The Grange advance., 1874-07-15

ritory, on the I'd, Company B Of the %
cavalry, under Captain Bates. with Is
scouts under Lieut.. Young, and $50 Sho.
shones, commanded by their chief, Wa
shikie, we're sent in pursuit of band Of
northern Sioux who had previously out
ragged and killed ten white women, and
committed other crimes in the vicinity.
On the 4:h the Sioux were surprised in
camp and after short tight we're complete
ly routed, with loss Of so killed and
wounded. Two hundred horses and q
number of prisoners were captured. The
troops lost two men killed, and Lieut..
Young was slightly wounded. ,. The Dem.
ocrats of the l4th Ohio district have nom
mated John Cowan of Ashland for Con-
gress. The news this morning from the
district is very discouraging.
Great damage is now being worked by
the pests in Brown county, and those which
a few days ago were flying northward are
said to DO returning TO the settlements
they had passed over. Some fears are ex.
pressed that they may move eastward into
the thickly settled and closely farmed
counties. The Winona county Republi-
can convention elected nine delegates tor
Dunnell. In Waton van county two con.
ventions we're held, one of which elected
Edgerton delegates AMI the other elected
Dupnell delegates.
FRIDAY, July I0.-The later story of the
attack upon half.breed settlements near
St. Joseph, Dakota, shows that the first
accounts we're much exaggerated. There
were not more than seven Indians; they
made no attack except at the house of
Joseph Delorme. where they killed Louis
Delorme and Baptiste Moran, MORALLY
wounded Joseph Delorme, seriously
wounded Mrs. Moran and slightly wounded
Mrs. Delorme. Then they stole several
horses and fed. Mrs. Moran claims to
have recognized two of them as from Fort
Totem reservation. The attack was prob.
ably the result of some ieud with the De-
lormes. In tearing down the Nathan
house in New York yesterday, the work.
men discovered concealed behind dumb
waiter night shirt covered with blood
The discovery caused much excitement, it
being at fiest reported clue had been dis
covered to the mystery which still covers
the murder Of Mr.. Nathan. :. Blue Earth
county Republicans yesterday elected eight
delegates to the Owstonna convention who
are understood to be opposed to Dunnell's
denomination, and from Mobiles county
three were elected instructed for Dunnell.
Nv Wednesday Minister Schenck laid the
corner stone Of Lincoln Tower, q monu
nent to American emancipation being
erected in South London, England
Among ahe speeches of the occasion, Rev.
Newman Hall delivered euloey on Lin.
coln. The Tower is being erected by
joint subscriptions Of Englishmen and
Amerlcaas- AT the Monmouth Park, N.
j., races, yesterday, the horse B. F..
Carver ran mile and quarter in 2:l8 IL ;
the bay fly Regardless ran a mile and =
half IN 2:2s; and the horse Tom Bowling
ran two and u half miles in 4:53, 4 two
mile hurdle race was won by Livingstone
in 1856 s.4.-. AT Indianapolis. Indiana,
yesterday, during thunderstorm seven
boys we're st once struck by lightning
They were climbing over q fence immedi-
ately under line Of telegraph wires.
On the coasts Of Kings Island, 0ceanica,
eince lS4o, eight vessels have been
wrecked aud 500 persons persisted. The
last was an iron clipper ship, the British
Admiral, on which there were SO persons,
Of whom only nine escaped. "A distinct
shock of earthquake was telt at Cairo, ILL.,,
yesterday afternoon. Quite sensation
was made in the Supreme Court Of Wis
consin yesterday by the attempt Of crazy
suitor to bribe the Chief Justice, Hon. E.
G. Ryan. The grasshoppers are work.
ing great injury in the neighborhood Of
New Ulm. The Faribault county dele
gates are said to be five for Du,nell and
two for Edgerton. Tho two delegates
from Cottonwood are for Dunnell.
sAruaDAY. July lit now appears
that O Tho nth nlt. !, two days Alter pub
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