The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-06-03
TELEGRAPH SUMMARY.

The steamship Manhattan, from Liver
pool, has arrived at New York.
A number Of prominent CalifornIans,
Including Senator. .CasserIey, Hon. ID. o.
Mills, Nv. SimontoD, and others left
New York on Tuesday for California by
rail.
a boat containing nine men was carried
over small waierfalT below Rumford,
Ne, Falls, on Tuesday, aud three of the
men were drOwced-
Hon. Jonathan +. Arnold, President OF
the MlIwaukee bar, died Suddenly in that
city on Wednesday, Of heart disease, while
at his ofiee.
Mrs. NJ. f Baker. a miliiner and dress
maker gas shot and mortally wounded,
at Portland Me, last evening. by the wffe
OF w. Parker, a lawyer Mrs. Parker gave
herself into custody. Jealousy, no doubt
Sheriff ColgTOve. OF Jones County, N. c.,
was shot dead on Saturia AZ forenoon, by a
party OF hiJe men concealed by the road
side. HIS servant was mortaIly wounded
and has since died.
A negro drove horse and buggy into
White River, AT Indianapolis, Wedn sday
Oruing and getting into deep waite r,
both man and horse we're drowned.
land, yesterday, between the Red StCcK,
tngs, of Cincinnati, and the Forest city
Club, of Cleveland, was won by ts-e for
mer; score % too
The Union Course tIot for the s., 500 purse
was won by American Girl. who beat Lucy
and Goldsmith Maid IN 2:2215 2;23, 2:22j.
Lady Thorn was lame. 1t was shOwery
but there were nearly five thousand per-
sons present
The experiments IN smelling iron ore
with Chester coal, wh en- have been in
progress at CaroudOIet, Missouri, six miles
below st. Louis. since Friday last, cuiInln-
ated on Tuesday in practically demon
strating that the Chester coal for smelling
purposes is fully equal to the Big Muddy
coal. rs -
Dispatches from Kansas City say that
Colonel Weir, with squadron OF cavalry,
is scouting on the Saline River for Indi-
ans. Colonel Merrill win take the field
from Fort Harker, General Custar from
Hays, and COlonei Hamilton from Riley,
with orders to pursue vigorously, and pun
ish severely any Indians that may he
found. The killing of thirteen persons in
Saline County Is confirmed.
Two hundred and tweuty-eight tons OF
strawb sTffes. flitog forty-one cars, have
ending last Tuesday. They were all car
ried over the Illinois Central Railroad,
whfchls now running an exclusively fruit
train, and are mostly from South Pass,
Illinois, and vicinity. The fruit is very
fine tAis season.
Elliots mills at WOonsOoket, Rhode
Island, and the adjoining grist mill, car
penter shop, boiler house, large stock OF
paints, nails, &c. also the rooms OF the
WOonsoczst Tape and Binding Company,
and the work shops of w. e. Hubbard, A.
s. Fuller & Co. and Joseph Page, were burn
ed on TUESDAY night. Loss sl00O COOS par
TALLY insured. Two hundred people are
thrown cut Of work.
The vote Or the introduction of lay dele
cations Into the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Submitted to the mem befshtp by
the last General Conference, was taken in
a portion of the Churches in Chicago, on
Tuesday, with the following result: Clark
street Church, y for aud 5 against; Wabash
Avenue Church, ls4 for and against;
Garet Place Churcn, 25 for and l against;
Park Avenue Church, g. for and S against;
total thus far, 1890 for aud I3 against aF
Aspeeial from Fort smith to the Chit
cagO 1rt5uRe says that party OF about
two hundred and fify Cheyennes attacked
an unprotected settlement on the Salf2e
River, sbont fort Y miles from Saline, and
one hundred and sixtv miles west OF To-
peka. On sunday morning they came
under pTetenSe Of irieL dshfp, and towards
evening massacred thirteen men, women,
and children. The women were ravished.
The killed, so far as ku own. are the wife
and four children of Thomas Aloerdice,
one child leleven ye rs oId) of " m Hem
dIieks, Andrew Alison and ,amily (six n
numbeTl, and a son of Johu j. strange.
The bodieS were brutaily mutilated.
The Oratofio of the Creation was given
on Tuesday night, az FarweH Han, Chtca
go, by the Parepa Rosa troupe 20, pTobab
~, the largest concert audience ever g.rf-
ered fu-that city. When the doors were
opened every seat had been Sold aud there
was Z, great rush for standing room, and
In few minutes every space was Al-d
and the box office closed, Uut Ivy the de-
mand OF he outsiders it was again opened.
and repeate a second time So persistent
we're the opportunities Of the outsiders
that there was no escape from yielding to
their demahd- 81 -
\ large convention ives held In Louis
vile last night To consider the best meas.
"A, es 10 Be adop;ed to render the CONNER.
ciaI Convention OF October n success
number of resolutions were passed, tender
iu2sthe delegates a cordial welcome, and
dec airing that no sectional prejudie,
should be allowed to interrupt or mar tn:
me -tfag, and extending tue hOspitaiities o
I.ou8viiie 20 All that shall attend in true
o d fashioned Kentucky style. Also en-
dorsIng the action of the Louisville dele
gates in the late Memphis Convention.
On wednesday mormns, while officer
Belnnger and Deputy Sheriff Hogle, Q
Chicago, were taking man name
nike q arrity from the Superior Cour
room TO tine Jail, where he had been re
Inanded sy Jpdge Garry, to the charge c
Deputy sheriff Hogle, for the purpose c
being sent to Dewitt County, Illinois,
fellow named Jerry Manihan, a notOriou
Detroit t4Iief. struck BalleT ger a heav
blow on the neck with a sluRg shot an
Hugh 4e5arrity, notorious confidence OF
orator, indicted desperate blow on tn
back of Sheriff Hogle's head with lik
weapon. Atthe same time, three or fou
other desperadoes Joined in TO rescue III
prisoner, and escaped with him. Man
han was arrested, but neither of the oti
ers have yet been found. a
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