Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-07-17

western Items.

western Items.
small party of Indians stole two horses
ranchman Young, on the Little Po-
ie, Nebraska. They were followed by
GEMS and soldiers of company ID, Second
airy, who. after hard chase, caught up
q the Indians, killed two, and recaptured
horses Col. Boudinot, who has Just
trned from the Indian Territory, says
the United States District Court, at Fort
h, Ark, before which all criminal bust
from the Indian Nations comes, has
disposed of twenty-seven murder cases.
of this number there were eight convic-
IS for murder in the first degree. Seven
those convicted, including two boys, one
enteen and the other nineteen years of
will be hanged together on the Sd of
Il September. The eighth one, a negro,
B killed after conviction, while attempt
to escape from the guard. Much out
ry prevails in the Indian Territory, and
men have been killed in the
nifty of Fort Smith within a few
hthS. A very bitter contest is going on
ne Cherokee Nation for the position of
eff of the Nation, between the Ross and
wning parties, and it is alleged that con-
-acy and secret assaSSinatiOns are rife.
W. Ross, the present chief, is a candi-
for reelection, and man named
mpson is the candidate of the Downing
ty.......An extra from the Bozeman, Mon,
1cS SAYS the Crows, Ncz PerceS and Ban
X Indians have combined against the
ux; that three days fighting had Oc-
red, and that the Sioux were overpow
d...The steamer Bozeman, of the Pease
IIt,,
ut three weeks ago. All the arms, sup
5 and Pease's papers were lost, but no
southern Items.
\dviceS received by Lieutenant-G General
,ridan from Brownsville, Texas, indicate
ritical state of affairs at MatamoraS, and
onflict between citizens and Mexican SOL
~ as imminent. All the business houses
Matamoras were closed, and armed citi.
threatened 10 take Cortina from the
diers, who, the Vice Consul thinks, are
. strong enough to prevent the rescue.
G suspension of the South Carolina Bank
Trust Company, of Columbia, is an
unced. Hardy Solomon, President, at
)uteS the suspension TO a heavy run by
,ositors together with the impOSsibility of
Letting loans due the bank. The deposits
the suspended bank amount 10 about
10000.
Crimes.
Robert n. VERIFY was shot and killed on
steamer A. j. White, near st. Louis
nding, Arkansas, recently, by B. L. Oliver
L his son. The killing grew out of an old
ldge. Young Oliver first shot VERIFY in
4 of, 10 I'll - 81. 10 ~
ed at him. The divers then ordered the
at to land, which was done, and they es-
ped......A little German girl named Lizzie
hmidt, aged seven years, was outraged and
lied near O'FallOn, Illinois, on the night
the 4th. 1t appears that the people of
at village had been celebrating the 18th in
grove near by, and in the evening when Mr..
hmidt, father of the child, was ready to
home, he could not find his daughter.
arch was Immediately made and continued
It'll about three o'clock the next morning,
hen the body of the child was found in the
ass near fer &c adjoining the road lead
9 from the grove. A man named James
ogan was arrested on suspicion of being
re guilty party, and taken to O'Fallon. In
'nSe excitement prevails in that vicinity,
nd fears are entertained that Hogan will be
nched.
Two bank robbers who attempted to plum
er the Bank of Barre, Vermont, took the
ain at Rumney, but seeing detectives on
GARD, one OF them became frightened and
imped off. The train was stopped and run
ack. After an extended search the man
as found about half mile from where he
lmped off. He was badly cut and bruised,
nd had concealed himself in the rusheS
lie was handcuffed and taken to Rumney
'hile the detectives and others were look
~ for him, his partner walked into the
GODS and disappeared.
Disasters bY Fire.
At Minneapolis, the Galaxy Touring mills,
twelve run of stone, were burned.
he loss of Messrs. Ankeny, the owners, is
oout $4,000. The walls are uninjured....
| fire at Tulare City, Cal, destroyed the
ntire business portion of the town. Loss
,0O0.......The business part of the town
( Washington, in Hampstead county, Ark,
as been destroyed by fire.
Casualties.
At two o'clock on the afternoon of July
TN a collision occurred on the SOuth-Side
.airoad near Far Rockaway, n. V, between
passenger trains. Seven persons were killed
nd about twenty injured. Both trains were
ompletely wrecked.
\ Norfolk, Va, dispatch of a recent date
avs that the steamer Isaac Bell collided
With small steamer on the river, and only
even people were saved out of seventeen on
Chicago EreniRg Journal spe-
'ial from Des Moines says: As large party
we're returning from Greenfield, Affair
County, to their hsme in the country, they
attempted to cross Middle River, which had
been swollen by recent rains, and wagon,
Mr.. 4. Montgomery, wife, son,
and daughter, and Mrs. Thos. Montgomery,
her three children, and J. r. Baker, was
overturned, and the occupants plunged into
the torrent. Mrs. Thomas Montgomery and
her babe went down, and were not seen
afterward. Mr.. Montgomery clung to the
horses for while, with the little boy in his
arms, but was compelled to let go, and both
were drowned. Meantime, Mr.. Baker, who
bod been swimming to the opposite shore
with "Other boy in his arms, became eX-
when within four feet of the bank,
and was carried down the torrent. The
other people were rescued by the neighborS,
Items In General.
The State Temperance Convention of Cali
fornia has nominated a full State ticket
headed by W. f. Lovett......The Temperance
Convention of Iowa adopted the following
platform, at its late session in Des MOines:
WHEREAS, Existing political parties have ignored
prohibition,
Resoired, That the temperance people of Iowa ar,
forced to seek promotion of their in such way
as will be most effective without regard TO parties
that the laws OF the State relating TO the Dissertation
OF the Sabbath should be rigidly enforced that
there should be no diversion OF the school fund for
sectarian purposes; that political organization.
should not control men in their actions on mora
questions that county organizations he formed t,
elect temperance men to the, Legislature.
Willie Wolf, six years old, stolen from hi,
house in Scranton, Pa, some months ago
hasbeen found at Mahoning City with an in
tOxicated woman. Beth have been sent tC
eranton, the boy to his parents and the
eman to Jail charged with abduction. .......
kbill has been filed in the Court of Com
in Pleas, in Philadelphia, charging Alex