The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-06-12
The West.

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The Masonic Grand Lodge of Indiana met at
Indianapolis on the 9th. The number of
lodges in the State is 472, and the total men,
bership at the close Of the year was 26,2l6.
Adestructive tornado swept through Neosho
County, Kansas, few days ago. The storm
desolatsd a tract Of country half mile in
width and six miles in length. Two houses
were lifted in the air and blown to atoms. Six
persons were killed outright, six MORALLY
wounded and fifteen dangerously injured.
One little girl was carried one-fourth of a
mile aud drowned in the creek. Persons were
stripped Of their clothing, and birds of their
feathers. Horses, cattle and hogs were killed.
Fourteen families were left entirely dest-
tute.
Major George A. Forsyth, of General sheri-
dams stan, who has recently returned from q
trip up the Yellowstone, reports a complete
success in establishing the fact of the naviga-
bility of that stream, for steamboats, of the
largest size, from its mouth to the mouth of
! Powder river, distance of two hundred and
thirty-five miles, With some inexpensive i'm
provements, the largest steamboats, can pene-
trate sixty or eighty miles farther.
A bank at Saint Genevieve, NO., was robbed
of $500 on the 9th, by two men who en-
tered the bank, forced the cashier to open the
safe, and then made him accompany them to
the outskirts of the town, where they re-
Joined several companions who were holding
their horses, which they mounted and rode
away. A son of the President of the bank
was standing near the building when the men
overpowered the cashier, and was fred upon
by the robbers and slightly wounded.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 2sth says:
Bogus Charley" ''Shacknasty JIM" "Hooka
JIM STEAMBOAT" and Crank" after con-
ference with Gen. Davis and ride through
portion Of the lava-beds, had been furnished
with four days rations, horses, and Springfield
rifles, and started on the trail of Capt. Jack.
The proposition was made by them to kill him
or capture him with the rest of the band Gen.
eral Davis was satisfied of their loyalty.
The members Of the Missouri Editorial As
ISOLATION, about fifty in number, made an ex-
cursion to Chicago on the Goth.
A gentleman who has lived within eight
miles of the Bender farm in Kansas, and who
helped in exhuming the dead bodies, was at
Cedar Rapids on the 29th, for the purpose of
seeing the person in jail there supposed to be
''old man Bender" He said he had no reason
able doubt as to the prisoner being told
Bender"
A Parsons (Kansas) dispatch of the S0th
says: "County Attorney Ward returned to-
day from Texas with the body of Nicholas
NOUN, or Marion, supposed to have been an
accomplice of the Bender family, the Kansas
assassins. At Dcnison he made some import
ant confessions, and promised to tell all he
knew about the Blenders when he reached this
city, but when near Atoka Station, Indian Ter
ritory, he shot himself in the head with
revolver, .innicting wound from
the effects of which he died. It
Benders are now in Texas, making their way
to the Rio Grande River to cross into Mexico"
A San Francisco telegram of the 30th says
considerable anxiety was felt for General
Davis, who had gone on a scout with the sur
rendered Modocs after Captain Jack.
Decoration Day MAY 3O) was generally and
appropriately observed throughout the coun-
try.
Assistant Attorney General Spooner, of Wis
| consin, says that for the Chicago & North
western and the Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
! roads to pool their earnings would be viola
ton of the spirit II mot the letter of the law
Of the State, and would render 1t the duty Of
the Attorney General to apply to the courts for
writ of quo warranto against the Companies.
The Governor of Kansas has issued pro.
clamation offering $4,000 (s5O0 each) for the
arrest Of the Bender family. A Dubuque dis
patch Of the 3lst ult. says: A young man sup
posed to be young Bender, son Of the well
known Kansas murderer, had been arrested at
West Liberty, Iowa, and q woman thought to
| be Mrs. Bender was arrested at Oxford, Iowa.
There seemed to be little doubt as to their
identity. Both parties have been held for fur
Their development.
News from the Modoc war, received on the
I'd, was to the effect that the Federal troops
under the lead Of Warm Spring Indians, had
come up with the retrea;ing savages and nearly
surrounded them, when Scar-Faced Charley
and two or three other Modocs rushed down
the rocks and cried out 1--WE surrender; don't
shoot" Five Modocs came in, and at once
hostilities ceased. DR.. Cabaness, of Yreka, a
surgeon who has long been acquainted with
the Modocs, went up among the rocks and
made peace negotiations. All the In
dams, including Jack, agreed to come
in. Cabanese slept with them over. night.
The next day Scsr-Faced Charley, Old schon-
chin, and ten warriors surrendered. Captain
Jack and three others decamped BY night. a-s
The Chicago Common Council, by vote of
% to 9, has changed the hour for closing
saloons from eleven o'clock to twelve, o'clock.
Mrs. Lamb, who was some months ago ar.
rested near Hudson, Wis.,, on charge Of hav-
ing murdered her husband, smother man, .
woman, and two Of her children, confesses to
the poisoning of her two children, Mr.. Gar
land, and Mrs. Ottman, but denies having
caused the death Of her husband. Her coul.
eel defended her on the plea Of spiritual insaa.