Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1885 — THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE WEST.

Maurice Huegy, a in the wrecked banking-house of Ryhynder & Co., at Highland, 111., who was about to be arraigned as an embezzler, killed himself with a revolver. A similar course was taken by Charles F. Gay, a railway auditor at Marquette/ Mich., whose body was found in the woods... .Fire destroyed the business section of Medford, Wis., together with a large quantity of lumber. Twenty-six business houses were burned. The loss is placed at $200,000, with light insurance..... Nufer’s shingle mill, at Whitehall, Mich., with 14,000,000 shingles, was burnqd, the total loss reaching. $42,000; uninsured. Twelve buildings were consumed at Phoe- > nix, A. T., with a loss of $75Q000 and insurance of $40,000. .A young woman in St Louis, giving the name of Flora E. Downs, claiming to be a newspaper writer from England, broke the show window of a jewelry store and took out some goods in order to secure shelter and food in prison. ~. .In the test case at Cleveland, Ohio, for playing ball on Sunday, Sommers, of the Cleveland Club, was convicted, but the case will be taken to a higher court The Indian news from New Mexico and Arizona at this writing wears an ugly look. A Tucson (Ari.) dispatch reports: A band of Indians attacked Phillips' ranch, about three miles from Fort Bayai d, and killed old Mr. Phillips, his son Gen. Phillips, his wife, and two children, aged 3 and 5 years, and hanged the oldest girl on a meat-hook, which entered the back portion of her head, in which position she was found by a party of rescuing citizens. She died within a few hours. Those ' killed by the Apaches number now thirty-six men, women, and children. The following is sent from Silver City, N. M. : The Apaches are still making bloody trails through this section. It is now thought that three or fotir different bands are committing depredations and murders in as many sections of territory. The hostiles are thought to number about 300. Four chiefs are with them— Geronimo, Nana, Naetcha, and Chihuahua. This morning the live bodies of a Mexican family, consisting of a man, his wife, and three children, were found five miles from here. One other person is known to have been killed in the same vicinity. Numerous ranches on "Bear Creek were sacked, the horses stolen, and the cattle killed. The Indians approached within four miles of Fort Bayard. Three troops of cavalry are now In pursuit. It is reported that a band of Indians are doubling back on an old. trail in the direction of Bear Creek. This band numbers seventy-five to eighty. Another . band on the Gila River drove off 130 head of horses. Two couriers are missing. Three more prospectors have been killed on the south fork of the Whitewafer. Joseph Bupting. killed on Magollon Creek, made a brave fight, kiUifig two Indians, one a chief. The fight was witnessed by Bunting’s partner,, who was just coming ihto camp. He succeeded in killing two Indians before getting away. News has just been received of additional killings in the Black Range. Families from all the surrounding country are in town. Touching the cause of the present outbreak, the following is telegraphed from Washington: From correspondence transmitted by the War Department to the Indian Bureau, it appears ■that the Apache Indian outbreak was caused by whisky. The Indians manufactured large quantities of “tiswin" and became intoxicated. Knowing that punishment would follow the infraction of the rules they abandoned the reservation and went on the war-path. Cbop prospects in the Northwest are improving. In Indiana and Wisconsin everything looks promising, though corn is somewhat backward Reports receivedin San Francisco place the shortage of this year’s wheat crop on the Pacific coast at 26,500,000 bushels as compared with 1884..,..' Gen. Terry ordered the release of Gabriel Dumont, the Canadian rebel, who had been held a prisoner at Fort Assinajjoine, Montana, as the existing boundary laws confer no right to detain him....ln anger, John Motter, a wealthy fanner of Find ay, Ohio, - ■Struck his 12-year-old son a heavy blow, breaking his neck and causing instant death. ....Louis Beaume. a French Canadian coming from the West, became a raving maniac on the Wabash train. After the train had left Peoria he drove all passengers from the chair-car which he occupied, and kept everybody, including police officers called in at the several stations, at hay, until the train arrived in Chicago. The first shot be filed at the depot killed Police Officer Barrett, and it took a long time to disarm and secure him. Lieut Laughlin was badly wounded while * '\' - ’

straggling th secure the maniac, who himself received three shots in the buck which may prove fatal. 1 " • 1 “No Indian raid for the last ten years equaled the present outbreak for cruelty," says a dispatch from New Mexico. “All along the Gila River out from Silver City to a distance of seventy miles,, the bleaching remains of whole families hnve been found, which tell the tale of how outrageously the Apaches have broken Gen. Crook's poor peace policy. Men, women, and children have been butchered unmercifully. 'A gentleman from Silver Citv tells a heartrehding tale “of Apache inhumanity. He was one of a party of thirty-four citizens who went out the other day to protect their families, who were surrounded by Apaches on Bear Creek and along, the Gila. Before making twelve miles they had persons, two of whom were women. All the bodieswere hacked into unrecognizable 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 suffered like fates, their bodies being mutilated terribly. This gentleman confirms the reported murder of Col. Phillips and The daughter was hung up alive by a meat-hook stuck in the back of her head. Mrs. Phillips’eyes are gouged out, her ears and breasts cut off, and her body otherwise brutally mangled. The bodies are heartrending and sickening sights.” A Santa Fe dispatch says that the total number of murders known to have been committed by the Indians reaches seventy-fivfe.