The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Mems r,-o,,, fhe CapftaI

double Mountaln, IN the fan-hanQle OIL
Texas, has been captured by Apache In
dams, 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 a fight recently occurred in the
between about sixty hunters
and twice that number of A~paches. The
started after the Indians to
avenge the murder of Mr.. Sewall, one
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
dodgers on the bank of 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, but is 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
a 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
fire 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 a negro boatman, he had gone rowing
and while pulling quietly along the Arkan
sas shore he suddenly exclaimed that he haG
ruptured a blood vessel, and rose up ant
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fell overheard, and was seen no more.
Chief Justice Waite on June Sd sun
moned the Jury in the Ellenton cases int
Court, and found, On interrogating them
that they could only agree upon a verdict il
the case of one of the eleven person
charged with conspiracy. This was Abne
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 bond
for their appearance at the next term o
Court. Counsel think it unlikely that thes
cases will ever again be tried. 1t is nov
known that the jury stood six to six on tn
question of general acquittal, the six white
being for and the six blacks against. The
black iurymen, however, were willing t
agree upon a verdict convicting two of thu
accused, and acquitting all the rest but t.
this the six whites would not consent.
The Vest
The Inter. Oceans special from Bismarck
D. T., says: Lieutenant Alfred F. Fuller
Just arrived by the steamer Peninah fror
Tongue River, gives the details of a fgh
with the Indians on May 7. General Miles
with companies F, b, L, and G, of the 2
Cavalry and twenty-five mounted men of tn
9Th Infantry, attacked 81 Indian village o.
Little Muddy Creek, ninety miles from tn
mouth of the Tongue River, surprising an
routing them. They pursued the redskin
five miles over q rough country on foot
Fourteen dead Indians were counted upol
the field, and many others are known t
have been killed and wounded. Four hur
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 to wo K in the silver ore tunnel nea
Terribleman- Georgetown, near Denver
they found the mangled corpses of Jehl
Gregory, Harry Walters, and a companion
named Pope, all of whom had been mangle,
and killed by an explosion of powder
There were nc survivors to account for tn
cause.
Arizona advices report the murder Q
mail carriers and military telegraph repial
ers near Camp Bowie, and that troops are il
pursuit of the murderers. There is mucl
alarm among the citizens, who are signing
petition to Agent Clum asking if tn
hostiles can not be coaIed in keeping tn
peace.
Adestructive fire is reported at Montreal
Canada, by which about sixty houses wer
destroyed, and the same number of familie
rendered homeless. The fire broke out il
Conroy's stables, on State-house Street, il
Grifintown, burned up Eplin's ~lumber-yar
in the rear, and finally took possession of
large number of tenement houses in tn
vicinity. The loss is estimated at one hur
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
At Portland, Ont, recently, the house Q
Alexander Snyder was destroyed by fire
Two children persisted in the flames, and tn
wife is very seriously burned.
Extensive fires have been raging in tn
woods along the shores of Lakes Huron an
Superior, in Michigan. A telegram fror
Marquette received reports the village G
Onota has been destroyed by fire.
A telegram received from Oscoda, Mich
June 8, reports heavy fires raging in tn
woods south and west of Au Sable, an
along the north shore toward Greenbusl
Business is reported suspended at Au sabl,
and the entire population of the village
out fighting the fire.
Later reports from the upper Peninsul
confirms the news of the burning of the mil
ing village of Onota, Mich, thirty mill
from Marquette. The Bay Furnace was ell
tirely destroyed. Seven hundred person
are left homeless and 100000 worth of pro
erty consumed. The neighboring towns al
sending relief to the victims of the fire.
General Breufties
Ex-Governor Chamberlain has sold h
residence in Columbia, South Carolina, to
brother of Wade Hampton.
The aurora borealis made a splendid di
play over the northern parts of the Unite
States on May %. The atmosphere was s
strongly impregnated with electricity tn.
communication was kept up for some tim
between New York, Boston, and Montrea
over the Western Union Telegraph wire