The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-08-13
West and South.

West and South.
EVERY business house except three and many
dwellings in the town of Truckee, Cal, have
been destroyed by fire, the aggregate loss being
more than $3.50, 900. A fire on the same day
destroyed twenty-five buildings in Dakota,
doing damage to the extent of about 500, 000
and fire at Augusta Mich, destroyed fourteen
buildings, comprising the business part of the
place
IHE Ohio State Prohibition convention met
at Columbus and Endorsed the State ticket re-
Gently nominated by the Temperance conyen-
tlon at Loveland, except that Henry Camp,
Of Coshocton, was nominated for attorney
general to fill the vacancy on that ticket
h. MILDURN, JR, twelve years old, shot and
killed his cousin, John Mccarthy, aged four
teen in quarrel at Portersyille, Ind.
The election in North Carolina resulted ir
the defeat of prohibition by a large majority
At the meeting of the Virginia Democratic
State convention in Richmond the Hon J. ".
Daniel was nominated for governor on the
second ballot. The platform adopted calls for
equality OF rights and equal privileges for all
men, the support of the public schools for both
white and colored, condemns reputation of
the State debt and denounces as calumny all
declarations that the party is opposed to an
honest ballot and fair count.
APACHE Indians are ON the war-path in New
Mexico, killing every one they n4eet. A large
number of whites have already been massacred
In one engagement with party of ten Ameri-
were killed and nine of the whites killed and
wounded.
CONCERNING the outrages by the Apache
fiends in New Mexico, a dispatch from Socorro
in that Territory, says: The murderous red
devils are now ravaging in this neighborhood
and killing off people by the score. An en-
counter occurred between them and the
Mexicans at Paraje, resulting in the death of
thirteen Mexicans Two Indians who were
captured were burned alive. Reports come in
hourly of fresh ravages and murders, and a
party is being hurriedly raised and armed to
60 to the rescue of the miners at Pueblo
Springs, where they are surrounded and in
imminent danger. The other evening miner
and his wife are supposed to have been sur
prised by the savages as they were returning to
their mine, and were probably tortured. The
band is part of Victories band, now led by
Nina, chief even more barbarous than his
predecessor. Unless the Indians turn their
attacks elsewhere a general Indian war will
doubtless result
FIVE convicts at Folsom, CaL-George Lup-
ton, George Walker, Robert Durkin, John
Cooney and James Contaminated down the
prison guard and ran for the river. They were
pursued by the officers and guards. Walker
was shot dead; Durkin was wounded in the leg
and captured; Lupton tried to cross the river
but was drowned, and Cooney, being afraid to
take to the river, was captured. Gordon
escaped.
TWENTY white workmen were standing close
to house near Huntsville, S. c., when stroke
of lightning killed four of the men and injured
ten more, six of them seriously.
DISPATCH from neadwood says that Grow
Dog, captain of the police at the Rosebud
Indian agency, shot and instantly killed Spot
ted Tail, the well-known Indian chief
AT Cornishville, Ky, Thomas Brown met
Daniel Hoffman and asked him to take drink
and then, without a word, instantly shot him
dead with pistol. Almost Immediately Brown
himself fell dead, pierced by ball from pistol
in the hands of some one unknown. feud
had existed between Hoffman and Brown for
two years,