Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-07-31

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SereH Ne. aad Capsuvs Ofhers-DiabolieaI
Torture II Prisoners.
From an escaped Indian captive who arrived
a st. joseph, Missouri, on the 26Sh inst, par
Indian Outrages OF the year. Ii appears that ON
the 25Sh Ga June a train OF fourteen drivers going
1rd m Paw Valley to Fort Sill was suddenly at
tackled by 80 Cheyennes and white desperadOes-
A battle followed, lasting a few minute Seven
teamsters were killed, one was wounded aud The
ret were captured. The INDIANS tomahawked
and sca'ded the wounded, and took MacMoore.
John Jones, Thomas Hayward, Henry Brown
aud Harry jackson and another prisoners. They
bound them and sent them to the woods under
guard. The day after the battle one OF the party
attempted to escape and was killed aud scalped
They marched for two days in a n0rtherly dfrec-
ton, and on Friday they haltcd, tied Jon-s aud
Hayward to a stake, cut out their ton. ues lopped
of their ears. and otherwise tor ured them in the
presence Of other prisoners, and then burned them
II death Brown, MacMO0re and Jack on deer
mined to make an atiempS 10 escape. A Few
nights after, while the Indian guards were drunk
and tie rain had lOOSened their cords. ore got
fee, sole knife from q sleeping savage and
freed his companions. This was on the 9Th
instant. Alter marching some DAYS nearly naked
they were fed by friendly band OF Pott1wat, a
mic, and reached Fora Riley on the 18th. Mac
Moor declares that one-fOurth o. the band were
white desperadoc~, under Stanley, the Eastern
Texas outlaw. They are DIRE. ed as sava--s aid
participated in the cruelIies with Indian yes.
They had aLo with them as caPtivss Mis- Low
man, of Gauds'oUpe Mountain, Texas, and a
beautiful white girl named Emma Baly. IL is
suppO I'd the band belongs to the tribe who
made demonstration on Ort Sill during Sher
mans visit.
RvThe children Of Mrs Hi,e, who recently
Killed herself at Muscatine, are in trouble
because her perturbed spirit walks around her
residence, weeping and wringlng its hands.
~At Saeo, Me-, Immediately after the earth
quake, poor, bewildered man went about the
streets crying: Awake We, awake; for the
judgment Of the Lord j. upon you. Prepare ye
for The everlasting fircs!"
@Zeigenmeyer, the murderer of Gumbleton
who was captured in Germany under the
extraditiOn treaty, has been sentenced in
Chicago TO the penitentiary for life, and pass the
first day of January and the first day of June of
each year in solitary confinement.
~Pat Burns, a murderer under sentence OF
death at st. Louis, had his sentence committed
20 10 years imprisonment, and the cuiprit is in
doubt whether to accept this new departure or
not. The Court has given him q week to de-
eide.
s|It took II, 900 900 dozen of imported corsets
20 sufficiently squeeze our American women,
last year, besides 800 400 made in this country
About 200 dozen were imported exclusively for
some anomalous creatures who call themselves
men.
~The Grand Jury of Sonoma, Cal, recon-
mended in their report that " for the safety and
comfort Of bald-headed men, the loose plaster
Sheriff be instructed to furnish parties having
business in the Court with pillows suitable
shields to cover heads with.r
Mrs. Bloomer the originator OF the costume
for women which stffl bears her name and one
o. the pioneers, ii not the pioneer, in the
wOmans rights movement, is now said to be
living quietly, without either social or political
ambition, in rising Kansas town, engaged in
attending to a large family and fiourishing
farm