Daily Republican., 1881-08-06
YESTERDAYS NEWS.
A TRIBE or INDIANS ON AKILL.
ING AND SCALPING RAID,
Hartmann Fore ed by Public Opln
Ion to Make Hiulseif Scarce fn
the United States.

continue, the savages being part OF Vic
toria's old band, led by Nina, /" a chief
even more barbarOus than his predeces-
sor.' There was fight between these
Indians and Mexicans at paraje, on the
night of the Sd inst, which resulted in
the killing of thirteen Mexicans. Two
Indians who were captured were burned
alive. A miner ana his wife We're cap.
tured the same evening, near Pueblo
Springs, and are supposed to have been
tortured.
Hartmann, the Nihilist leader, is re-
ported to have fled to Canada, not DEEM
ing himself saic in the United States if
a reuuisition should be made for him
by the Russian authorities. 1t was
said at the State Department yesterday,
in reply to inquiries, that 'the eXtradi-
ton of Hartmann has never been men.
toned there, directly or indirectly.
| There has been no official or diplomatic
communication to or from the Depart
ment ON the subject, and no hypotLeti-
cal case considered"
Four schooners We're ashore last eve
ming in thick fog on Block Island, as
follows: SchDoners John Il. Manson,
Captain p. Henney, with coal from
Philadelphia to Boston; schooner f.
Sinnickson, Captain Oatlcn, with coal,
Pniadelphia Tor Lynn (going to pieces)
schooner Adaie Shorthand, CAPTAIN
llerrick, with hard pine, from New
York for Proyidence; and another,
aalne unknown.
Forest fires are raging around Bay
City, Michigan, and are especially
fierce along the Mackiuaw division Of
the Michis san Central Railroad. For a
distauce Of one hundred miles, fences
and farm buildings, AS well as vast
quantities of pine timber, are burning,
and trains tiud it almost impossible to
run. Bay Ciry is shrouded in smoke
and its atmosphere is lilled with ashes
and burned leaves.
a severe Storm prevailed on Thurs
day evening in portions of Minnesota
north of Menomonee, in the latter
State. I!ay and grain stacks wrr" scat
tered in all directions, and telegraph
lines were ievelcl. Iu Minneapolis the
greatest damage was done, % house in
course Of erection ing leyelrd by the
wind, aud IL barn CONSUMED by light
ming.
The members of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union, on invitation of the
Mayor aud Counclncn OF Boston, yiSi- |
ted the public Institutions in Boston
harDor ON Thursday afternoon. In the |
evening the delegates were escorted to
FanculI Hall, where an address OF wei |
come was made by the Governor. Ad-
dresses were also made 10y prominent
members of the Convention.
The Lake Eric and Western Railroad
Company 5 elevator near Frcmont, Ohio,
was destroyed by n tire, caused by the
friction otthe machinery. Loss Sj|,0 600.
The frame engine-house of the Buffalo
Creek Hallway Company, at Buffalo,
was burned early yesterday morning,
| with three engines. Loss $4,000.
Yesterday morning, at Atlanta, Dr.
Curry, General Agent for the Peabody
Fund, addressed, by request, the Legis-
lature Of Georgia, and urged that the
annual appropriation for education iii
that ) ate he increased to Sl,OOO,OO
The doctor, who is a native of Georgia,
was enthusiastically received.
John w. Magrudcr, for fifteen years
u clerk iu the Currency Bureau at
Washington, has been appointed Ban X
Examiner, ut Boston, 70 succeed Bill
iings, resigned. Mr.. Magruder's ap-
pointmen6 is made at the reCommen-
dation of the Boston Clearing House
Committee.
Returns from seventeen countl2s OF
North Caroline show IL majority of 2l,-
74S against prohibition, and tho other
counties are expected to increase the
figures to nearly 10000 The whites
divided upon the question while the
negroes voted solidly against prohiDi-
ton.
The steamer Royal, from ST John,
was burned at Gibson, New Bruns-
wick, yesterday morning, with II large |
quantity Of miscellaneous merchandise,
which formed her cargo. The tire
spread SO rapidly tia the crew had
barely time to escape without saving
their clothes.
SenaGor Logan delivered an address
on Thursday a the fourth annual re-
union of the soldiers and sailors of Ma
coupin county, Illinois, held at Car.ins-
vile. His speech was entirely nou' po-
litical. Ten thousand people were pres
ent, Notwithstanding the intense heat.
A gang Of burglars has been operating
during the last few days at Asbury
Park. Two rooms in the Ocean House
were robbed OF ,iewrlry on Wednesday
night, and sum OF money has also been
taken from the office oi the EoIelnah
House.
A strange malady has appeared
among the cattir at Charleston AMI LIN
coin, Illinois, which effects lheryeS and
catlsrS blindness. Stcckm"n disagree
as to Tie cause OF the disease, which is
spreading rapidly.
Nathan Orlando Greenfield: convict
ed Of The muruer Of his wl1e, was bang
Ell Yesterday, at syracuse, New York.
He protested his inrocen:e Oh tn" scat
fold,
The annual couciave Of representa-
tiyes Of the lrisn revolutionary societies
has been in secret session III Cn.c"so Tor
the last two or three days.
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state Of the Thermometer
u the REPUBLICAN Office, in the shade,
his morning:
o'clock lOo'cluck II o'clock.
$50 9io 9S.'
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Tine Weather.
WAl Department, Office OF the Chief
S.Sna, Officer, Washington, August T.
A. NJ.
Indications for to-day--For the Middle
Atlanrlc 5taGcs, slightly warmer, falr
winds mostly westerly; sta