The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-19

western Items.


the 9Th inst, baying party OF twelve men
and seven OK teams, were attacked by a
band of twenty or thirty Indians, twenty
five miles from the above post, badly wound
ing John Oilers, wagon.master, and one
horse. Two OF the party were out hunting,
about eight o'clock, heard war song, and
fastened to the train, which was imme-
diately prepared for defense. Four of the
men started to find the Indians, which they
did, and made lively retreat, hotly pur.
sued by the Indians, to within fifty yards OF
the train, when eight men sent yolley into
the red skins, who retreated to the shelter
of the bluff and commenced firing upon
the train, which was at disadvantage, and
was compelled to move two hundred yards.
The number Of reds killed is unknown, but
two were seen to drop. Mr.. Powell, con-
tractor, states that the Indians showed great
courage. and were armed with Winchester
and army rifles. The telegraph line between
Fetterman and Cheyenne was cut about that
time. il is thought, by the same band.
oilers is doing nicely, but will undoubtedly
lose his right arm.
A man named Rhoads, herding cattle near
ranch on Horse Shoe River, forty miles
northwest of Fl. Laramie, was killed, aud
scalped, aud his ears cut off by the In
dians. The body was brought into TT. Lar
amie.. Judge Foreman, at Beaver, Utah,
has sentenced John ID. Lee, of the Mountain
Meadow massacre, to be shot on January rs,
1877.
southern Items.
Between twelve and one o'clock, the other
morning, man named AL Kirkland, bar
tender on the river, was severely cut in the
cheeks by Anderson Waddell, of Louisville,
In a gambling.house on Church street at
Nashville, Tenn. 1t is said that the ARRAY
originated about money loaned to Kirkland
by Waddell. Kirkland died at ten o'clock
the next morning from the wounds received.
Waddell has not been arrested.......Two
freight trains on the Jackson Road collided,
recently, eight miles from New Orleans.
Eleven cars, loaded with cotton and miscel-
laneous merchandise, including coal oil,
matches, and powder, were burned or blown
to pieces. The explosion of the powder is
described as terrific. One brakeman was
slightly injured...... Edward II. Murphy
(wRite) shot and killed Jupiter Paul (coi.
ored) at Augusta, Georgia, in q quarrel
about chair. Murphy fled.
Disasters by Fire.
Eight hundred bales of cotton, valued at
$37, 900, and belonging to Irman, Juan & Co.,
were destroyed by fire in Brooklyn the
other evening. The fire was caused by
sparks from tug-boat falling on the light.
ers which contained the bales of cotton.
What was not destroyed by the fire was
thrown overheard, and will probably be
picked up by river thieves. 1.-The Harvester
Works at Minneapolis, Mimi, with q por-
ton OF their contents, have been destroyed
by fre......Three business blocks were en-
tirely consumed by fire at Pine Bluffs, Ark,
on the 9Th of October. The losses were
heavy.
1t has been ascertained that the Pine Bluff
fire was the work of incendiaries. The loss
now foots up quarter of million dollars.
The insurance is very light. The entire
business portion of Sand Hill, N. Y. was
burned the other night Loss over $780,
Items In General.
The stables of F. G. Hengehold, were
lately burned down at Cincinnati, on Carr
street, near Front, burning to death one of
the stable watchmen, named Henry Dire.
haue. During the day on which the. fire &C.
CURED, Driehaus said that he had felt sick.
and thinking to better himself, had taken a
heavy dose of alcohol from bottle, suppos.
ing It to be whisky. He was put to bed in the
hay loft and nothing more was thought of
him until the occurrence of the FIRE. After
the ire was extinguished, he was found ly.
ing on his back near the place where he haa
lain down. tits certain that the fire started
near where the corpse was found, but it is
impossible to say how it ignited. The de-
ceased was not in the habit of smoking, and
had no necessity to light cigar. It is sup.
posed he lighted match as drunken freak.
:..-.A fre broke out October z, on the German
bark Europa, at pier 43, East River, New
York. She was in the dry dock being calked,
when large quantity of hemp took fire.
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badly burned, and John Siever, another
workman, probably fatally. After short
time the flames were extinguished, and
the fremen made an examination of
the hold, when were discovered the hor.
ribly burned bodies of Thomas Ingraham.
Lewis Sullivan, George Sill, William Fur.
long, and James Mcdonald, workmen EN-.
ployed in making the repairs. The Europa
was engaged in the petroleum trade, and, the
timbers being saturated with the oil, the
flames spread with frightful rapidity, cutting
off all escape of the men working below
Emil G. Miller, the fugitive Montreal
leweler who was brought to Detroit from st.
Louis in September to answer an old charge
for smuggling, escaped while being con-
Quoted from the Michigan Exchange to iaiI.
secs: The National Council of Colored Odd.
Fellows, held at Nashville, has adjourned.
The following officers were elected: e.
Faucet, Philadelphia, Worshipful Grand
Master ID. y. Bowser, Philadelphia, Grand
Secretary. The following Board of Directors
were elected; G. C. Manning, Washington:
J. Hill, Petersburg, Va; j. Forester.
W Washington, and j. A. Simms, New York.
New Orleans was selected as the place for
holding the thirty.second session.
The Superintendent of the Railway Ser.
vice at Washington, lately received informa.
lion, that two more Route Agents on the |
Savannah and Live Oak Line were down
with the yellow fever, leaving only two |
agents to keep up the postal business on the |
,outheriy and northwesterly approaches to |
savannah. The local Superintendent or. |
Tered two agents from other Georgia routes |
o take these places, and adds, "the force in |
he Savannah office is so reduced by sickness
hat it can furnish no assistance" It is i'm
'ossitie to get substitute at Savannah, or
ct them elsewhere, to run on lines center.
og at Savannah. ......A few mornings since
While three loaded cars were being hoisted
rom the slope OF the middle Lehigh Colliery
i New Boston, Pa, the rope broke, and the
ars ran rapidly to the bottom. -Four miners.
amed William Backus, Joe Becker, Thomas
ones, and Edward Nauss, were killed -.
anderson, Hamilton & Co., pork dealers of
KY, whose failure was an.
ounced some time ago, have gone into
Liabilities, $4,000; assets.
10000. The liabilities Of w. b. Hamilton
rincipai in in the firm, are $S57, 900; assets,
A few mornings ago, at Philadelphia, an
Id lady, named Martha Baker, aged eighty.
We, was burned to death, at the home of
er daughter, Mrs. Shearing, on Apher
rect. Mrs. Baker was crippled, and oc.
lpied room In the second story. At the
BUR mentioned loud noise was heard in ,
or apartment, and, on one of the family
'oceeding to the room to ascertain the
use, she found the old lady lying on the
'or in flames, her clothes almost burned
ON her body, and she quite dead. The
igin of the fire is not known, but it is sup. 8
'sed that Mrs. Bakers clothes caught FIRE as
e was passing the stove. Mrs. Shearing G
I'd her daughter, who used every exertion J
eIdnguish the flames, were very severely :
Irned about the face and hands.
The Louisville Euening Ne,os has a special 2
ON Mt. Washington, KY, which gives the :
flowing account of murder in church ,
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