The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-19

Gen. Miles, with force OF about sew
enty-fve soldiers and friendly Grow Indians,
encountered band of Bannocks, few days |
ago. in the National park, and gave the say
ages severe whipping. Thirteen we're killed
and thirty-four captured. It is probable that
this fight furnished the ground for the report
that Gen. Miles and party of excursionists
had been surrounded and were in danger of
massacresby Indians in the Yellowstone park.
The September returns to the Ma
tional Department of Agriculture give the aver
age condition of the corn crop at 90, against SO
in August, and of the wheat crop at 81, against
90 in September of last year. 1t is believed by
the Department that the total wheat yield will
reach the popular estimate of 400, 100000 bush
els.
Official tables of the census of the Dis
trict of Columbia are just published. The
of Westinghouse 131, 949. of George
town, 1851, and of the county, 1858; total
in the District 16O,051. The proportions of
white and colored are as follows: Whites,
90. 427; colored, 1884, showing the extraordi-
nary proportion of one colored man to every
two whites.
Advices from the West report that
hostiities may probably be the result of the
tour of the Cheyennes to the North. They
left their reservation in the Indian Territory
several days ago, and are daily expected to
reach and attempt to cross the Union Pacific
railroad. To prevent the latter intention
from being carried out, a considerable military
force has been concentrated at Sidney. Neb.,
which will move at moments notice by rail
to any point where there is reason to expect
that the savages will attempt to pass the road.
The regular weekly robbery of {" the
coach from Deadwood" occurred the other
night near Hat creek, Wyoming. The usual
monotony was varied, however, by fight be-
tween the messengers and bandits. "While
the robbers were engaged in going through the
pockets of the two passengers and the mail
sacks the two messengers, who were riding
about 200 yards in the rear of the
coach, came up dismounted, and crept up
within fifteen yards of the robbers,
when they were commanded to halt, and fred
upon. The fire was returned, and one Of the
robbers fell dead. The others retreated to q
gulch, keeping up steady fire on the messen-
gers who returned t,sbut dared not leave their
position. The coach meantime had driven on,
and, after waiting some time, and seeing that
they were not strong enough to dislodge the
robbers, the messengers mounted their horses
and rejoined the coach, leaving the mail sacks
lying in the road near the body of the dead
robber. The messengers are confident that
two of the robbers who got away are badly
wounded -
south.
The deaths from yellow fever in New
Orleans, on the 18th of September, numbered
80; new cases, 253. Business was almost en-
tirely suspended, and it was estimated that
there were over $4,000 unemployed people in
the city. At Memphis there was no
abatement of the plague. A dispatch
from that city says: ''We have at this date
800 sick to provide for and 1000 we'll people
to feed. The average increase of cases is 100,
and the average deaths 100 per day. There
are no signs of abatement of the fever, though
the wealth has turned cold, and we have
hopes tn back of the epidemic has been
broken At Vicksburg there were 81 deaths,
slight decrease There was also slight de-
crease in the number of new cases. In the
other towns of the South where the pestilence
had found a lodgment there was no abatement.
/ The number of deaths from yellow
fever in New Orleans on the 18th was 50 new
cases, 228. At Memphis there were 2O3 new
cases and SO deaths. The disease had assumed
mild form, and yielded more readily to treat
ment Vicksburg reported 81 deaths the
weather was growing cool, and there was hope
of an early abatement of the plague. At
Holly Springs, Hickman, Brownsville, and
other towns in the interior, there was little or
no abatement of the epidemic. rs -.
A man named Vallour st. Martin,
confined in the jail of st. Charles parish, La,
for the murder of colored man, was taken
out at night by mob of negroes and sum-
marily put to death. He received the con-
tents of at least fifty guns, and was literally
riddled with bullets beyond all recognition. l
There were 70 deaths from yellow fever
in New Orleans on the 10th inst; new cases,
1903; total deaths in the city for the preceding
seven days, 703, of which 632 were males, II
females, a61 children under 10 years of age;
of the deaths, SOL were from yellow fe-
yer; 472 were white and 20 colored. At
Memphis there was no decrease of the cpl
demic, the deaths numbering Ill, and the new
cases 1856; the disease was rapidly spreading
in the suburbs and surrounding country. In
Vicksburg there were eighty-6ve new cases and
twenty three deaths. The interior towns re-
ported no abatement of the pestilence.