The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-17

and men belonging to his command mas
sacred.
Vienna and Constantinople telegram.
of the 4,h announce that the Turkish Gov
eminent had finally detinitively rejected tn,
Austro-Turkish Convention. 1t was alst
stated that the Porte had refused to adop
the English project for reform in Asia Minol
without important notifications.
A Yankton Cd. T.) dispatch of the
4th says the Red Cloud Indians, numbering
over 5000, then in camp on Pass Creek, wcr,
very much disaffected, and had abandoned
their agency on the Missouri River. They hat
become tired of waiting for the promised per
mission of the Commissioner to move to Whit,
Clay. They had been joined by many Of Spot
ted Tails renegades and It was thought tn,
runaway Cheyennes from the South intended
to join them. DIR. James Irwin, the Agent fol
the Red Cloud Indians, was on his way K
Washington, having received the promise o.
the Indians that, If he would lay their CASE
before the President, they would await events
without making any further move, until they
should learn the result of his mission.
According TO Bombay Ondia) tel
egrams of the 9th, tribes containing Isl,
fighting men had joined the Ameer of AT
ghanistan in hostile movements against thu
British. Tribes numbering $1,000 warrior.
were neutral.
A st. Petersburg dispatch of the 9Th
says Russia had threatened to occupy Turks
tan if Great Britain occupied Afghanistan.
During the celebration of the mass
at st. Naver's Church in New York, on tn.
9th, man named John Carpenter ran up thu
aisle brandishing huge butcher knife and
plunged it into the back Of \ woman named
Mary Lyon. He was subsequently arrested
and said that he had mistaken the woman fol
his wife. The injured woman will recover.
1t was reported from London, on the
eth, that the Government had decided tC
leave the conduct OF the Afghanistan cam.
paiSn very much in the hands of the Indian
Government.
A Vienna dispatch of the 7th says
war between Austria and Turkey was one OF
the near probabilities.
During the few days preceding the
9th, band of Cheyenne Indians left their
Kansas and Nebraska, leaving, in their track,
widespread desolation. Men, women and
children were murdered, stock killed and
houses burned The State authorities quickly
gathered force of fronticrsmen and started
them in pursuit, but up the 9TH they had not
been overtaken, and it was believed they had
scattered in the direction of the Sioux agen-
cies.
Deputy United States Revenue Col.
lector Phillips returned to Nashville, Tenn,
on the eth, from raid in Overton, jackson,
Fentress and Putnam Counties. Several il
lcit distilleries had been destroyed. A fight
was had with about fifty armed men near
Livingston, on the Sd. Firing continued un.
til the ammunition of the revenue force was
exhausted, compelling them to retreat. Four
distillers were reported killed and several
wounded.
The town elections in Connecticut
occurred on the 9TH. The returns received at
Hartford up to the morning of the Sth were
meager, but indicated Republican gains. No
Republican town heard from had changed its
vote, which fact was probably due to the d.
vision of the Democrats by the Greenback
diversion. The Greenback vote in Hartford
was between 500 and 900, but the Democrats
had elected a majority Of the town officers.
THE YELLOW-FEvER sCOURGE.
The President of the Howard Asso-
citation at Memphis issued a warning, on the
4th. to refugees, cautioning them against
their returning to that city until it should be
safer for them to do so. The fate of those
who had already returned and been almost
taken down with the fever was
held up al; "a warning to other absentees.
There were twenty-five deaths in the city dur
ing the twenty-four hours ending at & p. IN.
The deaths in New Orleans during the same
time numbered tifty-four; new cases, 2O3.
New cases were reported from several points
in Louisiana. A Cairo Ull.) special to the
Chicago Lttey-Ocean says two deaths occurred,
on the 4th, of suspicious fever and two csaes
OF yellow fever, and several suspicious cases
were on hand.
1t was reported from Cairo, H., on
the 9th, that many families were leaving the
city by trains and wagons. Four deaths from
black vomit occurred ON that day, and most OF
the suspicious cases had developed into yellow
fever. No new cases were reported, on the
9th, and the total number then sick did not
exceed ten.
The deaths in New Orleans during
the twenty-four hours ending at noon, on the
9th, were fifty-nine; new cases, 1872. Total
cases SO far, l0,4S5; deaths, 3,17l. The indi-
cations were that there was a general increase
of the fever, on the 9th. A telegram was re-
ceived by Collector Smith from the Secretary
of War stating chat 10000 rations had been
sent forward for the relief of the suffering
and needy. This was all that the Secretary
could do, and the charitable must be appealed
to for further needed help.
A Port Gibson (Miss.) telegram OF
the 9th says the fever was increasing alarm.
ingly in the country, and a Brownsville
(Tenn.) dispatch of the same date says the
situation there was bad. Similar report were
received from many other localities in Missis.
sippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, etc.
A Memphis special of the 9Th says
the fever had appeared at every point on the
line of the Memphis Il Charleston Road, even
as far as Chattanooga, Tenn, and the effect
had been to create a stampede at each of the
small towns where even one case of the dis
ease developed itself. There were twenty
three deaths in Memphis and twelve in the
suburbs during the twenty-four hours ending
at six p. m, on the 9th. Nurses were being
sent to the smaller towns where needed.
The deaths at Holly Springs, Miss,
from yellow fever, up to the 9th, numbered
235. All the citizens in the place but one
1.-THE Chairman of the Relief Committee) had
had the disease. There was great destitutioI
and much suffering among the people.
The Yellow-Fever Commission ap.
pointed by Surgeon-Gen. Woodwork, con
sisting Of DR.. 8. NJ. Bemis, of New Orleans
Chairman; DR.. Jerome Cochrane, of Mobile
and Prof. E. Howard, of Baltimore. met II
New Orleans, on the 9TH, for the purpose o.
inquiring into the origin, spread, effects, treat