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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-1-15, Page 2• MaWIFRa gosox. O'Shea Denies He BOld it for a Beat in Parliament OLADS1OP7E AND THE ORA MEN. A London cable eays : Having been havised that he cannot bring an action for libel with hopes ot snooese, 'Capt. O'Shea leas published a letter to die pave the truth of Timothy Healy's taunt that he lbartered his wife's honor to gain a seat in Parlia- ment. The letter is dated Stalbridge, Deo, 24th, 1890. The writer says : When I was a Liberal whip I did my beet to promote your (Mr. Healy's) caudidature as a Liberal and sup- porter of Mr. Gladstone at Middle Armagb, and afterwards tit Liverpool in 1885. I quote from a letter from Mr. Chamberlain to me, dated Deoember 18th, 1890, n which El Bays : 1 assume that you will take some no the rutal attack on you made by Mx Healy at ilikenny, although, unless I am inuch is - ken, you will have no legal remedy. His statements are entirely inconsistent with what I know of the general election of 1885. Accord- ing to ray recollection Mr. Parnell neglected at rst to give you any assiatance, and did not do so until he had seen letters from myself to another person pointing out that your services Sit the past es an intermediary between himself and the Liberal party had been of real advan- tage to both, and that such services continue equally necessary if it was desired to maintain eau kind of friendly relations between the Irish Nationalists and the Liberal party. Bespeeting Galway, I find that I wrote you to the same effect in January, 1886, which letter I authorize you to publiela if you think it useful. This cor- respondence ought to afford sufficient evidence that no such complicity existed as your traducer has been base enough to inainuae. I &leo quote from the above mentioned private letter from Mr. Chamberlain, under date of January 22nd,1886, in which he says : In the present condition of Irish affairs it is more than ever unfortunate that you have not found a seat. Is there any chance of your stand- ing for one of those now vacant hi Ireland? Surely there must be an interest in the Irish party to keep open channels of communication 'with the Liberal leaders. It any possible co- operation is expected, it is clear that a great deal of preliminary talk must be held, and I doubt if any Liberal leader is at present in doubt if any Liberal leader is at present in direct or indirect communication with the Irish representatives. Certainly I find myself very much in the dark respecting their intentions and wishes. Cannot you get Mr. Parnell's exequatur for one of the vacant eats?sIt is really the least he can do for you after all you have done for him. The Orangemen of Belfast recently for- warded to Mr. Gladstone a series of resolu- tions denouncing the Home Rule agitation, together with a letter bearing on the same alibied. Mr. Gladstone has replied in a mild and conciliatory way, saying that he is un- able to abandon the hope that they will yet make up their minds to follow the example of their forefathers, who obtained Home Rule a century ago. THE LAND HUNGRY. Chorookee Strip Boomers Move On—Officers Burning Their Houses. An Arkansas City despatole says: The rumor spread yesterday among the Cherokee Strip boomers that the Prude dent had issued his proolamation announo• ing thee the United States Commission , had arrived at an agreement with the Cherokee Indians for the purchase of the latter's land and declaring them open to settlement. Some 700 families camping just this side of the border moved over the line and staked their claims. Later in the day Commissioner Jordan arrived from Tahlequah and disillusioned the boomers with the announcement that the commis- sion had not concluded its negotiations and that the Government could not sell the lands. The boomers will spend Christmas in the promised lands and move back to their stations this side of the border to- morrow. Ten days ago the soldiers die. covered a colony of (seventeen families of Cherokee boomers along Black Bear River, 40 miles south of here, and burned their houses and ordered them out. They started, but as soon as the soldiers left they again settled down and have einoe been joined by many others. Sunday they held religious eervioes and over 200 were in attendenoe, and its estimated that at least 100 families are settled along that stream. A detachment of soldiers has left Camp Merritt to remove these persona from the strip. Thir houses will be burned, and it n000ssarl force will be used to get them oat. Hard on the Prohibitionists. A sped& to the New York Post from New Haven, Conn., sews :—Intelligence of the greatest importance as bearing on the con- tested Governorship has just been received in this city. It is the decision of Judge Hall, a Republican, in a contested judge of probate case at East Lynne. Judge Hall decides that a pester put on a blank tiptoe ,ander the title" judge of probate" on a Prohibition State ticket makes the ballot illegal under the State ballot law. On almost all the Prohibition ballots in this State the judge of probate candidates were left blank and the name was written for each probate district. Under Judge Hall's ruling this would throw ont some 3,500 Pro- hibition ballots in the State and elect Morris (Dem.) by a large majority. Judge Hall's decision is the more significant, as it gave the Democratic candidate the office in the East Lynne District. The Sharbpt Lake Murder. A Kingston chiselatoh says The inquiry respecting the murder of an infant at Sher - bot Lake by Petite Sherbet, an Indian, was commenced to -day at that plane. Cecilia Whitednak, wife of the murderer, gave evi- dence corroborating the report already published as to the brutal manner in which Ile naafi the ohild previous to its death. He killed it by striking ifi three time with a pair of tongs. He then threatened to kill his wife if she told of the murder. The body of the child was found in a plain pine board box and wrapped in a ehrond, ac- cording to the Indian custom of burying the dead. The jury returned a unanimous verdict of wilful murder by Peter Sherbet. FAMINE IN THE SOUDAN. Tushoands Dying of Starvattou—Whole 'Tribes Perish—The British, email nog Lind Locusts the Causes. A 1.4014011ottble says: The London Daily News oorreepondent at Buttkim telegraphs to-dey that the full magnitude of the famine that for eighteen months has ravaged the Soudan can never be known. It la only where Europeana have been present that some detailed interrelation has reached the outside world ae to the terrible condition of the people. The extent of the effeoted region is very great, in fact, trustworthy native amounts indicate that thore is not a town or district from the borders of Eeypt proper to Sennear, in the south from Dar. foor, in the west through Kordofan to the Nile provinces and east to the sea, that has not been during the past year aced a belt more than decimated by starvation. Not only the inhabitants of the plaints have suf- fered, but the misery has also leached the mountaineers from the Beni Amer country to Abyeeinia. The chief °enema of the famine are de. scribed to be: First, the insecurity of property, the natives being on this amount afraid to place too much ground under oultivation ; second, the partial destruction by dronth of the crops of 1889, the supply of grain being very defieient ; and third, the total failure of the winter orops of 1889. 90, the locusts having destroyed nearly every green thing. The cotton crop of Tokar and Duroor was also destroyed. The inhabitants of the country had to rely on the °oast ports for supplies, which were released by the Egyptien Government with a spare hand, causing unneoessery suffering to thousands of people. The oldest native inhabitant never saw the 'musts so thick as they have been this year. The country was visited eight times by the vast olonds of these rapaoione in- sects. The victims of the famine are so numerous that it is not an exaggeration to say that some sub -tribes of the Haden. dowes and Amerare have ceased to exist. The awful experience of the people has not, however, lessened their determination to maintain their freedom. The greatest sufferers among the tribes- men have been the families of those who in 1884 and 1885 arrayed themselves in battle against the English, Colonial, and Indian forces, and whose bones are still bleaching on the plains, in silent protest against the English attempt to place the people again under Egyptian rule. Now many widows and children lie unburied beside these breadwinners, starvation having found them easy victims. In some places in the Soudan the poorer °lame were forced to eat oats, dogs, rate and lizards, all vege- table food having disappeared. There have also been many undoubted oases of canni- balism, freshly interred bodies of the dead having been exhumed to satisfy the orevinge of hunger. Here and there a whole village is found deserted with skeletons of the dead remaining in some of the houses. The wealthy fared hardly better than the poor, as riches could not prooure food that did not exist. To add to the terrors of the situation smallpox broke out and spread over nearly the entire famine district. For the past two months there has been some improve- ment, and by the spring the people will probebly have regained their normal Con- dition, but they will not forget that the British and Egyptian authorities, by dosing the gates of Suakim ageinst them, are responsible for much of their terrible suffering. Was Wail Brent]. Murdered ? A Paris cable says: A onrious foot has been disoloeed in connection with the Gouffe case. When travelling to Lyons and elsewhere with Gabrielle Bompard and the trunk containing the body of the vio. tim, Eyrand aseumed the 'ems Emil Brettil. It comes out thet there was a real Emil Breuil, who went to America ten years ago, about the time Eyrand first waited that country, and he has never since been heard of by his family. A. brother df the missing man, a wine mer- chant in this city, has written to the Prooureur,General demendiug that an inquiry be mettle into the strange coinci- dence of the disappearance of his brother iltnd the appropriation of his tame by an assassin ten years afterward. The President haft proclaimed the Colum- bian Fair at Chicago tet begin May 1st, 1893, and coholude at the end of October. All nations and peoples are invited. Fora the Australian papers it is learned that Peter Jackson, the oolored prize-fighter, has joist been with great eeremony initiated into the mysteriee of Mationry by the " Generttl Gordon "Lodge Sydney. THE GREAT SUOTCH STRIKE. The Coal Supply Short—Hull Strikers Come to Terms. A Glasgow cable says: Following upon the announcement that mills, factories and docks were closing their gates, owing to lack of fuel caused by the railroad strike, comes the statement that the shipping trade of this pork will soon be at a stand- still, as the simply of coal for the steamers is almost entirely exhausted. Should this state of &flake continue much longer con- siderable suffering mast fall to the lot of the poorer classes of people, especially upon those who depend upon actual days' wages for their daily bread. Should the steam shipping trade come to a standstill here many other trades indirectly depending upon this shipping must also suffer. The steemship companies, it is understood, have ordered coal to be sent here by water, but several days at least must elapse before it can reach this port. AulEdinburgh cable says A a publics meeting held here to.day resolutions were passed expressing sympathy with the rail- way strikers. Many clergymen were preeent and delivered addresses. The pas- senger service continues to improve, and all mail trains are running regularly. There are, however, no eigns of a settlement with tbe strikers. The strikers at Hull have resolved to accept the manager's offer of an inoreeee of wages without a reduction of the number of working hours. The Glasgow strikers allege that men dismissed for color blindnees bave been re.employed by the railway companies. The Amalgamated Engineers' Association has donated £3,000 to the strike fund. The Northeastern Railway men on strike are being paid one day's pay weekly out of the fiend. Tempting Peaceable indians. A 'Wichita, Kase despatch says: The orders telegraphed from military head. quarters to Capt. Woodeon, of the Fifth Cavalry, to disarm the 'nihilists in the Cheyenne and Araphoe country have created the greatest anxiety among settlers in Oklahoma and on the borders of Texas, and genuine disgust among the troops. The Indians of the southweet reservations are peaceable enough now,and those who know the nature of the red man see in the proposed disarmament a menace to the continuance of the comparative quiet which no,w exists, The ghost - dancing is of a mild character. Taking away the anew of the Indians will, it is feared, arouse a epirit of resistance. United States Cheese. Chem in the United Stake is made entirely from the milk of °owe, and that of other animals is not need, but in many countries in Europe the milk of goats and sheep is extensively consumed for this /impose. Portenza is famous for ha sheep. milk cheese, from sheep's milk. The Spa"- etese make yeatly about 800,000 pounds, while in Sardinia the cheese made from the milk of sheep amounts yearly to 1,000,- 000 pounds. The sheep -milk cheese called "orate" of Siena, Tneoany, ie well 'mown, in Hoene of the Italien factories the milk of the theep, cow and goat it mixed in making cheese. Remember the American Colonies! The Government of India has notified its officiale to abstain from attending the sit. tirighl Of the National Indian Coneress, and in deference to this order most of the Euro - peens heves absented themselves At the eecond Bitting of the Congress a petition was adopted &eking the British Parliament to pees M Bradlerigh's bill, making a part of the Indian Council elective after the Viceroy shell have decided upon whom the franchise shall be cotiferre& A resolution favoring loud option in excise matters was also tidepted, XIDNIGRT CONFLAGRATION. A Great Fire Destroys Fifth .Avenue and 1 Herman's Theatres, Ie W Tork, 'A New York despatch says: Fire broke it in the Fifth avenue theatre shortly before midnight. Three alarms leave been gent. The audience and actors had all gone when the fire broke out. Fanny Wevenport is playing " Cleopetra " in the theatre. At 12.30 the flames, which had been confined in the theatre, burst through tee root. There is little prospect of any- thing being saved. .At 12,40 fierrnan'e theatre has caught ere. Here Herman has been giving exhi- bitions of his black art. Crooks' sporting store has &leo caught fire, and it looks now es if the whole block would go up in smoke. already the scenery of Fanny Davenport's ;audition of " Clleopatra is mostly &strayed. The audience had left the Fifth Avenue %eleetatre at 11,20, and Harry C. Miner was the last man in the building. He told some members of she orchestra that belied a foreboding that something was going to happen, and he walked all around the interior of the building to eee that every• thing was right. He even spoke of the poseibility of the theatre getting on fire. Although Mr. Miner satisfied himt3elf that there was not much danger of fire, the flames were discovered at 11.45. They spread quickly, and now (12.45) there is a probabiiity of several other buildings being burnt. The rear of the honees on Broad- way will be burnt, and it looks as if Her. MAE'S theatre will be destroyed. It is not yet known whether any persons were injured by the collapse of the roof. The Gilsey house is aleo threatened. Six die- tinot explosions have been heard from the interior of the sporting goods house of powder held there in some forrn in the stook. This warned the big crowd back out of danger's way. The firemen are working like beavere, while a strong breeze fans into fury the destroying flames. At- tention is now being mainly turned towards saving surrounding buildinge. At 1 o'clock the wind veered from north to east, and the top story of the Sturtevant house caught fire. The firemen eleiated their ladders, and climbing up smashed the windows and shouted to the guests. Nearly all of the gueste, however, had taken flight, and the excitement wee intense. A good part of the Sturtevant will be destroyed. The sparks were blown as for as Third avenue. Broadway, in the vioinity of the fire, is lined with , policemen, driving back the orowde.e It is the Gilsey building, not Gilsey house, that is threatened at this hour (1 a. m.) The front well of this building is expected to fall at any moment. Harry Miner, of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, plaoes his loss at $125,000. Magician Herman stirs it cost him $55,000 to refit hie present theatre. Besides this he lost $25,000 worth of theatrical effots and coetumes. In the Gilsey building, Augustus Piton, Harry Taylor, Arthur Miller and several other theatrical managers had their offices. They lost everything contained in them. LONIDOWS RIG FIRE, Two, Minton Dolleitsrt*:.0yeWiZtli of Property o A London cable Bays: 'The fire origin- ated in the building occupied by 0. David. son at San, paper and paper felt mai-info°. wirers and paper bag makers, at 119 Quart -Victoria street. Thi e building extended beck to 'Upper Thamee street. It was a large etruoture and was completely gutted, as was also that of Adolph Franken tts Co., ananufacturers of pipes and importers of tobecoo, at 121 Queen Viotoria street. old St. &neer, Church, Paul's wharf, a famous Welsh chard], caught fire, it blazing steeple forming one of the THOM striking features of the terrible scene. The firemen et one time obtained control of the flawiee sit thie point, and the oonflagtation was for e time arrested. At 4 30 pais. four large blocks of buildings were in flames, burning steadily. At 5 p. D3. St. Benet's Char& again caught fire and was oompletely de- stroyed. 'Dee fireman saved the Salvation Army headquarters. The Are finally burned itself out. The clepartment,vvith 29 engines, is still pouring water on mountains of smouldering debris. A rough estimate of the damage places the amount at $1,500,000, but $2,000,000 may eventually prove to be the loss. 6 p. m.—Later idvicee stet° that parte of St. Benet's Church were not destroyed. The weather was no cold that the water froze almost in the air and formed ice all over the fire apparatus and over the fire- men. The cold also hindered the engines from vvoreina smoothly. When the firemen festened two ladders together to climb to a point of vantage their fiagere and hands were so numbed with cold they were unable to grasp the rungs of the ladders. There was no loss of life and but few accidents among the firemen. Tht cause of the fire is unknown. The damage is now estimated at $2,000,000. Revilon Freres recently re- ceived $500,000 worth of sealskins, which were almoet entirely oonsumed. TUT POI4ON FIEND. An her Diabolical Attempt at Poisoning With Candy. A St. John, N. B., despatch says: Another case of wholesale poisoning comes to light under peculiar oironmetences. A reporter vieited Patrick street last night, where a number of Scotch Gipsies live. In thie locality reside Hugh Stewart, his wife and family of nine, in a little upstairs flat, the kitchen of which answers almost every requirement. The family, eleven of them, were strewn about in every direotion ; temperature, "80 in the shade." It was a jolly family gathering, however, and the more so because four of them had recently gone through the experience of poisoning and recovered. On Friday night last a veiled woman gave one of the boys a pack age of candy. This was taken into the house and immediately opened, the mother, the eldest daughter, a small girl and a smaller boy partaking sparingly of the contents. In a moment the four were violently ill, and only by the free use of emetics were their systems cleared of the poisonous mixture. The eldest girl's ill- ness, the symptoms of whioh were dizz- nese, faintness and nausea, was more serious than thee of the othere, but she finally recovered. The father was hastily summoned, and after the recovery of his family he burned the reet of the candy, and it is not known what poisonous ele- ment wee mixed with it, nor can it be aecertained. The identity of the woman is unknown, but steps will probably be taken to discover her. HANDY WITH THEIR GUNS. Murderous Affray in a Mississippi Town— The sheriff Laid out. A Lumberton, Mies., despite% says: Davieton, a small town one and a half miles below here, was the scene of a shoot- ing affray yesterday, in which four men were shot, one being killed instentlyee two others fatally wounded. The )rouble originated from a fight at a party oxie- Christmas evening, near Red Top, between F. T. Faure, one Parker, Neal Strahan and John Hickman, when Faure fired on the crowd, killing Parker and dangerously wounding the other two. Faure was arrested and placed in Ellisville jail by Justice of the Peace Cooke, of district No. 1. Justice Smith, of district No. 2, die - patched Deputy Sheriff Stookstill with the necessary papers to obtain Faure's release on $600 bond. Sheriff J. H. Shivers, upon hearing of his release, summoned his deputies and came to Dayiston on a train to rearrest Faure. Just as the train came to a belt the firing began. Faure was killed instantly, and Sheriff Sbivere was shot through the left lung with a Win- chester ball. Deputy Sheriff T. R. White was shot in the lef t side with a pistol, the ball passing through his right side. Both the latter are pronounced mortally wounded. A LITTLE WAB. Some of warneeie's Men Indulge In a New Year's Day Riot. A Pittsburg despatch says : The strike of the ,Hungerian furnaoemen at tbe Edgar Thomtion steel works, at Braddock, resulted in & serious riot to -day. The Hungarians quit work at midnight. About 100 men re. mained at work repairing furnaces. About one o'olook 200 strikers armed with clubs, picks, shovels, revolvers, iron bars and other weapons, attaoked the furnace men. The men at work were unprepared, but bravely stood their ground. The Hun- garians need their weapons freely, and men were knocked down, clubbed, bruised and unmercifully beaten. The Hungarians were finally beaten off, when it was found that Michael Quinn was fatally hurt, Andrew Kramer, John Neason and Petrick Briggs, all workmen, bed been seriously wounded, and a dozen others more or lees injured. The sheriff has sworn in 200 deputies, and ordered all the saloons in Braddook to be closed. Five rioters were placed in jail to -night. "HAVE MERCY 1" Mamie Starr. the Girl Poisoner, Goes to Prison for Life. A Chicago despatch says: Mamie Starr, the domestic who poisoned her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Newland, eoreamed and fainted away this afternoon when Judge Dregge overruled the rnotion of her attor- ney for & new trial. On being revived, the prisoner was asked if she had anything to sey why the sentence of life imprisonment should not now be formally announced. The girl shrieked " Have meroyl Have mercy " The judge, greatly affected, spoke the sentence in a low Yoke, and the prisoner, again overcoroe, fell to the floor rigid. She wag carried out into the jail in an unconsoious condition. The Doctors' Puzzle. An Orange, N. J., despatch says; The doctors in this vicinity are marvelling over it most extraordinary occurrence. They have renseoked the records and can find no date equally strange. On November 198h lest, Mrs. John Sullivan, Farrow street, this city, gave birth to a baby, which wee etrong and healthy and is doing well. Mrs. Sallitlan recovered from her dolmen and proceeded with her household duties niitii Tuesday lost, when she gave Meth to a second child, also strong and healthy. The attending phew:ion, surprised at this ab- normel event, called in a dozen of the moat prominent phyeitelans in Orange. Although an old practitioner himself, he timid not amount for the oconrrenee, nor could his olleagnes. —During a po Awed cempaign e town often suffers from tt-luit journal. TIRED OF LIFE. A Would-be Wife Murderer Attempts Suicide by Hanging. A Saginaw despatch Bays : At the oonnty jail yesterday one of the prisoners, Charles Mil:er, the man who was arrested and bound over last weea for attempting to kill his wife by stebbing ber in the beak with a knife, hanged himself to the door of his cell. He was ont down before life was extinct by Turnkey Timmone,and is slowly recovering. Miller was confined in a double cell in which there were two beds, he own- pying one and a prieoner named Henry Webber the other. Webber states that he was awakened by Miller's arising from the bed and going towerds the door. He thought that Miller was only going to ase what time it wee, and therefore soon dropped off to Bleep &gain. Awakening B000 afterwards, he sew Miller hanging in front of the door. He immediately went up to him, and finding the body warm, held him up and ova the alarm, the other prisoners joining in the outcry. Turnkey Timmons promptly responded and out him down. Dr. Krause, the city physician for the West ,Side, yeas summoned, and, assisted by Timmons and a prisoner, worked ovt r the man all night, finally enc. oeeding in fanning the spark of life into active existence once more. The rope used by him ooneisted of a portion of his cloth- ing torn in strips, and a pocket handker. chief, which he tied through a hole over the door and, pulling his bed up, adjusted the noose end then shoving away hie support, hung suspended with his feet about two feet from the floor WAR IN THE I3AD LANDS. Reported Heavy Fighting in Whieh the Red Men Succeed. BURNING SCHOOLS AND OHUROHES. A Linooln, Nele, despatch says: Specials to the Journal, dated the 2ad, from Pine Ridge, give definite rumore relative to the reported engagement between Gen. Carr's commend and the Indians in the Bad Lands. These will indicate that the troope had been driven book and o number killed, but it cannot be coneidered authentic. Scouts who have returned from other hos. tile camps, however, bring anything but reassuring reports. The Indians will not lieten to pesos propoeitione. A small detaohment of troops has been sent to the Beene of Mondayee battle on Wounded Knee, where many boduse of the Indians slain remain yet. These will be either buried on the ground or brought to the agency. INDIAN RUNNEBS OUT. IA. special he m }et » i , D, says : It is reliably reported that the hostile Indians have sent ont runners to all Indian camps notifying them of a battle, and calling upon them for aid. One runner has appeared among the Indians up Bad River, anti has been using every means to incite them into joining the conflict. The proper army officials have been notified, and are no doubt on the lookout for the runnere. The principal Indian trader at Ft. Pierre, Mr. Ketchum, says he has sold more red paint to the Indians within the lest few days than for years. The Indians are engaged in carrying large quantities of supplies between here and Fa Bennett. Capt. Tessin has telegraphed for rations for 80 people in Ft. Pierre, who have left their homes on account of the Indian trouble. GALLO IN 8 PHUT. -- An Irish Murderer Sentenced to be Hanged on Feb. end. A. Deblin cable atm,: At the Nenagh Assizes t eday Bartholomew Sullivan, a farmer, was placed on trial charged with complioity in the murder of Patrick Fla- hive, at Bellyhaugh, in the county Kerry, in August laet. It was alleged that the actual murderer, Patrick Kennelly had es- caped to America. The motive for the crime wars the announcement made by Flahive of his intention to out the crops on a farm from which the tenants bad been evicted. The jary deliberated over the cess for Iwo hones and finally returned with a ver- dict of guilty. In reply to the question of the Judge as to whether he had anything to say why sentence ehotild iert be pronounced upon him the prieoner eaid : '1 am not a bit in dread of the Highest Judge, my Lord, the next Judge won't condemn me for it." Sullivan was then sentenced to 'be hanged in Tralee on Feb, 2nd. The Scotch Strike. A. Glasgow cable says: The directors of the North British Railway Company to. day determined to momenta the etrikers to the fulleat extent of the law. No expense will be spared by the company in its efforts to obtain redress for what iis claimed as an unwarranted interference with ite business The directors also resolved to completely close their railroad lines nether than yield to the etrikene demands. The etrikers were enraged by the announcement 10 day that the railroad officials weitld not pay the strikers any portion of the wages now due them. This action was taken tmon legal advice pending e deoieion from the courte as to the velidity of the contraote exieting between the company end its employeets. It is feared thio aotion on the part of the company may exeite the strikers to deeds of violence. Shell I wire you again 2" issid the barbed fetee to the bull, WANT TO COME IN. A Washington deapatch says : Gen. Soho - field yesterday morning received the follow- ing telegram from Gen. Miles, dated Pine Ridge: Jan. 2.—There its a report from the Indian camp this morning that Red Cloud and Little Wound are determined to come in with their following. Their lives have been threatened by the hostilee, who are determited to go to war. There is also a report from the same source of an engage- ment between the Indians and the cavalry, in which quite a number of soldiers were killed and some Indians. If this is correct it is probably on the line of the White River. Gen. Brooke now has command of that line, and will give the necessary dire°. tic ns. Uen. Schofield said to a reporter after this telegram had been given out that nothing additional had been received up to the present time. "1 think," he said, " this despetch throws a favorable light upon the situation. We are still encourag- ing Gen. Miles and he is encouraging us, and I still have hope thee we shall yet be able to get the Indians into camp without a fight." INCENDIARISDI BY HOSTILES. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs to- day received from Indian Agent Royer the following telegram, dated Pine Ridge Agency, Jan. 2nd: Nos. 2 and 3 day school buildings and Episcopal Church, all located on White Clay Creek, a distance from the agency, were burned by hostile Indians. About 3,000 men, women and children are camped near the mouth of Gress Creek, fifteen miles northeast of the agency, who are hostile and refuse to come into the agenoy as requested by the military. They are committing all kinds of depredations and living off our agenoy beef herd. Little Wound, Big Road, Red Cloud, and their people are among them, and it is reported they want to come into the agency, but Two Strikes, Short Ball, Kicking Bear, end their people object end say they will kill the first one that starts to the agency. Report has it that Red Cloud is desirous of ooming in to hie home. DIED BY THE ROADSIDE. A Young Irish Bride Found Dead With Poison Beside Her. A Belfast cable says: Seven weeks ago & miner named McDowell, who had acquired o fortune by diamond digging in South Ahem, married a handsome young woman at Kimberly. Griqualand. Atter the solemnization of the marriage the newly -married couple sidled for Ireland, where they intended spending the honey- moon. In the course of their tour through Ireland • McDowell and hie young wife visited Bangor, twelve miles distant from tale city. Yesterday the body of the bride was found lying by the roadside with a bottle which contained poison by her side. The tragedy has created a decided seem - tion, and the theory of suicide is by no meane undisputed. The police are reticent, declining to give out more then the facts above set forth. The husband of the dead woman hes not yet been placed under arrest. A.is the inquest thie afternoon Mr. Mc- Dowell testified that his wife had com- plained of his frequent absence at night, and that be returned to his hotel Saturday night under the influence of liquor. He discovered Mrs. PdoDowell had gone out, but thinking that she would return he did not search for her. In the morning as she was still missing he boon an investigation and found thet before leaving the hotel she had destroyed scrip worth £2,000. The jury returned a verdict that Mrs McDowell committed suicide during a fit of temporary insanity brought on by her husband's neglect and drinking habits. MURDERED THREE PERSONS. Tragedy in a Quiet Hungarian Mining Town in Pennsylvania. Wilkesbarre despatch stays : The min- ing hamlet known as Bruderick'a Patch, eix miles from here, was thrown into excitement to.day over a terrible tragedy, which resulted in the death of three per- sona by gnn-shot wounds. Tbe facts eppear to be as follows: John Tirello, Flungerien, who had been in the hamlet for a few days, entered the saloon of Michael Curley, and in the preeance of the latter's 5 -year-old daughter, Mamie who was holding an intent, shot Mrs. Mamie, who was working at the weele-trib in the front part of the bar -room, and then shot Curley, who bad just come down stairs. Tamil° next ehot Michael Hadok, a Hungarian, who died instantly, and then laying the revolver upon the prostrate form of Curley decamped for parte unknown. He has been tracked ars far as the stone bridge at Wyoming, three miles away. The shot entered Mrs. Curiey'e head frorn the back, and the died inatently. Curley was shot through the forehead, and lived two hem. There were apparently only five persons in the room at the time of the ehooting. The cause of the shooting is not esplained. Charley's child is too young id Wake an intelligible statement. The theory that Tirello aid the ehooting is the most reeeonable, but there are a few persons who think Curley shot kook in an altercation, end Tirello, who was inertia elated, did the rest of the shooting. The former theory in probably °erred. THE INDIAN SCARE. An Elaborate Story of a Great Moment, Plot That Flailed. AN ENGAGEMENT REPORTED. A Chicago despatch says : Specials from the camp near Wounded ICtiee give particulars of another engagement which took place there yesterday. A detachment of 30 men had been eent from camp to , meet a waggon train with supplies for oamp and when ten miles out the waggons were found beseiged by a band ot 100' redskins. On seeing the troops approach - the Indiana scattered, but immediately returned to the attack on finding the small number of men in the detaolement. A courier was sent back to oarnp for reinforce- ments, but in the meantime an incessant fire was kept up on both sides, resulting in . the wounding of one soldier and killing and wounding of several Indiana, the exult num- ber of which could not be asoerteinecl, ate the reds carried their dying and wounded away. About three hours after the courieWe departure troops was seen coming at full gallop to the rescue. As the troops. rode up the Indians scattered in all direct- tione, and troop " F" pursued them, but - abandoned the chase on account of dark- ness. The waggon -train wee then esoorted. to oamp. PREPARING TO SLAUGHTER TEE RIMS. A special from Pine Ridge says every- thing now points to a battle between the hostiles and the friendly Indians Tito de- sire to leave the hostile oamp and come to the agency. Red Cloud has signified his desire to return to the agency, but he is nearly blind, and no one will volunteer to lead him in, for the Brules threaten death to the first person tbat attempts to desert the hostile band. The older Indians want to come in, but the young bucks insist on fighting. The cordon of troops is drawing together around the hostiles. The hostiles are now on guard night and day. , Fires are being burned at night to prevent any- one from escaping from their camps. Gen. Miles has sent a peace commission to the hostiles. If they still refuse to come in their clamp will be bombarded. Machine and shell guns are being placed on all sides of the camp for this purpose. Gen. Miles is fast becoming impatient, and if the Indians do not obey the order to come in he will attack them. A VERY ROMANTIC TALE. A. special to the Denver ItccAy Mountain., News from Pine Ridge received this morn- ing says : Sunday night will not soon be forgotten by any one who spent it at Pine, Ridge. The Sabbath day had opened bright and clear. The church bells rang end the three pastors had large congrega- tions. In the afternoon toward 3 o'clock; it was noticed the squaw men and half- breeds were excited and hurried from one, point to another with gime in their hands. Inetntly every one was on the alert and running down the ravines. It was found half e dozen squaws had been given the hint to leave, that a party of war bucks had visited the camp of friendlies, so called, who are oamped within a mile of the agency, and urged them to help to massacre all the agency. The Indians have alwayet been permitted to come in, and during the day and evening to wander around the , agency at wil , oarrying guns. The plan was to gather in the town late in the even- ing, and at a given signal for each Indian, to pick out his man and kill him. The success of such a pion was self-evident. There are lees than 500 soldiers here, and, they are on the far outskirts of the village at their earthworks. Snob a force, with their cannon, could keep a large number of` Indians at o distance in the daytime, but at night the picket line is necessarily weakened and drawn out into too long a line to hold back any rush, while the. cannon are uselese. The hostiles were to be close at band, and as soon as the firing began they were to rush in. The citizenm and reporters, as well as the soldiere, soon, learned the news- Many a man thought of this or that Indien with whom he had quarrelled, and kept sharp watch to see that no one was behind him Finally the half-breeds informed certain Indian e that - the scheme was known, and told the bucks to leave or the soldiers would make it warm for them. In an hour there, was not an Indian in camp except the uni- formed scouts and police. Many a dark. look wee paseed and ugly words spoken be- tween the whites end reds during that hour of stampede. Over 25 'squaw men and their families drove with frantic speed for settlements along the railroad. Houees, and hotels were abandoned, everyone going after a hasty apology for supper tot some store or warehouse where there was a. chance for resititance. Even Gen. Miles re- mained up until 3 o'olook in the morning. There are not near enough troops here. A. battle is expected every day with the Indiane, end it will be one of the hardest. in the annals of Indian warfare. The troops - have the Indians surrounded on the east and west and north, and an attack will drive them into tbe agency. where the main battle must be fought. The enemy number over 4,000 men, women and chil- dren, with half that many to attack us in the rear. The scene as the town moved into the etronger buildings was one of in- describable confusion, as men with guns in, their bands and the grim look of war their faces escorted crowd after crowd of frightened women end weeping ohildren to the apologies for etrongholde. No one wants to see a repetition of the scene. TWO FLAG .11—EN KILLED New Year's Day Fatalities in the Detroit Railway Yards. A Detroit despatoh says e At 930 yes- terday morning Russell L. Tyler, aged 74, employed as a flagman at the Beaten avenue orossing of the Michigan Central Railroad, was struck at that crossing by the rear car of a freight train whioh was backing down, and instantly killed, A. minute before be left his 'shanty, evidently impressed with the idea that he had heard a locomotive whistle, walked on to the, middle traok, where he conic' look up and, down the track, and didn't notice the. freight which was backing down upon him. Not until Viriewood avenue was reached. did the trainman discover the old flagman's. body, which was frightfully tnangled, and wee so tightly wound around the oar exle that it was necessary to raise the car from, the track before it could be taken out. At 5,50 yesterday afternoon the flagman at ths., Sixteenth street railroad crossing of the Bay City end Lake Shore roads, while standing on the Bay City track watching a train on the Lake Shore road, was struck by an incensing passenger train on the Bay City road, killing him instantly. 1' The Pulr Wee Raggit Weal's." A Danbury, Conn, despatch says ; pitiful ease of cruelty wag brought to notice on Wforicley night, when four small children ot Thermo Henry were fOnda half' frozen on tbe steps of their tether's house,. on Paelignioque avenue, at midnight. The thermometer was at Z Jro, and the children were in their night dressee, having been taken from bed and thrown out of the, house by their drunken father.