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putting light in her window when the coast
was clear. John CasseIl, Il liveryman at Mo
GIegor, testified that twice a week he had
driven Cornell to Grinnell's house after the
arrival of his train at night and had seen
Mrs. Grinnen meet him at the door and let
him in.
Bob Neal the mail earrar from Nashville.
Tenn, to Friendship, had a desperate en-
counter between Crock ett's mills and Friend
ship with two highway robbers. The night
was very dark, and the carrier was not
aware of their presence until he was ordered
to halt. He responded by firing at them,
but they Immediately returned the fire and
general fusilade followed. The mail bags
were finally secured and the robbers made
their escape. In the skirmish the carrier re-
ceiVed a flesh wound. The robbers secured
no money, there being no registered letters
in the mail.
The residence of Chris Oemag was burglar
lied at Sioux City and his son William fatal
ly wounded in an encounter with the bur-
glars. The object of the burglars undoubt-
edly was to secure the money which Oemag
is reported to keep about his premises; de
is q very wealthy man, owning large
amount of the best real estate in the city,
and is of very miserly habits. There were
three burglars and William Oemag attacked
them as soon as they broke in the door. 1t
was q fierce hand to hand struggle and
many revolver shots were fired. He was
fatally shot through the lungs and other
wise injured. The old man was terribly
cIubbed and kicked The burglars at length
became alarmed and retreated without Sc
curing any money.
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FIGHT WITH INDIANS.
Five Redskins Killed by Citizens Near
Battle Creek, s. ID.

CHICAGO. Dec ia dispatch received at
army headquarters from Battle Creek, S.
D., states that letter had just been re-
ceived by a courier from Capt. Wells. at
the south of French creek. stating that a
fight had occurred there Dec. II between
twenty citizens and band of roaming
Sioux. Five Indians were reported killed
but the loss of the whites was not given.
A dispatch from Gen. Brooke said that
reports received by him on the night of the
18th showed a decidedly hostile intent on
the part of the Indians in the Bad Lands.
He feared that the collision between some
citizens and the Indians had turned the
scale.
Information from Fort Bennett goes to
show that the Indians at Cherry Creek
agency are greatly excited, and that under
the leadership OF Big Foot they are keeping
up the ghost dances. The Indian excite
ment is increased by the report that bands
of Sioux from Rosebud and Pine Ridge are
moving in the direction Of Cherry Creek.
Col. Corbin said last night that it was not
known whether or not the fight referred TO
by Gen. Brooke was the one that occurred
at French Creek.
"If not" continued the colonel, "there
have been two rows, and of the one referred
to by Gen. Brooke we know nothing as yet.
1t is to be feared, now that blood has been
shed, that there will be more trouble, for il
all Indian knows that some of his tribe have
been hurt he will torego his peaceful Inten-
tions. Two Strike was on his way into Pine
Ridge, and it is to be hoped that he won't
turn back when he hears o: the French
Creek affair. In all probability Kicking
Bear and Short Bull are the instigators Of
such trouble as has occurred"
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Wholly Indefeucibla

In southern archipeiagGs he fought the
bloody cannibal;
He skinned and tanned the crocodile and
found him very tannable;
Not Word Of fear he'd uttered, not
word and not a syllable,
When he killed the Bengal tiger, and he
found him very kllable.
He claimed his strength was very great,
for bears and lions suitable;
He used to boot the grizzly bear, and found
him very bootable;
He claimed in killing monstrous snakeI
that he was very capable,
No boa-constricter could escape. for he was
unacceptable.
In fighting hippopotami, he said he was in,
convincible.
No iaguar could make him vince, because
he wasn't winceable;
He made the ramping elephant no longer
recognizable,
And pulverized the roaring bull, and founi
him pulverizable.
Just then his wife came in and said, "I'd
think it quite commendable
II you'd come and tend the baby; and
you'll find him very tendable'
The way she took him by the ear will make
this poem readable;
She pulled him out and led him home and
found him very leadable.
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SITTING BULL DEAD.
The Old william at last Sent to the
Happy Hunting
Ground.
His Arrest by a Squad Of Indian
Police Caused O
Fight.

FoRr YATES, s. d., Special Telegram, Dec.
1.-Sitting Bull was arrested this morning
at daylight by the Indian police. Friends
attempted his rescue and fight ensued.
Sitting Bull, his son Black Bird, Catch Bear
and four other hostiles, together with seven
of the best police under Capt. Fecht, were
killed.
As soon as the firing had ceased three
troops of cavalry came to the rescue of the
Indian police, who were being routed by
tine skilled sharpshooters Of the hostiles.
They brought with them two machine
guns, which were turned loose upon Sitting
Bulls followers and within five minutes
the savages were out of range and leaving
at furious rate on their feet ponies toward
the Bad Lands where Short Bull and Crow
Dog are intrenched with 200 Ogallala bucks.
The police were sent out to Sitting Bull s
camp to arrest the old medicine man, as it
had been reported that he had struck his
tepees and was about to join the hostiles,
who have pillaged along the White river.
When the officers reached the camp they
found Indians ready to march. Their
ponies were painted and many of the saw
ages had stripped themselves for war. The
police nlauG udSu lue anu SGlLSN
Sitting Bull.
They we're on their way back to Standing
Rock when Black Bird, the tall and ath-
letic son of the famous chief urged his
comrades to recapture the old man. The
women and children were left in the bushes
and then with yells the hostiles charged
upon the police firing as they came. A
hand-to- hand struggle ensued, during which
Sitting Bull, who was not shackled, gave
his orders in a loud voice
For several minutes the firing was heavy
and deadly. Nearly every man who was
hit was killed. In the furious iusillade
Sitting Bull fell out of his saddle, pierced
by bullet, but it is not known whether it
was tired by the charging party or one ot
the police. Black Bird was also slain al
most at the first volley of the police. The
hostiles fired with deadly accuracy, and
slowly drove the officers from the field.
If the cavalry had not come at this time
it is probable that the !orce would have
been annihilated. The soldiers were quick
to enter into the action. A skirmish line
was thrown out and then, kneeling and fir,
ing as they advanced, the gallant troopers,
with the machine guns playing over their
heads, poured a withering fire into the saw,
ages.
Sitting Bulls body, which had been
abandoned by the police, was recaptured as
we'll as that of his son, and will be taken tC
Standing Rock. After the fight was over
the followers of the dead chief struck out
at a killing pace for the Bad Lands.
The battle to-day, news of which is still
meager, will doubtless inaame the entire
Sioux nation. There has been no report
from Pine Ridge since yesterday, but it is
certain that if Gen. Brooke sent his
troopers out to the White river, as he
promised twenty-lour hours ago, he, too,
has also had fight by this time.
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FOREIGN.

Parnell seizes United Ireland, the Dublin
paper of which he is a director and which
has opposed him. has the editors elected by
force and suppresses an entire edition.
DR.. BehriD of Berlin says that thus far his
experiments looking to cure for diphtheria
have not resulted successfully. He announces,
however, that he will continue them.
Commenting on the passage OF the copy
right bill by the United States house OF rep
resentatives, the London News congratu-
lates America on having taken a great for
ward step in international honesty and JUS
tice.
Advices from St. Petersburg state that the
Russian authorities are showing unwonted
activity in the improvement of provincial
administration throughout the empire, and
that numerous removals are being made by
incompetent officials
Mr.. Parnell, at meeting of the National
ist party in London, refuses to put a reso-
luton deposing him from the leadership,
whereupon forty-fve members, head ed by
Justin Mccarthy, leave the hall and COM
plete the split in the party.
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The Drummer Dida't Enjoy It

Conductor Rodman, who runs on the
Villisca branch of the Burlington, h 5
a very pretty wife, and both Mr.. and
Mrs. Rodman had an opportunity o.
enjoying the discontinue of travel
Ing man on the down town train the
other morning. The drummer knows
Mr.. Rodnan rather we'll, as his busi-
ness takes him TO Villisca frequently.
Last Monday Mr.. Rodman took his
wife on his trip. md they came back
to st. Joseph the next day. On this
morning as Mr.. Rodman came through
the car collecting tickets, the drummer
pulled at his arm and whispered:
Say, Rodmau, do you see that r1t-
tling pretty girl back theree'
YES" responded thu conductor
glaneing in the direction indicated.
''Well, do you know her?'
yes"
Where does she come from?"
st Joseph, believe"
Say, old man, do you know her
well enough to give me knock down
to her, for she's beauty. aud no mis-
take"
"Oh, yes. 1 guess can fix 1t for
you. Come along"
In a moment more the drummer
was standing in front of the ''rattling
pretty girl" and had a winning smile
prepared, when-''Mr. Blank, allow
me to present you to my wife"
The drummer murmured something
about his pleasure, but went up into
the baggage car soon after. where he
managed to say to Mr.. Rodman. II
didn't say anything out of the way.
did I, old manp"-St Joseph News.
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SAVED By CAVALRY.
The Police Run Ont of Ammunition Dur
ing the Fight

BISMARCK, N. D. Special Telegram, Dec.
lit is almost impossible to obtain re-
liable information of the affair Mt the
Standing Rock agency this forenoon, as the
government telegraph is under such strict
surveillance that no private or press mes
ages will be transmitted after office hours,
and not even then unless approved by the
military authorities.
1t appears that the arrest had been made
by the police, who started with Sitting Bull
for the agency, when about a hundred Of
the hostiles attacked them and attempted to
rescue their leader.
The cavalry were about three miles be-
hind, and courier was dispatched to them
for assistance. The troops hastened forward
and arrived just in time to prevent whole
sale massacre of the police. who were en-
tirely out of ammunition when the soldiers
arrived.
Too much praise cannot be given the
faithful native police for their bravery and
loyalty, several of them giving up their
lives rather than be false to their trust.
1t is believed that the death of Sitting
Bull will be the end of the trouble at Stand
ing Rock, although his followers, having
tasted of bloodshed, will perhaps require
energetic and severe treatment for a while.
The military is at last awake to the grav-
ity of the situation, and the result will no
doubt be the complete disarmament of the
disioyal redskins.
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THE FIGURE 49,"

The figure in our dates will make long stay.
No man or woman now living will ever date q
document without using the hgure 9. 1t stands
IN the third place in 1890 where it will remain ten
years and then move up to second place in 1900.
where it will rest for one hundred years.
There is another 90 which has also come to stay
It is unlike the figure in dates in the respect
that it has already moved up to first place, where
It will permanently remain. 1t is called the NO
p'' High Arm Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
The NO. 9" was endorsed for first place by the
experts OF Europe at the Paris Exposition of 1882
where, after severe contest with the leading ma
chimes Of the world, it awarded the only
Grand Prize given to family sewing machines, all
others on exhibit having received lower awards
of gold medals, etc. The French Government
also rccognizedis superiority by the decoration of
Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler President Of the company,
with the Cross of the Legion Of Honor.
The NO. g" is not an old machine improved
upon, but Is an entirely new machine, and tho
Grand Prize at Paris was awarded it as the grand
est advance in sewing machine nlechunism of the
age. Those who buy it can rest assured, there.
tore, Of having the very latest and best
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-12-18
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Climatic Effects Upon the Habits and Tcmpera
msnt OF the People.

ment OF tine people,
It has been said that this land OF :he
sun and Of the equable climate will
have the effect that other lands OF
southern aspect have upon tempera-
ment and habits 1t il feared that
Northern-bred people, who are guild
ed by the necessity OF making hay
whi!e the sun shines will not make hay
ut all where the sun always shines It
is thought that unless people are spur.
red on necessarily by The eXigeacies OF
the changing SO sons they will lose
energy. and fall into an idle floating
along with gracious nature. Will not
one sink into com !ortable ana easy
procrastination II he has whole year
in which TO perform the labor Of three
months? Will southern California be
an exception to those lands of equable
climate and extraordinary fertility
where every effort is postponed till
tomorrow?
| wish there might be something
solid in this expectation; that this
m@y be region where the restless
American will lose something OF his
hurry and petty, feverlsh ambition.
partially it may be so. He will take,
he is already taxing, something Of the
tone OF the climate, and of the old
Spanish occupation. But the race ir-
stiuct of thrift and of getting on"
will not wear out in many generations.
Besides, the condition of living at all
in Southern California in comfort, and
with the social life indispensable to
our people, demands l.bor, not ex-
hausting and killing. but still incessant
demands industry. A land that
will not yield satisfactorily without ir-
rigaion, and whose best paying pro-
duce requires intelligent as we'll as
careful husbandry, will never be an
idle land. Egypt with all it's dolce
far nterate, was never an idle land for
the laborer. From The Winter of
Our Content" by Charles Dudley
Warner, in Harper's Magazine.
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AFTER THE INDIANS.
Gen. Ruger on the Trail of the Indians
in the Bad Lands.

GEN. Ruger on the Trail of the Indians
in the Bad Lands.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Gen. Schotield this
afternoon received two kilograms from Gen.
Ruger, commanding the department of
Dakota, in one of which he says he hopes
to get in all the Indians who turned back
from the Bad Lands. Two Strikes party is
trying to induce them to come along with
them. He says that the Indians are nov
ing slowly on account of poor stock.
The other telegram includes dispatch
received yesterday from the commanding
officer at Oelrichs, s. D., saying that his in
terpreters just in from White River report
that fifty lodges in the Bad Lands are try
ing to work their way north to the Chey.
enne river agency. Gen. Ruger adds that
the necessary steps have been taken to in
tercept them if possible.
Gen. Schofeld received a telegram to-day
from Gen. Miles confirming the press re-
ports of dissenslon among the Indians on
the Bad Lands. As no report has been re-
ceived in regard to the reported engage
ment between troops and Indians, 1t is not
believed that such thing occurred.
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THE WEEKS DIGEST.
\ Brief Record of the Happen
ings of the Past
Week.
WASHINGTON,

Senator Davis deli@srs a memorial address
upon the late Justice Miller in the United
States supreme court room at Washington.
The annual report OF the bureau Of animal
industry at Washington says that with the
ultimate object in view OF discovering some
method of preventing disease in swine, the
bureau has endeavored to produce artificial
~ a drug which would have the same COM
position and effect as the bacterial product.
Clerk Mcpherson, of the house of represen-
tatives, has just had printed the unofficial
list of members-elect of the next house, show
ing SO Republicans, 234 Democrats and
Farmers Alliance. One district Twenty.
eighth New York; is set down as uncertain
and one Second Rhode Island) is marked
vacant
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anVpRTVgING For advertising Rates ad
hUEEh kGANU-dress or call at the osae~
perhaps. was never before witnessed

perhaps, was never before witnessed,
nor has it since, in all probability; all
the dogs in the comm nd and there
was every breed and size, for the aver
age United States soldier loves a dog
Joined in the pandemonium that
followed the chase for the bewildered
birds.
There was feasting in camp that
night and never before did turkey
taste SO delicious as the magnificent
birds, served up in every conceivable
style, at that supper in camp on the
Washita, to the half-famished troopers
of the famous Seventh cavalry, and
the gallant boys of the Nineteenth
Kansas; and that there were many
cases of riding that subjective brute
known as the nightmare, before the
morning, have not the slightest
doubt.
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THos. E. CoLAHAN JR,
TOWN CLERKS.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

CATHOLIC:- -Rsv. GEORGE GAsKELL, Prizes
Mass every Sunday at 1890 a. IN. Sunday
school every Sunday at 2:30 p. IN. Vesper
at pm.
METHODIST Rev. s. Ellery, Pas
tor. Services every Sund at 1880, a. m
and 1880 P. m. Prayer meetil on Thursdays
at 7:3O p. M.
CONGREGATIONAL: HIM HerriTk,
Pastor. Services every Sunday, at 1880 a.
M. and 1880 p. m. Prayer meeting OF the
Y. P. s. c. E. every Sunday evening at $50.
Prayer meeting every Thursday st 1880 p, M
NORWEGIAN EVANGELICAL LUTHEh
AN -Rsv. P. A. D1sTRlcHsoN, Pastor. Service
and meetings at times designated by pastor
COMPLEMENTARY 0. DAZZLE Pastor
Meetings at 1880 o'clock every Wednesday
evening
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Fun AHEAD.
Buffalo Bill Notified That the Can

Buffalo Bill Notified That the Campaign
Will Open To-Day.
LA CROSSE Special Telegram, Dec. IT,
DR.. d. F. Powell received the following
dispatch to-day:
Tell Pepaska buffalo Billy Gen. Carr in
field with Sixth cavalry. Campaign opens
tomorrow. Is he coningP
JOHN NJ. BURKE"
Maj. Burke is Cody's manager, and has
charge OF the Wild West Indians. Cody is
going to his home in Nebraska tomorrow,
and being somewhat out of health will not
go to the frontier unless the troops of bis
state are called out.
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The OhiciaI Report of the Affair Sent
From St Paul

CHICAGO, Dec. 17.-At9 o'clock tonight
Assistant Adjt. Gen. Corbip, of Gen. Miles
staff, received an official dispatch from st.
Paul saying Sitting Bull, five Of Sitting
Bulls men, and seven of the Indian police
have been killed. The thirteen casualties
were the result of an attempt by the police
to arrest Sitting Bull.
Gen. Brooke, in command of the troops
at Pine Ridge, telegraphed the situation to
Assistant Adjt. Gen. Corbin at army head
quarters tonight as follows: ''All the
Indians who can be brought in are
now here or near here, leav-
ing about 200 bucks in the Bad Lands
who refuse to listen to any one or anything.
Against these will send sufficient force
to capture or fight them. All has been done
that can be done. The Indians now out
have great many stolen horses aud cattle
with them. hope to be able to end this
matter now."
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PERSONAL

Gen. Newton of New York has been tenn
porariy appointed by the drainage commits
sign of Chicago, engaged in constructing q
ship canal to connect Lake Michigan and
the Mississippi river. to fill the position OF
CHIEF engineer of the work, made vacant by
the discharge of Engineer Cooley.
Washington Mclean. for many years
known in journalism as the proprietor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, died at his residence in
Washington, in his seventy-fourth year
Mr. Mclean had been in i'll health for several
years sufferin5 from kidney disease but not
until last summer when he went to Deer
Park in hopes of beueftting his health, was
his condition regarded as serious.
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GIVING CHASE.
Troops After the Fugitives From Sitting
Bulls Camp

DICKINSON, N. D., Special Telegram, Dec.
Unreliable dispatches received here this
evening state that Sitting Bulls camp was
attacked by troops, and himself and seven
warriors killed.
The remainder of the band are now in re-
treat up the Grand river, and it is not yet
known definitely along which fork their
trail will lie.
Information o: the most reliable nature
was received to-day that band of eight
wagons were encamped on the Little Mis-
souri,, opposite Pretty Buttes. 1t is there
fore probable that the fugitives will make
this camp their objective point. They will
not be able, without great exertion, to
reach the forks of Grand river to-day. 1t is
estimated that $50 warriors are in the band,
and this number is likely to be increased
by other bands.
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May He In n Trance.

DETROIT, Mich, Special.-John Prince
was supposed to have died last Saturday
while under the influence of chloroforn.
His family refuses to have him buried, as
serting that he is still alive. This is the
sixth day since death occurred, and yet the
face of the dead man has comparatively
fresh appearance. The cheeks and eyes are
not much sunken and there is not the usual
deathly pallor.
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WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Dec II.
Senators Moody and Pettigrew took trip
around the departments to-day to clear up
South Dakota business. They had the or
der of discontlnuance of the Yankton sig
nal office suspended until March |, when it
is thought an appropriation may be secured
to continue the Office indefinitely. The sec
retary of the interior ordered the act for q
survey of the boundary between North and
South Dakota proceeded with. The super
intendent of census directed that all emu
merators in South Dakota be paid at once,
all the schedules being accepted.
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Her Heaaou.

Mr.. Blossom-I don't think you are
doing right in forbidding Nelly to re-
ceive gentlemen callers Why did
you do itP
Mrs. Blossom--I do not desire the
child to ever marry.
You seem to forget that you were
young once, that you received gentle
men callers and that you married.
Indeed, don't, Mr. Blossom; an 4
whsa is more, don't intend to have
Nelly make fool OF herself because
her mother did. Epoch.
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WENT To A HIGHER COURT.
The Domestic DificuIties of a Cadott
Ends In a Double Tragedy.

Ends In Double Tragedy.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Dec. 17.-Peter st
George of Cadott early Sunday morning re-
ported that his wife was missing. Search
was instituted and she was found in tho
woodshed hanging by the neck and stiff and
cold. Certain contusions and wounds about
her face and head indicated foul play and
murderer. He was watched throughout the
day by the authorities, and at 10 O'Clock at
night, when the coroner's jury reported that
Mrs. St. Georges death was due to murder
by unknown hands. went to the house to
arrest him but found that he had commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat Domestic
difficulties are alleged as the cause for the
TRAGEDIES