Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-03-08
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.


ser, in Western Idaho, recently organized q
formidable party and started out in pursuit
of band of Indians who had been commit
ting murders and depredations through that
section Of the Territory for some time pre-
vious. They surprised the Indians in camp,
attacked them while of their guard, and
nearly snnihilated the whole party, only two
or three having escaped SO far as known.
The killed numbered So. The loss Of the
ettlers is not stated.
The National Agricultural Congress as
sembled at Nashville, Tenn, on the 25th.
There was slim attendance.
New Orleans, Mobile, Galveston and Little
Rock celebrated Mardi Grss with the usual
ceremonies. Memphis had no formal cele.
bration.
Erwin Sullivan, mail carrier between May
field and Wadesboro, Galloway County, KY,
has been arrested for robbing the mails.
Chief Moses has been informed that he
can not have the reservation that he asked
for last fall.
A horrible double murder was recently
committed in Tishemingo County, Miss, the
victims being Messrs. A. NJ. Hutchens and
Thomas McNatt. They were neiEhboring
planters, and were returning to their homes
from Iuka, where Hutchens had been to get
the money for his last years crop of cotton,
s., 700 in gold, which he was intending to
pay on q plantation he had recently pur-
chased. The dead bodies of the two men,
horribly mutilated, were found about two
miles from their homes. No clew to the MUIR
derers.
Five members Of the family Of Rupert
Redemius, German farmer, living at Grid
ley, Mclean County, Ill.,, have died recently
from fhe effects Of eating pork affected with
At New Orleans, on the 18th, Zell Howell,
General Southern Passenger Agent of the
Piedmont Airline Railway, was shot and
instantly killed by A. T. Wimberly, mer.
chant of Cofeeville, Miss, in an affray at the
corner of st. Charles and Common Streets
Ed. Howell, brother of the deceased, ther
shot Wimberly in the back, infiicting q
mortal wound. A bystander was also
wounded. Ed. Howell was arrested.
Track-laying has begun on the south ern
extension of the Atchison, Topeka and San.
ta Fe Railroad. The company expects to
have the road completed to Las Vegas, New
Mexico, early In April.
Charles w. Angel, the defaulting Secre
tary of the Pullman Palace Car Company
was tried at Chicago and sentenced, on tn,
9th, to 10 years. imprisonment in the Peni
tentiary. He received his sentence appar
emily without the slightest emotion.
At Carbon Hill, Athens County, o., ol
the night Of the 9th, M. z. Lunsford an,
six Of his children were smothered or burne,
to death. Mrs. Lunsford and her infan
child were rescued. The family occupie,
rooms over q store, and none of the inmate
seem to have become aware of the fire unit
their escape was cut of.
The residence Of j. B. Coulson, at Cedar
vile, Iowa, was burned OF the night Of tn
26tb, and three of his children perished 4
the flames.
Both houses Of the Minnesota Legislator
have passed bill reducing the legal rate @
interest from II to 10 per cent.
The boiler in q steam flouring-mill q
Somerset, Ohio, exploded on the 9th, in
stsntly killing the engineer, Benoi Beck
with. The whole end of the mill was blow
out.
Trains on the South Pacific Railroad ar
now running TO a point 800 miles south an
east Of San Francisco.