Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-10-26
CURRENT NEWS.
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
Yellow fever reports Of the 17th give tn,
number of deaths at New Orleans at "a
Memphis, z in city and outside corpora.
ton; Holly Springs, 3; Grand Junction, 9
Pass Christian, 2; Yazoo City, 3; Bator
Rouge, 8; Morgan City, 5; Bay st
Louis, 4; Thibodeaux, 3; Canton ant
vicinity, 10 deaths in three days
Chattanooga, .; Mobile, total of % death.
to date. The disease had extended to Bo.
iivia, Mason, Mckenzie, Paris, Martin
Union City, Milan and Erin, Tenn. Bowlins
Green and Hickman, Ky.; fernando, Me.
ridian, Bovina and Bolivar, Miss; Florence,
Decatur and Athens, Ala; Hopefield, Ark.
and many other smaller towns.
The death-rate from yellow fever had de-
creased on the 10th to 90 at New Orleans, 4
at Memphis, and at Vicksburg. Several
cases were reported at Jackson, Tenn.
There was heavy frost throughout nearly
the entire fever district on the night of the
18th.
Yellow fever deaths reported on the 21st
A at New Orleans, at Memphis, 1 at vicks-
burg.
DR.. Henry C. Davis, resident physician at
the st. Louis Quarantine Station, died OF
yellow fever ON the 10Th, contracted while
on hospital duty.
Lieut.. III. III. Benner, commander of the
relief-boat Chambers, died Of yellow fever
on the 18th. He was buried in the National
Cemetery at Vicksburg with great honor,
the whole city turning out to follow the re-
mains to the grave.
Jefferson Davis, Jr., son Of the ex-Confed-
crate President, died of yellow fever at
Memphis on the 10Th.
The Emperor William Of Germany has
sent 5000 reichmarks (about SIOO) as con-
tribution for the yellow fever sufferers.
Col. Thornburgh, Maj. Carlton, and other
officers, had council with Red Cloud and
other Sioux chiefs at Camp Sheridan on the
18th. The best of feeling prevailed, and the
Sioux promised in case the Cheyennes came
among them to assist in returning them to
their agency, The new Red Cloud Agency
at White Clay is being prepared and sup
plies. moved thereto, which arrangement
seems to fully satisfy all the Sioux.
Judge Tree has declined the Democratic
nomination for Congress in the Third Illi-
nois District, and DIR. N. S. Davis has been
substituted in his stead.
The Republican plurality in Ohio for Sec
rotary of State is 3,154. The Congressional
delegation stands IL Democrats to Repub-
licans. The total Greenback vote was be-
tween $4,000 and 5000.
The Democratic State ticket in Indiana
has plurality of about 10000. Congress
sional delegation, Republicans, 8 Demo-
Gratis, and Greenbacker. Legislature Dem
ocratic by 8 majority on joint ballot.
Republican majority in Iowa from 5000 to
10000. Seven Republican Congressman
and two Greenback- Democrats.
The Iowa Democrats have reconsidered
their resolution to hold elections for Con-
gressmen in November. The legality of the
October election will be referred to Con-
gress.
At st. Louis, on the morning of the 10th,
Mrs. Margaret Schallert used the kerosene
can to pour oil upon slow fire, and in two
hours afterwards she was q charred and
blackened corpse.
The First National Bank OF Warre nsburg,
Mo-, closed its doors on the 18th. The an
nouncement is made by the President that
depositors will be paid in full.
1t was reported On the 18th that the miss
ing Cheyennes were making direct for the
Yellowstone, their trail having been discov-
cred crossing the Keyapaha River, 160 miles
west from Fort Randall.
A special correspondent Of the Atchison
Champion, writing from Oberlin, Decatur
County, Kansas, near the scene OF the recent
Indian outrage, gives a list of names of 10
men killed on Sappa Creek, and three
wounded and two missing. The number
killed on Beaver Greek he puts at 16. He
estimates that at least % females were out
ragged by the Cheyenne fiends. Many of the
victims were little girls from 10 to IL years
old, nearly all OF whom were entirely strip
ped and horribly lacerated and beaten. The
details of this terrible raid fully confirms all
the reports first received.
The Tennessee Greenbackers have made
a third nomination for Governor, Col. R.
NJ. Edmunds. He declares that he will
stick.
Rev. j. B. Hemsteger, Vicar General of
the Catholic Diocese of Columbus, is dead.
Green C. Chandler has been appointed
United States Attorney for the Northern Dis
trict of Mississippi.
The Democratic Committee chosen by
Representative Acklin of Louisiana to in
vestigate the scandalous charges made
against him, recommended that he with
draw from the canvass, without passing up
on the truth or falsity of the charges.
Various reports have been published re-
garding the recent unfortunate race trou-
bles near Waterproof, in Tensas Parish,
Louisiana. The loss of life, fortunately,
was not so great as at first rumored, the only
person killed being Capt. Peck. Three ne.
groes were wounded. There are rumors of
more fighting, but these are again contra.
dicted.
The Stagle Brothers, owners of a % 900
acre farm in Fayette County, o., have failed
with liabilities of over 500, 900, and assets
estimated at not over 10 per cent. of that
amount.
A well conceived plan to rob the Kansas
Pacific express car near Rock Spring Sta
tion, in Saline county, Kansas, on the morn
ing of the 18th, was thwarted by an expo
sure made by one Of the gang. A party was
organized to capture the robbers, a fight
ensued, in which Mike Rourke, leader of the
gang, was taken, and Dan Dcmit was
wounded, but escaped in the brush. The
rest of the party fled southwark, closely
pursued by the officers.
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
Justin L.. Morrill, OF vermont, has been
reelected United States Senator.
A panic occurred in the Court Street Col
ored Church in Lynchburg, Va, on the even
ing of the 18th, during wedding ceremony,
caused by the falling of some plastering.
1t was thought that the building was caving
in, and the crowd made for the windows,
which were about 30 or 40 feet from the
ground. The colored minister shouted fol
them not to Jump out, but out they leaped
like sheep, falling upon top of each other as
they landed. Up to midnight 10 had died
from injuries received ard others could moi
survive. The bridal coupic were amongst
those who jumped, and bosh were fatally
injured.