The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-21

In this card souer denounced the RESPONSE
bic editor Of the Times as wiliful and ma
liejous faleifer.
TIE Missouri Gyeenbaek State Conven-
ton me, =, jefferson City on the 9Th, and
nominated fun State ticket J. P. Alexsn-
der is the candidate for Governor. and
James f. Owens for acknowledgements.
A SERIOUS disturbance occurred in Charles
Ion, s. G., OF The night OF the 9Th, between
coiored Republicans and eolored and white
Democrats, in which pistols were freely
used on both sides s large number Of per
sons were injured, several of them quite
severely One of The wounded, a white
man named Buckner, died The next day.
Tie police succeeded in queIling the riot,
but The excitement continued Throughout
the 7tb. the colored Democrats holding 8
meeting in the evening under guard Of Loo
armed whites.
A PgHE-FIGET between Tom Allen and
Joe Goss came Of in Kentucky on the eth.
The fight wss begun near Walton, in the
presence Of a large crowd Of spectators.
Atse, fighting seven ROUNDS the militia in
.s-fered, and operations were suspended
Another ring Was subsequently, formed, and
fourteen more rounds were fought Goss fell
in The twenty frat, and being struck while on
HE knees, By All. u, d foul was claimed and
allowed, Goss being declared the winner,
He MAS severely punished, while Allen
showed little or no injury.
ABOUT two O'Clock on the afternoon OF
the eth eight mounted men, armed with
navy r*rolyers, entered the town Of North
field, Mimi, and dismounted in front Of the
bank. Three Of them entered the building
and spiang over the counter, when one of
the three held knife al the throat Of the
cashier, J. l.. Haywood, and ordered him TO
open the vault. The other two compelled
A. f. Bunker, Assistant Cashier, aud Frank
Wilcox, clerk, TO hold up their hands. Hay
wood refused 10 open the vault. The knife
was pressed against his throat Still
he refused. Meantime the townspeople
were gathering, and the robbers became i'm
patient Haywood persisting in his refusal,
one roibcr presented pistol at his right
temple and shot him dead. The three
then returned to Bunker, ordering him 70
open the vault. He denied knowing the
com bnation. The robbers made Il demon
stratiDn toward him, when he ran out the
iJack door, receiving as he ran a pistol
bullet through his right shoulder. viii
COX vas not attacked. Meanwhile the towns
people in the street had opened fire on the
robbers, killing two and wounding one.
Five escaped, carrying the wounded one
with them, leaving one horse killed and an
other captured by the citizens. The robbers
secured no booty. A large number Of
men started at once in pursuit,
and number VI police from st. Paul would
join them in the search for the murderers.
The Chicago 1'rtl~,~ Of the 9Th publishes
news Il, the sth from it, correspondent with
Gen. Crooks column, which indicates that
Sitting Bulls forces had divided, the larger
in Struggling bodice. going in the
Df the Agencies, while about
hDstilcs had taken the direction
Of the Black Hills, with the intention of
making rurtcrouh raid on the miners Of
that locality. Crook, with force Of $3.50
men, was on the trail Of thin latter body,
which he hoped to Dycrtakc ere they reached
their destination.
a DisrArCH from 1t. Paul, MINI, on the
18th, Gays fourteen citizens in pursuit Of the
Mortified robbers, overlook them late On
the night OF the 7th, in raYinc Il
short distance from shicldsvillc. Shots
were exchanged and one Of the rob
bcra' horses killed, but as the robbers
turned to make fight, the citizens, poorly
armed, dared not dash into them, and the
robbers mounting the dismounted conradc
double took to the woods and were again
lost sight Of. They were last heard Uf at
Watcrrjlc Lake at two O'Clock on the after
noon Of the 9Th, going south. There were
about 400 men in pursuit Ut the fugitivcs.
TEArrEn by the name of Ridgcly arrived
at Minneapolis, Mimi, few days ago and
gave ~ the PW,uer Press ami 1,1hunp an ac-
count Of Gen. Custcr's last fight with the In
dians, Of which he claims TO have been
an eye witness, being at the time Il
prisoner in Sitting Bulls camp. He
Gays onc-half of Clusters men were either
killed or disabled at the first Indian
volcy, and all Of them but six were killed
before Reno commenced his attack at the
other end Of the camp. These six, Ridgely
says, were taken prisoners and burned at
the stake in the Indian camp, the victims,
in addition to the horrible tortures of such
death, being pierced with rcd-hot ar
rows as the flames were doing their terrible
work.
A RECENT Los Angeles (Cal.) dispatch says
that Klingcnsmith, the Mormon witness of
the Mountain Meadow massacre, had been
captured on the Mohave Desert, and brought
to that city.
THE Indian Commissioners, who arrived
at Red Cloud Agency on the 9Th, held their
first council on the 9th, about $50 Indians,
including Red Cloud and several other
chiefs, being present. The Indians were re-
ported TO be In an excellent mood for a
treaty. series of propositians was read
and interpreted to them
The Governor of South Carolina issued a
proclamation on the 10th calling upon the
people of Charleston and elsewhere TO obey
the laws, and expressing his determination
to protect all persons in the State in their
political rights.
The horse Ethan Allen, the celebrated
trotter who, in his palmy days, with a run
ming mate, beat Dexter, with a record Of
2:l5, died at Lawrence, Kansas, on the llth,
at the Kansas Stock Farm, aged twenty.
seven.
lsChlcago, on the 18th, Spring wheat, No.
2, closed at $l.02fDl .O21l cash. Cash corn
closed at 44Nc for No. 2. Cash oats No.
sold at 3IM34Xc; October options
were sold at 34Mc. Rye No. 2. 63d1G31lc.
Cash mess pork closed al $l7.OO
Ml7O5. Lard. $40. 6O0ll0.65. Good to
choice bccvcs brought ~. 90tt1s. 30; medium
grades, "a. 25cl4. 60; butchers stock, 81. 70
13. 80; stock cattle, etc, 49, OG13. 40.
Hogs brought $5.6O01s.25 for good to
choice. Sheep sold ut 81. 1904. 80 for good
10 choice.
FOREIGN INTELLllsENCR.
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