The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-10-11

Fell, NJ +. Alternately, Mr.. Irwin Two other
members of the Laning family have been
killed and their mother brutally outraged by
several Indians John Marshall and man
named stedman are badly wounded, and Fred
Walters and Mr.. Wright are missing. The
house of II. d. Column was surrounded by
Indians, but he and his. wife, with a shotgun
and revolver, defended their house till they
drove the Indians away, killing or wounding
several of them Other easesu similar to this
have occurred Nearly all the settlers along
Sappa creek have taken refuge in Oberlin, and
are being cared for. They have literally been
stripped of everything they possessed. Seven
teen men are known to have been killed by the
Indians in the vicinity of sappa
A dispatch of the 9Th inst. from
Omaha says: @The Cheyennes have scattered,
but Thornburg is still pursuing on the largest
trail, and proposes to follow them to the end.
Hopes are entertained that the Cheyennes will
be intercepted by Col Carleton, who left Camp
Robinson with 240 men"
south.
A Little Rock (Ark.) dispatch reports
and O'Donnel have returned from successful
raid on the ilicit-whisky distilleries of Sharp,
Baxter and Lizard counties, in Arkansas. The
Marshals' posse consisted of twenty men. Ten
prisoners were captured"
Advices from the yellow-fever infect
cd points of the South, on Oct. 4, give the fol-
lowing reports: New Orleans, 81 deaths and Ill
new cases; Memphis 80 deaths and 1873 new
cases. Vicksburg, s deaths; Holly Springs, Q
deaths and 26 new cases; Hickman, KY, 2
deaths; Brownsville, Tenn, 2 deaths and 15new
cases; Chattanooga Tenn, deaths aud 10 new
cases; Greenville, Miss, reports Il $50 people
here when the fever broke out 2G0 deaths to
date (Oct. A., 600 convalescents, and 100 down."
Baton Rouge, La, 10 deaths and large num-
Der of new cases; Biloxi, Miss, 20 new cases,
no deaths Osyka, Miss, deaths and new
cases; Thibodeaux, La, 10 new cases, no
deaths; Jackson Miss, fever just broke out
and rapidly spreading great panic; Bay st.
Louis, Miss, 8 deaths and Is new cases; Tan
gipahoa, La, 2 deaths and new cases. At
nearly all these points the weather was re-
ported warm, with no near prospect of frost,
the only enemy that Yellow Jack fears.
Rodney Green (coloreO was hanged
at Magnolia, Miss, on the 4th inst, for the
murder of his brother-in-law.
Another battle is reported to have oc-
Cured in Overton county, Tenn, between rev.
enue men and party of fifty armed moon
sinners, in which four of the latter were killed
and several wounded.
A telegram from Mason, in North
western Texas, to the Galveston Ne'cS, says:
q" Information is received of Indian raids near
Junction City. Three girls and boy named
Dowdy were killed on Johnson fork Guada-
loup river. Reports from the surrounding
country show that the Indians are stealing stock
and numbering settlers. general raid is
feared"
Dispatches from Memphis of Oct. 8
report the fever subsiding in that city, but the
most gloomy accounts were sent up from the
rural districts, where the plague seemed to
have received a fresh impetus In Mem
phis, for the preceding twenty-four hours,
there were 20 deaths and % new cases In
New Orleans there were Al deaths and 1l5
new cases, and the disease spreading. AT
Greenville, Miss, the fever was on the decline
for want of material; total deaths, up to that
date, 26S; out of $40 whites who had the dis
ease, 1876 died; of the negroes, 81 died out of
507 attacked. Holly Springs reported deaths
and s new cases. Vicksburg reported deaths
in the city; the fever was spreading at an alarm
ing rate in the surrounding country. Chatta-
nooga, deaths, Is new cases.