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FOUR sK1Rs,1sHEs
Between Col. Days Command and the Red
skins-Frendlies ON the March.

Between Col. Days Command ard the Red
skins-Frendlies On the March.
RAPID CRY. s. D., Dec. 18.-[Special
Troop r., Sixth cavalry, Joined Gen. Carr
to.d day and tomorrow morning two COM
panies of the Seventh infantry will leave
for his camp at the mouth Of Rapid creek.
Col. M. H. Day, of this city, who has secuted
during the past week in the vicinity Of Bat
tie and Spring creeks, came in at noon.
numbering sixty-two, had four skirmishes
with Indians. On Monday eighteen of the
force crossed the Cheyenne river and
advanced fourteen miles up Battle creek,
down to the Mesa. on which the hostile
camp is located. The Indians came out in
force and drove them back across the river.
Col. Day gives the details of the night
attack on Pinnee's, in which, with ten men,
he stood off the Indians for four hours.
The Indians set fire to the corral and poured
in brisk IRE while Col. Day and the ranch
men were putting it out. They)fred the
prairie in all directions, but a change in
the wind saved the rauch buildings. Col.
Day says there are from 500 to ], 600 fight
ing Indians in the Bad Lands. The In
dians wanted to fight, he said, and came
out to meet them, we'll armed and mounted,
when they approached their camp.
Gen. Miles has received dispatch from
Gen. Brooke saying 500 friendly Indians
will start tomorrow for Brule camp to
attempt to bring in the hostiles now in the
Fad Lands.
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The Cond Indians at EissouIs
Spend Their Last Evening
Playing Cards
All Of Them Show signs df uea1E-
ening and Ono BreelED
Down.
The Jail Closed to visitoraA AoaonMnOAa1A
datlons Insunicient tor rsanstsnts
To Swing It 10 80 Te-day.

MrssouLA, Deo. 1S. Especial. Ths 3ail
yard was thronRed all day with vi1ttos1
from all sections, anxious to - - con-
demned Indian murderers. AZ noon th0s
sign mo admittance' was placed "a thoS
sheriff's Office door and none wers thsro-s
after admitted, excepting visiting shArids
and reporters. Over one hundred psoplo
had been turned away from the hoeeas sby
noon to-day for want OF Recommendations.
In an interview had to-day with Ne cou-s
demned Indians they all deny theix guilt.
Pierre Paul and Lala See ~, however.
that it was right that the white msn wsrs
killed and that it was the Indianss pay for
killing Pierre Paul's uncle and LAla-Seo'1
brother. Pierre Paul says that no whiteS
man shall hang him unless u be that he 4
given plenty of whisky. 70 that he will 1eel
no pain. They all show signs Of weaken
ing Pierre Paul at one time to-day, upon
seeing his sister, broke down completely.
Tonight they are all confined ii one oil
and have five burning candles il ~ csnts1
on the floor and are engaged il playinsI
cards and checkers and are very talkative
to their guards.
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VIGOROUS ENGLISH.
Employed by the Irish In the Heat o
Discussion,

Employed by the Irish in the Heat of
Discussion.
DUBLIN, Dec. 18.-An article on the polit-
ical situation in the United Ireland says the
result OF the coming parliamentary election,
now on in Kilkenny, touches Ireland's ex-
istence as nation. The maintenance of
the central idea of nationhood depends on
the freedom from alien dictation. Men of
judgment and spirit should have instantly
repudiated Gladstone's pretentions. The
plot to degrade Parnell. the paper says, has
been hatching for years and the conspirators
only awaited the chance to put their scheme
into effect. Personal hatred, vanity. envy
or ambition moved many of the plotters,
while the others were actuated by baser
motives. Healy's putrid scurrility. Tan
ner's jealousy, miserable pettiness and sim
lister viciousness are significant
The chapter of the Catholic diocese of
Dublin has adopted a resolution urging the
ecclesiastical authorities to abstain from
taking action in the Parnell matter Us
the Catholic laity are divided on the ques-
tion.
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THE DAY IN CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1s.-In the senate
Sherman reported the bill providing
against contraction of currency. 1t
was ordered printed and re-
committed. The election hill was then
taken up and Coke addressed the senate.
Cullom and Bate also spoke. The election
bill was then informally laid aside. The
house amendment to the senate bill for a
bridge ocross the Willamette river, Ore
gon, was concurred in.
In the house, Baker. of New York, called
up and the house passed the senate bill au-
thor'zing the town of Albany, Ore, to con-
struct bridge across the Willamette river.
The house went into committee of the
whole on the state of the union, and Bur
rows took the chair. Farquhar moved to
proceed to the consideration of the senate
bill to place the American merchant ma
rine on an equality with that of other ma
tlons. Springer made point of order that
the motion was not in order, but the chair
man ruled that it was, and Springer's ap-
peal was voted down. Farquhar's motion
was agreed to. In supporting the ship
ping bill he expressed regret that any
member should refer to it as a job. This
referring to remark by Blount. No cor
poration or organization got one dollar out
of the measure to which it was not fairly
entitled. Outhwaite asked how much the
Pacific Mail Steamship company would re-
ce1ve the first year after the passage of the
bill. Farquhar referred him to the testi-
mony taken by the committee. Cultivate
further asked whether the gentleman could
account for the rise in value of Pacific Mail
stock YESTERDAY. it being understood that
this bill would be called up to-day.
Farquahar-Not being Interested in Pa
cific M all, as some Ohio men are, do not
know anything about it.
Farquhar advocated the bill at length and
pending further discussion the COMMITTEES
rose and the house adjourned.
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DRIFTS THIRTY FEET HIGH.

Unprecedented Fall of the Beautiful In
Pennsylyania and Elsewhere.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. ia passenger
train on the Valley branch of the Baltimore
ana Ohio, was derailed by snowdrift. Six
trainmen were badly hurt, but tho passen-
gers escsped with shaking up. The heav-
lest snowstorm in thirty years prevailed
Tuesday and Wednesday. The weather
was very cold and the wind blew hurri-
cane. building in course Of erection WAS
blown down and roofs crushed in by the
weight OF the snow. The fall WAS nearly
twenty two inches on level, with drifts
eight to ten feet deep. In the mountains
west there are drifts thirty feet deep.
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MUCH sINNED AGAINST.
Wrongs by Land Grabbors Against tn.
Mission Indians of California.

Wrongs by Land Grabbors Against the
Mission Indians of California.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1s.--[Special. Con
gress has passed and the president will ap
prove the bill creating commission to ad-
just and allot the grants of land to the Mis-
sion Indians of southern California. These
Indians have been outrageously wronRed
ever since they passed from under the au-
thority of the Mexican governments and
came under the laws Of the United States.
Their lands have been seized, their titles in
no instance recognized and now they are
di,ninised from 1900 to 5000. Although
they.are converted, civilized and industri-
ous their future is very dark unless this
commission can assure them good titles to
their homes. Helen Hunt jackson, in her
story, "Romana," recites the wrongs which
the Mission Indians have suffered as we'll,
also, as in her book entitled, IA Century of
Dishonor." In spite of all that has been
said, Gen. Vandever, who represents
the land in which the Mission
reservations lie, made strong
speech denouncing Mrs. Jackson's work in
behalf of these Indians. and alleging that
that the Indians are filthy. dirty, degraded
and worthless. Nevertheless, the prepon-
derance of testimony goes to show that in
spite of all their wrongs these Indians have
chung to their religion and their habits of
industry and thrift. as white people, under
similar outraRes hardly would have done.
Driven from theis homes. hiding IN barren
little canyon valleys. they have e1sdeavored
yaliantly to maintain themselves against
the iron hand of fate. It ID one of the
worst blots upon the history Of our coun-
try that these Indians should have been SO
long neglected and so brutally wronged. It
is to be hoped that the president will select
q commission that will turn its back on the
land sharks and robbers of California and
give these Indians their rights under titles
that shall endure against all fraud and
force and lift them up to citizenship.
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Two Companies Arrive Yesterday At
Fort Keogh from Fort
Assinaboine.
Others Expected to Report During
the Day at the Same
Place.
Col. Day and Command have Four Brushes
with Hostiles-The Killing of
Sitting Bull.

MILES Cry, Dec. 18.-[Special. Two
troops of cavalry arrived at Fort Keogh to-
day from Fort Assinaboine; one troop of
cavalry from the park and two from Fort
Custer are expected to arrive in a few days.
Capt. Frank Baldwin, of Gen. Miles staff.
arrived here tonight and to-day started
out with fifteen troopers to reconnoiter,
and report as to the most available dispo-
sitionof troops to be made in this section
of tho country. Capt. Baldwin was Gen.
Miles captain of scouts during the Indian
campaign following the Custer massacre
and is thus peculiarly fitted for the bus
mess in hand. Orders were received at
Fort Keogh tonight to have Lieut.. Casey
and his Indian scouts and the cavalry
which left here during the week turn south
on their scouting, as the Indians that es-
capped up the Grand river after the Sitting
Bull fight have turned south, probably to
seek shelter with the Indians at the Pine
Ridge agency. Lieutenant Casey and Cap
tain Adams will proceed with their COM
mand to Sinners camp near the junction of
Bell Fork, on the Cheyenne river, and send
ahead to communicate with Colonel Sum
ner. wherever he may be; all supplies, ra-
tions and forage will be forwarded from
Meade to that point. As every movement
Of the hostiles is being watched and reported
to the officers of the different commands, it
is not likely that the hostiles can take any
advantage of the troops.
Cowboys yesterday brought reports to
Terry, forty miles from here, that large
party of Sioux were crossing the Yellow
stone river some miles below. The town
was stampeded, the section boss and the
farmers living there leaving for either Miles
City or Glendive. As nothing mas trans
pired the railroad men went back this
afternoon. Nothing can be learned from
the military authorities as to whether or
not Indians are in this neighborhood. A
scoptinR party has been sent ont.
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Invited a Mill.

DUBLIN, Dec. 18.-At the meeting of the
corporation of Kilkenny to-day, some
members introduced and attempted to pass
resolution declaring in favor of Hem
messy, the parliamentary candidate of the
McCarthyites. The Parnell men objected
and the meeting was in an uproar Some
of the Parnell members in their enthusiast
ic support of their candidate. challenged
their opponents to fight. Finally the may
or, who is McCarthyite, and other sup
porters of Hennessy withdrew from the
meeting. The Parnellites therenpon. select.
ed chairman and passed a resolution ex-
pressing their confidence in their leader.
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BANDAGEs ON HIS EYES,

Parnell Goes Stumping Despite the Doc.
tors Protests.
DUBLIN, Dec. 18.-Pafnell left for Kill
kenny today to attend the meeting at Cores
Bridge and Gowrain. He left the hotel in a
closed carriage. His right eye was covered
with bandages. He went against the pro-
test OF his doctors, driving twelve miles in
the bitter cold. A large crowd met them,
and the meeting was held. Redmond made
speech, in which his references to the lime
throwing were greeted with cries Of
shame" Parnell addressed the crowd
briefly. and later spoke at Gowran, being
received with great enthusiasm.
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OVER A CLIFF,
An Uxorlcide's Death On the soahold-Hie
Crime.

An Uxoricide's Death On the scanbld-Hie
Crime.
WELLAND. Ont, Dec. l8.--Arthur Hoyt
Day, who murdered his wife BY pushing her
over cliff at Niagara Falls il July last.
was hanged at SOL o'clouk this morning.
The condemned man walked TO the scaffold
firmly and with II smile on his face. Day
committed bigamy under tho nams of Ar
thur Hoyt and his second vito having dis
covered his real name it became necessary
to decide between tho two women. H;
elected to live with his biRamons wife. Day
then took his first wife and his sistsx
to Niagara Falls, but of the three, only ~
and his sister returned about week after.
His second wife proceeded against him ~
.bigamy and his arrest followed. Whem
the trial commenced, Days sister guided 4,
detective to the place who're the body 81 I'm
first wife lay at the base of the cliM lt0 feeA
high. She testified to her brother's push
lowed, III IA 9ssa
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REsPoNsIBILITY roR CRIl9E
The Element o1 Hypnotism in - Eyxaasl
Fl TRIAL ~ ss III III SSssssS s3 8

Ii
The Element of Hypnotism in ~ xyraad
h Trial. HI II & sss isssSsss NJ IA
PARIs, Dec. 1s.--At the Eyraud trial a.
day, Or. Brouardel, who vas dspnti1ed u
examine into the mental condition of Mlle,
Bompard, expressed the conviotion that she
was perfectly responsible for her actions.
although she would como under the cate
CORY OF morally deficient" !" being a person
that would commit crime with indifference.
DR.. Sucreste, physician Of the Bompard
household. said he had hyr noticed Gabri-
ellie and believed IL possible that Eyraud
had. DR.. Brouardel denied the influence Of
hypnotism, and q stormy scene ensued. Dr.
Voisin, police physician, swore he had
hypnotized Gabrielle, but declined to entsr
into details. Her counsel asserted that
Voisin had important condolences from tha
prisoner and demanded that hs state them.
The public prosecutor opposed II. and
blamed voisin for having resorted TO hyp-
notism. The president or the court d.
cided that the matter ought 70 bs dropped.
The audience protested loudly and tho
court was cleared. 7%7ss
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THREE WE'RE CALLED.
But One Was Given His Firth Lsase -

But Ono Was Given His Fifth Lsass -
Life.
CoLUMBus, Ohio, Dec. 10. There va to
have been triple execution in tho Ohio
penitentiary tonight, and Gov. Campbell
last evening gave his fnal decision . to
why he would not interfere in either csse.
Smith was convicted OF the murder Of
Stephen Skidmore, in Pike county, and had
been given four.respites pending the inses-
tigation Of his guilt. Notwithstanding the
decision Of last night, Gov. Campbell to-
night gave audience to Bishop WAtterson
and Attorney Booth, ard consented 70 grant
another respite to March 70. Tho other
two men were executed. Elmer sharkey
for the murder Of his mother. ! widow.
near Estona, Preble county, Jan. ~. 1889;
and Henry Popp, for the murder o1 Morris
Grether. q saloonkeeper at Canton.
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THEY FOUGHT NOBLY.
Heroic Conduct of the Indian Police in the
Battle.

Heroic Conduct of the Indian Police in the
Battle.
ST. Paul. Dec 18.-The correspondent of
the Pioneer Press at Ft. Yates, N. D., was
one of the cavalry officers who participated
in the fight in which Sitting Bull met his
death. He telegraphed that paper tonight
a long and detailed account of the fight and
incidents leading up to it. Bull Head, who
was in charge of the Indian police. was a
bitter enemy of Sitting Bull. When the
courier from the police came back on the
road and notified the cavalry of fight, the
latter started forward on the gal
lop. The hostiles were in the
timber and were firing on the police, who
defended themselves from Sitting Bulls
house. few shells from the Hotchkiss
gun sent the redskins hurryinR up the river
ont of range. The policemen formed in
line and presented a fine appearance as they
received the soldiers, but the spectacle
few yards behind them was horrible in the
extreme. Eight cprpses lay about on the
ground riddled with bullets and mutilated.
Sitting Bull wes on his back and his face
hardly recognizable, SO shot up and
a number of the hostiles who escaped were
badly wounded. Police entered the camp
early in the morning and proceeded quickly
to Bulls house and surrounded it. Several
went inside and arrested Sitting Bull, when
he gave the alarm by yelling. Several Of
his lieutenants repeated it and the tipht
then began. The police stood their ground
in spite of tremendous odds
against .hem.
The dead are six in number. Their
names are Dionne, Ganvin, Blair, Leclair
and Winner, and an unknown Jewish ped
dler. It is thought two or three more
bodies are in the wreck. Winner was the
news agent on the train. Conductor WAL
ker was badly hurt and very few passen-
gers escaped without more or less injury.
Not less than forty people were injured. or
these, Mr., 4rs. and Miss Fuller, of Hail.
ifax: John Cote, of Egeryais; Thos. Foley.
Halifax; Michael Lebet, brakeman, Beau
clea, Everest Coyett, John simpson, Mon
treal; Mrs. Beauchemin, E. T. Farrold.
Able Miggneault, and another priest from
Sandy Bay. will probably die. The re-
mainder of the injured and suffering, from
broken limbs, severe scalp wounds andcon-
tusions.
Hundreds Of relatives of the killed and
wounded have gone to the scene and ex-
element il intense.
Catch-the-BeaY snd several other hostiles
rushed into tbs house and began nrino at
the police. Bull Head Vas shot in the leg.
He whirled ard put q bullet
into Sitting Bulls hsed and at
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FOR MONTANA.

Several Postmastors Appointed-Personsl
News-Pensions.
WAsH1NaroN, Dec. 1S.-[Special. Con
gresham Carter succeeded in grinding out
quite batch of postmasters to-day. At
Cannon Creek. Lewis and Clarke county,
Laura Mcdonnell was appointed, vice 4. J.
McWethy; Dearborn, Lewis and Clarke
county, ]. Levy, vice H. A. Milot: Ravalli,
Missoula county, L. s. Jones, vice q. A.
Stillmeyer; smelter, Cascade county, @. @.
Wheeler, vice Laubenheimer; Ubet, Fergus
county, G. NeRen, vice A. ]. Redding.
Surveyor General Geo. U. Eaton is in
Washington and yesterday testified before
the house committee on mines and mining
in reference to the rules and regulations to
be prescribed for the classification of min
eral lands under the pending bill.
Aaron Hershfield left here yesterday for
New York City.
s. S. Huntley is at The Arlington.
Mark Brayerton, of Helena, was to-day
allowed an original pension; Frank r.
Love, Marysville, was granted an increase.
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WILL CLOSE THE PASS.
Redskins viii BE Shut Up In the BAD
Lands.

Redskins VIII He Shut Up In the Bad
Lands.
DENVER. Dec. IA special from the
Sixth cavalry, on Cheyenne river. via Rapid
City. says: Major Perry's command joined
us early this morning. and scout, Gus
Craven, reports that near 6mithyille large
number of Indians were seen in the breaks
near small creek. A number of shots
were exchanged. While some government
wagons were crossing Spring creek they and
their escort were attacked by forty Indians
and over 100 shots were exchanged. One
soldier was wounded and another shot
through the hat. A troop ot Capt. Wells'
cavalry came to the rescue and the Indians
ran away. 8f
Craven reports having seen tepees which
contained 100 Indians, caneped. near the
mouth of Spring creek early this morning.
Troops were sent out. but the hostiles again
returned to the Bad Lands. Gen. Carr
sent nn armed party to guard the ranch
He was a nephew of Kicking Bear. Gen.
Carr sent a troop of cavalry up into the
Bad Lands to watch the movements of the
hostiles. A signal has been established by
the troop and our camp by three relays.
Should the troops be ATTACKED they were to
be reinforced from heres They reported
about seventy tepees in tho Indian strong
hold, and which are totally inaccessible.
The only known outlet for these Indians is
a trail which goes up Cottonwood and
across the road from Rapid creek to
Wounded Knee. This pass will be closed
Tomorrow by body of the Sixth infantry.
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Cannot be Exterminated.

BALTIMORE. Dec. 18.-The Jewish Expon-
ent will publish tomorrow letter from
Cardinal Gibbons on the subject of the per-
secution of Jews in Russia. In tho letter
the cardinal says all friends of humanity
must deplore this persecution. For his
part, he cannot conceive how Christians
can entertain that kind of sentiments to-
ward the Hebrew race, when it is consid-
cred how much We are indebted to them.
We have from them the inspired volume of
of our religion, his blessed mother. as we'll
AZ all the apostles, were all Jews, and
these facts attach him strongly to the Jew-
ish race. Long experience has shown that
no race Of people can be exterminated by
persecti0n.
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ical departure proposed to be inaugurated
in the character Of government. II the die
tates of the political faction that happened
to hold possession Of all the departments OF
the government were to be registered in
statute books, without debate, without dis
cussion. without examination: if rules and
usages and methods Of procedure that had
for hundred years obtained in the senate
were to be overthrown and.neither hcusa Of
congress to be any longer q deliberative
body, it was at least proper that the fact be
proclaimed SO that people might pass iudg-
ment on the political rarty responsible
for it.
Cullom addressed the senate. He ac-
cepted the bill as the best that could be
framed to meet the evils complained Of,
with the understanding that he should IA
vor the amendments that meet his approba-
tion. A duty was imposed upon the gov
ernment by the constitution and by the re-
| suits of thewar to protect the negroes Of the
south in his right to cast free ballot
and have fair count. He would be
pleased, if possible, to trust entirely to the
states themselves to do Justice at elections.
hut he felt impelled by a sense OF duty to
give his vote for the bill and would do &c
in the effort to put stop to lnwlessness in
southern states. He knew full we'll that the
passage Of the bill would give to the law
less element at the south an excuse for
mob violence and rebellion against national
authority, but he was sure that such re-
suits {hinted at rather than courageously
expressed) would not prevent the bill being
enacted and approved.
Bate then took the floor. He opposed the
bill because he believed it to strike at the
freedom of the ballot and tended to breed
disturbance and destroy the peace and quiet
of society. He believed it to be the most
prominent of many finger boards on the
political highway that pointed to empire.
Such legislstion in republican government
was at all times dangerous and vicious and
was especially 90 at the present time.
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FOR THE WORSE.
The Strike of Coal Miners In Alabama
Likely to Spread.

The Strike of Coal Miners In Alabama
Likely to Spread.
bIRMrSGHAM, Ala, Dec. 1S.-The coal
miners strike has taken such a serious
turn that it threatens to close every indus
try in the district. The Amaleamated AS
sociation of Iron and Steel Workers have
passed resolutions of sympathy and pledge
their support to the strikers. They agree
to refuse to work with coal mined by con-
vict or scab miners if the miners ask them
to do SO. Pat Mcbride, of the United
Mine Workers Of America, says that if he
cannot settle it he will call out all the iron
and steel workers. This means the closing
OF all the rolling mills. foundries and ma
chine shops, and 1900 more men will join
the ranks of the strikers. The strike has
already seriously injured business and
there seems to be no prospect of settle
ment.