The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1883-01-13
DOMESTIC NEWS.

The Modoc war claims are to- be paid.
Northern Ohio hadsa violent earthquake
last Sunday.
Heavy snow storms through the soathern
states this week.
= to 81 :05 per box
Governor Click was fnaugurated govern.
or of Kansas on Monday.
Mercury thirty degrees below zero in
Northern Illinois last Tuesday
The sth of January WAS celebrated in
several cities in the United States.
Dickson, foreman of the star route Jury,
has been hela to answer in s., 500 bail.
Hon. c. F. Doxis, republican, of Indiana,
was elected to succeed Congressman Ortiz.
The United States supreme cpptt VIII
take a recess from February to March 8
The citizens of Lyons. France, contrib
uted 81 GOO TO the Garfield hospital fund.
Matthew Franklin Whittier, only broth
er OF John e., died at Boston on Monday
Silver is daily increasing in price al the
east, which is good news for western men.
Gambetta memorial meetings were held
IN ell the leading cities of the Union on
Sunday.
Robinson, of New York, has introduced
bill in congress to reduce letter postage
to one cent.
1t is now stated that Treasurer Polk. of
Tennessee, paid his first captors $50 600 to
release him.
The Inmans claim their loss on the CITY
of Brussels to be S160,0OO, besides claims
Tor cargo lost,
The Marquis of LONE aad Princess
Louise had grand ovation at las Vegas
last Wednesday.
Bishop ireland, of ST. Paul, has forbid
den Roman Catholics in his diocese to act
as saloon keepers
$4,000 hotel is being built at HALEY.
1daha, in the Wood river country, on the
Oregon Short line.
3. ?. Shillabar, better known IS Mrs,
Partington, hes i'll of pneumonis, at Chel,
sea, Massachusetts.
An attempt was made this week BY the
relatives ef the latter to revive the Cock.
erill-Slayback affair.
Chicago has the credit of being the ban
ner criminal center OF the Union, leaving
Pueblo in the shade.
BY an explosion in the coal mine of
Jones q Nesbir, near Coulterville, Illinois,
ten men lost their lives
Anderson, of Kansas, has introduced q
bill m congress to establish United States
postal-teiegraph system.
William A Seaver, editor of the & Draw
err in Harpers Magazine, died suddenly of
aeute p4eumonia- Aged 50 years.
In the lower Pecos valley, Texas, cattle
are dying off by the hundreds The alkali
water is believed to be killing them.
If he can find the spare time, President
Arthur VIII accompany his daughter to
Florida on health-seeking tour shortly.
The seat now occupied by Congressman
Manning, of Mississippi, will be declared
vacant, and the case go back to the people
We are glad TO note that the eour,s of
New Mexico ase declaring in favor of the
settlers, and against land grant schemers.
Eight thousand coal miners along the
Monongahela river are idle on account of
the suspension of operations in seventy-fve
mines
John Cadie died a. Manistee, Michigan
after los days fast, caused by an ulcer
ated stomach During his fast his weight
decreased from $50 to 1O7 pounds.
Salem, Virginia, is ravaged by smallpox
Public schools and the Roanoke college
have closed, and business is at standstill
Adjacent towns have qnaraRtiped against
Salem.
Two passenger trains collided near Cedar
Falls, Iowa, and several persons We're in
jured, one fatally. The Lights o. London
company was aboard, and the extensive
properties were badly damaged.
In pigeon shooting match on Long ISL
and, last Wednesday, between Lord Man
derstillee, of Hurlingham, and Grant, of
the Westminster clubs, 81 900 a side, 100
birds, thirty yards rise, from five traps,
each killed forty-iive birds 4 new match
viii be shot il the spring.
M. I. Polk, the defaulting state treasurer
q Inu0eSS.s- S.nS n.rt.laf1 in San Aptnrsa
Texas- The Tennessee legislature author
ized the governor to offer reward of
5000 for his apprehension. He was re-
leased on a habeas corpus, but was rear
rested, after n determined resistance, and
taken back to Nashville. lie offered the
detective arresting him $1,000 to allow
him to cross into Mexico.