Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-09-23

troops. BE has also applied 70 Eiedt67ant
Hornhard, o. S. A., stationed at Hamburg,
for assistance
A number of citizens have left for the
scene of the disturbance, which is about
twenty miles from Augusta on the Port Roy
al road. The latest report from the scene of
the riot is that one white man is wounded
and six negroes killed.
ERIE, Pa, 1S-1n the fierce storm yester-
day a fleet of % to 80 fishing boats we're
caught few miles offthis port, and only four
managed to get into the yard. One of these
swamped in rounding lighthouse pier and
three of the four men in it drowned The
remaining boats put back into the lake; and
two reached CUnnant, bu: the third was
found capsized and empty few miles from
Erie, and the three men in it when she put
about are supposed to be drowned
AssassinatiOn.
MONTGOMERY, Sept. Isl. d. Mayberry
revenue detective, living at Blount Springs
in this State, was brutally assassinated on
Saturday night The murderer shot him
through rear door. Seven buckshot en-
tered his head, killing him instantly. The
murderer escaped. The impression is that
the assassin is one of gang of counterteiters
now under indictment, and whose trial will
soon come off,
| Maine Elec}ion--O Official Returns.
AUGUSTA, SEPT. 1S.-The official returns
have been receive ed at the Secretary of States
office from the whole State except one, town
and six plantations. They give him the total
vote 135,9G1. Conner 75,7lO; Talbot GO, 251 I;
scattering 259. Connors majority over Tai
bot, Ii, 450. One hundred ard twenty Re
publican representatives are elected and TWEEN
ty nine Democratic.
| Gale on Chesapeake.
| BALTIMORE, Sept. 18.-Thc tow steamer
Juniata, of Susquehanna Tow Line Company,
left Harver De Grace Saturday for Baltillorc
with twelve barks in tow. When off Fbors
Island, at p. NJ, a terrible gale was encoun-
tered which cut the banks loose. Nine of
them sunk. The persons on board pf the
sinking barks took refuge on the other Three,
which drifted toward the shore, but before it
was reached one of them sunk, and all on
board, eight persons, were drowned. The
other two, having % pcrpns on board,
reached the shore safely.
Explosion In Coal Mine.
VICTORIA, Sept. 1S.-An explosion took
place on Friday morning last in the Fitz
William coal n,ine,. New Castle, by which
two men and one Cinnamon were killed out.
right and three whitemen and three China
men seriously, if not fatally injured ,.
| Smallpox. 4
notwithstanding the denial or the health
officers of the existence of smallpox here, it
is said that three Indians died in the pest
house ON tue Indian reservation Saturday
night, four or five yesterday, and severed cases
are reported in the bush back of the Marine
Hospital. There are also several Indian cases
reported in the vicinity of Burrard Inlet.
| Indian Council q Failure.
RED CLOUD AGENCY, Sept. 18.-via Fort
Laramie, Sept. 19.-The expected council
| WIN tAC AuulduSy SCt All was u bhil-
ure, no Sioux haveing been present. The
Arapahoes came in and had talk. They
said their minds were made up and they
were willing to Go all the commission asked of
them, but were not to give their answer until
the Sioux gave theirs. Day after tomorrow
is issue day; the commission are seriously
considering the propriety of instructing the
agency not to issue a pound of rations to
Red Clouds people until they give an an
swer to the propositions. The main camp
of the Indians is still at Shadron creek, 90
miles east of here.
Miscellaneous
JERSEY CITY, Sept. 19-One hundred and
fifty children Of Irish parentage withdrew
from the public schools in Bayonnc, yester-
day, by order of the Roman Catholic church
at Bergan Point, which oppose the SYSTEM Of
Catholic parents permitting their children to
attend the public schools. A parochial
school has been established which the chill
dren will attend.
| A dispatch has been received from Hunter
s. Gamble, of Savannah, reporting two Run-
dred and sixty six new cases of yellow fever
in one day, aud saying the daily expenses are
$1,000.
SAVANNAH, Sept 19-Yelow fever inter.
ments to-day, ~.
UTICA, Sept. 19.-The State Convention of
colored Republicans met here today and
adopted resolutions declaring the condition
of the South dangerous to the colored race,
and calling on the President to protect loyal
men in their political rights. The National
and State nominees were endorsed
From Gen. Terry.
FORT BUFcRD, D. T., Sept. II.
arrived here on The 7th. On the 9th in
formation reached me that o considerable
body of hostile Sioux had appeared at Wolf
Point, about IS miles above Buford. there
fore directed Maj. Reno, with the 9Th cavalry,
with his own regiment and Maj. Morris bat
talon, to march from his position on. the
Yellowstone for that place. will 80 up the
river today to meet him.
Hesing's Sentence Will be Commused.
The Inter Oceans Washington special says
Misrepresentation seem to prevail concern
ing Hesing's case. He will not be pardOned,
but his sentence will be committed to three
months and his fine reduced to 81 900. The
other Chicago whisky men viii receive SIM
| H. 80 l,o:u