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New-York tribune., 1877-07-07
G. W. SIS LETTERS.


70 the dttOr OF Ihe IftOUHe
SIR: read i'll your paper, some time since.
vh, ,,c of vour readers said about G.. W SIS letters
from England and he spoke highly of them. Now al
low me to add my testimony TO thai ohundreds of foters
have no doubt. | take great pleasure in reading his
letters Tncy are so well wrltteu, 80 pam ana hr ue
scrbes things a. though you were hearing him tax.
like hlm and his good letters. Long may o. W. be your
English corr spoD" "ont " VAN ~
KInasl0n. Wy, Jnne 20. lsII
New-York tribune., 1877-07-07

Here lies the Democratic party.-lNew York
nerald Here lies Ihe Aeto- loTN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
COurer-JO JOurnIl.
New-York tribune., 1877-07-07

Erecons, perhaps, similar 10 the square and round
towns OF Ireland would answer the purpose u built OF
great strength HERMEs.
Eric, Pa, June 25, 1877.
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JOseph's Flight.

SALT LAKE, via Helena, Mont
August S.-W. j. Mccormick. Of
M~issoula, writes to Governor Potts
on the 10th as follows: A courier ar
rived from Howard at 6 O'Clock this
evening. He left Howard Saturday
morning last. He thinks Howard
will camp near the summit, between
Lolo and Clearwater tonight. lie is
distant about fifty miles from the
mouth Of the Lolo.
The courier reports that Joseph,
with over one-half Of his fighting
force, has gone to the head of Bitter
Root valley, by the Elk City trail,
and will form a junction with Look
ing Glass and White Bird near there.
He says Howard has $50 men and
$50 pack mules, and is moving f,r-
ward as rapidly as possible.
Advices from the upper Bitter
Root says the Indians will camp TO-
night at Ross Hole. Gibbon is FL
10 wing rapidly. Other advices say
the Indians were still at Doolittle's,
sixteen miles above Corvallis, and
Gibbon is expected to strike them on
the morning Of the Tth before they
break camp.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-08-15

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. IA spe-
cial dispatch to the Courier-Journal
dated Harrodsburg. KY, Gays: News
has reached here to-day of two seri-
Gus shooting affairs that occurred yes
terday in the edge of Washington
County, and near the Mercer line.
Maxville was the scene OF the diff
Guilty, in which John SutIeriield shot
and killed John Butler, a man Of fam
lily. The fatal termination OF this af.
fair was the result offs previous diff.
Guilty over a sack of -four, Suffer-
field being q miller. Gardeners store,
near Millersburg. was where the 9TH
er fight occurred, 10 which several
families took part, aud was the re.
newal of a former fracas. Several of
the Roralities, Gardners, Cases, and
Sheridans were participants. Che
man, Sheridan, was shot through the
head, and killed outright. Gardner
was shot 10 the arm, and one Case 10
the wrist. Twenty or thirty shots
were fred, and probably others were
wounded hose names could not be
learned.
L. ID. Brown, who was shot yes
terday in this county was wounded
in five different places, every fire
from the revolver taking effect in his
body. The boy Smith, who did the
shooting, is still at large.
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Wholesale Massacre .

CHICAGO, August IA special to
the Chicago Tribune from Keokuk
Iowa, says that a Gate City reporter,
just from the scene, brings further
particulars of the shocking murder of
Lewis Spencer and his four children
neal Luray, in Clark county. Mo-, on
Friday night last. 1t is thought the
massacre was committed just before
daylight. The murderers procured
an axe from the woodpile, and ey.
identity went first to the stable and
climbed up the ladder to the loft,
where Mr.. Spencer and his son VIII.
lie, aged ten, slept, and commenced
their bloody work upon them, dealing
heavy blows upon the head Of each.
Mr.. Spencer had in mis- possession at
the time about 81 200, which the as.
sassins secured. They then proceed.
ed to the house, erept in at the kitch.
en- window, and forced open a door
into a bedroom on the first floor, in
which were sleeping the daughter
Jane, aged eighteen, and the son
Charles, aged seven Jane seems to
have been struck while asleep, bu:
the boy partially awakened, and was
found wing across the body of bis sis.
The other daughter, Alice, aged
twenty, was sleeping up stairs alone,
and did not appear to have moved
after the fatal blow was struck. The
murderers were discovered by Spen-
GERS brother-in-law, William James.
When found, the father and both sons
were still breathing, but we're uucon-
scious and died in about two hours.
All FIVE Of the victims were killed
with an axe, receiving from one to
three blows each on the head. Their
faces were terribly maDgled. The
axe was found under the back part of
the house beneath the window,
through which the murderers had ev-
identity entered. Nothing in The
house was disturbed. The tracks
leading frcm the house indicated that
there were two persons engaged in
the murder. At the Coroner's in
quest the principal witness was James
Willis. During the inquest a few
drops of blood were discovered on
his clothes. He accounted for them
by saying that be had had the nose
bleed a day or TWO previous. 1t was
at once suspected that James was one
# the guilty persons. At last ac-
counts the Yigilantes had taken
charge of him and another man nam.
ed Brady, and gone off into the woods
With them. There is no positive ev-
ldence against them, bur if guilt can
be liked on them, there is no doubt
but that they will be hanged.
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BLOODY INDIAN FIGHT.
Gen. Gilbn Defeated With Fearful
Slaughter.

SALT LAKE, August 1.-THE fol
lowing were received this morning /:
DER LODGE, August l1.-9 A. VI
w IL. Edwards has just arrived
from Big Hole with accounts of q ter.
rible fight between Gibbons command
and the Nez Perces on the Big Hole
river, on August 3. Gibbons COM
mand. consisting of 1S2 men, II Off
GERS, 1873 regulars and SO citizen vol
u~nteers, crossed over frsm Ross Hole
on Wednesday. Starties at II o'clock
the same night :hey moved down all
the troops with the exception Of "a
few left to guard the transportation,
q few miles above, close to the Indian
camp, which was made on the Big
Hole about three miles below where
the Bitter Root and Bannock trails
cress.
At daylight this morning the fight
opened by the volunteers firing on
and killing an Indian going after
horses. A charge was then made on
the camp. Hard fighting occurred
for the next two hours, during which
time large numbers of men and H.
dams were killed. The soldiers then
charged on the lodges, but were le-
pulsed in the attempt.
Gibbons losses are: Killed, Capt.
Logan, Lieuts. Bradley and B,st-
wick, seventeen men and five citizens.
The wounded are General Gibboo,
Capt. Williams, Lieuts. Coolidge,
Woodruff and English, the latter
seriously. besides thirty-six men and
four citizens.
The Indians suffered seriously, as
forty of their dead were counted on
about one-haIf of the battlefield.
Howard had arrived and would pur-
sue the Indians. As soon as bis
command arrived General Gibbou
would move t, Dear Lodge and take
his wounded to Fort Shaw as 500, as
medical aid aud transportation arriv-
ed. The Indians bad disappeared,
in wha: direction is not yet learned.
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ST. Louis whisky Ring.

ST. Louis. Mo. Aug Ga civil
suit for damages was filed this after
noon in the United States Circuit
Court by the United States Govern.
meut against VIM. Mckee. The &C
ton embraces 1858 counts for Sl,400
each, aggregating S2,3l4, 200. These
counts are all alike in form, except
that the names Of different distilleries
are inserted in each, charging with
the unlawful removal vi distIIled spir-
its, aud also charging the defendant
with aiding and abettiDg in the re-
moval Of said spirits, which act rem
dered him liable to the above penalty
of 81, 400. The distillers mentioned
ia these counts are VIM. Il. Jonett,
John Burby, Joseph G. Chouteaa,
MacLot Thompson, Alfred Bevis,
Edward Il. Frazer, Peter Curran,
Rudolph W. Uirici, aud Lewis Fers.
chero. Assistant District Attorney
Denison says it is lot expected that
Judgments will be obtained on all
the counts, but it is expected about
$500, 900 will be recovered. This
suit will probably reopen the entire
proceedings of the whisky ring from
1871, as each removal of spirits will
have to be proved separately before
Judgment can be secured, aud this
will probably bring all the Witnesses
in the whisky trials back to the
stand.
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Ohm.

COLUMBUS, August I0-A meet.
ing of MISUNDERSTANDING republi-
cans held in this city last night adopt
ed resolutions bitterly denouncing
Mr.. Hayes for his southern policy
and declaring that the second resola.
ton IN the platform adopted by the
republican state convention at Cleve-
land is inconsistent with its professeo
declaration VI fidelity TO The prirci.
Piles Of the Republican party |. that il
is a fAlsehood adopted solely tor par.
~ expediency g libel upon The r.pub.
licans OF Ohio and unworthy Of the
grand record Of The party. THE meet
ing also adopted a resolution inviting
correspondence from republicans
throughout the state aud advice as TO
the conrse to be parsued during The
present campaign. An executive
committee was appointed 10 receive
correspondence.
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AD.-..x F-a. Above .,.s.r. Fails.

On Thursday Of last week ibe tug
Minerva, which is engaged 10 towing
mud scows from the Welland Canal
to the Niagara River. bad proceeded
well oct into the river, just above the
falls, with her usual tow of three load.
ed scows, when the lines holding the
last of the three parted, and the scpw
reeled around and made for The rap
ids. jim hampton was at the wheel
and with great presence of mind be
headed his tug for the rapids an q
made a circuit around the scow,
which was now dangerously neal the
rocks. La the meantime The men
boarded the two remaining scows
and dumped them, rendering them
easier to handle. When they ap.
preached near enough the runaway,
a man jumped aboard OF her, fastened
a line. and dumped her. And now
came the tug Of war. They lay on
the very edge of the rapids, when the
throttle was thrown wide open, and
the lug headed'up stream from the cat.
aract. 1t was nip and tuck. and they
were about TO cut away part Of the
tow, when the tug seemed to gain q
little on the current, aad gradually
emerged into safety with her full
tow.
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shooting ARRAY.

SAN Francisco, August I.-Johu
E. Daily. a stock broker, was shot
and killed to-day by Leslie G. Hanks,
Consul General from Guatemala, in
this city. The trouble grew out of q
triiing disagreement last Saturday
between Hanks and Emil Karanda,
Daily's partner. Daily took w the
quarrel yesterday and wors.ed Hanks
in q personal encounter. Bystanders
state that Hanks approached Daily
from behind and shot him without
warning. Hanks claims that Daily
approached him threateningly with a
heavy cane and be fred in seIf-de-
fence. Hanks is in Jail waiting ex
animation. Daily was formerly a
broker in New York. Hanks was
formerly a member of the shipping
firm of j. c. Merrill & Co. Both
occupied high social positions and
were in easy circumstances.
The Coroner held an inquest this
evening on the body of John 4. Dali
ly, who was killed by Leslie C.
Hanks today. Hanks declined to
testify. The testimony of all the
witnesses agreed that the act was
one of deliberate assassination, and
the jury found a verdict charging
Hanks with murder.
About ! o'clock this morning Les
lie Hanks, who killed John Z. Daily
yesterday, was found dead 10 bis cell
in the city prison.
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MILWAUKEE. Aug IA fiery dis
aster occurred 10 the town of Eaton,
Brown county, on Monday afternoon.
During the late droulh that prevailed
throughout this section and many To-
calities, that has been an hourly fear
of life aud property, fires broke out
and ragged with particular severity 10
the town above and that OF Monday
crowned the work of destruction by
sweeping away the houses of many
settlers. One settlement Of Poland
ers twelve miles from Green Bay snf-
fered heavily. about thirty-ave fami-
lies being rendered homeless, and the
crops being destroyed. They lost
everything they possessed and bare
" escaped their with lives. being
compelled to force their way through
a line Of fire about two miles OF
track brokenn ground, many being
severely burnt in The face. Many
animals persisted and ere lying in
heaps where they crowded together
for fancied safety. Some portions of
the town are still burning. There
is q heavy rain to-day, however, and
no probability of further damage.
Chicago, Aug. IA later dis
patch from Green Bay gives these
particulars of the fearful fire which
desolated the farming township of
Eaton, a few miles east of that city.
1t appears that on Saturday night q
hurricane sprang up, which drove the
flames with lightning rapidity, the
burning brands falling for miles
around. When Sunday morning
came there was no abatement of the
flames, but the wind bad Quoted
down somewhat. The greater part of
the meD bad gone out into the fields
attending their duties, and as the
flames soon afterward sprang up
with greater violence, the women
were left to fight them off as best they
could, but all their efforts were una
yailing The fre-fend baflsd them
at every point; driven from one point
to another, they were compelled to
seek new places of safety with their
children, as the flames swept onward,
licking up everything in their course.
Only three houses were left unframed,
nothing was saved, the women es-
capped with only the clothes on their
backs. People from all parts of the
township were rendered homeless,
and all tell the same story. Two
families were destroyed, and th rec
others are missing.
At what is known as Benjamin,
where there were seventeen houses,
not one IS left. Every q was con-
sumed. Dead cattle are lying in ev-
ery direction on the desolated fields;
others, freed from their confines, are
rushing to certain destruction in the
still burning woods near at hand.
Many people from Green Bay have
gone to the scene, and measures will
be taken to relieve the wants of the
sufferers. The authorities have of.
fered shelter to the u%nfortunates for
the time being in the county poor
house.
CHICAGO, Aug. 6.-The Iater-
Oceans Green Bay special says the
reports of ravages by the fire at Ea-
ton, Wis, have not been overdrawn.
Over 1873 families have been burned
out, aud in many instances the entire
crops destroyed. The loss is esti-
mated at $3.50, 600. There were no
lives lost.
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A Tennessee Court BuIi.doxcd.

NASHVILLE, Aug. 10.-A special
from Huntington states that Gen.
Henry Darnell, on trial at Tiptops-
vile, Lake county, bull-dozed the
court at that place on Wednesday
and Thursday with twenty-five armed
men, the Sheriff and deputies being
entirely insufficient. Dargell recent
'iy gave himself up, but refused to 90
to jail, and instead was placed in the
custody Of one of his friends. 1t
having been shown that the bond
was insufficient, it was 80 announced
In court, and Darnell was ordered to
jail The Sheriff refused to act, and
Darnell AID an armed mob walked
out OF the court room, denounciny
the court and defying the authorities.
The sheriff refused TO obey an order
to summon a posse. Governor .Por-
ter was t~elegraphed TO send the
Chickasaw Guards of Memphis to his
relief, but the order was coun:ermau.
ded. DarnelI and his squad having
left for Kentucky.
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AHnir.at r~taa>bnrg.

The Dispatch Of Wednesday say:
Officers of the Pennsylvania railroad
company yesterday stated OF the ioi
engines burned ia The round house
the experts have pronounced hfIy ci
them worthIess-Iit only for scrap
iron. The remainder Of the LOGON :
tiyes will be taken to the shops at
Altoona FIR repairs The upper
round honse has been cleared OF all
the engines il contained, but those
in the lower house have not yet been
moved. 1t is probabls that several
of them will be found more seriously
injured than now appears. Eight or
more engines in the vicinity OF the
houses where the ire occurred es-
capped with slight damage and are
now upon the road. The repairs to
all of the injured engines will be
made at the Altoona shops. the EN-
ployees of which have been on ball
lime for a considerable time. What,
therefore, is Pittsburg's loss will be
Altoona's gain.
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Kentucky.

LOUISVILLE. August S--Concern.
ing the trouble in Washington Coun.
ty a Courier Journal special says
"The report comes TO Harrodsburg
this morning Of another fatal shoot
ing ARRAY that occurred in ~liendren's
voting precinc.. Benjamin During
was shot and instantly killed, and
Julius Darling was shot through the
left shoulder. Two other participants
in the fight were seriously wounded.
In the Gardiner fight, il the same
county. in which there were four on
one side against three on the other,
John Shirley IA shot through the
head and killed, and three other par
ties, Sidney Case, one Gardiner, and
n Maston, were wounded. No ar
rests reported in either case.
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New York, Aug. 9.-lt is repor.
ted that an accident has occurred on
the Central Railroad of New Jersey,
at Ocean Port that three cars were
thrown into the river, and about
twenty-five or thirty persons badly
hurt. No one was killed, 50 far as
learned.
A later dispatch gives the follow
ing details: 1t seems that tie engine
after running a short distane, on tres
tie work ~telescoped the mail and bag.
gage cars, aud rolled over he en-
bankment at the edge of the wafer.
Three cars in the rear of the mail and
baggage car fell on their sides in the
water. The rear car although thrown
from the track remained standing on
the side of the bridge. Passengers
at once left this car and began to res
cue those in the river. The train
was fully loaded, containing about
two hundred passengers. Those in
the cars in the water were in a state
of greatest CONSERVATION, crying
loudly for help. Those who could
stand were abont waist deep in wa
ter, while others were cliDging to
seats, windows, &c. One after anoth-
er they were taken out through the
car windows. until, it is believed,
every passenger vas rescued.
Conductor Hetfield t~elegrapbed to
Long branch for a special train and
medical assistance, which were
promptly sent, and those able TO be
removed were taken to Long
Branch and Ocean Grove. From the
best information obtainable it seems
safe to say that not more than forty
persons were wounded, and not more
than four of this number dangerous
ly. Among the Injured are Mr.. Rem
sen, wife and niece, Alice Kate Tut,
all of Augusta, Ga
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The contest for the Democratic
nomination for Governor of Virginia
ended, after a heated and protracted
struggle, on Thursday last, in the
nomination of Col. +. NJ. W. Holli.
day of Winchester, who commanded
a regiment in the famous rebel
"Stonewall Brigade" and towards
the close of the war was a member of
the Confederate Congress. The
struggle for the nomination was real
ly between Gen. Malone, a repudi-
ationist Of the State debt and Col. j.
NJ. Daniel. The friends of Malone
did not possess strength enough TO
nominate their man, but they defeated
his principal opponent by c~oncentrat-
ing on Holiday, who is said to be
an honest man and opposed to repu-
diation. As there is virtually no
Republican party in Virginia, Col.
Holiday may be considered the next
Governor of that State.
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Terrible Disaster To United States
Troops.

CHICAGO. August S-Oficial infOr.
nation has just been received at mill
tary headquarters confirming the ru-
NOR received here a few days since
regarding a fight between Indians
and United States troops 10 Texas.
II is ascertained that a disastrous en-
counter was had on the Staked plains,
in which there were two officers aud
26 enlisted soldiers killed. The rem
nant of the party continued its march
after having suffered this loss, aud
has since reached Fort Concho with
an additional loss OF five privaies and
forty horses and mules. The ubfvr-
tunste command was without water
for eighty-six hours, and the suffering
they endured in consequence was
terrible. Further particulars con.
corning the disaster are wanting, Tia
dispatch being very brief. IL is
thought g full account will be receiv-
ed in a few days, when the names OF
the killed aud wounded will be
known
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The press Of Pittsburgh Is yea
oasly laboring TO prove, or rather, IL
deliberately arguing, that it would bt
unjust and illegal, TO require tha'
city and the county of Allegheny to
pay the losses incurred by the late
riot there, in accordance with the plain
mandates of the law. The ground il
taken that as the strike was not q
mere local affair, but extended
throughout the country, therefore thc
city and county should not be held
solely responsible, but that the bur
den should be s~houldered by the
State, and notice is also given that
payment will be resisted to the ex.
IRENE limits of litigation. We opine
the attemp. to saddle this bill for
damages caused by her own mob,
through the imbecility Of her local,
civil and military authorities, will
not be quietly submitted to by the
balance of the State. The threat, or
declaration made, that the RESPONSE
bility Will be resisted by every legal
method, and that p%rotracted litiga-
ton is certain, is evidently intended
to influence the authorities of the
Pennsylvania railroad.
1t is in effect saying to them,
Gentlemen you have hitherto been
remarkably successful il procuring
any legislation you wished from the
Legislature, end by obtaining the
passage of q bill wherein the State
assumes the liability, you will speedi-
ly secure payment for your losses,
whereas, if you elect to hold the city
and county responsible, you can only
procure your money after years of
costly litigation. That there is force
in this kind of argument to the party
demanding reparstion, is not to be
denied, and the taxpayers of the
State who are not DESTROYS OF being
compelled to pay the piper, whenever
Pittsburgh mobs please to raise a
devils dance and apply the torch
uachecked to railroad or other cor
pcrat property, had better apply
themselves to instructing their men,
hers of the Legislature.
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THE riotous miners of LuZerne
county are still playing dog+in-the-
manger.
They will neither work them
selves, nor permit others to do so.
Isn't it about time that an end was
put to this defiance OF right, and Of
the law? Can it be possible that a
body oflawless men will be allowed
to prevent their fellows from working
and earning their bread? The State
authorities should take immediate
measures to squelch this mob spirit.
II no other remedy will answer, let
the military be used, and used effec-
lively. II is a simple question
whether we are to be ruled by the
mob, or the law.
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CINCINNATI, Aug l0.-Near Bos
ton, Clermont county, yesterday
PANEL Harrigan, owner of some vie
ions dogs, one Of which bad been kill
ed by Lowell Reudebush, attacked
the latter with a gun and threatened
to shoot him. Reudebusb, who hGd
heard threats of Harrigan some days
before. bad armed himself with a re-
v%olver. and when approached by
HarrigaD endesvored to explain the
matter, The latter would listen to
nothing. and pushing aside Mrs
Reudebush, who endeavored to pre-.
vent trouble. aimed his gun at her
husband. Reudebush handled his
revolver rapidly, firing three shots,
and killing Harrigan Instantly. Reud-
ebush was arrested, but has IubGc
feeling 10 his favor.