Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04
Western and Southern States.


An Indian outbreak in Western Kansas
caused intense excitement in Dodge City and
the surrounding country. Rowing bands of
hostiles attacked and murdered farmers,
burned their houses and drove off the stock.
band of 300 Indians attacked cattle camp
twenty miles from Dodge CITY, killed one man
and dispersed the rest. So bold were the saw
ages that they attacked and destroyed farm
house within two miles of Dodge City and in
plain sight Of the inhabitants of that place. A
party Of citizens, together with a company of
United States troops, numbering seventy-seven
men in all, engaged with q large body of In
dams and were routed, losing one man. The
Indians fought with unusual bravery. Couriers
were dispatched to all points to warn the peo-
pie, and the running Of trains at night was
stopped.
Five men entered the Bank of Baltimore, in
Baltimore, Md, and while some of them en-
gaged the cashier.in conversation, one of their
number entered the safe in the presidents
room and removed two tin boxes containing
bonds and bank notes Of the value of $62, 090
Sherman City, small village in Isabella
county, Mich, has been utterly destroyed by q
terrific tornado. Every building in the village,
except one frame dwelling, was swept away
and that was partly demolished. The air was
thick with timbers, boards, bricks and stones,
and the inhabitants took refuge in cellars
Mr.. TTyo, his wife, little girl and a baby were
badly injured. Considerable damage was also
done at Coleman, Mich, were @. Dean had his
skull fractured by falling tree.
A few days ago about thirty of the garrison
at Mier, town on the Mexican side of the
Rio Grande, attempted to desert into Texas
Several we're drowned, one was shot in the
pursuit and two were recaptured and shot by
order of the general in charge.
noDio1 Nons;do N oo1orol ,~oo,. ooxa.a1
Jail at Athens, Ala, on the charge of having
murdered white man, was taken from prison
by crowd OF about 100 men and hung to q
tree on the spot where the murder was COM
mitted
The recovery of the body of Edwin French
from the vault of the Homeopathic college in
Cleveland, Ohio, where it had been taken from
the grave by resurrectionist5 for dissecting
purposes, has been followed by the discovery
of the bodies of two old ladies in the same in
stitution. The remains had been put in pick
ling water, preparatory for dissection. One Of
the bodies was Mrs. Angelina Highly, late of
Garrettsville, small town about thirty miles
from Cleveland, while the other proved to be
Mrs. Pease, Of Ravenna, Ohio. The bodies
were inferred, and warrants were sworn out
against the college faculty and the body
snatchers.
The Odd Fellows bank, of Sacramento, CAL.
has decided to wind up its business, and has
made an assignment of its assets, which, IL
is believed, are sufficient to pay the depositors
The boiler of an engine attached to train
exploden near Vaughans Station, Miss, killing
the fireman, severely iDjuring the engineer,
and wrecking five cars.
The Nevada Democrats have nominated
L. r. Bradley for governor, upon a platform
favoring hard money and advocating the re-
moval of all restrictions on silver.
While witnesses were being examined at
Marquette, Mich, in the income case of the
United States against Hon. Samuel ]. Tilden,
books of the New York Iron Mine company,
which had just been used by Mr.. Tiden's coun-
sci, and made their escape with them.
From Washington.
According to statement prepared at the
treasury department. the cost of collecting the
United States revenue in the fiscal year 1877
was $6, 1856 614.10, and in 1878 the cost was
$5, 525, 1872. The total number of persons
employed in collecting the revenue is 1866.
Several companies Of United States troops
were ordered to Washington in anticipation Of
trouble with the dissatisfied laborers-
According to report received at the depart
ment of State from our consul at Hamilton,
Ont, the following are the daily rates of wages
paid at the present time in that vicinity. The
consul says nothing concerning the state of
the labor market. Molders, glass blowers,
bricklayers and stove polishers, $225 sewing
machine makers, stone-cutters and wood
turner's, 90 clerks, 81 to 90 farm laborers,
Lao to % plasterers, $1.75 printers, $1.67
carpenters, coopers, trunk-makers, cabinet
makers, shoemakers, hsrness-makers, tin