Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-09-28
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Laramie the night before They brought,
as the proceeds of their work for seven
months, over $500, 00O-1 300 pounds of
dust.
The late South Carolina Republican
State Convention re-nominated the present
State officers except Attorney General
For that Office r. B. Elliott, colored, was
nominated.
In the Mountain Meadow Massacre trial
at Beaver, Utah, on the 10Th, seven wit
nesses testified for the prosecution, all of
them being new witnesses except Joel w.
White They united in fixing the respon-
sibility of the massacre on Lee.
A COURIER who left Gen Crooks
command on the 10th, arrived at Cheyenne
on the 10th, with the intelligence that the
General had, on the 18th, sent portion of
the pack train ahead under the escort Of
Col Mills with $50 cavalry On
the evening of the 9Th the Colonel
discovered a Sioux village Of forty
one lodges, and having band Of
several hundred ponies and American
horses. About two O'Clock on the morn
ing of the 9th an attack was made upon
the village, the Indians being taken COM
pletely by surprise and driven from their
lodges. A large quantity of supplies and
40 ponies were captured. Among the
spoils were portions of the articles taken
by the Indians in the Custer fight The
main army reached the village about noon
During the fighting the whites lost three
killed-Private William Sell, of Com
pany A, Third Cavalry; Private Kennedy,
Company G, Fifth Cavalry, and Frank
White, citizen scotland fourteen
others were wounded. In the afternoon
achievements were received by the In
dams from Crazy Horses band, and a
running attack was made by them, but
they were quickly driven off. Much am
munition and several guns were found in
the lodges. Among the Indians killed was
the chief American Horse. The Indian
prisoners stated that most of the hostile
Indians were going into the Agencies,
with the exception of Crazy Horse and
Sitting Bull, and their immediate fol
lowers. The captured village was de-
stroyed.
REV. E. S. JAMES, Senior Bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his
residence in New York city on the after
noon of the 18th. He was seventy wears
old
CHARLES DAVIES, a well known mathe-
matician and professor at West Point and
Columbia College, died on the night of
the 18th. Prof E. S. Smell, of Amherst
College, died on the 18th.
A DECISION has been rendered on the
preliminary motion in the suit of Francis
d. Moulton against Henry Ward Beecher,
in effect that the defendant must make in
New York County his motion to change
the place of trial,
A DISPATCH was received in Chicago on
the 18th from Gen. Sheridan, announc-
ing that ''Col. Carlin reports that Kill
Eagle and Little Wound with 40
people, all their arms and ammunition,
and about 100 ponies, surrendered to him
at Standing Rock on the 18th"
IT is reported that large number of
counterfeit coin half dollars have been
manufactured in Baltimore and scattered
throughout the country. They are dated
1858, 1876 and 1876, and are of light
weight.
In the recent fight with the Indians by
a portion of Crooks command, thirty five
Indian lodges were burned, fourteen dead
Indians were found on the field, and four
bodies were known to have been carried
off; twenty one Indians were captured.
A coLoRED Republican State Conven-
ton was held at Utica, n. Y, on the 10Th,
at which resolutions were adopted calling
on the President to protect loyal men in
the South in their political rights, and in
dorsing the National and State tickets.
A New HAVEN Comm dispatch of the
18th says Samuel Lester, of Shelter ISL
and, died, as was supposed, very sudden
ly, few days ago, in Norwich, and the
body was taken home for burial. The
man employed to fill the grave heard
noises coming from the coffin, as if Lester
SCIG IL W U1Soth Oub VI IT, LIZ 11CNl,
but returned soon and heard other noises.
Finally he filled up the grave and said
nothing about the matter until the 18th.
The coffin had been eXhumed and it was
found that Lester was buried alive, evil
dences of horrible struggle for release
being apparent.
a ST. PAUL Minn,) dispatch of the 10Th
says the pursuit of the Mortified robbers
had been given up and the pursuers had
returned home.
A COMMITTEE has been raised in Wash
ington to secure funds for the assistance
of the people of Savannah, Ga. Similar
committees have been appointed in New
York, Philadelphia and other Eastern
cities.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the Goth
says that the papers were being made out
eoualizing the sentences of the imprison-
ed Chicago revenue defrauders, by virtue
of which Hesing and others of the "sec-
ond batch'' would be released upon pay
ment of fine of 81 900 each.
THOMAS DUFFY has been convicted of
murder in the first degree, for having been
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