The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-06-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Ife,ns from fhe CAPITAL

water, gives q report that the town OF
Double Mountain, in the Panhandle of
Texas, has been captured by Apache In
dians, and all the stock in town run of. No
particulars given. The letter also states
that quite a number of hunters had been
killed by the Indians during the past winter
also, that fight recently occurred in the
Panhandle between about sixty hunters
and twice that number of Apaches. The
hunters started after the Indians to
avenge the murder of Mr.. Sewall, one
OF their number. They followed their
trail many days, and although
their provisions gave out they still pursued
them, living on what game they could kill
on the way. At length they came upon an
Indian village containing a number of
lodgers on the bank of a small stream, and
although they had been without food two
days they attacked the Indians under cover
OF the banks of the stream. The fight con-
tinued several hours, and was only stopped
by darkness. During the fight the Indians
struck their lodges, took their women and |
children and killed and wounded and fed. |
The Indian loss is not known, butts believed |
TO be considerable. Several hunters were
wounded, but none killed.
There were fifty additional removals in
the Bureau Of Engraving and Printing May
81. -Four chiefs Of divisions in that bureau
were among the number dismissed, and their
places will be supplied by new men.
The South
The defense set up in behalf OF the Ellen
ton rioters, on trial before Chief Justice
Waite, at Charleston, South Carolina, is that
general uprising OF the blacks was
planned, and that they were instructed by
Republican leaders SO to act as to compel
members Of the Democratic Rifle Clubs to
Ere the first shot, and goad the whites to
the very acts perpetrated.
Horace F. Smith, General Freight Agent
of the Memphis division of the Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern Railroad, was
drowned in the river opposite Memphis. In
company with Mr.. Hathaway, Of Louisville,
and negro boatman, he had gone rowing,
and while pulling quietly along the Arkan-
sas shore he suddenly exclaimed that he had
ruptured a blood vessel, and rose up and
started to the stern Of the boat, but reeling,
fell overheard, and was seen no more.
Chief Justice Waite on June Sd sum-
moned the jury in the Ellenton cases into
Court, and found, on interrogating them,
the case of one Of the eleven persons
charged with conspiracy. This was Abner
w. Atkinson, a man over sixty years old,
who was acquitted. The Judge then dis
charged the Jury, and the ten remaining
prisoners were released upon giving bonds
for their appearance at the next term of
Court. Counsel think it unlikely that these
cases will ever again be tried 1t is now
known that the jury stood six to six on the
question of general acquittal, the six whites
being for aud the six blacks against. The
black jurymen, however, were willing to
agree upon a verdict convicting two of the
accused, and acquitting all the rest but to
this the six whites would not consent.
The Vest
The Inter Ocean's special from Bismarck
d. T., says: Lieutenant Alfred F. Fuller
Just arrived by the steamer Peninah from
Tongue River, gives the details of igh
with the Indians on May7. General Miles
with companies F, H, L, and G, of the 2t
Cavalry and twenty-five mounted men of tn,
9th Infantry, attacked an Indian village OF
Little Muddy Creek, ninety miles from thu
mouth of the Tongue River, surprising ar
routing them. They pursued the redskin
Fourteen dead Indians were counted upoI
the field, and many others are known t.
have been killed and wounded. Four hun
dred and fifty ponies and horses and fifty
four lodges, with their entire contents, wer
taken. The cavalry found many new agenc
goods, saddles, guns, officers clothing, etc
taken from the 7th Cavalry in the Custe
fight. The band were Minneconions, led b
Lame Deer.
A few mornings since, when the day fore
went 10 wo k in the silver ore tunnel nea
Terribleman-G Georgetown, near Denve
they found the mangled corpses of job
Gregory, Harry Walters, and a companio
named Pope, all of whom had been mangle
and killed by an explosion of powde
There were no survivors to account for th
cause.
Arizona advices report the murder {
mail carriers and military telegraph repia
ers near Camp Bowie, and that troops are
pursuit of the murderers. There is muc
alarm among the citizens, who are signing
petition to Agent Clum asking if IL
hostiles can not be coaxed in keeping tt
peace.
Adestructive fire is reported at Montres
Canada, by which about sixty houses we
destroyed, and the same number of famili
rendered homeless. The fire broke out
Conroy's stables, on State-house Street.
Grifintown, burned up Eplin's lumber-yal
in the rear, and finally took possession of
large number of tenement houses in Il
vicinity. The loss is estimated at one hu
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
At Portland, Ont, recently, the house
Alexander Snyder was destroyed by fiji
Two children perished in the flames, and Il
wife is very seriously burned.
Extensive fires have been raging in t
woods along the shores Of Lakes Huron al
Superior, in Michigan. A telegram fro
Marquette received reports the village
onota has been destroyed by fire.
telegram received from Oscoda, Mic
June 3, reports heavy fires raging in t
woods south and west of Au Sable, a
along the north shore toward Greenbus
Business is reported suspended at Au Sab
and the entire population OF the village
out fighting the fire.
Later reports from the upper Peninsr
confirms the news of the burning of the m
ing village of Onota, Mich, thirty mi
from Marquette. The Bay Furnace was
tirely destroyed. Seven hundred persc
are left homeless and $4,000 worth of pr
erty consumed. The neighboring towns
sending relief to the victims of the fire.
General BreUtties
Ex-Governor Chamberlain has sold
residence in Columbia, South Carolina, t
brother Of Wade Hampton.
The aurora borealis made splendid q
play over the northern parts of the Uni
States on May 2S. The atmosphere was
strongly impregnated with electricity tt
communication was kept up for some ii
between New York, Boston, and Montre
over the Western Union Telegraph wir
without the use of the battery.
Some Of the fruits Of the investigation