Daily Republican., 1884-07-02
CRE1AslOF THE NEWS.
M61k lEnOUBLE WITH WIRE
FE1Glfg--INDIANS IN A STAR
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The Secretary Of the Interior has re-
ceived kilograms from cattle men at
Dodge, Kansas, complaining that the
Cherokee Stock Association, who have
leased strip of land in the Indian
Territory traversed by established cattle
trails between Texas and Kansas, have
closed the trail with wire fences aud
offered armed resistance to the progress
OF the cattle drovers. The Secretary
has instructed Inspector Reuedict' to
take active measures to open and keep
open all established cattle trails that
may be found closed.
The Interior Department is informed
that about nine hundred Conanche In.
dians have left the Pine Ridge reServa-
tion in Dakota and are now on the
Rosebud, Horn and Powder rivers In a
starving condition. The steckmep fear
depreciation on their cattle. and are
anxious that the Indians shall -be COM
PEELED to return to their agency. The
agent at Pine Ridge has been directed
to investigate the matter.
The schooner Ella A. Warner. at
New York, yesterday, from Philadel-
phia, at clock yesterday morn
ing in a dense fog, she ran into the
schooner Eloise, from Bangor for Phil
adelphia, with stone, sinking her In
ten minutes. She took off Captain
Gray and crew and brought them 10
New York. The Eloise was not In
jured.
Captain John w. Andrews, of Sum-
ter, South Carolina, the 93-year-old
pedestrian, who started to walk to
Boston, arrived in that city from
Hartford by rail on Monday even
ing. On reaching Hartford, where
he gave up walking, he had
made 700 miles on foot, at an avera ye
rate of 20 miles per day.
in the Louisiana House of Repre-
sentatives yesterday bills we're passed
prohibiting the opening OF places of
public business on Sundays, and de.
claring contracts for the sale of arti-
cles for future delivery to be unlawful.
A bill prohibiting prize fights failed to
pass, the yeas being AZ, the nays 4S.
A furious northwest gale prevailed
In Minnesota on Monday, but did little
damage in most localities beyond oc-
casionally levelling trees. At Wabasha
a circus tent containing two thousand
people was blown down, and q mum be I
of people suffered bruises and broken
limbs.
Early yesterday morning some freight
cars collided with number of oil cars
on side track at Driftwood, PenDa.
The oil caught fire, and fifteen build.
ings, mostly business places, were de
stroyed with a number of oil cars The
loss will reach $4,000 ; insurance $20,.
600.
A construction train on the Chicago
Bur ling,on and Kansas City Railroa(
fell through a bridge near Keokuk, OF
Monday night, and about lwsnty -6y'
men We're thrown into the river. Tw,
, Uen were killed and ten to fifteen in
ljured, several, it is feared, fatally.
A Citizens League" in Milwau
kee, has decided that the Sunday clio.
ing law must be enforced in that city
This will include not only the saloons
r but dozen large parks under tt
D management of leading brewing com
panies."
7 By an explosion in the Wellingto
colliery at Nanaimo, British Columbia
on Monday, twenty -four miners wer
killed and q number of others were in
jured.
Allan Pinkerton, the famous det c
tive, died on Tuesday in Chicago.