Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1876-04-22
LATE TELEsRAMs.
EAsrERH.
Drisssw and Special
Aren't Phillips.

BAbrkeN.
secretary nrisssw aaa special
AEsns Phillips.
NEW Yolx. April 21.-There Is good
reason for saying that Special Agent
Phillips. sineo his return from Califor-
mia. has not favorably impressed SEQ
rotary Bristow. who did not intend to
regard the call for his report by Con-
gress, and IL indignant at It's premature
publication by Phillips, which II calcula-
ted to defeat the Se~crstary's purpose to
solve the problem Of the California
vhisky ring for himself.
4 wsrkisgnsns' STRIKE.
CzIcAoo. April 2l.-Six hudrsd work.
men In the stone quarriss Of Lenonte,
Illinois, who have been working all
Winter for Q dollar o day, struck yester-
day, and became 90 boisterous that
policemen were summoned from Chi
csgo 10 quell the disturbance. Fifty
arrests were made. The arrested men
we're brought to Chicago and in the JUS
tees Court to-day were held over for
trial on Saturday. They are generally
Q psaesabls set OF men. but they have
been put of in the matter Of wages 40
long that they are on the point OF star
walton. They cannot support thar
wives and families on work that pays on
an average four or Ave dollars per week.
A telegram from the quarries tonight
says the woikmen are quiet for the pres
emit.
Attacked BY Indians.
FoEr LARAMIE, April 2O.-Mr. Mil.
liRan, Of Scranton, Pa, arrived here
this afternoon. He says while coming
in ON the morning OF the 10th his party
was attacked by Indians in Red Canyon.
near Cheyenne River Rancho. about
atty miles from Custer. A few Of the
party escaped to tho rancho. MIR. and
Mrs.. Metz, OF Laramie City. were kill.
Cd. A colorsd woman was taken pris-
onsr aud Q man named Simpson was
also killed. The bodies were buried
the next day. Mrs. Metz had been
ravished. Three men were wounded
Grichan, from Missouri. MORALLY.
Felton,, from Missouri. and O. W. Bur
gesssr, from Virginia City, Nevada,
ssriously. II is feared the wounds may
prove fatal. The wounded men are at
Cheyenne River Rancho. The place
whore the attack was made IL about 100
nilss from this post. A party from the
Black Hills to-day say that about ten
days ago three wagons were found ut the
entrance to Buffalo Gap, on the Yankton
route. The stock was gone and there
we're signs Of afight. Numerous wagon
covers had been shot 10 pieces and part
Of the material the wagons had been
loaded with were lying around. some
with marks Of balls on them. The In
dams had evidently attacked and dss-
troysd the entire outfit.
The Aississippi Overflow.
QUINCY, ILL.,. April 81. The break in
| the Hannibal levss In more serious than
ever. A vast amount OF farming lands
are inundated aud crops destroyed. The
water 10 falling now. but II will be many
! days before the lands can be cultivated
and the people can return to their de-
serted houses.
Prssidsss 0rans and the Charge
Agsiass Him.
WASHINGTON. April a. President
Grant. in conversation yesterday N the
| disbursement Of money to Davenport
aud the purpose for which II had been
made. stated that the case Is substan-
TALLY % has been stated by ex-Attorney
General Williams. The President said
that he was more than willing that all
his official acts should be investigated.
He would stand by them. lie was con-
hdent that he had never in u single in
stance iniringej the law.
NEW YoRx. April 2l.-A special to the
World from Washington says that e1-
Detective Whitley wa before the Can
Geld Committee again yesterday and gave
considerable corroboraiion to the testi-
mony concerning the use Of the Secret
Service Fund 10 carry elections. This
use Of the fund was not confined to
New York, and thousands upon thous-
ands Of dollars were spent in the South
By, order Of the President. The latter
has resolved on a full investigation, aud
has called o Meeting OF the Cabinet at
II o'clovk this morning for special
CONSULTATION on the subject. John j.
Davenport will appear before the COM
mittss to-day. I.I. -.
A Tunes editorial says: The very limi.
tod circle OF people who read the World
must have felt somewhat alarmed yes
tsrday morning about the safety OF the
country. At the head Of the first col
umn appeared in capital letters Of pom.
dsrous sizs the following: "At last
President Grant. EI.Attornsy General
Williams betrays his accomplice. How
Grant reelected himself. The Treasury
Of the United Statos drained to carry the
election In New York. The President
proved guilty OF malfeasancs in Office"
These hints were obviously intended as
q sort Of gentle stimulant 10 the alton
ton OF the casual reader OF the World,
while the following, in doublc.leaded
type, was meant 10 convince him that
something truly serious had happened:
''Ths most melancholy task which has
fallen to our lot to lay before the public.
hardly excepting the assassination OF
President Lincoln. etc." Simply q gar
blsd report OF some evidence taken be-
fore O Congressional committee, from
which 1t appeared that in the course OF
three or four years the Department Of
Justice had paid. on the requisition Of
John J. Davenport. $4,000 for the de-
lection and punishment Of election
frauds in this city.
AA. Avsry's C~eufessies.
NEW Yoax. April 2l.-A special from
Washington says that Mrs. W. o. Avery.
wife OF the Treasury clerk just senten-
ced 70 the Psnitentiary for completely in
the 81. Louis whisky frauds. returned to
Washington recently. and. II Is said on
good authority, went before Attorney
General Pierrepont yesterday and con-
fessed all abe knew In regard TO the
whisky frauds. as far rs they affect the
President and implieate Babcock and
her husband. The interview was very
lengthy and Of q most serious and pain
full character. rrF
.Exseutien efa Murderer.
NEW YoRx. April 2i.-John II. Dolan.
the condemned murderer Of James b.
Noe, was executed in the Tombs Prison
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