Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-09-17

"nu oSccIuUlc uuueF tuelf respective
officers for the purpose Of driving the
usurpers from power. Given under
my hand and seal this l4th day of
September, 1874.
d. b. PENN, Lieut. Gov.
General order No. l ia also issued
appointing Gen. T.. +. Ogden provis-
ional General of the State militia also
proclamation to the colored people
Of the State, assuring them that in this
movement against Kellogg's usurpers
no harm is meant toward them, their
property or rights, and telling them to
pursue their usual avocations and they
will not be Molested; that the colored
as we'll as the white race ar interested
in putting down the usurping govern
ment.
The people responded to the advice
given them by DIR. Beard, one of the
speakers at the Canal street meeting,
and by 8 p. m. armed men were sta
toned at the intersections of all the
streets on the south side of Canal
street, from the river to Clayborne
street.
About 4p m. body of Metropoli-
tans, about 500 strong. with cavalry
and artillery, appeared at the head Of
Canal street and took possession. Gen.
Longstreet commanding, accompanied
by an orderly, then rode up and down
Canal street, ordering the armed citi-
zens to disperse. Some desultory fir.
Ing soon aftelward occurred along
Canal street and some few casualties
are reported on both sides.
nj L., 3 4
cadcs along Poydras street, having al
ready captured the City Hall and
taken possession of the fire alarm tele-
graphs. The police telegraph lines are
worked by a battery from the City
Hall, and have been detached there
from, rendering them useless.
There is one company of United
States troops here, but they remain at
the Custom House spectators of the
lively scene enacted in front of them.
The State authorities seem to have
perfect confidence in their ability to
deal with what they term the armed
mob, and say that unless the people
disperse there will be bloody work
throughout.
Barbados are erected on all the
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Matronol;tsns sra w.sse% "" =. anS
around jackson Square and the st.
Louis Hotel.
| r;,a. ana 70 ~, a..aa p nk4 .. .s .ne
o'clock. The number killed is estima.
ted by some as high as fifty. Many
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cnrrasnnrden+ snd r ,E .I,saap
wara tiIied ~ A.. o;.;.on.. s;Sn .na !.
49, a..u VI .ne oi'i h:m siue, anu
n paa sro repTr'ea klliea, ana den'
Tso aa - s.s =: " 80 .nn;u. A.. ro
tronn,;ton hs;r.So 80 ~ i.sn. ino a me
op S seo Was laIscly 'cnl'
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Os' " r MoM Mero Anleu auo Wound.
eu. WIN iepor1 .ne cas.aities as ias'
% .nos eau D1 asceItaineo'
r. M ne st.eets aoove lana
street are wen nlied win armed clti'
zens. :,
me lmpression now prevails that nc
1artner attempt Will be MADE by the
Metropohtans 70 desperse their oppOn'
ents VINO handled them so roughly
this afternoon.
The city 10 remarkably quiet through.
out, and no other conflict isiappre.
hended before morning.
Most of tho barbados are made
with street cars.
SIX or eight citizens, and twenty OF
thlrty Metropolitans were Killed IN 9
hgnt this afternoon, and many wound
on 0oth sides.
on the cltlzens side as far as ascer
tanned:
Killed e a Talledono, Fred Mort
man, DICK Lindsey, Capt NJ west
MAJ IA Gomialn, ana street cal
driver.
seriously wonnded-F Palette
John Considine, John klipa'rick, ma.
WIN Z Wells and sam Newman.
Slightly wonnded-C Bozoiner
Fldei Keller, w > Butler anu MI NC
Cleman. -,
Gen. Fred Ogden's horse was kiiie1
under him. Inc Gencral was slghtiS
injured from iall, but renamed Oh
duty.
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