The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-28

Sitting Bull, they say, is of like opinion, and
has expressed the same sentiments. The COM
munication is evidently specious plea, OH
which the Indians hope to return to the agen-
cies and draw rations during the winter.
Trouble is brewing between white settlers
and the Nez Perces Indians In Oregon, which
threatens to eliminate in a general Indian war
on that frontier. The trouble grows out OF
controversy regarding the possession OF certain
fishery rights which the Indians claim were
guaranteed to them by the Government. Gen.
o. o. Howard, commander OF the department.,
ia now in Washington endeavoriug to adjust
the difficulty.
The second trial o. john D. Lee, the Noun
tain Meadow butcher, has been concluded at
Beaver. Utah. and resulted in a verdict of MUIR
der in the first degree. Judge Foreman. In the
course of his charge to the jury, said The
prisoner, John d. Lee, stands before you
charged with being participant in one OF the
most atrocious massacres of human beings-of
men, women and children, in the Mountain
Meadows in 1857-that vas ever known IN any
civilized part of the world. The evidence
shows that the persons killed were emigrants.
For several days q combination of Indians and
white men had been planning an attack upon
their ancampment. The Indians and white
men We'd with each other in the fendish work,
DESTROYING over 120 men, women and children.
It has been alleged that he shot one woman
with gun. one with pistol, and cut the throat
of another, and told an Indian not to spare
Young woman whose life the savage asked him
to spare"
The announcement of the escape OF the
Mortified MINI. bank robbers was premature,
az at least four of them have been captured.
The bandits lodged and skulked for distance
of 100 miles across Minnesota, most of the time
keeping the shelter of the woods, but occasion
ally, when forced by hunger sallying forth to
seize horses or levy on defenseless. farmers to
supply their exhausted commissariat. In
the chase several of the pursuers have been
arrested, and one or two wounded being
mistaken for the common foe. They have
been oyertaken several times, but after brush
with their pursuers have always managed to
elude them and get fresh start. 1t remained
for little band which started out on the 2lst
inst. from Madelia some twenty miles south
west of Mankato, to bring the rascals down,
and they did their work with a promptness
which does them great credit. the robbers
were pursued to the banks OF the WatonWan
river, where they turned at bay, and after a
brisk fight one of their number was killed,
two others badly wounded, and the fourth
forced to surrender. Of the pursuers two
were wounded, but their hurts are not at all
serious. The robbers, it is said, have confessed
that they are the Younger band.
A frightful accident occurred few days ago
on the Panhandle railroad, twelve miles from
Columbus. The train was running at rate OF
perhaps forty miles an hour, when, from some
cause or other, four cars of the train jumped
the track and rolled down the embankment,
thirty feet high. Six persons were killed. and
thirty or forty wounded, some of them Sc
riously.
The big talk" at the Red Cloud Agency be-
tween the Sioux Commission and the head men
of that unruly mob of savages was finished on
the 22d of September, and at the expiration OF
the confab the treaty composed by the COM
mission, looking to the peaceable surrender OF
the Black Hills country, was signed by the chiefs
of the Ogalalla band.
A. G. Hesing, and the other members of the
Chicago whisky ring who were some time ago
convicted of defrauding the revenue and SEN
fenced to various terms in the county jail, have
been pardoned by the President.
The three bank robbers captured at Madelia,
Mimi, have been identified by the Chief of
Police of st. Louis as Cole Younger, Bob
Younger and Al Carter. Carter is Texas des
perado, and has seldom worked with the
Younger gang. The man killed at Madelia is
identified as Charley Pitts. He is probably the
one who killed Cashier Haywood. The two
killed at Mortified are certainly Clell Miller
and Bill Chadwell, of the Missouri gang.
Sharp shocks of earthquake were felt on the
night of Sept. 25, at Louisville, KY, Evans
vile, Ind, Springfield, ILL.,, and other places in
Southern Indiana, Southern Illinois and Ken
lucky. |
South.
The steamship Rebecca Clyde, from Whining
ton, N. c., for Baltimore, was recently
wrecked at Portsmouth, off Pamlico Sound.
Capt. Childs, two mates, two engineers, three
seamen, the steward, two coalheavers and
passenger named Wheldon were lost. {
The city of Savannah, Ga, is still suffering
terribly from the scourge of yellow fever, and
nothing but cooler weather is left for the
afflicted people to hope for. The city is al
most depopulated, everybody having fed who
could get away.