Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — WAR ON THE BORDER. [ARTICLE]

WAR ON THE BORDER.

Chickasaw Faction* Appeal to Arm* t< Settle D ITerence*. A Guthrie, O. T., special, April 17, say*; Couriers just arrived here from Tisho tningo, the capital of the Chickasaw Nation, report that a battle is raging between Governor Moseley and 200 insurrectionists. Six people have been killed and eight wounded, so the report says, and th* ireatest excitement prevails. The cau*« »f the trouble is due to bad political blood, which has long pervaded the Chickasaw teat of government, and lias existed sine* the Legislature ignored Willis Brown, Charles Brown and Noah McGill, who tlaimed to have been duly elected Sheriff* >f tho Nation, alleging that the Legislature djd not have authority to reject theii tlaims to such offices. On Tuesday morning Governor Mosely Issued orders to ail sheriffs, constables and ter-utics throughout tire nation to report io liirn at once with arms. When the officers gathered around tho house 20 > enraged mon, headed by McGill and th* Grown hnithers, rushed from an adjoining house and a deadly fire followed. Tin lames of the dead and wounded could nol on ascertained by the couriers,owing t* the great excitement which prevailed. Sovi rnor Mosely and his official retinue iseaped by rushing to Imuses on the outikirts of the town. Mosqlv has called a rpecial session of tho legislature to tak* iction. Tishpmingo is now in a terrible state of excitement and white people ar* L-i-ing: Another light Is looked for at my moment