The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items fro,n the Capital

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Items from the Capital
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
he second class medals, recognizing the
%,allant conduct in saving human life on the
of the ~stranding of the bark Tan
Ter, near Milwaukee in September last, to be
to Henry n. Lee, N. A. Peterson
Brant OLSON, Arthur Olson, Henry Sparks,
ind John McKenna.
The Vest
The Wallawala stage from Lewiston to
Portland, Oregon, June IS, brings the news
that the soldiers from Sapwai and the
Indians had a fight about thirteen miles
from Cottonwood Creek. Young Joseph and
a squaw were killed during the fight, the
Indians killing six soldiers.
Troops are being hurried to the scene of
the Idaho Indian war as rapidly as possible.
The Governor of Idaho telegraphed to the
War Department June 20, stating that only
twenty regulars were available, and asking
for authority to organize and provision vol
unteers stthe governments expense. Atleast
thirty settlers have been killed, and there is
anxiety as to the fate of Captain Perry, who
was at last accounts engaged in a close fight
with asuperior force of Indians. If all the
disaffected Indians should unite with the
Mes Perces, the army will have ample EN-.
ploymentduring the summer months.
A Victoria dispatch of June 20 says: News
from the Rocky Mountain camp Of the Can
adian Pacific Railway states that the men in
charge there have been murdered by the
Blackfeet Indians. One man escaped, and
brought the intelligence to Frazier River.
There was a large amount of railway sup
plies at the camp.
The Secretary of Wa has received the
following telegram from a committee of
citizens of Deadwood City:
DEADwooD CRY, Jure 20.
The Indians are raiding the valleys of Bear
Bultes, False Bottom, and White Wood, killing
ranchmen and driving others here for safety. We
must have military protection Immediately or the
agricultural interests of the Black Hills will be
abandoned.
The Secretary of War, in reply, tele-
graphed that the application for troops must
be made to Gen. Crook. Gen. Sherman was
to leave on the 18th of June for the Black
Hills and the Yellow Stone region.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has received
the following telegram from the Governor of
that State:
SALEM, EXECUTIVE OFFICE, June q.
Hon. J. q. Michel:
Ask the Secretary of War to instruct the COM
mander of the Military Department Of Columbia
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the Indian hostilities with arms and ammunition
from the Van COuver Arsenal on the requisition of
the Governor. The citizens Of Wsllawala are in
danger Of attack, and have applied to me for ammu-
milton. The State has none. S. F. CHADWICK.
The Secretary of War, in view of the
above request, has instructed General
Howard to answer the requisition of the
Governor to the full extent of the law, which
allows FIVE hundred stands of arms to citizens.
Aspecial to the Oregonian, received from
Lewiston, June 81, eight q. m, says: Sixty
five volunteers were to proceed from their
defenses at Mount Idaho to ~reconnoiter the
position of the Indians, who are supposed to
be somewhere in the direction of the Salmon
River. A steamer arrived here this morning,
having on board one hundred and seven
troops. No extra arms cam on the steamer.
About fifty volunteers have arrived here
from Columbia County, W. T. Few ofthem
have suitable arms, but are awaiting them
from below.
General Brepitfes
James Brennan, a few nights since, at.
tempted to assassinate Father John Fitz.
harris, a Catholic p~riestof New York City.
While leaving his residence to minister to a
dying man, Brennan attacked him with q
knife, cutting him severely. Brennan was
arrested and locked up. The cause of the
affair is understood to be a disagreement
upon money transactions.
With favorable weather for harvesting
the wheat crop throughout Central Ohio
and Indiana will be the largest since the
memorable year of 1864. Reports from all
parts of the Northwest in regard to the corr
crop are also very favorable.
Selim Rinker, a well known politician
formerly editor of Flakes Bulletin, and, al
he time of his death, Treasurer of Galveston
County, Texas, committed suicide lately al
Galveston, by shooting himself through
the head.
Nicholas Osehner was killed at his saloon
in Ludlow, KY, June 10, in q melee caused
by the town marshals attempting to collecI
a fine. A fracas occurred, a crowd col
lected, and some unknown person shot a
and killed the saloon-keeper in the melee
The National Bank of the State of Mis-
souri,, at St Louis, has suspended payment
At Cincinnati, ]. F. Bruesker, carpenter
who lived at 212 Clark Street, was found il
a cooper's yard, two doors from his resi-
dence hanging to a post. He was dead wher
discovered. Bruesker was described at tn,
inquest, as an habitual drunkard, and fire
quently qusrreled with his wife because sh,
would not give him money with which II
buy whisky. he was seventy-three years o
age, and was married three times.
A few days since, a stranger named Johl
G.. Heinge attempted to board a movini
train, at the Relay House, East St. Louis. d
fell under the wheels, was cut in two, an,
instantly killed. Papers on his bod
showed that he had served in the Eleventh
Illinois Infantry during the war, but ther
was nothing to indicate where he lived.
Louis A. Conley, foreman in the yard O
the C%arondelet Branch of the Missouri Ps
ciic Railroad, in the extreme southern pal
of st. Louis, while coupling cars at nigh
caught his foot il a frog, was thrown dowr
and four cars passed over him, almost il
stautly killing him.
There was great excitement among tn
silk factory hands at Paterson, N. J., on tn
Goth, on account of q strike. Between fv
hundred and six hundred were out of en-
ployment. Hamil mills had shut down, an
several mills were without hands. At
meeting of the strikers in Military Hal
Gustave Hensicks favored a return to worl
woman attacked him and tore his ooat, ON
one woman threw salt and pepper in h
eyes. He drew an empty revolver, but W,
chased out of the hail and pursued half
mile, a hundred persons joining in the chas
He was captured, taken before a Justice, an
discharged. Hemade complaint against tt
woman who assaulted him with salt an
pepper, and she was arrested and held
bail in $500.
Eleven members of the Society of Mol
Maguires were hanged on June 21--four
Mauch Chunk, six at PottsviIIe, and one
Wilksbarre, Penn. The men all met the