The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1883-04-21
DOMESTIC NEWS.

The Hudson river is higher than has
been known for many years.
The Oregon Short Line is now open
twenty miles north of Shoshone.
The Tombstone Rangers are reported en-
route to attack the San Carlos Apaches.
Professor O c. Marsh, of Yale, is presi-
dent of the National Academy of Science.
A cyclone demolished the town of Zum-
bro Falls, Minnesota, on Friday night of
last week.
Mrs. Mary E. Schenlay has sued the city
of Pittsburg for the possession of its pub
lie wharves.
Memorial services were held at Abraham
Lincoln's tomb on the eighteenth anniver-
sary of his death.
Large slaughter houses are TO be built in
the Yellowstone country, and the dressed
beef shipped eastward.
The Washington grand Jury has in
dicted William Pitt Kellogg, for completely
in the star-route business
Rev. John Schenck, Catholic priest of
Minnesota, in Aft of dependency, suicided
at Long Prairie on Tuesday.
The Las Vegas saloon-keepers are organ
izing union The Gazette says that town
has no temperance organization.
The stockholders of the Mutual Union
Telegraph Company have ratified the lease
of their lines to the Western Union
Fifteen penitentiary convicts, engaged on
contract labor at Helena, Arkansas, escaped
on Monday, and went down the river.
The Alternately furniture factory, Leav-
enworth Kansas, and several large Touring
mills at Minneapolis, burned Tuesday.
The Chicago councilmen refuse to accept
the cable idea for telegraph wires in Chi
caGo, and order the cables removed at once
The carpenters in New York have secured
an advance in wages to S350 per day, and
the printers are seeking similar advance.
A Missippi judge sentenced F. G.. Mack
to five years imprisonment and 81 900 fine
for attempting to pass gold-plated nickel
for So.
The Mexican government denies the re-
ports circulated in the United States that
Americans cannot acquire land in that
country.
The twenty. first anniversary of Emanci-
patton Day was celebrated in Washington
with unusual enthusiasm, regardless of fire.
quent showers.
The Boston Transcript gives currency to
report that the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad has purchased the Hanni-
bal and St. Joe.
The New Mexico Bitumen and Coal Oil
Company has struck flowing oil we'll,
near Fort Wingate, and about fifteen miles
west of Albuquerque
The North Chicago rolling mills will
not resume until the price of iron advances.
Four thousand men are thrown out by the
stoppage of these mills.
TIE execution of Matt. Zimmerman, one
of the Minden (Nebraskaj murderers,
was to have been hung yesterday, has been
suspended on error in the transcript.
The Atlantic house, at Abba, Iowa,
burned Monday, and three guests, William
McGill, Charles Quinian, and Carl Spiegel,
were cremated- The proprietor narrowly
escaped.
In forty-eight Illinois towns and cities.
seventeen have declared for prohibition, or
anti-license, thirty-one favor license-six of
these at high figures-and four towns ig-
nored the question.
In the Tewksbury investigation. ]. r.
McGovern, a tanner, said that q negro's
skin was brought to him by MAJ, repre-
senting himself rs being Harvard stu
dent, who wanted it tanned
James Marshall & Co., iron pipe manu-
facturers, Pittshurg, have made an assign
ment. Liabilities, 81, 500 Oe0. Assets, ST.
100000. The failure is attributed to ex-
cessive speculation in pig iron.
Dynamite cartridges, in sufficient guam
tity to demolish the building, were found
in the basement of Rinaldo & Co.'S factory,
Schmerhorn street, Brooklyn. One hun.
dred girls work in the building.
Reports upon the growing wheat crop,
collected by the Milwaukee board of trade
from fifteen states, indicate shortage in
the production of twenty per cent, or
100,0O0,000 bushels less than last year.
A rumor was prevalent at San Francisco,
Monday that 7. SDtr of E,sr baI
attempted to shoot his father. owing to
difficulties between the father and mother
Information on the subject is very meagre.
The consolidation of the Iron Mountain
and st. Louis railroad with the Wabash
railroad gives the new company control of
9,5SS miles of railway. This is the great
sSs number of miles included in one system
in the world.
Freeman, of Massachusetts,, who was in
spired two years ago to offer his little
daughter as sacrifice, and killed the child,
is now perfectly sane, and will be arraigned
for murder. He says the inspiration came
from the devil.
Seventy-iive thousand head of cattle aro
to be transferred by rail from the district
below Fort Worth to Witchita Falls, a dis
tancc of ia miles. The large amount of
fencing erected in southern Texas renders
the transfer necessary.
Allan Potter, who went to Cheyenne, not
long since, to report for the Chicago Times
the proceedings of the Wyoming Stock
Growers Association, but, instead of so
doing, went on n protracted debauch, sui
cided in that city on Tuesday last. His ia
ther is q banker at Kalamazoo.
The reported falling of an immense me-
teor in Browne county, Texas, so large that
it covSred an acre of ground, and burial of
a Mexican family under it, is pronounced
Us u wild canard, credited to the imagina-
tive powers of the man who once sold the
Kentucky Mammoth cave, and agreed to
deliver it in England.
Chicago is Investigating its potter's Geld
One county undertaken is charged with
selling seventy-five per cent. of the bodies
he IS supposed to bury, and his revenue
from that source is given at $4,000 per an
mum. 1t is also charged that dead babies
arc but partially buried, and their skulls
and bones are now scattered oyer the
ground.
Fighting amons the Panama canal la
borens has ceased. The company will pro-
cure additional labor from the Sandwich
Islands This probably explains the late