Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-22

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SOUTH AMERICA.
Rio Janeiro, Dec. 2i.-The Gov.
ernment proposes the extinction OF
all monastic orders and applica-
ton of their property to the re-
demption of the national debt.
The Italian envoy at Rio Janeirc
telegraphs that yellow fever has
reappeared and several deaths have
occurred.
UNITED STATES.
Fort Robinson, Neb., Jan TO-
This post was thrown into a fever
of excitement yesterday, owing to
wild Hog" n savage chief of the
Cheyenne Indians, having stabbed
a member of the guard, while the
guard was attempting to arrest him.
The daughter of Wild Hog, who
witnessed the above scene, began
chanting a war song, which was
taken up and participated in by
the whole band. Wild Hog and
others were put in irons when a
large number of savages baricaded
themselves in their prison room
and broke up boards and slaves for
war clubs. In the afternoon, Wild
Hog was released on condition of
his using his influence to quiet his
people and secure their acquies-
ence in removal TO the reservation.
But late in the evening the whole
band of hostile Cheyennes dashed
through their prison windows, and
firing on the guard with revolvers
which they had succeeded in con-
cealing, all ran for the open prairie.
The guard opened fire on the fee
ing savages, shooting them down
by dozens in the frozen snow, pre-
senting a scene that discounts the
Custer massacre, killing them with
out mercy. The fugitives were
pursued but, after brisk skirmish,
about fifty of the Indians are re-
ported to have escaped. Five SOL
diers were killed or died from
wounds, and eight were wounded !
Thirty-two Indians, of which twen-
ty-two were bucks and the re-
women and children have
been killed, and as many more have
been wounded.
The Indians who broke out of
Fort Robinson some 1IS in number,
the entire body of Che
venues who were captured last
summer, endeavoring to make their
way from the Indian Territory to
heir old reservation. Their case
s one of the points of controversy
between the War and Interior De-
,artments. Military men, acquaint-
ID with the situation, say that the
were totally unable to
i've on the lands the Government
ad assigned them. With starva-
ion in their face they left their re- !
ervation and set ont for their old
ONE, to the north, Indian like
ommitting depredations along l
leir route. The Cheyennes, it is t
nd, begged like dogs not TO be t
ken back where they could not i
ossible live. They said they would
uch rather die than return. That J
icy meant what they said is shown g
their desperate attempt to re- Il
lin their liberty. Il
Jacksonville, Fla, Jan. ia "
we're shock of earthquake was
It last night, about 11:45. Itlast-
about thirty seconds, and had
southeast to northwest motion. o.
lildings were violently shaken, U
Ockery ratified, and doors were
eDed. The shock was felt at st.
igustine and down the gulf coast
I'm Punta Rosa to st. Marks, as n
III as over the interior of the v
ate. Nothing of the kind was
er experienced here before. =
New York Jan. 10.-The steam 7
Rhiwenda arrived to-day from Z
rdilf and reports heavy gales the I
tire passage. On the 22nd of 10
'cember she had her port bull II
'rks and stanchions carried away, =
tches and saloon skylights stove, E
d everything movable on deck, {
the binacle, washed over :
ard. The ship was thrown on
r beam ends and her cargo shift an
. Considerable time elapsed be- an
e the steamer was righted and