The Grange advance., 1874-07-15
UNION STRENGTH---IN KNOWLEDGE POWER.

ritory, on the I'd, Company B Of the "a
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 6 band Of
northern Sioux who had previously out
ragged and killed ten white women, and
committed other crimes in the vicinity.
On tie 4:h the Sioux were surprised in
camp and after short fight we're complete
ly routed, With loss Of so killed and
wounded. Two hundred horses and a
number Of prisoners we're captured. The
troops lost two men killed, and Lieut..
Young was slightly wounded. The Dem.
ocrats Of the l4lh Ohio district have nom
mated John Cowan Of Ashland for Con-
gress. j.. The news this morning from the
grasshopper district is very discouraging.
Great damage is now being worked by
the pests in Brown county, aud those which
a few days ago were flying northward are
said to be returning 10 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 wan county two con.
ventions were held, one Of which elected
Edgerton delegates ani the other elected
Durnell delegates.
FRIDAY, July 10.-The later story Of the
attack upon half. breed settlements near
St. Joseph, Dakota, shows that the frs,
accounts we're much exaggerated. There
were not more than seven Indians; they
made no attack except at the house of
oseph Delorme, where they killed Louis
Delorme and Baptiste Moran, MORALLY
wounded Joseph Delorme, seriously
wounded Mrs. Moran and slightly wounded
Ms. Delorme. Then they stole several
horses and fed. MIS-. Moran claims to
have recognized two of them as from Fort
Totten reservation. The attack was prob.
ably the result of some :eud with the De.
lormes. In tearing down the Nathan
house il New York yesterday, the work
men discovered concealed behind dumb
waiter night shirt covered with blood
The discovery caused much excitement, it
being at frst 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 Owatonna convention who
are. understood to be opposed to Dunnell' 8
denomination, and from Mobiles county
three were elected instructed for Dunnell.
....W Wednesday Minister Schenck laid the
corner stone Of Lincoln Tower, monu
ment to American emancipation being
erected in South London, England
Among phe speeches of the occasion, Rev
Newman Hall delivered eulogy on Liz
cola. The Tower is being erected by
joint subscriptions of Englishmen and
Americans. .. AT the Monmouth Park, N.
j., races, yesterday, the horse B. F.
Carver ran mile and quarter in 2:lS Ia !;
the bay dly Regardless ran a mile and a
half IN 2:c5; and the horse Tom Bowling
ran two and n half miles in 1853, A two
mile hurdle race was won by Livingstone
in 3:s5 3.4.- AT Indianapolis. Indiana,
yesterday, during a thunderstorm seven
boys were at once struck by lightning
They were climbing over fence immedi-
ately under line Of telegraph wires. -.
On the coasts Of Kings Island, ceanica,
since 1910, eight vessels have been
wrecked and 500 persons persisted. The
las: 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 tell at Cairo. ILL.,,
yesterday afternoon. Quite sensation
was made iu 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. The two delegates
from Cottonwood are for Dunnell.
SATURDAY. July lit now appears
that On tho 9th nlt. two days after pub
licatioa Of Theodore Tltop's lettet, Rev