The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-06-19

being so much occupied with the Chicago
custom house commission, and the reor-
ganization Of the Treasury under the
Kellogg Bill, which takes place on the first
Of the month.
William f. kIsselburgh describes in the
Troy Times the strange sight of sntelopes
keeping company with Pacific railroad
train. There were a hundred or more Of
the feet, graceful animals, and for two
miles they ran parallel with the cars, rs
though interested in the race. Then one
of the passengers fired at them with re-
volver, soaring them away.
John Baker Of La Sale, bet $40 that he
could travel miles on foot in one hour,
and attempted in on the Is inst on the
road leading from Peru to Princeton. He
lost by five minutes. There was a cOnsid
cradle number Of small sums Of money
wagered on the undertaking.
A dispatch from Sioux City under date
of the l4th. inst. says Mr.. Swearengen,
who was for twenty-five years miner in
California and Colorado, arrived here to-
day direct from the Black Hills, and brings
che finest specimens Of gold and gold bear
ing quartz yet found. He gives it as his
opinion that richer mines than any known
in this country will be found in the Hills
Mr. Swearengen, with q party of seven,
left Iankton on the steamer Josephine the
9TH. of April, and went to old Fl. Pierce,
near the mouth Of the Cheyenne River,
thence up the south bank of that stream
with wagon and ponies, and struck the
head of French Creek in nine days from
the Missouri River They went to pros
pecting here, and found color wherever
they struck, and discovered good gold-dig-
ging for l8 miles along French Greek.
They named this the Cheyenne District.
Swearengen left his party in camp miles
west Of the old Sioux City stockade on the
9th Of June, and rode out via Spotted Tails
Agency.
Upon receipt OF the report in Sioux City
Of the whTtewashing examination at Fort
Randall, June l, to clear Walker and his
men Of the charge of stealing the private
property of the Black Hills party, whose
train was burned IN Nebraska May 81, some
thirty four OF the pillaged party went be-
fore United States Commissioner Lewis.
on the l2th inst. and made sworn affidavit
that Capt. Fergus Walker and the other
officers purJured themselves in giving
the testimony they did. Walker himself
stole revolver which h. was forced to
give up by the commander at Randall
The men swear that such property as pis-
tolls, tobacco, boots, and clothing was taken
and not burned. being appropriated by
the soldiers, though few Of the victims can
swear whether il was Walkers or Mills
n IN rnhIaI tlan, o,l e
this the ex-parte Commission at Randall
say that the charge Of pilIage is not prov
EN-.
A paper was read before the Manchester
Statistical Society, short time ago, call
ing attention to the researches Of the Ger
man statisticians, Benin and Wagner, with
respect to the population Of the world
, Of the many estimates Of the number Of
inhabitants Of our globe, none are ac-
counted trustworthy. In 1855, Norsius
estimated that there were D. 900, 600, O0O.
I Benin and Wagner set down the number at
the present time at ,39l $50, 600. The
I subjects Of Victoria are rated at 300 900, :
/ 600. Russia has population uf 81, 900, :
OO. India, supposed to be the most pop
ulous country on the globe, 800, 900, 900
4 inhabitants. China is said to have 400,
900, 900 inhabitants, but the estimate is
undoubtedly grossly exaggerated. The
1 population Of South America has been
checked by internal discord. In Paraguay
\ there is said 10 have been All actual loss Of
( 337 900 An estimate based On the .roth
| Of Great Britain and the United States.
/ gives 10 the former country in the year
20O0 population Of 81 ,OO0, OOO and to the
I latter Of J4S, OOO. 900
Several robberics, says Natertowu \.
y dispatch. were recently committed in
Coucordia, JetfeTsua County, but no clue
vas obtained to the perpetrator. Finding
80 length that every house ia town WAS to
be searched ~ Vigilance Committee, DR.
kusch Who had been for some time res
| ldent NJ the town. drew his money from
the bank and fled on horseback He was
overtaSen by a band Of hnrsemen, aud,
upon being conducted back TO town, he
confessed to eight robberies, and was then
| seized by an iDfuriated crowd, who led him
with rope round his neck to neighbor-
ing wood.
On arriving, the moose Mas fastened
around his neck and the end IT the rope
thrown over limb Of a tree and grasped
by the eager and excited crowd, who in All
instant had the body Of the doctor dangling
III the air. Thrice he was let down and
asked If he had sccOmplices. The unfOr-
tunate man persisted he had none, and,
seeing he had no chance of mercy, he asked
at the last time the benefit of clergy.
Strange to gay, the crowd granted this
reasonable request, and a Methodist min
lster offered long and impressive prayer
for the doomed mans soul. Rusch also
began praying, but his auditors were not
impressed, and told him to "cut it short
lie begged for more time to pray, but has
impatient hearers swung him up with the
words on hls lips
The majority of the mob stayed until
the last spark Of lite had fed, when they
returned to their homes. Some others,
heavily under the influence of whlskey.
stayed behind and perpetrated a more
dastardly act I an did the man they
hanged. They cut the corpse down, and
robbed it Of the money he had drawn from
the bank and his gold watch and chain.
leaving his body where IT fell, with the rope
still around his neck, in which condition
it was found and taken charge of by the
officers Of the law. A jury was summoned
by Squire Tiemam aud an inquest held.
The verdict was in accordance with the
foregoing facts. Rusch was unmarried and
lived by himself. He has previously borne
a good character and was unsupported Of
crimes 80 heinous.
These murderers were not Coal Miners.
But are they any the less murderers on
that account. Ed. WokKINGMANs ADvo-
CATE.
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