Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1858 — Latter from Kansas. [ARTICLE]
Latter from Kansas.
, _ ' St, I,oris, June 5. A dispatch from Leavenworth, dated the 3d, says th it a trcHneudous rain-storm visited that city on Wednesday morning, flooding the cellars. River bankJ ; ull and rising. General Calhoun and Tardily arrived this morning. Colonel Andrews’ column was at Fort Kearney on the 28t.h uit. An express from Laramie,.which arrived here on the Ist, met Colonel Monroe at Big Rlue, and Colonel May at Clear Creek. The same express left the Fort yesterday for Camp Sco(t. Another dispatch, dated tile Ith. says that an aflray took place at La whence yesterday between General Line anil Mr. Jenkins, a. prominent citizens of that place, resulting in the death of Jenkins. Ail old animosity existed between the parties, growing out of a disputed land-claim. The mail reached here yesterday from Utah, April 16, which bring* the confirmation of the entry of Governor Cummings into Salt Lake City, but no other news not already published.
