The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-06-04
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A force of about 500 Indians under
Gen. Strange some twelve miles north of
Fort Pitt and about four miles north OF the
Saskatchewan River. Gen. Strange's loss
was one man killed and two wounded; the
Indian loss is unknown. The fight was begun
by the Indians, who were waiting In ambush
for Gen. strango's detachment. The latter
was compelled TO retreat.
Louis Reaume, crazy fresco-painter,
belonging in Detroit, started from Kansas
City for Chicago by Wabash train. While
en- route he appeared in tho aisle OF the
chair-car. swinging revolver, and an
nounced that he was being pursued by
men desiring TO lynch him. When the po-
liceman at Peoria attempted to capture him
he retired to the Mushroom and began firing
toward his fellow-passeDgers. An attempt
was made at FL Paso, ILL.,, to cut out the coach
he occupied, aud he stopped the scheme by
shooting from the platform. On reaching
Englewood, suburb Of Chicago, he grazcd
the neck of an intruder with bullet When
Chicago was reached the mailman killed
Patrolman Cornelius Barrett and struck
Lieut.. LduSullu OH tue lOTtncdu Win u Tt-
volver. A general firing by a squad of
police brought the lunatic down, with fatal
wounds.
"No Indian raid for the last ten
years cqualed the present outbreak for
cruelty" says a dispatch from New Mexico
"All along the ella River out from Silver
City to distance of seventy miles the
been found, which tell the tale of how out
-agcousiy the Apaches have broken Gen.
Crooks poor peace policy. Men, women,
and children have been butchered unmerci-
fully" A gentleman from Silver City tells n
ncartrcnding tale OF Apache inhumanity.
lie was one OF a party of thrty-four citizens
who went out the other day TO protect their
families, who were surrounded by Apaches
on Bear Creek and along the ella. Before
making twelve miles they had buried ten
persons, two of whom were women. All the
bodies were hacked into unacceptable
shapes. The women had been outraged and
their bodies pinned to the earth by wedges
driven through them into the ground. One
of the women had an iron rod completely
driven up her body. The men suf-
fered like fates, their bodies be-
ing mutiated terribly. This gentleman
confirms the reported murder of Col. Phil
| lips and family. The daughter was hung up
alive by meat-hook stuck in the back of her
head. Mrs. Phillips eyes were gouged out,
her cars and breasts cut or, and her body
otherwise brutally mangled. The bodies are
heartrcnding and sickening sights" A San
tn Fe dispatch says the total number of MUIR
doris known TO have been committed by the
indians reaches seventy-five.
The rain-sterm that recently deluged
II large section of Texas was one of the most
terrific on record. At Waco, eleven and a
quarter inches of water fell i'm five hours. In
an incredibly short space of time the Drazos
RIVER became II wild, raging flood, in many
places five miles wide. Some idea of the
Wholesale destruction may DC hud when it is
remembered that the BraZos is the richest
and most prosperous farming country in
Texas. There is very heavy population OF
negroes, who all live in the bottoms, and the
rapidly of the rise did not permit them 70
save anything but their lives. = vast desti-
tuition must be the result The damage tc
the growing crops on the Brazos, to say
nothing OF the shrlnkage in real values, Is
beyond calculation, perhaps reaching to be-
yond $50, 100000.