Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1890 — Page 6

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When Mr. Parnell say* that Mr. Gladstone is not to be trusted as a friend of the Irish people and a charnpioa of. their right* and interests, he shows himself to be most unjust and ungrateful. The Irish cause'owes the greater part of its strength and popu* larity to Mr. Gladstone's sincere and unselfish devotion, and Its chances of ■ucofess will diminish very rapidly in ease his services shall be lost for any reason. Parnell is one of the thousands of men and the scores of men eminent in history who have been wrecked by women. There is no influence in the world so powerful lor geod as thato* the woman who is what we all know our mothers and sisters to be. and there is nothing more demoralizing than the impulse given to a man by a bad woman. It is strange, too, that some of the victims of such enticements have been those who would resist any other ordinary, temptation. The more sensitively constituted the person, the more likely he is to play his career against a smile and his reputation for a kiss. "It is only fair tossy, however, thaiMr. Parnell lias never in his pjb11c life, manifested the least sensitiveness.

Lord Wolseley has a very poor opinion ©f the white trader in Africa. He says it is useless to appeal to his humanity or feelings. Tho average trader, he 6ays, does not care whether the vile alcohol he sells claims more victims than war or pestilence, or whether the arms he barters for oil and ivory cause large districts to be laid waste by the slave dealer. If he only grows rich ho cares nothing for all the suffering he may inflict, though Lord Wolseley adds that the mouth of this same trader is often filled with moral platitudes when he speaks in ■Europe on African topics. Lord Wolseley thinks African questions should be settled by the European powers, without any regard for the wishes or opinions of African tradersThe modern ocean steamer is an enormous craft. Those of the larger •ize have as many as fifty-four furnaces, which create steam in nine enormous steam boilers. There are furnaces to each boiler, and ten Bremen to each furnace—or sixty firemen in all. Only half of them ar e on duty &t once- thirty at a time*-the shifts changing every four houis. They feed the furnaces with fifteen tons of coal an hour—two tons for each fireman daring his four hours’ shift, or 340 tons a day for the steamer. The work of a fireman is hard, and not relieved by a sight of sea, sky or land. JJ© is a sort of prisoner in a heated dungeon. The pay of a fireman is S2O a month. His life—bo. tween heat, exposure and riotous dissipation when ashore—is short. The maximum age of the class is 45 years.

• TH* unseemly wrangles that have marked the preliminary efforts to organize the Columbian Exposition—announced to be held iw 1893 instead of 1892, as should have >eeu the case—'•'yiltcerttfliiTy work againstr the ests of the fair and may result in something very near a National disgrace. We, on this side of the water, understand how largely the rival interests of Chicago people are responsible for the squabble, but it will not be easy to convey to the mind of the foreigner an appreciation of this fact. Unless he ha 6 made a study of the political system in this country, he will hold the United States at large responsible for the acts of the State of Illinois and the city of Chicago. In fact, ha will be to a degfeo justified in doing this, for the reason that the Congress of the United States designated Chicago as the place for the holding of the fair.

gregated monopoly of f bo Gould*, Rockafeilers aud Vanderbilts now owns every independent railroad west of Chicago, and, excepting the Pennsylvania and Lackawana, nearly every considerable road east of it.. Tbe recent large purchases of the Rockefellers have increased tbe grasp of this octopus, so that it now holds the Pacific Mail Steamship company, the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe, the Southern Pacific and the Northern Pacific. The enterprise is one of threat ening proportions, and the latest purchases will be made to accrue to the benefit of the Standard Oil company—the greatest monopoly in America. There stems now to be 6imply no limit to the extension of the railroad com—blaatioß and Jay Gould’s eherished ideal of one company controlling every road in the country is nearer it* cation thah aver before. ■ i • #. 9 •• 1. i

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A fire did $183,W00 damage at Athol, Mavs. , on t :ic Slat. Spotted fever is decimating the little town of Fairfield’ Texas. Ingalls has a very poor shew of being re elected Senator from Kansas. ■ ■ : Gen. Custer* widow believes Sitting Bulls death to have been a good thing. Signor Succi. an Italian, completed a fast of forty-five days at New York an thefiOUL Oswald Ottendorfer has sold the Now York Slants Zeuung to Herman Hodden for «1,0 X),000. Prominent Mormons have come into possession of 3,000,000 acres of land in Northern Mexico. A general strike of tho switchmen, fire*, men and trainmen on all tho roads centering at Pittsburg is threatened. Isaac Smith, Elmer Sharkey and Henry Popp, murderers, wera hung in theColum bUs (O.) penitentiary on tho 19lh. MaJ. Gen. Alfred H. Terry, of tho army. Cook’s predecessor in tho command of the West, died at New Haven, Conn., on the lfltb. Christ Kheiling, a tailor of Dayton, 0., Who put $3,C00 in a cigar box and buried it for safety, nas been robbed of the whole amount. The presiding judge has refused to quash the Indictment against ex-State Treasurer Noland, ot Missouri, oharged with embezzlement. The temperature at Lydonvllle, Vt., on the 9th, was 30 degrees below zero. Ice on the Kennebec at Augusta, Me., is from 6 to S inches thick. —— A gang of men on a new railroad in Wayne county, West Va., attempted to throw out frozen dynamite on the 21st Two of them were killed and ten permanently crippled.

Mrs. Washington Anderson, over ninety years old, Was buried at Dubuque, la., on the 20th. It is claimed that she was the last living representative of the family of George W ashington. There is a proposition before tho Kentucky constitutional convention for a redistrictiug of the State that will reduce the Republican representation in the Legislature to almost nothing. Ibe steamer Ferodalo burned to the water’s edge off the south shore of Lopez lalamj in Puget Sound, Monday night, J hei- erndale uad on board ,500 barrels of lime and a quantity of hay and grain. Tho Lorillard Brick Works Company, oj New York and Keyport, N. J., has been placed in the hands of a receiver. They are short of ready cash. Liabilities, about {1,000,000; assets estimated at $1,500,000. The total number of children of school age in the State of Illinois, according to the annnal report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction is 1,163,440; total enrollment of scholars, 778,319; teachers, 23 IC4.

At Blanches ter, 0., ,T. N. Lazure and Bert Cadtvallader quarrelled over a game of cards and Lazuro was shot and killed and Cadwallder, failing toescapethe pur Buing crowd, shot himself through ths head. . -. The State Farmers’ Alliance of Nebraska closed its session, electing John H. Powers president, H. G. Stewart vice press Ident, J. M. Thompson secretary, and Jay Burrows chairman of tho executive committee. The last car of a passenger train went through a trestle on the V/heeling and Lake Erie road near Canton, Ohio, on the 18th, and fell thirty four feet into the Tus casawa river. Four persons were killed and eight badly injured. Arthur Hoyt Day, who murdered his wife by pushing her over a cliff at Niagara Falls in July last, was hanged at 8:30 Thursday morning. The condemned walked to the scaffold with a firm amp and a smile on his face. His death wa 3 easy. In joint session of the legislature of Idaho, Thursday, Gov. George L. Shoup. W. J. McConnell and Fred T. Dubois were elected U. S. Senators, Shoup and McConnell with short terms ending March 4, 1893; Dubois gets tho full term of six years from March 4 next. An epidemic is raging among horses in Jefferson and Shawnee counties, Kansas. Scores of horses have died. In Missouri THe same disease has'recently made~i ts ap-~ pearanee, and is proving very fatal to the horses in several counties. An invesiiga- i tion of the disease is being made. A frightful accident occurred on the Intercolonial road, near Lewis, Canada.on the ISth. By some means one of the coaches became derailed, throwing off all j the cars following it. Tho cars were' thrown down an embankment. Five persons were killed and many injured. At the Coalburg mines, near Binning ; ham, Ala., on the 20th, a number of the striking miners signed an agreement to quit the Mine Workers' Un'on and return : to work. On the night of the 30th, while engaged in cleaning out the opening of a slope, a party of them were fired on by parties iu ambush, Petitions are circulating all over Okla homa. asking that Congress declare the present Legislature an illegally r»rganir«d body and all its work be sot aside, it will reach Washington on the 23d. It is the ■yitgrowth of goaeml dtssatifaction atnoiig the people over tho work of legislation, no section getting as much of territorial recognition as desired. — St j It is the opinion of the executors of tho ' estale of D. B. Feyerweather, of New York city, that tho various colleges to which bequests are made will be the residuary legatees. In case of this, and if the residuarv-. esfate is worth $3,000,000, Wabash College will get $1:3.000, instead of 150,000. It is also possible that it may' reach, $8,000,000, and in this case Wabash will get $260,000. . *- 1 A fibroid tumor weighing ninety-three and a half pounds, and said to be the largest of its kind in the history of surgery, was removed at the Pius Hospital, St Louis, from the abdomen of a woman. The patient lived five days afterward, and might have recovered had her case received professional attention a f i w weeks earlier. Death was due to the exhaustion of the vitality of the patient by thegrowtb L ' and not to shock of the, ope ration. Gen. Schofield received a telfcgrsan on ' the morning of the 17th from Gan. Miles

dated Long Pine; Neb,, fact. 18, os follows-: “Gen. Brooke reports that Two Strike and camp'-d at Pine Ridge agency, ind these, , together with the other Indians at Pice Ridgo and Rosebud, are all that can be drawn out of tho disaffected camp. * Tfie Others are defiant and hostile and are determined to goto war, has no hppe that any other effort at pacification he successful.” - Heavy snows have fallen in Pittsburg, on the 17th, and telegraph and telephone wires were rendered useless. Throe horses were killed, two drivers knocked senseless and a street car set on fire by electric light wires being down in the street All trains are badly delayed. Reports from the surrounding country show even greater damage. This is the heaviest snow in five years. The storm extended to all parts of the East, and the snowfal 1 at Staunton, Va., measured three feet. Other places report the fall no less heavy. FOREIGN. . The Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany gave birth to a son on the 18th. The ex-Empress Eugenio is reported a heavy loser by tho recent depreciation in South American securities, as she had invested very largely in them. A dispatch to the National Zeitungfrom Rome says that there is much anxiety' at the Vatican over the condition of the Pope, who has been seriously affected by the extremely cold weather. Dr. Ceccerelli, who is in attendance on His Holiness, is prepared for the worst. Tne Spanish coaster San Francisco recently ran ashore near Alhucemas, Morocco. A party of Moors boarded the vessel and carried off everything they could find. They made prisoners of the entirecrewand a woman who was a passenger, and doprived them of all their clothing, even stripping them of that which they had on. A detachment of native troops pursued tho robbers and rescued the prisoners.

WASHINGTON.

Senator Sherman reported totbe Sen ato from the finance committee Thursdaymorning the financial bill agreed upon by the Republican caucus,-and it was recommitted to the finance committee. The only change of consequence made in the mens-' ure was to limi t to banks having a capital of $50,000 each tho operation of tho provision reducing to SI,OOO the compulsory requirement of deposits of bonds with the Treasury. In addition to the features of the bill heretofore described the measure

contains a requirement upon the Secretary of the Treasury to issue treasury notes to the amount of $10,000,000, based upon the abraded and otherwise un current subsidiary stiver coin now in the treasury: also Senator Allison’s proposition, for an international arrangement to secure uniformity ia tho ratio in silver coinage, with a provision for the appointment of three commissioners to represent the United Statesaud an appropriation for their salaries and expenses.

Tho third caucus of the Republican Senators was held on the night of the 17th and resulted in agreement. The basis was the adoption of the financial scheme reported by the caucus committee, with the exception of the 2 per cent, bond project, which was eliminated. So the mcas ure will provide for the purchase of the twelve million dollar silver bullion sur blus, the reduction of tho compulsory reuirement of band deposits by nationi banks, the extension of the national bank circulation to the full amount, of their bond doposits,thc replacement of the deficiency in national bank circulation below #ISO,090,000 by treasury notes based on silvor bullion purchases; the provision for freo coinage, when silver is maintained at par for one year; the provision for a charge on the conversion of gold coin into bars and the re-coinage of the subsidiary silvor coins. This measure was not satisfactory n every detail to all Senators, but was accepted as the best compromise.

BURNED ALIVE.

F«ar Drives Chinese VI Ingrrs to the Commission of a Horrible Crime. Chinese advices report tho execution of sentences on the villagers near Shanghai • for thexrnel murder of J -ftturteetr sattrfffr speotors, and the burning of - the bodies of the wounded and dead. Last March these salt inspectors made a raid on a village. They wore no uniforms, and the villagers mistook them for pirates. The inspectois seized a pile of contraband salt which they found by the side of a house, aud wdiile removing it to their boats they were attacked by villagers and overpowered. Nearly all were only stunned by blows, but a visit to tneir boats showed the villagers that, they had attacked government officers, and fearful of the severe punishment, they decided to burn the boat, an i with it the bodies of the wounded inspectors, to remove all traces of tho crime. So they canoed the injured men to the boat, and, despite their entreaties, set tire te it and bu.nei the whole. The chief criminal was sentenced to decapitation, but committed suicide before »beday arrived, and.aeeord'' to law, his body was exhumed ami the head struck off and exhibited as a warning tit" the public . Four others, were stem. ?lcd and four exiled after heavy fines. . > ■ ■ |

JOHN SHERMAN FOR GOVERNOR.

The suggestion of tho name of Senator John Sherman in connection with the gubernatorial nomination of Ohio bus met with a number of strong indorsements, and tho more the subject is discussed the Stronger becomes the sentiment that Mr. Sherman should be the next Republican candidate for Governor. It is learned that a number of the old leaders in the Foraker wing of the party are not at all favorable to the nomination of Major McKinley.

HOW TO KILL CHICKENS.

At Peoria, ; Janies Hannon, while shoeing* f liberal party bow to kill chickens, Sunday," broke the heck of Patrick Lyons, a manhixtv ycars’of age. The en?. tire party wete sitting in a salcon after the funeral and Hannon gave the old than’* neck a slight twist. The fact that.the oljman was dead did not deveVop until sever-' a) hours later, when the party arose to go home.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Laport has seventeen physicians. It ia said that the farmers are boycotting the Bluffton merchants. Fire at Lawrenceburg badly damaged the Central House bn the 20th. One thousand dollars monthly goes to Boone county in the way of pensions. Charles Stader, of JennTngs'county, reports that be fouudtwo diamonds in the rough on his farm. , > ' , “ The family of Thomas J, Courtney, at Waynetown, were chloroformed and robbed of $360. George Biazier, of Anderson, a drayman, while unloading a heavy safe, was caught underneath and crushed to death. Dr. H. H. Ferguson, of Henry vilie, found a flow of natural gas at a depth of fifty fetft and is using it in lighting his store. A syndicate has been organized to drain what Is known as Goose Pond, near Linton, which will bring 10,000 acres of land under cultivation. The police having failed to capture “Jack the Kisser,” as he is known at Fort Wayne, the citizens are hanging up ,a purse for him, dead or alive. The Hon. J. G. Shanklin, Capt.J W. R. Meyers, Charles D. Jewett, Col. C. C. Matson and Mortimer Nye are mentioned as Democratic candidates for Governor. Jacpb Marsh, of Bartholomew county is aged ninety-two. and has been voting the’ i straight Democratic tickot all his life. He j claims to be the oldest Democrat in the State. „ Two men entered the ticket office of the Chicago & Erie railway at Kent and bouud and gagged W. A. Hoberdier, the agent, at' ; ter which they robbed him of sllßcash, al. Iso taking his gold watch and diamond breastpin. | The Miami county commissioners have ; ordered that $28,657.26 be drawn from the | treasury for tho benefit of the Peru & De- ; troit railway, which is the new Wabash I link between that city and Chili, and forms the main lino to Detroit. A total subsidy of $40,000 was voted. In answer to aninquiry by the State Superintendent, Attorney General Smith Thursday, gave an opinion that children of school age who are inmates of the State/ Reformatory and benevolent institutions can hot be legally included in the enumeration which furnishes the basis for the apportionment of the school fund. These children are given especial educational opportunities in the institution which they occupy. Indiana iuvento rs were issued patents Tuesday, as follows: T. M. Bates, Dublin, alarm bell; J, L, Ackerman, Lowell, clamp; C. G. Conn, Elkhart, cornet; J. F, Haugh, Indianapolis, cushioned car wheel! Jl Hoffman, jr., Ashville. combination table and quilting frame; P. Hook and F. Q. Jacob, wire stretcher; W. I. Hunt, South Bend, wagon rest and watfbn seat support; R. E. Poindexter, Indianapolis, saw jointer; C. Reuter and J. L. Scbruber, Lafayette, bed clothes fastener! C. E. Tower, South Bend, plow, sulky plow and sulky; J. L. Wagner and J. Seath, Terre Haute, car door Mr-. Woodworth again demonstrated her faith cure power at her meeting to day, said a Muuoie dispatch of the 16th when Alfred Chalfant was anparently cured of deafness. Mr. Chalfant is a respectable farmer who had the drums of his ears mutilated during the war, and has since been nearly deaf. Determined to try the woman’s alleged poweis,he went to the altar, and with her engaged in fervent prayer for an hour, when he arose and shouted, claiming to have had restored to him his long lost sense, Several tests proved that he could hear a low whisper. He is a member of ithe Methodist Church In good standing and will make affidavit o; his allegations, A colored woman prayed long for the supernatural power to cure her lung trouble, but to no avail. Sunday a lady here drove to the church in a cab to be healed of rheumatism. She had to be carried from the vehicle into the building, but walked home, and now does her housework.

The F. M. B. A. members who held a meeting in Pern on Saturday last, during which extraordinary precautions were observed to prevent outsiders procuring any information,Wednesday publicly announced the result. They assert that existing -fees hretmrrty offices ore-exorbitant, trnr the legal rate of interest is too high, shd that foreign corporations are drawing vast incomes from the State without taxation. As all political parties in the campaign just closed promised alleviation, they have resolved to call upon Representatives and Senators-elect to keep their promises, and enact stringent laws for the immediate remedying of these wrongs. They demand that assessors take property at its true cash value; that official fees be reduced 10 per cent.; that taxes from toll roads, railroads and pipe lines be divided among the various school districts; that all sheep killed oqtside the county in which owners lives be paid for by tho county in which the owner lives; that a law be enacted permitting debtors to deduct their bona fide indebtedness from their assessments: that mortgages not reported to the assessor become null and avoid in the county where recorded; that county officers’ terms be fix at four years and that they be not eligible to a second, aud also that personal foreclosure^!^made a law. M’BRIDE IS APPOINTED. Judge Mitchell’s Competitor Succeeds to the Vacancy. Robert W. Mcßride, of Elkhart county was appointed as Associate Justice, on the 18th, by Governor Hovey, and is now in the seat on the Supreme Court Bench which his late successful competitor, J udge Joseph A. S. Mitchel, occupied. The appointment, upon the whole, seems to have met the genearal expectation, and to be looked upon with favor. Judge McBride is a gentleman of excellent reputation. Like his predecessor he was a soldier, and rendered distinguished service to the Stafoeefore ha became known as a jurist.. As a DeKalb counfcySeircuit judge; Mr. Mcßride is said to have righted many longstanding wrongy, end to have arroused some iitl e personal opposition thereby. Generally spbbkiug, however, he is a popular aad affable gentleman. R. Wes Mcßride was horn in Richland

county, Ohio, Jan. 95, 1543. He had his schooling in the district school and (he Kirkvillo, lowa, Academy. At eighteen be taught school, continuing tnereat for three years. Then ho was a clerk until Nov. 27. 1863, when he enlisted in the Ohio Union Light Guards. After goingto Washington the squad)on was assigned to duty in Virginia. By an accident Mcßride was abled from active duty on the field. He served, however, faithfully withoutohance for glOry oraisttucticarih detached duty” as clerk to a military commission, and afterward in the Adjutant General’s office in the War Department at Washington. He was honorably discharged Sept 14, 1865. He was appointed to a place under the Quartermaster General, but resigned, and, returning to Mansfield, 0., continued the study of law, which he had, as opportunity offered, taken Up. He earns to Indiana in 1866 and clerked a while at Waterloo. In 1867 he was appointed enrolling clerk in the State Senate, and in the spring of that year he was admitted to the Dekalb county bar. In 1886 he was elected Judge of the Circuit Court, and in 1860 was the nominee of the Republican convention for Justice of the Supreme Court. Early this month Mcßride was appointed commissioner by the President to consider disputed points between the government and the Klamath Indians ot Washington State. This appointment contemplated a short engagement and will not now be accepted. He is a Republican, and all the members of the Supreme Court are now Republican. Judge Mcßride is a Methodist, a Scottish Rite Mason, Knight Templar and an Odd Fellow. He was married Sept. 27, IS6S, to Miss Ida, daughter of Dr. Chamberlain, of Waterloo. There are four children in his family.

INDIANA'S COAL INTERESTS.

Thomas R. Tislow, State Mine Inspector, submitted his annual report to the Governor luesday. He says that, although warm winters and natural gashavo greatly injured the coal business in this State, thc~ output of coal in 1890 has exceeded that of 1888 by 573.500 tons. In the coal mines of Indiana during the past year there were seven fatal accidents and fifteen accidents hot fatal, The following table gives the nnmber off mines in tho State, capital invested, output in 1890, and men employed, classified by counties: No.of Estimat'd Tonnage Men Mines Capital (Est.) Emn’ld Clny .1:7128 807<7 U 0 6,040,w 0 3,536 Daviess 8 77,000 400.000 m Dubois 1 10,tOO • 90, fO 48 Green . ..._ 2 18,000 28. Vi 00 226 Knox 2 6,'00 5,000 20 tarka 8 Pike . 4 69,>4)0 l+a.O'-o 182 '-U 1iv5n...... . 8 191.(00 700.000 4.3 Vanderburg.„ 5 f. 0,009 800,000 2?0 l L 0... 8 IC,OOO 728,000- 600 Tota' 77 2.081,(00 8,676,000 6.6,50

CONGRESSIONAL.

A bill was introduced in the Senato on the 13th to establish a record and pension office in the War Department, „ Mr, Jones, of Arkansas, spoke against the elections bill. In the House, notice was given that the apportionment bill would be called up next Tuesday. A report was made from committee favorable to the establishment of a merchant marine, A memorial was presented to Congress urging the immediate passage of the Torry bankruptcy bill as a relief to the commercial interests of the country. The Senate did nothing but discuss the election bilL The House resumed consideration of the apportionment bill. After leng tby sate it was passed without amendment by ayes 187; nays 82, many Democrats voting with the Republicans for its passage. The bill provides for e House of 756 members. The House discussed the re-apportion meat bill. Tho Senate on the 16th discussed the election bill. The Democrats are doing nearly all the speaking, in opposition.

In the House, Thursday, on motion of Mr. Goodnight, of Kentucky, the Senate oill authorizing the bridgitig of the Green and Barren rivers, in Kentucky, by the Bowling Green ft, Northern Railroad Company. Tbo-Senateofl titer 'lßthr j dfscngscd the election bill and passed the following bills: appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at Danville, 111., and for public ouildings at South Bend, Ind., ($75,000) and Bloomington, 111., ($75,000). In the House, on the 18th, the bill amending the interstate commerce act to permit notaries public to take depositions passed; also bills for bridges over Willamette river in Oregon and the Duck river in Tennessee. , Mr. Baker tried to call up the subsidy bills but the Democrats claimed he was not authorized by the committee to call it up and a long squabble followed, after which the House went into commit tee of the whole on the state of the Union and the bill was taken up after one or two appeals which were decided in favor of the chair. The bill was discussed for awhile but the House adjourned without action. —ln the Senate Mr. Spooner spoke Eve' hours in support of i *'elections bill. Mr. Ingalls also supported the elections bill. In the House the urgency deficiency hi 1 was amended by striking out the amendment l’elating to Senate employes and then passed. The bill was. favorably - reported making the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange gold bare for gold coin discretionary instead of mandatory.

A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER.

A disaster has occurred at Cordova, Argentine Republic, where the canal lms burst its embankments and destroyed hundreds of houses. One hundred lives aroTeported to be lost. Gen. Roca, the minister of the interior, has gone to the scene to superintend meashres of relief. W. J. Devol, of Cebanon, inherited $lO,000. In October, tSS9, ho became of age and the money was paid him by his guar diaa. Immediately a patent-right shark, aided by anuppoaea friend of Devol’s, persuaded him to invest his all in a scheme Devol now sues for»8,000 damages, aud now'claims he was mbt capable to de> with Hph sagacious igpn and WSs tea quaintpd wish the ways of the wpjrld. HI

IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY.

Troop* Concentrated Around tho Bad Ear'd* Warrior», Four htxx-ired of tho Sever tee nth InW fantry from Fort Ruseell disembarked ah Rapid City, S- D., and at other points on the Elkhorn railway, Saturday, and took op their line of march for General Carr’s ramp at the junction of Rapid creek and! Cheyenne river. General Miles has conv oentrated ac that point the Eighth and! Sixth Cavalry, the Seventeenth Infantry scouts and artillery, making a fighting force of about 1,200 effective men. Thera is a large enuampmeut of hostiles in what is called the Grass Basin, in the Bad! Lands, about ten miles southeast of Carr’s camp, from which thieving forages havti been made on the ranches. General Miles is making dispositions to guard every pass and outlet from the camp, and. has issued orders for the cavalry to scout! and Intercept Sitting Bull's followers* who are supposed to be en route to join these hostiles. General Miles' present dispositions, contemplate protection of the settlers and' holding the Indians in the basin or pocket* awaiting a general movement into the Bad! Lands simultaneously with General Brooke’s forces. The result of the peace effort of the 500 friendly Indiansi who left Pine Ridge to bring in the hos» tiles is unknown. The escape of the In dians being cut off, they must soon surrender, or, like Sitting Bulk die lighting.! DETAILS Or SITTING BtJLL’S DEATH. It seemed necessary to act at once, and) the police set out Sunday night, the troops' following el|je ofter. On reaching the camp the police found the campc-rs ready to move. Sitting Bull was seized, placed under arrest, but not bound, and the police quickly started for the ageney. But the followers of the old man soon got oven their surprise, and a sharp fire was atoned opened on the police. The police responded in kind and several fell from their horses, among tho number being Sitting Bull and his son Black Bird. The old medicine man had tried to direct matters for a time by loudly shputing orders, bud his fall upset tho hostiles. Thoy at ones rallied, however, and surrounded tile po* lice, who fought bravely and well, bud would soon have been overpowered had! not the cavalry, which had been sent for,! arrived on the scene. The police were at that time almost out of amunition, and fighting hand to hand, but the sight of tha soldiers and the machine guns alarmed the Indians, and thoy fled up Grand river. The

cavalry followed but a short distance and then returned to the camp and took session of the bodies of Sitting Bull and bis son, Four policemen were billed and three wounded, and it is thought that eight other whites were killed. Crow Foot, the twelve yours old, the sen es Sitting Bull* was wounded, with a number of others. Sitting Bull’s followers, when they fled up the Giand river, left behind them their tents and their families, which were taken possession of by the soldiers and will be returned to the agency. After going a short distance up the river the fleeing redskins scattered and went off in all directions through the country toward the Bad Lands. Some of them may try to reach the Indians of Two Strike’s band further south, while others will seek an escape to the north. However, there is little chance for them in any direction. Soldisre are located all around the Bad Lands distriot, and the Indians will have little chance to get at the few ranches that are located in that dlreo* tion. Even if they attempt to go on small raids the soldiers are so placed as to head them off. In fact, they are completely surrounded, and while they might hold out some time in the Bad Lands, it is simply a matter of time until they must surrender to the superior forces and supplies of the whites. With Dickinson bb a center on the north and Pine Ridge as the southern center, Fort Sully on the east, and troops stationed along the western border of the Bad Lands, there is no chance for the hostiles to withstand their pursuers.

The effect of the death of Sitting Bull is problematical. He was not a chief, in the sense of being a leader in battle, and had never been addressed as a chief by any military commander, but he was a wily old rascal of great ambitions, with more of tbe-politioiaa ln hkn thaw is ord inarity credited to the savage. By working on th® superstitions and fears of the Indians, ha had gained whatever prestige he has had, and lust how those who survive him will take his death cannot be estimated. Th® other leaders who hated him will surely not seek to avenge his death. Still he had gained considerable following among the ghost-dancers, and these may attempt some thing in revenge. The people around Biamarch and the neighborhood of the Standing Rock are greatly wrought up over the killing of the old fellow, and express the greatest fears for the outcome. They thinlc the hundred or more followers that Bull’ had at the time of his death will attack the scattered settlers along the frontier and 1 kiil whom they can. - ! The scene at the agency must have been) indescribable. The death of the flower of the tribe will be mourned by the squaws for weeks, and the old warriors will join in the mourning for the present. It will be a grand Indian funeral that these policemen will have, and the doath song will eoninuofor weeks.

FIFTY KILLED.

—~—". r-v » Reports of a Desperate Rattle Between Cavalry and Indians. A courier from a camp near Daly’s ranch has the following from Rapid City, Dak., on the 16th: “Aranoherhas Just ar - rived in great haste to our commanding officer and reports that a command of cavalry was attacked and two officers and fifty men killed, but the Indians were res pulsed with heavy losses. T3ie.,niun,ber of Indians killed is not known. ' The Indians were put to route. The report li'probably creditable. It is not known com* mand it was. It is probably that of MaJ. Tupper of the Sixth cavalry iniFiifi’three troops of 140 men. Our com mend march es to their assistance to-morrow. j Warden James years at the head of the Npvthern Penitens tiary, has signified his Intention of retiring the Ist of Fete