Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1876 — WEST AND SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

WEST AND SOUTH.

The Illinois Anti-Secret Society Association has nominated a State ticket, headed by Samuel B. Allen for Governor and Samuel French for LieuteaaaLGovernor. , A eesoouxte* occurred in New Orleans on tee afternoon 0 f tee 7th, between Louis L. Boner, a prominent Republican politiMu, and H. L. Smith, a Times reporter. wo«ia reported to have commenced tee •Mack, firing three or more shots at Smite, Who returned the fire, mortally wounding Souer. Smith received a shot in tee hip. fc*wwfaia*mntog <rf,k C ** 4 P BbHB,Msd . b Y 1 * *®°» him in tee Times. °* e re *P° Mi - DM Naff of tee raw aa a willful and ms* ha Missouri Greenback State Convention met at Jefferson City on the «th, end

nominated a foil State ticket J. P. Alexander Is the candidate tor Governor, and James R. Owens for Lieutenant-Governor. A tuttoers disturbance occurred In Charleston, S. C., on the night of the oth, l>etween colored Republican* and colored and white Democrats, in which pistols were freely used on both sides. A large number of persons were injured, several of them quite severely. One of the wounded, a white man named Buckner, died the (next day. The police succeeded in quelling the riot, but tho excitement continued throughout the 7th, the colored Democrats holding n meeting in the evening under guard of 1,000 armed whites. A rntxß-noHT between Tom Allen and Joe Goes came off in Kentucky on the 7th. The light was begun near Walton, in the presence of n Urge crowd of spectators. After lighting seven rounds the militia interfered, and operations were suspended. Another ring was subsequently formed, aud fourteen more rounds were fought Goss fell In the twenty-first, and being struck while on bis knees, by Allen, a foul was claimed and allowed, Goes being declared the winner. He wee severely punished, while Allen showed little or no injury. Tn Chicago Tribune of the 9th publishes news to the 4th from Its correspondent with Gen. Crook’s column, which indicates that Sitting Bull's forces had divided, the Urger number, In straggling bodies, going in the direction of tbe Agencies, while about a thousand hostllcs had taken the direction of tire Black Hills, with tbe intention of making a murderous raid on the miners of teat locality. 'Crook, with a force of 1,900 men, was on the trail of this latter body, which he hoped to overtake ere they reached their destination.

A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn., on the Bth, says fourteen citlsens in pursuit of the Northfleld robbers, overtook them late on the night of the 7th, in a ravine a short distance from Shieldsville. Shots were exchanged and one of the robbers’ horses killed, bat ss the robbers turned to make fight, tbe citlsens, poorly armed, dared not dash into them, and the robbers mounting the dismounted comrade double took to the woods end were again lost sight of. They were last heard of at WatervDle Lake at two o’clock on the afternoon of the Bth, going south. There were about 400 men in pursuit of the fugitives. A trapper by the name of Rldgely arrived at Minneapolis, Minn., a few days ago and gave to the Pioneer Press and Tribune an account of Gen. Custer’s last fight with the Indians, of which he claims to have been an eye witness, being at the time a prisoner in Sitting Bull’s camp. He says one-half of Custer’s men were either killed or disabled at the first Indian volley, and all of them bat six were killed before Reno commenced his attack at the other end of the camp. These six, Rldgely says, were taken prisoners and burned at the stake in the Indian camp, the victims, in addition to the horrible tortures of such a death, being pierced with red-hot arrows as the flames were doing their terrible work. A recent Los Angelos (Cal.) dispatch says that Klingensmith, the Mormon witness of the Mountain Meadow massacre, had been captnred on the Mohave Desert, and brought to that city. Tbr Indian Commissioners, who arrived at Red Cloud Agency on the 6th, held their first council on the 9th, about 150 Indians, Including Red Cloud and several other chiefs, being present. The Indians were reported to be in an excellent mood for a treaty. A series of proposltians was read and interpreted to them. The Governor of South Carolina issued a proclamation on the 10th calling upon the people of Charleston and elsewhere to obey the laws, and expressing his determination to protect all persons in the State In their political rights. The horse Ethan Allen, the celebrated trotter who, in his palmy days, with a running mate, beat Dexter, with a record of 2:15, died nt Lawrence, Kansas, on the 11th, at the Kansas Stock Farm, aged twentyseven. * There were twenty-one yellow-fever interments at Savannah, Ga., on the 12th. The boiler of an engine on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad exploded near Fredrick, Md., on the afternoon of the Uth, and killed Angus Schafer,-tee engineer, and James F. Cook, the fireman.

Ex-Gov. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, died at his residence in Richmond on the 12th, aged seventy years. A Greenback Convention wss held at Columbus, Ohio, on the 12th, at which it was decided not to put a State ticket in the field. Electors-kt-Large were chosen, and a State Executive Committee Was appointed, with Robert Schilling, of Cleveland, as Chairman, and J. L. Van deman, of Fayette, Secretary. Thkk* were twenty-two yellow-fever interments at Savannah, Ga., on the 13th. The Governor of Minnesota has issued a proclamation offering a reward of SI,OOO each for the capture of the bandits engaged in the Northfield affair. The First National Bank of Northfield has also offered a reward of SSOO each. 1h Chicago, on the 13th, Spring wheat, No. 2, closed at [email protected] cash. Cash corn closed' at 44J£c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at BSXd34c; October options were sold at 3S%c. Rye No. 2, 64@64}£c. Cash mess pork closed at $16.75 @16.80. Lard, [email protected]. Good to choice beeves brought [email protected]; medium grades, [email protected]; butchers’ stock, $2.75 @3.25; stock cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs brought [email protected] for good to choice. Sheep sold at [email protected] for good to choice.