Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-10

moose of the lines and tied him by the neck
to the buggy, starting the horses on. When
found he was quite dead. Two men named
Bowen and Webster have been arrested.
THE WEST.
SEVENTEEN settlers are known to have
been killed by the Indians in the vicinity
OF Sappa, Kansas. Reports received at mill.
tary headquarters, say that both Spotted
Tail and Red Cloud Sioux haveleft their
! reservations in Dakota and are making
west, directly toward the Black Hills The
supposition is that they are aboutto join the
fugitive Cheyennes in descent upon the
! Hills. Much solicitude is felt for the safety
OF cities there, which are protected by only
: four companies Of soldiers ut Newport The
seventh cavalry are under orders to march.
In foar,oared shell race at St. Louis, on
the 9Th inst, between the Modocs, of st.
Louis, the Westerns and Mississippl crews,
the first named won.
! THE suit OF the Bank OF Commerce, of
New York, against the Bank of the State of
Missouri, to recover 100000 which has
been before the United States Circuit Court
ut ST. Louis, was decided on the 4th inst, by
Judge Dillon, instructing the jury to find
for the plaintiff in the sum of $445582.
The original loan Of the Bank Of Commerce
was one million dollars, 100000 of which
was returned, leaving 4 balance of 800, 900
due when the State Bank suspended This
sum, it is said, will nearly cover the assets
of the State Bank, and leave depositors out
in the cold.
| EXTENSIVE prairie fires III Dakota have
burned thousands of tons Of hay along the
Red river valley and left the country desc.
late.
A COURIER arriving at Ogalalla, Neb, on
the Sd, reported that the Indians were COM
hitting horrible depredations along the Re-
publican river. They had killed every
white man on their route and carried Oft all
the stock.
BAND of runaway Indians crossed the
} Kansas Pacific track on the 1st instant, so
miles east of Hayes City, and when eight
} or ten miles north Of the station, came upon
lot of cattle-men when hand to-hand
fight ensued, resulting in the loss of eight
cen citizens killed aud five wounded. A
dispatch from Leavenworth dated the I'd
instant, says the troops had fight with the
: Indians, but does not name the place. Lieut..
| Broderick, OF the Twenty.third infantry,
; was wounded, and Corporal Steward and
/ five soldiers were killed The bodies OF
| thirteen settlers who were killed by the saw
i. ages, were brought to Buffalo station.
A PORTLAND, Oregon, dispatch says
Forest fires in Tillamook section have done
a great amount of damage. The fire has
swept over large section of country, de.
stroying houses, crops, fences and bridges.
Recent heavy rains have extinguished the
fires.
| TWO OF the Mexlcans who were RECOGNIZED
as the murders of ex-Sheritf Williams and
ex.Clerk Finley, of Santa Clara county, near
Tucson, Arizona, were captured in Sonora
and shot by order of Governor Marescal.
THE EAST
> JACOB P. CHAMBERL1N, who was a repre-
: sentative in the thirty-seventh congress,
died at Seneca Falls, n. y, on the 9TH inst.
JEWISH circles in New York are highly ex.
| cited over the marriage OF the daughter of
rabbi emeretus, of Temple Emanuel, which
occurred on the 81 inst, within the period
| self performed the ceremony. Rabbi Got.
; theil and the officers of the temple refused
| to give countenance to the action by attend.
ing.
> A sTow-AwAI was found in the hold OF
the steamer City Of Chester on her arrival
at New York on the 4th inst. His name
was James Donnelly, Scotchman, and
! during the voyage of eleven days had had
nothing to eat or drink, being reduced to
; dire strait OF drinking his own urine.
THE trustees of the Peabody educational
, fund completed their labors at New York
on the Sd inst. At the request of General
Taylor there were spread on the minutes
the acknowledgment OF gratitude from the
people Of the south for the succor extended
, by the people OF the north in this hour of
atiiction.
| THE schooner yatch Okoresta, OF Cleve.
land, - feet long, arrived in the Hudson
r river on the Sd inst, after voyage of twelve
l months. She reached the ocean via the
2 Ohio and Mississippi rivers, through the
gulf of Mexico and will 20 home by the
Erie canal.
The Vermontlegislature assembled on the
, I'd inst. James NJ. Martin was elected speak.
or and Henry N. Newell, clerk.
The grand jury at New York has made a
presentment declaring the elevated railway
line nuisance, and an invasion of private
: rights.
: LAW officers of the government have
taken steps to eject parties from possession
of about one thousand acres of land in the
Pennsylvania oil region. This land wa.
taken in part payment of debt due the
United States by the Venango county bank
Of about $4,000.
AT meeting of operators of the Lehigh
Pa, coal region on the 30th for the purpose
> OF establishing prices for October, it wa.
agreed to advance 10 cents on the line anG
Is cents on city trade.
The Dime savings bank, of Hartford
Conn.,, was enjoined from further prosecu
= tiou of business on the 3Oth ult.
I. GENERAL.
THEODORE THOMAS and family arrived
at Cincinnati, O., on the 9Th inst, and will
make that city their permanent home.
. THE United States steamship Plymouth
sailed from Portland on the 4th inst TO,
Santa Cruz, having been ordered to protect
American citizens there
The great boat race, between the Cana
, dian: Hanlan, and Courtney, the American
oarsman, took place at Lachine, Canada, on
the Sd inst. Hanlan won, coming in q
length aud quarter ahead. Time of race,
IS min., % sec. There is strong belief
prevalent that Courtney bartered the race,
and much indignation is felt by his friends.
Fully 10000 people witnessed the exhibition.
NEARLY complete returns from twenty.
one counties in Colorado give the Repnbli
can state and congressional ticket 2,1OO
majority over the democrats. The remain.
: ing counties will probably increase the
> majority to 1850. Judge Belforl, (Republi.
can) for congress, has carried every county
except two of those thus far eported
CYR1LLE DION the celebrated billiard
player, died of congestion: Of the lungs, on
the I'd inat on routo FIR no ronr<roxv u,,,