The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-19
NEWS IN 3RLEF.


News from Fort Eetterman state that on
the 9th inst, a haying party of twelve men
and seven OK teams, were attacked by band
of twenty or thirty Indians, TWENTY-FIVE
miles from the above post, badly wounding
John Oilers, wsgon-master, and killing one
horse. Two of the party were out hunting,
about eight o'clock, heard a war song, and
FASTENED to the train, which was imme-
diately prepared for defense. Four of the
men started to find the Indians, which they
did, and made a lively retreat, holly pur.
sued by the Indians, to within fifty yards of
the train, when eight men sent avolley into
the red skins, who retreated TO the shelter
Of the bluff and commenced firing upon the
train, which was at a disadvantage, and was
compelled to move two hundred yards. The
fight continued nearly four hours. The
number Of reds killed is unknown, but two
were seen to drop. Mr.. Powell, contractor,
states that the Indians showed great cour-
age, n were armed with Winchester and
army rifles. The telegraph line between
Fetternan and Cheyenne was cut about
that time, it is thought, by the same band.
Oilers is doing nicely, but will undoubtedly
lose his right arm.
Judge Foreman, at Beaver, Utah, has sem
fenced John D. Lee, of the Mountain Meadow
massacre, to be shot on January 26, 1877.
A Washington letter says that many of
the Nez Perces Indians have never been
parties to any treaty, and serious difficulties
having arisen between them and the white
settlers of Idaho and Eastern Oregon, the
Indian Bureau has sent a special Commits
sion to them, with a view to settle all ques.
tions in dispute. 1t will avert further
trouble. The Commisson consists of Gen.
.. Q. Howard and Major H. Clay Wood, his
Adjutant; William Stickney, Secretary of
the Board OF Indian Commissioners; D. h.
Jerome, of Saginaw, Michigan, and Prob.
ably A. G. Barstow, of Providence, r. l., the
latter two being also members of the Board
OF Indian Commissioners.
77e South.
Eight hundred bales of cotton, valued at
$4,000, and belonging to Irman, Juan & Co.,
were destroyed by fire, in Brooklyn, the
other evening. The fire was caused by
sparks from a tug-boat falling on the light
ers which contained the bales of cotton.
What was not destroyed by the fire was
thrown overheard, and will probably be
picked up by river thieves.
The Harvester Works at Minneapolis,
Mimi, with a portion of their contents,
have been destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000. The cause of the fire
was a spark from the smokestack.
Three business blocks were entirely con.
sumed by fire at Pine Bluffs, Ark, on the
Sth of October. The losses were heavy.
1t has been ascertained that the Pine Bluff
fire was the work of incendiaries. The los
now foots up a quarter of a million dollars.
The insurance is very light.
The entire business portion of Sand Hill,
N. Y, was burned the other night. Loss
100000.
General Brertttes.
The Superintendent of the Railway Ser
vice at Washington, lately received informa
ton that two more Route Agents on the Sa
vannah and Live Oak Line were down with
the yellow fever, leaving. only two agents tt
keep up the postal business on the southerly
and northwesterly approaches to Sa
yannah. The local Superintendent or
dered two agents from other Georgi.
routes to a k these places, and adds, 9Th,
force in the Savannah Office is SO reduced
by sickness that it can furnish no assist
ance." 1t is impossible to get a substitut,
at Savannah, or to get them elsewhere, t.
run on lines centering at Savannah.
A few mornings since while three loaded
cars were being hoisted from the slope O
the middle Lehigh Colliery at New Boston
Pa, the rope broke, and the cars ran rapidl
to the bottom. Four miners, named vii
liam Backus, Joe Becker, Thomas Jones, an,
Edward Nauss, were killed.
Anderson, Hamilton & Co., pork dealer
of Louisville, KY, whose failure was an
nouneed some time ago, nave gone int.
bankruptcy. Liabilities, $4,000; assets
$4,000. The liabilities of W. B. Hamilton
principal in the firm, are $751;. 900 assets
about $4,000.
A few mornings ago, at Philadelphia, al
old lady, named Martha Baker, aged eighty
five, was burned to death, at the home of he
daughter, Mrs. Shearing, on Agher street
Mrs. Baker was crippled, and occupied
room in the second story. At the hou
mentioned a loud noise was heard in he
apartment; and, on one of the family pro
ceeding to the room to ascertain the cause
she found the old lady lying on the floor il
flames, her clothes almost burned from he
body, and she quite dead. The origin of tn
fire is not known, but it is supposed tina
Mrs. Bakers clothes caught fire as she wa
passing the stove. Mrs. Shearing and he
daughter, used every exertion to ~extinguis
the flames, but were very severely burne
about the face and hands.
The Louisville Beening Ners has a speci.
from Mt. Washington, KY, which gives til
following account of a murder in a church
During Sunday evening last, Sam Burket
c%olored, entered an African church undo
the influence of liquor. William Barnes, a
elder, asked him to leave, when Burke
answered, You and your church can 90 1
hell" Barnes asked for a repetition of til
remark, and, on receiving such, shot Burke
through the head, then escaping.
The Louisville Grand Lodge of Goo
~Templars, of Kentucky, adopted the repo.
OF the committee on the British disafectiol
proposing to voluntarily surrender to Ii
K. W. G.. Lodge all jurisdiction in regar
to the colored people, and to permit tn,
body to organize subordinate and gran
lodges among that people, pledging cooper
ton in the work. The following office
were elected for the ensuing year: G. W. ,
TT, George W. Balm, of Louisville; G. v
CT. T, B Demaree, Harrodsburg; G. '
" l., Miss EsteIle Mills, of Glasgow; G. '
Sec, and Treas, Tim. Nee aham, of LouisvilI,
y. w. NJ, ]. R. Lemon, Benton. The mel
bership in the State is 25,397, the large
lumber ever enrolled, making the Graz
Lodge second in the United States, and thiI
in North America.
The schooner Maggie Hunter, Capital
Nixon, of Toronto, coal laden, is reported
have gone down with all hands during h
passage from Oswego to the port of Toront
Inc vessel was valued at ten thousand dc
lars, and was uninsured.
Eartin F. Upper, poet and philosophe
arrived in New York, October Is, after
stormy passage from England.