Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-19
FIFTY.TWO KILLED IN THE NEW
YORK RIOT.
Mayor Hall Assumes the Responsibility
or Kslso's order.

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sumes the whole responsibility for Kelso's
order forbdding the Orange procession, and
argues that the result proves the wisdom
OF Kelso order. The Police Commission
ers, Democratic and Republican, were
unanimous in favor of Kelso's order.
The number of deaths from the riot is
fifty. Six more were wounded and will
die.
The regiments are still quarreling over
the question as to which fired uselessly.
The Grand Jury proposes to indict some
of the rioters for murder and others for
incendiary speeches.
There is no question of the good beha-
vior of the police. Their conduct is uni
versaliy praised.
Alderman instructed the District Attor-
neys to make extraordinary exertion in the
execution ofkukluX bills. Wheneverthey
hear of outrages, they shall procure war
ants from the Federal Commissioners and
arrest the parties accused and have them
bound over or committed till the ensuing
term of the Federal Court.
Vigil l.. Lusk has been appointed spe-
cias Assistant District Attorney to push
harsh features of the law in North Carolina.
The Federal troops are at his call.
The Chronicle concludes its editorial on
the subject "'Fhs action on the part of the
Attorney General displays disposition to
execute the kukluX law in earnest, and
shows that the administration is evidently
determined that it shall be rigidly execu-
ted to the very letter.
ST.. LOUIS, July l5.-'Hhe Fort Smith
| (Arkansas) Era, of July Sd, learns from
Deputy L. S. Marshals McLemore and
Bare, that Sattanta and Big Tree, two Kio-
wa chiefs were captured at Fort Sill, when
General Sherman was there and were sent
to Austin, Texas. They attempted to es-
cape prison, and actually released them
selves from shackles by gnawing the flesh
from their hands and feet, but were discov-
cred and shot dead.
Marshals McLemore and Bare, report
that the people of the Texas frontier are
| very uneasy, lest there should be a general
| outbreak of the reserve Indians upon the
| settlements to take vengeance for the death
of their chiefs
COLUMBUS, o., July 13.-The Republic
| cans in Ohio open their campaign on the
evening of the oath Of August with eleven
meetings in different parts Of tho State.
Gen. Noyes and James Monroe will speak
| in Columbus, Senator Morton in Dayton,
Gen. Garfield in Cincinnati, Senator Sher-
man in Toledo, Gen. Shellebarger in Clcve-
| land, Gov. Hays in Zanesville, Aaron r.
Perry in Portsmouth, John A. Bingham In
| Steubenville, 1t. Gov. Lee in Akron, Sec
rotary Of State Sherwood in Mansfield, and
VIM. Lawrence in Lima
Bon. Butler has announced himsolf as q can
L QlQhbs Ior 0overnor Oh masskCnusoWs.
During the storm in New York yesterday, q
| 5000 pound bell was blown FROM q 40 feet
| tower; falling tree crushed carriage in Pifth
avenues yacht was cspsiEed in tho bay and
one man drowned brig was struck by light
! ming; the streets were flooded with water, and .
three year old child drowned from capsized
| boatt
Henry Howard has been appointed by the
| British Government as the agent to receive
claims against the United Ststos under the
| uofW Ia Div
| that all such claims will BIO sent TO him hero
The United States Government has not yet ap.
ponted!an agent
Commissioner Parker resigned his Office be-
cause he alleges that the action of Congress hal
aedaced the duties to a mere cerkship. The
President, in accepting the resignation, lsudi
Parker's honesty and interest in behalf Of hi
race.
PARIS, July IA great FIRE was occRsionet
at Rheims to-day by the explosion Of a quaint
ty of petroleum. Fifty persons were killed anC
wounded by the explosion and many building
in tho business portion of the city were burned