The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08

hold, and General Gillem was trying to cut of
their escape and supplies.
President Grant and party left st. Louis on
the morning Of the oath for Denver.
The cpizootic has reached the Pacific coast,
and at San Francisco business was greatly i'm
peded for want of horses. Cinnamon were
employed to carry and haul burdens.
Several months ago one Jacob Smits, of Mad
ison, Wis.,, mysteriously Disappeared, and bis
wife made contradictory statements as to his
whereabouts, and belief was entertained that
she had made away with him. A few days ago
she locked up and left the house. Believing
she intended flight she was arrested, and the
house was entered by officers, who were as
sailed by the missing man, who proved to be a
raving maniac, and who had been long time
concealed and cared for by his wife.
Information has been received at Washing,
ton of considerable violence being committed
along the Texas border by Mexican despera-
| docs. 1t is also stated that in Arizona and New
Mexico, Cochise, nominally at peace with the
United States, continues to practice his favor
tic pastime, and occasionally roasts a white
man, merely as a matter of amusement.
A messenger who arrived at Kansas City on
the ed, reported the finding of thirteen dead
bodies Of white men. all in enc place, oh Meai:
cine Lodge Creek.
John j. Murphy was hanged at Stockton,
CAL, on the 25th, for the murder of Patrick
Murray five years ago.
News from the Modoc country up to the 25th
states that there had been no fighting since the
18th. 1t was reported that the Motlocs had
left the lava-bcd.
The residence of Mt. Kiees, about two miles
from Otis, Ind, a small station at the crossing
of the Lake Shore and L., n, A. & c. rail-
roads, on the night of the Goth, caught fire
and burned SO rapidly that an old gentleman
by the name of Kreist, with his daughter, Mrs.
Klees, and five children were burned to DEATH
Mrs. Klees could have escaped alone, but
went into another room endeavoring to save
her children and was lost Mr.. Kreist was
lying with broken leg perfectly helpless, and
could do nothing but await his fate. Mr..
klees and his brother-in-law, Mr.. Kreist, es-
capped but were severely burned. So great was
the heat of the fire that the bodies were burned
to ashes.
General Sherman has received full official
report from General Gillem of the circumstances
attending the murder of Candy. He says that
the night before the conference the interpreter
came to Gillem's sick-bed and called him to
witness, in the presence of several others, that
he had warned them all of the danger Of hold
ing another parley with Captain Jack away
from protection of troops. Gillem became sat.
isfied from indications coming under his obser-
walton that reaction was intended, and he de-
termined next day to send courier to General
Candy with niessagt instrtlcting him to be on
his guard. Just US he was about to write he
heard firing, and moment afterward he saw
the assault and murder of Candy and Thomas
that had been committed, and that it was then
too late to save them.
President Grant and party were at Denver on
the Goth.
The South.
Washington dispatch of the 21st says:
Governor Kellogg informs the Attorney
General that matters are quiet in Louisiana,
except in four or five parishes, and his request
for troops to be sent thither was to prevent a
possible outbreak. He denies that he sent
Parish, or any other than those first commits
stoned. Taxes are being collected rapidly.
During the first quarter of the present year
the amount collected was 1854, 600, against
$780, 900 in the corresponding time of the pre-
vious year."
A New Orleans special of the 25th saws:
Governor Kellogg has sent State militia into
Tangahohoa parish, installed the officers, scat
tered mob who had collected, and restored
order. He has secured steamboat, OH which
is mounted 12-pound howitzer, for service in
the rivers and bayous, and has organized bat.
TALON of cavalry. He has also directed the
Attorney General to prosecute Governor McEn-
cry under the Usurpation act, and also for
| treason, and has offered large reward for ev-
idence which will lead to the conviction of
those who were engaged in the recent massa-
ere in Grant Parish"
The Memphis Life and General Insurance
Bank, D. B. Mallory, President, has suspended,
with liabilities of $25, 600, which, it is said, are
fully secured by the assets.
The town of Mariana, Ark, was recently
nearly destroyed by fire.
A dispatch from Baton Rouge La, 27tb,
says: A detachment of 125 of the n,etropoli-
tan police, with Winchester rifles and one
piece Of artillery, arrived here last evening
from New Orleans and left this morning for
Port Vincent, Livingstone parish, for the pur-
pose of installing the appointees of Kellogg
They were met at Harrold's ferry at noon to-
day by committee of three persons repre-
senting the Port Vincent party, and it is pre-
sumed that matters will be adjusted without
bloodshed.