Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10

G. Moore, a well-known Kentucky turiman.
The wound inflicted is dangerous bat not
necessarily fatal. The cause of the shooting
originated in dispute about horse that had
been entered in a race by Moore.
Major Thornburgh, with three companies
of United States cavalry, escortng a wagon
train OF Indian supplies from Rawlins,
Wyoming, 10 the White river agency in
Northwestern Colorado, WIS attacked by sew
eral hundred Ute Indians on Milk river,
eighteen miles north of the agency. The
command was passing through 4 bad canon at
noon, one mile south OF Milk river, ON its
march to the agency when attacked by the
hostiles, who were in ambuscade. The SOL
diers retreated in good order to the wagon
train, and began to entrench as last rs possi-
BILE. Major Thornburgh was killed instantly
during the retreat. Ten enlisted men and
Wagonmaster McKinstry were killed, and at
least twenty-five men and teamsters were
wounded. Captain Payne, next in command,
and two other officers were also wounded.
About three-fourths OF all the hostiles and
mules belonging to the column were killed.
A courier succeeded in breaking through the
hostile lines and made his way TO Rawlins,
and news of the disaster WAS at oEce tele-
graphed to Fort Omaha and to General Crook
in Chicago. Troops from various points were
at once ordered to the relief of the intrenched
soldiers, and General Merritt Mt Fort d. A
Russell, Cheyenne, was ordered to tho COM
mand OF the expedition. The uprising of the
Utes originated in their opposition to the
ploughing of a certain piece of land on their
reservation which they wanted for pasturage
for their ponies. Mr.. Meeker, the Ute Indian
agent, insisted upon ploughing the land in
question, rs it was near the agency and the
most available for an agency farm.
A fight between body OF soldiers from the
Sac and Fox agency in the Indian Territory
and party OF twelve desperadoes infesting
the region of the agency, resulting in the kill
ing of nine of the bandits and Jim Barker,
their leader.
The Nebraska Republicans, at their State
convention in Omaha, nominated General
Amasa Cobb tor Supreme Judge and adopted
a platform which demands protection for the
voters of the South, calls upon the soldiers
TO vote as they fought, congratulates the
country upon the resumption of specie pay
ments and welcomes General Grant
About two thousand persons had assembled
on a newly-erected grand stand at the county
fair ground in Adrian, Mich, to witness the
races, when the center OF the staud gave way,
the front part falling outward and the back
part falling into the river, precipitating the
mass of people into the ruins. Six persons
we're instantly killed and about fifty more
wounded, some fatally.
1t is feared that Prot. John Wise, the we'll
known aeronaut, has made his last balloon
ascension. Accompanied by the cashier of a
ST. Louis bank he assembled in a balloon from
that city, and five days afterward had not been
heard from.
Joseph Kemp was hanged in presence of
$500 persons at Evening Shade, Ark, tor the
murder of Marion Hulsey in 1869.
While Paul ALBERT, OF New Orleans, was
cleaning his gun he accidentally discharged it,
and the contents entered his mothers head,
killing her.
Ten more persons who were on the grand
stand at the fair in Adrian, Mich, when it lell
in, died on the following day, making the total
number of deaths sixteen. The blame OF the
fatal casualty is laid upon the architect of the
grand stand, as it was built unusually light, to
admit OF space for the exhibition of vehicles
underneath, and the timbers were simply
spiked together instead OF being morticed and
braced.