The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-02-21
SUPERIOR. WIS.
THE NEWS.
Indian Ah airs.

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Indian Affairs.
OFFICIAL letters from the comma nding Off
Ger OF Sidney Barracks report that Pawnee
Killer and Two Lances, accompanied by
ninety-three lodges of Vhster's band of
Sioux and two of Brules band, have LETT the
reservation and are moving 10 the hunting
grounds south of the Platte by way OF Lewis
canon. They claimed to have verbal permi5
sion of the agent to do so. Two Lances re-
ported two other bands near Lewis canon,
one of twenty-five lodges Of Arapahces and
another of some fifteen warriors or the Utcs,
who had few days previous stolen large
number of horses from them. There is no
question but that the Indians are highly in
censed at their treatment On the night
OF the 4th a party Of about 200 Chey.
ennes, under Little Arrow, attempted to
break into the houses al Antelope Station, but
were driven off by the employees there. These
Indians are reported on the war path against
the UJes. John S. King, a trapper, while
cooking supper in camp on Pumpkin Greek,
on the night of the 9th, was attacked by
band Of 80 Sioux and shot in the knee and
the loss of his horses, wagon and $500 worth
Of furs. This was q war party, finely mount
ed. King afservarcIs 7ra1Eeu hfmseIr to a
rancho twelve miles from the fight. On the
7th a hand OF Indians ran off seven horses
from Reddingtan rancho. General Ord has
sent a party in pursuit. Evidence is daily
occurring that the Indians. being ill-treated
on the reservations, contemplate an uprising
in the spring, and are even now swarming
the prairies prepared for war.
rEe East.
MEMBERS of the New York Stock Exchange
have opened subscription list for TIE estab-
lishment of free soup-houses IN the lower
part of the town. James Gordon Bennett has
given $50, eco to supply soup to the poor from
fire and police stations.
The autopsy of the bodies of the Siamess
TWINS was begun at Philadelphia. on Feb. H.
and photographs of the corpses from differ
ent points Of view and also a number Of casts
OF tho body were taken, with highly satisfac-
tory results. A well-known artist convers2nt
with the subject from practice in army hos
pItals, has been engaged to make drawings Of
the internal parts as they are developed.
THE trial Of Jas NJ. Lowell for the murder
OF his wife June 18th, 1870, was begun at Au-
burn Ne, on February. 10. The case was
brought to light by the discovery Of a head
less skeleton in the woods about three miles
from Lewiston, in October last
AN effort is making by the Father Mathew
Catholic temperance societies to collect funds
Ior tho erection in Central Park, New York, OF
statue of Father Mathew.
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barre. Pa, has broke out afresh, nearly
smothering eighteen men. The fire has now
been raging six weeks.
The west.
AT meeting Of the Board OF. Regents ol
the Kansas State Agricultural College, in
Manhattan, Profess ors Nudge, Miller ana
DutnorS were retired from position in the
College. This action created Il good deal of
feeling among the students of the institution.
and some of them held meeting, at which
they expressed indignation and regret at The
act Of the Board, and expressed the hope that
they would be reInstateI. especially Professor
Nudge, Rorter IN the college Tor tie past
eight years.
FRANK MAUD, a deaf and dumb boy, years
~ age, was run over by hose-cart going to
Ire, recently, at Terre Hautc AID the top
OF his skull completely crushed.
IL a whisky quarrel at Osgood, Ind, Joshua
Mitchell killed his step-son, Emn Vandeyer,
BY striking him the head with an ak and
then shooting him.
Miss MARY A ROMANS, a school-teacher of
Minneapolis. fell dead in her school-room,
few days since, from heart disease
Tue jail at Chillicotho ILL.,. was burned on
Saturday night q prisoner named Frank God
frey perishing.
Va. LTNCHNEE Is under arrest at Fort
Wayne, Ind, for the crime Of incest with
fourteen-year old daughter, who has given
birth TO child II is also claimed that the
brute sedueci his eldest daughter, seventeen
years Of age, over year ago, and that Size Is
now ala Inmate of q brothd in st. Louis
Lynchner Is a saloon-kecptr
SUIT has been brought against the Chi
cago and Alton Railroad by the Attorney
General Of Illinois, for violation of the Railroad
law. The Attorncy-Gencral recitcs several
cases in which more than fair and re asonablo
compensation has been charged by the com
pany Tor passengers, as Wei as freight, and
demands the legal damages. This is the 6rst
prosecution OF the kind, and the result is
hooked for with great interest.
LESLIE, notorious lorger aud counterFeitel.
brohc jail at Glbbon, Nebraska. few DAYS
ago.
GOVERNOR Nuon-oT has oIcred reward o,
S20a0 apiece for the outlaws Who robbed the
iron Mountain Railroad train at Gad,s Hin.
No., tow days ago.
a GERMAN GameI Cabblcs att.mpteIto Kill
his wJtc and chila with butcher knife. at
lincoln. Nebraska, Wednesday. failing In
which he took dose of poison. Physicians
called. and succeeded in saving his life. He
WAS then taken before justice, and held t. |
Pail for an attempted murder.
IHE steamer Colossal reached KeoInk on |
Thursday Jan. 5th from St. louis. Il has
tocn number Of yeI-s since steamboat 81 |
rived there in the month of February. The
river has been oPea al winter, with uninter- |
ruptad navigation to the gulf
MICHAEL JONES ANA NJ II. NcHeurv have |
been tried an convicted, in Chicago, Of ex. |
tensive robberies, chiefly q org railway lines |
aud sentenced to ten years Inurisanment |
James T. Barton, alias Adam Brown. alias |
William Davidson. etc, was arrested ia Buff |
taio some weeks since as one Of tie gang. |
The Star Union line alone have suffered to the /
extent OF $4,000 by their Expectations. Bar
ron Is supposed to have robbed Z Mrs. Mills |
OF New York, a. $4,000 worth of i,wefrv al
the fremont House, Chicago. some years