New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-30
NIISCELLANEOUS.
A MOther.in.I4aw Shot Dead-Settlers 0i
the Miami Reservation to be Removed

A Mother.in.Law Shot Dead-Settlers OH
the Miami Reservation to be Removed
Arrived in Distress at New York.
ELIZABETH, N. j., December 29.-Michaei
Dunnegan, while quarreling with his
mother, shot her dead, and then escaped.
ST. LOUIS, December 29.-The military
authorities have received orders to remove
all settlers from the Miami reservation I'M
mediately. The settlers number three OF
four thousand, with thriving town OF
twelB hundred inhabitants. The reserva-
ton Embraces 10000 acres Of the finest land
in Kansas, much of which is we'll improved
with houses, barns and growing orchards.
NORFOLK, Va, December 29.-Arriyed:
Sloop Kate Henry, Captain Winout, with
her mainsail blown away.
FORTRESS MONROE, November %, 7:l5
p. MA severe northwest snow storm set
in last night and continued till noon to-day.
About six inches of snow fell.
The steamer General Terry, from New
bern for New York, put in here for aharbOr.
The United States steamer Pawnee
dropped down from Norfolk to the buoys,
and is now adjusting her compasses.
The pilot boat Maryland reports passed
in for Baltimore: Barks India and Yaloden.
from Rio, and brig Clara Brown, from
Havana. Passed out: Steamer Ottawa, for
Liverpool.
Sr. LOUIS, December ga dispatch from
Fort Scott, Kansas, says Colonel MorTil re-
ceived orders from the War Department
yesterday instructing him to remove all
settlers from the Miami Indian Reservation,
i'll this State, at once. There are from three
thousand to four thousand settlers upon
these lands. !. Lacygena, q thriving town et
twelve hundred inhabitants, is also on the
same lands, and must share the same fate.
The reservation embraces seventy thou
sand acres of the finest land in Kansas, and
a., of = IN
houses, farms and growing orchards. This
order has evidently been secured through
fraud and Misrepresentation by number
of the Indian ring, who are known to be in
terested in having the settlers moved in
order that they may sell the lands and
pocket the proceeds.
Colonel Morril goes up tonight. and viii
be followed by one company Of United
States cavalry tomorrow.
Reddick. who killed young Likens, near
Leavenworth, Kansas, short time since,
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree ut Lcavenworth yesterday.
On Monday evening Napoleon Brown
and Frank Dean were riding together on
the same horse, in Platte county, Missouri.
| when a quarrel took place between them.
which resulted III Dean stabbing Brown
twentyone times, killing him Instantly
Brown was nineteen years old, and sol,
of Judge Thomas Brown, of Buchanan
county.
bUcnKEErsIB, December 90. The
weather is intensely cold here. The river
| is effectually closed from Albany to Rhine
| beck. The ice is six inches thick.
BOsTOS, December 29-United States
| revenue officers have recently made several
| important seizures of tobacco and cigars at
| Lowell. From one manufactOry forty
! thousand cigars were seized. Similar
seizures have been made in other places in
| this vicinity.
River Intelligence.
SOUTHWEST Pass, December %, 6P. M.
Barometer 1890. Wind northwest and light.
Nc arrivals or departures.
VICKsnCRC. December 2o-Passed up
Bismarck at 10 A. NJ, and II. NJ. Shreve a,
3P. M. Passed down: Atlantic and barges
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