The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-09-05

stroy the town, and the citizens have formed
themselves into military companies for its de-
fsnse. The boiler in a shingle-mill at Spen-
Ger, Mich, exploded the other day, killing
three men, and badly wounding four others.
JOHN HANCOCK, an old and respected citizen
of Payson, H., recently murdered his wife
while laboring under a fit of temporary in
sanity, and then hung himself The report
telegraphed from Lawrence, Kansas, and
widely published, purportins to give the par
ticulars of the boarding of a train on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad by a band of %ruffians, and
the killing of one of them by a passenger, was
q miserable hoax. Sheriff Low, Of Galloway
county. No. who was shot by the mob that
lyDched Kessler, is dead.
THE exploring expedition sent out to ascer-
tain as to the feasibility of turning the Gulf of
California into the desert of the Colorado, i'll
Arizona, has made surveys which fully DEM
~onstrate the practicability Of tho scheme. ..
The Yellowstone expedition has had two ell
counters with the redskins, the particulars of
which are furnished bya dispatch from Muscle
Shell River. The first fight occurred on Aug.
4, in which 80 troops were engaged for two
hours against 800 Indians. The firing WAS at
long range. and but little damage done to
either side, only two Indians being killed.
While the fight was going on, several Indians
left the war party, in search of stragglers.
Coming upon DIR. Honsinger, the veterinary
surgeon. and B~alarain, the cavalry sutler, who
were less than a mile from the column, they
killed them and took their horses and valua-
bles. Private John Ball, of the cavalry, while
out hunting, met with a similar fate. On the
sth of August, Gen. Stanley directed Gen.
Custer to take his cavalry, numbering 4j0
men, and follow and punish the Indians. On
the 18th he WAS attacked by about 500 Indians
on tho banks of the Yellowstone river, who
opened a brisk fire. After the fighting had
r been going on some time, Gen. Custer ordered
a charge, which was g~allantly executed, the
redskins fleeing before the impetuous onset.
They were pursued some eight miles, and
} badly scattered. The battle is described as a
fierce one. Gen. Custer and Adjt. Ketchsm
, had their horses shot under them. Lieut.
Bra1en was badly shot in the thigh. Private
+ Tuttle, Gen. Clusters orderly, was killed, and
5 twenty of the soldiers were slightly wounded.
The Indians loss is estimated by Gen. Custer
, at forty killed and wounded. The Indiana
were well armed with heavy rifles, and had
abundant ammunition. Some were dressed in
clothes procured at the Agency. These In
! dams were mainly Uncapapas, supposed to be
under the m of Sitting Bull, and are
supposed to have received their supplies from
Fort Peck. The expedition is now on the
homeward march, and will reach Fort Rice
49, Al -. ~r a. IL A.
neys Of the Chicago and Alton railroad arrived
at Springfield, ILL.,, the other day, and paid to
{ the representatives of each of the men who
, were killed in the late disaster the sum of
: $4,000. The prompt manner in which this
, matter has been settled is worthy OF comman-
dation. The extensive brewery of Valentine
| Blatz, i'll Milwaukee, has been DESTROYED by
fire. Loss, $500, 900.
THE assessed valuation of all the property
i'll Illinois exclusive of railroads. is Il. 1885,
100, 6Si. AT San Jose. Cal, the other day. q
young Chinaman shot Miss Alice Dubois
three times because she refused TO marry him.
Alice's steel corsets turned the bullets and
saved her life. The maddened Celestial then
blew his own brains out.
THE SOUTH.
Il st. Landry parish, La, on Aug. 90. two
men quarreled at a ball, and met in an open
field to settle the matter by a fist-ight. They
were accompanied by a crowd of about one
hundred persons. After the fist-iGht a gem
eral row, growing out Of an old feud. broke
out between the members of two families. i'll
which pistols and knives we're freely used.
Augustin Guilleroy killed Carroll Blackman.
Dreux Guilleroy killed Alexander vidren. and
Aristide Ortega killed Dreux Guilleroy. After
being shot down, Blackman fired three shots
at Augustin Guilleroy, who is between G5 and
20 years OF age, mortally wounding him..
The Baltimore american celebrated its one
hundredth birthday on the Dist Of August.
SERIOUS political troubles are reported from
Perry county, Ark. Satanic and Big Tree
have been taken out of the Texas Penitentiary
and sent under guard to Fort Still, where a
conference is to be held between the Kiowas
and Comanches, and Secretary Delano and
| Gov. Davis.
HE first bale Of cotton received at Men,
phis this season was sold for thirtv-five cents
I pound 80. Memphis experienced all earth
quake shock on the 22d Of August. A col
ored family. consisting of mother and four
children, were burned to death in an old
shanty in which they were living, in the sub
urbs of Louisville. last week. .Nevin Palmer
and James West. both colored, were hung at
Baltimore on the 22i of Augustine former
for rape, ami the latter for murder.
The steamer George C. Wolf blew M ON
the Mississippi river, twelve miles above
Helena, on the 22d Of August. Twelve per-
sons were killed outright, and fifteen wounded.
The Wolf was from Shreveport, bound for st. |
Louis. The spot where she blew up il known
to river men as the "Grave-Yard," being
the same place where the Pennsylvania and
st. Nicholas blew NJ, and the Il. l.. McGiIl
was burned. Judge Colvin, OF the st. Louis
Court Of Criminal Correction, in u test case
brought before his court, has decided that the
so-called Social EVIL ordinance of that city
is unconstitutional, and that the General A.
sembly had no power to grant to the CITY the
right to license prostitution. The case will be
appealed to the Supreme Court. 80. Hon.
Thomas A. II. Nelson, ex-Associate Justice of
the United States Supreme Court. died of
cholera, at Knoxville, Tenn, On the 9th OF
August.
WASHINGTON.
THE investigation into the Wawassct disas-
ter OH the Potomac clearly proves incompe-
tency and neglect OH the part of the captain
of the vessel IA Washington dispatch OF
the goth says: 1t is very evident that the
country newspapers intend to attempt to &C.
cure some modification Of the Postal law rela-
tive to the free exchange of newspapers. The
Department il constantly in receipt