New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-03


In CaiifOrniA-Warlike Preparation
or the Mormona-Flre at Milweuki,
Stale Prison-HOstility Of the Indians
They Capture an Indian Agency AM
Prisoners-Firesi In Illinois and Iowa
FOrty-eight Hour Whisky Casey outi
shot In a House of Iil-fame.
QUEBEC, May 2.-The steamship German
ran into the steamship Quebec, off Greer
Island, yesterday. The latter steamer sank
in deep water half an hour afterward. Hel
engineer and one passenger were lost.
CHEYENNE, W. T., May Indians at.
tackled a herd Of cattle on Chug Water. Two
herders are missing. Large numbers are ar
irving to join the Big Horn expedition. Over
"a hundred paraded the streets to-day. The
expedition starts on May 10. Its osteAsible
object is to protect the Big Horn mines.
FAN FRANCISCO, May 2.-The annual ses-
sion of delegates of the Episcopal Church
Board OF Missions commenced in this city
yesterday. Representatives present from
ainlost every portion of the State.
Alarming intelligence has been received
OF short crops in Santa Clara county. Half
= the grain'wiil not pay for harvesting. In
tie Suisine valley the north winds and dry
weather have almost destroyed the crops.
More favorable reports come from the
northern part of the State.
OMAHA, May 2.-The warlike preparations
ci ZIG MoIiuono are creating considerable
Cneasiness in the west.
The brusque threats of General Sheridan
to advance on Red Cloud, the Sioux chief,
are generally believed to be impolitic, and
that ii the answer is delivered to him tRed
CLOUDY as sent, that it will result in loss of
life that might have been avoided.
MILWAUKEE, May IA fire at the State
Prison today burned the shops. No es.
Capes. Damage about $50, 600.
q
who arrived at Sioux City Yesterday from
Fort Sully report that the Cheyenne agency
has been taken possession OF by the Indians;
that on attempting to- land they were or
dered off by the savages. who fired over
their heads; that Major Randall and com.
rades are prisoners, and that the Indians
had killed large number of cattle, the
carcasses of which was seen along the river
banks and on the sand bars.
At Princeton, Illinois, April 80, the Ma.
tional Hotel and other buildings were de-
s.royed by fire. Loss $500.
At Desmoines, Iowa, to-day, Gilchrist's
planning mill was burned; loss $50, 900.
At Wasslon, to-day, the workshops of the
State prison were burned; loss $4,000.
The town of Dover, Illinois, has offered
one thousand dollars reward for the appre-
hension and conviction of persons con-
cerned in the recent lynching of Hank
Leanord at Salem.
CINCINNATI, May 2.-Judge Edmonds, of
the United States Circuit Court, delivered
an opinion sustaining the demurrer, filed
IN behalf OF the government, to the action
brought by distiilers restraining the collec.
ton of the tax on whisky, assessed in ODE
dience to what is termed the forty eight
hour rule.
Adam Neyddle, member of the bar, and
prominent citizen, died to-day of pneu
m0nia.
LOUISVILLE, May John H. Morton, a
youth nineteen years old, son OF FL. G. Nor
ton, banker, OF this city, shot and killed
Dan Powers, gambler, at house of i'll.
fame on Eleventh street, between Main and
the river, kept by Annie Raburn, this after
noon; jealousy the cause. Morton surren.
dered himself, and is in jail, a murderer at
nineteen.
River Intelligence.
SOUTHWEST PAST, May 2, 6P. M-Weather
Cain. Barometer 29:70. Arrived: Steam.
ship Morgan at 4:30 P. NJ, Talbot, master,
from Indianola via Galveston, to G. A.
Whitney Il Co. Sailed: Brig Rocky Glenn.
VIcKsBURG, May Passed up: Republic
at ten last night, Louisville at twelve M
Down: r. z. Lee at seven. River station.
airy. Weather clear and pleasant.
MEMPHIS, May 2.-Passed up: Shark.
Down: Mary L. Forsyth. River rose two
Little Rock in the past twenty. -four hours.
Weather clear; mercury IS.
CAIRO. May Passed down: Rich
Mond, from st. Louis to New Orleans, |
10 P. NJ. Up: Wicks, from Memphis to st. |
Louis. 10 p. NJ. Pissed down: Alice |
Dean, from Cincinnati to Memphis, 6 A. M,
Virginia, from Louisville to New Orleans, 8 |
A. NJ; Atlantic, from st. Louis to New Or !
leans, 2. NJ. Up: Ajax, from New Orleans |
to Pittsburg, 8 A. NJ; Pauline Carroll, from |
New Orleans to st. Louis, s P. H. River fell |
four inches. Weather clear. Mercury7S.
LOUISVILLE, May 2.-Arrived: Kenton, |
from CINCINNATI; Glasgow, from New Or |
leans. Departed: Kenton, for New Orleans;
Glasgow, for Pittsburg. River falling, ten |
feet ten inches in the canal; eight feet teri
inches in the chute, with eighty four feet |
under the bridge. Weather clear and |
warm. Mercury eighty-two.
CINCINNATI. May River fallen four feet |
five inches since Saturday, with twenty-five |
feet in the channel. Weather clear. Their |
81.
PITTsBURG, May 2.-Monongahela five feet |
zine inches and falling; Allegheny six feet |
Eve inches. Weather clear and pleasant. |
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