Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1877-10-08
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l"elVe persons were k1lieO ana u1ty
wounded on the Pickering Valley rail-
way. near Phoenixyille, Pa, on Friday
evening, by forty feet of embankment be-
ing washed away,
wREcKING AN EXCURSION TRAIN.
Six of the killed belong to the Penny
packer family, of Phoenixville, Numer-
GUS other lesser railway accidents occur
red on Friday on account of floods, caus-
ed by heavy rains, from the Poto-
mac to the Hudson. In Brooklyn houses
were wrecked by wind, cellars flooded
and sewers overf1owed.
Congressman Schleicker, of Texas, ex.
presses the opinion that the
III RIO GRANDE TROUBLES
will soon result in war.
= Friday last while Henry Myers, freight
ing outfit, with six men, camped II miles
south of Custer, three strangers came
in, cooked their dinnsr at the camp fire
and made themselves so agreeable that
all the .freighters, except the son of
NJ yers, gathered around them. Young
Myers being suspicious got his shot gun
and remained away from the fire. Du-
ring the conversation around tile fire one
Of the strangers admired the gun belong
ing to one Of the freighters, took it to ex-
anime and suddenly cooking and leveiing
it stepped between the freighters and
their arms and ordering them to old up
their. hands, said they would take what
money was IN the outfit. At this young
Meyers stepped from behind the wagon
and .# -a.af as
~ .-. SHOT THE RoBBER
in the face and breast. The robber fired
at Myers but missed and fed, when one
of. the freq khters fired at him with rife
and dropped him. The other two got
away. Tne dead one was identified as
Texas Frank.
Curley and Mack, just returned
FROM THE BIG HORN,
report passing large party of prospect
ors, probably Westerns, which went out
from the Hills under the guidance of a
man called "Charley," who claimed to
nave diggings on Bottom Grass that
would yield thirty cents to the pan. Ar
irving there he confessed the falseness of
his representations, .whereupon the en-
ragged prospectors
HUNG HIM.
The prospector took the party out for
the benefit Of the trader at Ft. Reno.
The two train robbers killed near
Hayes City, Kansas, were recognized as
Joel Collins, whose father and mother
live in Dallas, Texas, and VIM. Cots,
of Pottsville, Pa, but recently
Of San Antonia, Texas.
LAUGHING SAM
Of Deadwood, was arrested at Harlem,
thirty miles east Of Council Bluffs, We'd
nesday last for coach robbery.
A MEXICAN MOB
of four hundred, on Saturday crossed the
Rio Grapde. occupied two villages and
made prisoners of a II the officers of the
Eipaso country, including Judge CEas.
H. Herward, whom they tied with ropes.
FATHER Tos1AsEN,
who has lately created trouble on the
White Earth reservation, arrived here
Saturday evening, having voluntarily re-
tired as soon as troops were withdrawn.
CAPITAL SELECTIONS.
Sec'y Evarts has selected Theodore
Roosevelt for Collector, and Gen. Mer-
ritt for Surveyor of the Port of New
York. z!Ta
[oHN MCDONALD, THE ST. LOUIS WHISKY
THIEF,
escapes further prosecution on the plea
hat the Presidents pardon covers all of
lis crimes.
SHERMAN AND STAFF
arrived at San Francisco on Saturday.
BOSS TWEED
furnished On Saturday. documentary eyi-
lence confrmatory of his story of having
'ribed the Albany papers, Hugh Hast
ngs and others.
SENATOR PATTERSON WAS ARRESTED
It Washington, on Saturday, On requ.-
ition from Gov. Hampton. A writ of
labeas corpus will be heard to-day.
The embankment iron fridge at
Atchinson, Ks, seven hundred feet long,
aved in Saturday night.
The Mayor Of Fernandina, Florida,
. ISSUES a PITIFUL APPEAL
pr help for that fever stricken town. 4
WRECKED. !,
TIE rew steamer Massacfaust Is in II