Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1891 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

A special from Topeka, Kas., says; Rev. B. T. Foster, colored, who was a candidate for Auditor of State on the People’s Party ticket, has come from Kansas City with twenty families of colored people from Kemper county, Miss., en route to Hen • nessey. Ok. The families number about 100 people. ~Mr. Foster says: “This is but the beginning of a tremendous exodus of colored people from the South. Tuousands of them wili leave the Southerr States within the next sixty days. At Chicago, Mamie Starr, the domestic who poisoned her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Newland, screamed and fainted away on the afternoon of the 3rd when Judge Driggs overruled the motion of her attorney for a new trial. On being revived, the prisoner was asked if she had anything to say why the sentence of life imprisonment should not now be formally pro*, nounced. The girl shrieked “Have mercy, have mercy.” The judge, greatly affected i spoke the sentener in a low voice and the prisoner, again overcome, fell to the floor rigid. She wa3 carried out into the jail in an unconscious condition.

Senators and Representatives from points in the far West, who have demoncrated their financial capabilities by large accumulations of property, take quite a cheerful view of the business outlook for the new year. They believe that notwithstanding the entanglements in Congress over the proposed financial bill there will be some legislation which will renew commerciaT confidence, make money more plentiful and give vigor to the general condition of the country. They believe that real estate has not reached the apex-of prices, and that there will be more railroad building throughout the country during the new year than there hag been during any year in the past. ' ANOTHER BATTLE. A special from Gordon, Neb., dated tb e 3d, says* A battle is now raging about ten miles northeast of this place. The booming of cannon can be distinctly heard. Everybody under arms and the wildest excitement prevails. A company of State troops is expected to-night. A special from Rushville says: Gordon, Neb., advices say two scouts just arrived confirm the report made last night of a battle north of this place. The fight was between the Indians and a detachment of soldiers sent out by General Miles from Rosebud Indians to bury the dead Indians killed at Wounded Knee battle of the 29th. Tiie hostile Sioux, objecting to the burial o * their dead by their pale-faced foes, opened fire, and after desperate and sharp firing of the Hotchkiss gun, were ferced to return to the protection of the friendly raviues. No deaths are reported. FRENZIED REDSKINS. A special on the 4th to the Chicago Inter Ocean from Pine Uidge agency says: Last night was one of feverish excitement to mauy at the agency. For the first time the squaw men and half breeds were alarmed and remained up all night, fearing that an attack would be made before morning. The agency is too well guarded to permit any large force to approach very close without discovery, but it would be hard to prevent a few daring individuals from creeping up some of the numerous ravines and throwing fire arrows into barns and hay stacks. The friendly spies all say that there are a large number of warriors in the enemy’s camp who have worked themselves up to a condition of fienzy similar to those who commuted suicide at Wounded Knee. They say they want to die and are going to die while killing white men. It is also said that two bucks escaped alive from the Wounded Knee fight who swore that they will set th 3 agency on fire, and kill the agon ts themselves.

General Miles has his troops all around a day and have a tremendous battle, but could not prevent small bands escaping here and there, which would have to be followed up by the soldiers and which would place the lives of many settlers in danger. By holding bis troops until a much larger force can be thrown around the Indians the trouble t3n be confined to the reserve. The end cannot bo reached without one or more battles and bloody ones, ap there are too many of the crazy red skins whowant to follow the example of Big Foot’s relatives. Gen. Miles sent cut, a letter Saturday asking for a hearingThe Indians tore the letter to fragments and threw them into tfio fire, saying, “We want no treaty; we are here to fight.”

Saturday night several shots were fired by our pickets, and a couple of arrows were thrown into the yard. Doctors are constantly arriving, there being no less than fifteen here, with a large corps of assistants. A delegation of “friendlies’’ ask* that a large party be sent out at once to aid those who desire to escape from the hostile camp. They claim that 700 or 800 wan-iors wish to ieturn; that they either fled through drlght at first or were fora d to go with the rest. To let the friendlit s go would undoubtedly precipitate a fight and consume several days of valuable time. No decision in the matter has been made yet. The day is warm and clear, and the wounded who are on their way to tbe railroads will suffer no discomforts. The Indians in the hostile camp number over 4,000 men, women and children, and represent every agency in the two Dakotas.

A large number of yopng warriors of the Standing Hock agency have gone south to join the hostiies in the Had Lands. The discovery was made on issuing rations that many did not come to the agency, and one of the friendlies stated that they had armed themselves and gone to join the “bads” in revolt. Ho..v many have gone is only cons lectured, but,the indications point to at least 1,000 desertions. Grand river Sioux have beon fomenting trouble ever since the killing of Sittiug Hull, and they have not been slow in manifesting their intense anger to Agent McLaughlin.' Most of them re .ard the taking off of the old mediclue mau as murder outright, and it has been commoir talk for three weeks that tha “reds” would accept the first opportunity to massacre the white*. .