Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-05

nurses.
In the United States District Court at
Chicago, on the 21st, number of the con
vieted whisky men, among whom was Mr..
A. c.. Hesing, paid their several fines and
were discharged from custody.
Governor Lafayette Grover, Of Oregon,
has been elected United States Senator as
to Mr.. Kelly, whose term VIII
expire in March next. Both are Demo-
Gratis.
The interments at Savannah on the 22d
showed q, from yellow fever, and on The
23d, 80. IL.
o. c. Allen, a prominent citizen OF Hays
City, Kas. proprietor of a hvery-stabie,
was found dead in his stable on the morn
ing of the 23d, having been apparently hrst
knocked down and hen shot through the
head. There was no clew to the assassin. 81
A St. Paul special to the St. Louis Re-
publican, oath, says that the eight men
engaged in the Mortified bank robbery
are now known to have been Cole and
Bob Younger, Jesse and Frank James,
Clel. Miller, Charley Pitts, Bill Chad
well and Cal. Carter, the latter from
Texas. Miller and Caldwell were the
two men killed in the fight at Northfeld;
the four who had the desperate fight near
Madelia, on the 21st, were the Younger
boys, Pitts and Carter. Pitts was killed and
the other three captured after being badly
wounded. The James boys have SO far es-
capped, and it is believed have made their
way into Dakota q"
A letter from Coffeyyille, Kas., to the
Kansas City Times, says that on Sunday,
the 18th, while the Delawares were holding
a camp-meeting on the Cana River, in the
Indian Nation, about 20 miles west of Coffey-
vile, a number Of desperadoes went to the
Westinghouse, and, calling out John Sar-
coke, a son of one of the Delaware Chiefs,
shot him, dead. The friends Of the muir
dered man then came out and shot down
Frank Rogers and Eyon Brown, and then
took one Shelley, another Of the gang, and
hanged him. 1t is said hat the affair is a
continuation of the old feud between the
Delawares and Cherokees, and may be di-
rectly traced to the Journeycake and Cocker
war. .
Mr.. Henry Watterson having declined a
to Congress for the long term
in the Fifth Kentucky District, Mr.. Albert
Wells has received the nomination.
The Kansas Republican State Committee,
on the Goth, held a meeting at the request
of Mr.. George T. Anthony, the Republican
nominee for Governor, for the purpose of
Investigating certain personal charges pre-
ferred against him through the public press.
1t is stated that Mr.. Anthony, by conclusive
evidence, satisfactorily refuted
all the charges made against him, and the
resolved that the evidence by
which he had vindicated himself should be
published in full. ss..E. #= .r 4
Gen. Crook is now at Fort Laramie, or
another expedition against the
hostile Sioux. The troops of the recent eX-
petition are mostly at Custer City, under
command of Gen. Merritt. Fresh troops,
consisting of the Fourth Cavalry under
Mackenzie and infantry under
Captain Pollock, will be put in the field at
once. + "A depot of supply will be established
at old Fort Reno.
Work has been commenced at Corinne,
Utah, upon the Portland, Dallas and Salt
Like Railroad. 3D. ....r.
An Indian Council was held at Spotted
Tail Agency on the I'D, and after a discus
sion of three hours the Treaty was signed
by Spotted Tail and the other head men of
the tribe. -.
George @. Cannon has been renominated
ss the Mormon Delegate to Congress.
Ground was broken at Memphis, on the
18th, for the new Custom house
A large Democratic mass meeting was
held at Chicago on the evening Of the Goth.
Senators Bayard and Mcdonald, ex-senator
and Gen. Farnsworth were non
the speakers.
1t is officially reported that there had been
rs cases Of yellow fever in New Orleans up
to the 26th ult., II of which terminated IA
tally. There is no increase apprehended.
. Galveston dispatch says that the Morgan
Line Of steamers had received notice of the
enforcement of quarantine regulations
against New Orleans after September 81.
A large Republican meeting was held at
Lafayette, Ind, on the Goth, which was ad-
dressed by Messrs. Blaine, Harrison, Sena-
;or Booth, Gen. Fitzpatrick and others.
The Nebraska Republicans have renomi-
lated the present Governor, Silas Greber,
ind most of the other State officers.
Harper's Tenbroeck, in a run against time
IN the track of the Louisville Jockey Club,
IN the 9th, made the quickest four miles
IN record, as follows: First mile, 1929:
econd, 1:45K; third, 1:46A; fourth, 1909
7:15&. This is so seconds quicker
han Fellowcraft's time at Saratoga in 1874,
nd 4 seconds less than Lexington's at New
orleans in 1856. 1t is stated that an offer of
125, 900 was made for Tenbroeck and re-
ected by his owner.
Hen. Proctor Knott has been nominated
or reelection to Congress by the Demo-
rats of the Fourth District of X entucky.
The Cherokee and other civilized Indians
the Indian Territory are greatly excited
yer the proposed removal of the Sioux to
heir Territory, and it is said will unite in
protesting against it. |
General Braxton Bragg dropped dead in
he street at Galveston, Texas. on the 9th,
rom disease of the heart. He was 81 years
+ age. His body was laid in state.
An earthquake shock was felt generally
throughout Southern Illinois and Indiana
nd Northern Kentucky on the morning of
he 25th.