The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-30
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

Merritt has returned to White RIVER agency,
where he will remain for the present, and
meanwhile an additional military force is to
be concentrated at Alamosa or Garland, to
operate in the Southern part Of the State if
necessary. The Chiefs Of the Southern Utes
have been in consultation at Los Pinos, and
it is said that they have agreed to do all in
their power to bring about the surrender Of
the hostiles engaged in the recent fights. 1t is
reasserted that the women and children
from White River Agency are alive and I'M
harmed, but they will not be surrendered
until peace negotiations are concluded.
General Sheridan, in a letter to General
Sherman, deplores the unfortunate predica-
ment in which the soldiers in Colorado have
been placed. He says: eve went to the
White River Agency at the solicitation of the
Indian Bureau, whose Agent was murdered,
and our men killed and wounded; and now
we are left in the heart Of the mountains,
with cur hands tied, and the danger Of being
showed in staring us in the face. / am not
easily discouraged, but it looks as though
we had been pretty badly sold out in this
business. 1t is folly to say that the murder
ers of the Agent and Maj. Thornburgh must
and how long are the troops to wait at the
Agency for it to be done? will direct Gen
Crook to throw into the Agency all the sup
plies he can, as the only course left OPEN"
Inspector W. T. Pollock telegraphs to the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs from Den
yer, Colo: "The Governor and leading citi-
zens here unanimously affirm that the In
dians must be removed from the State or eX-
terminated by the State, if not by the Fed
eral forces. Confidence, they say, can never
be restored, and it is only a question whether
the result be attained at once or by slow and
tedious warfare"
1t is said that the official canvass Of the
votes in the Third California Congressional
District shows the election Of Berry, Repub-
lican, by a majority of 24S.
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, on the Goth, William
Hogg, a well known citizen, shot his daugh-
ter, aged 10, and his son, aged 10, both prob
ably fatally, and then fired two bullets into
his own brain, causing death almost instant
ly. Hogg was formerly a successful bust
ness man, having for number Of years car
ried on a wholesale book, stationery and no.
ton store in that city. Recent pecuniary
losses had rendered him very Respondent,
and his troubles seemed to eliminate in the
sale of his homestead under mortgage,
compelling him TO make arrangements to re-
move elsewhere. He was married quite re-
Gently to his second wife, after having been
for four years a widower.. She was away
from home at the time he was seized with
his murderous mania, and so escaped the
fate of the other members Of the family.
in the feeling that "the Chinese must CO.,
is evidenced by the fact that at the recent
election 154, 63S votes were cast in opposition
to Chinese immigration, and only 1873 in its
favor.
The Louisiana Republican State COnven-
ton, held at New Orleans on the Goth and
21st, nominated Taylor Beattie Of Lafourche
for Governor and full ticket Of minor State
officers. The platform reiterates the essen
tial principles of the National Republican
party; favors the improvement by the Gov
eminent Of the Mississippi and its
tributaries, and also Government aid for
a Southern Pacific railroad. The honest
payment Of the State debt is demanded. A
resolution was adopted setting forth that if
the colored people are accorded free and fair
elections, allowed to vote and have their
votes counted, they will remain as
Of right in the State; if not they
will be forced to emigrate. The election
of Dumont, who is an Out-and-out Sherman
man, as permanent President Of the Con-
yention, is considered an Endorsement Of the
Administration. A resolution eulogiZing
Gen. Grant and declaring him the choice of
the party for the Presidency was received
with great cheering, but was never formally
brought before the Convention for its action
thereon.
Joseph II. Koble and Orlando II. Marsh
were hanged at Fort Benton, Mont, on the
9TH, for the murder of Patrick Terrell in
February last.
f. L. Mansfield, one Of Agent Meeker's
employees at White River Agency, escaped
the fate Of the other men there by having
gone with message to Capt. Dodge on the
day of the massacre.
The official count of the vote Of Hamilton
County, Ohio, which includes the City of
Cincinnati, gives Foster, Republican, for
Governor, a majority Of 3,645. Other
majorities for Republican candidates range
from 1905, the highest, to 1,444, the lowest.
Full returns from rs counties in Iowa give
Gear Republican, 81 500 majority over Trim
BILE DemOcrat).
A band of regulators, about 200 strong,
surrounded the Jail at Martinsburg, Elliott
County, KY, on the night Of the Goth, and
taking therefrom two prisoners, John W
Kendall and William Mcmillan, after a brief
and somewhat informal trial, hanged them
both to neighboring tree. The two men
hanged were said to have been members of
an organized band of criminals, who have
for long time terrorized the county in va
rious ways, but whose punishment through
the regular courts Of justice it is alleged
could never be accomplished, on account of
other members of the gang always coming
into court and swearing to an alibi. Other
suspected members of the gTng have been
whipped by the regulators, who declare
their intention to rid the county of their
presence.
A most terrible crime was committed in
Strongsville Township, Cuyahoga Coun-
ty, O., on the morning of the odd. Got
leib Muller, aged 50, Mrs. Muller, and their
son, an idiotic boy, were shot severa
times each and left for dead, their assassin
being George Muller, aged 50, the eld-
est son of the murdered family. George
had been living for some time in Toledo,
and was employed as fireman on the Lake
Shore Railroad. On the night previ-
Gus to the murder he paid visit to his
home, driving out from Berea. According
20 tbe murderer's own story, he and his ia
tber had ouarreled some about money mat
TORS. and the old man ordered him to leave
the premises. This infiamed the son, who
had been drinking some, but who claims he