in the New York World, Jay Gould
is carrying out his previously announced
policy of closing out all holdings except
railway and telegraph property, prepara-
tory to his foreign tour.
The postofice authorities declare that
the delivery systems are beginning to
transmit mail in bulk to their branches ir
other cities and there deliver it, thus form
ing a net work of mail routes in competi
ton with the postoffice department..
An agreement has been reached bctwee.
the Atchisou. Topeka and Santa Fe, th,
Atlantic and Pacific, and the ST Louis an,
San Francisco railroad companies by whi,l
the extension of the two last named road
is practically suspended for long term
years
Major WATSON, the paymaster who rc
ported himself robbed in Texas, and WI,
was vouched for by his brother ofiicers,no,
confesses that his tale WAS concocted l.
cover his short accounts with the govern
mcnt. He is known to be Sa, 500 in del
to the government,
1t is estimated that five years labor at
cost of Sss0, 900, 900 will transform the desc
of Sahara into great inland sea, rcnderii,
productive vast rrgion which only lacl
moisture to become susceptible of cultivy
tion, the revenues from which would cci
tainly yield good return on the capt..
invested.
Great damage was inflicted in Nef
York by n short but heavy thunder storm
The fiag pole on the st. Nicholas hotel fol
fatally injuring Henry Clark. A team n
tached to hearse became frightened, rs
away and smashed the vehicle. Sever
buildings and many chimneys in Brookly
were demolished, and one policeman wa
struck by lightning.
Z F. w. Bcebe one Of Colorsdos pioneers,