Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1876 — WEST AND SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

WEST AND SOUTH.

Du. John G. Rob, Republican State Senator from Jefferson County, Ind., committed suicide in the Insane Asylum, near Indianapolis, on the 3d.. Bor a year past he had been in poor health, exhibiting at times a tendency to suicidal insanity, and, before commitment to the hospital, he made two attempts to end his lisp. He strangled himself with 4 sheet, tying one end to a nail driven in the 1 Windowframe overhead.Hon. John tL. Routt was* on the 3d, inaugurated., Governor of Colorado. His message was mainly devoted to State affairs. The financial showing is favorable, and educational matters are encouraging. The annual products of the mines amount to 88,000,000, and will probably reach 810,000,000 next year. A bbpobt received at Salt Lake on the 3d, frum Camp Stambaugh,, Wy., says a village of fifty lodges of the Shoshones was attacked on the 80th ulti by a large Sioux war party, at, 1,200 lodges, at Painted Rock, about ninety miles from Camp Stambaugh. As far M learned, only one Shoshone escaped. , £tJ (j r ... ’ A bpbcul dispatch received at St. Pauj, Minn., on the 4th, dated “Camp in the Field on the Yellows-tone, Oct 37, via Bismarck, D. T., Nov. 4,” says that Gen. Miles, commanding the troops on the Yellowstone, after fighting, defeating and put-suing Sitting Bull and the tribes under him, had accepted * the surren-. der of 400 lodges Of Indians belonging at the Cheyenne Agency, these tribes surrendering five of their , principal chiefs as hostages as a guarantee of their faithful compliance with the terms of surrender. These bands' were to go at once to the Agency, where, upon their arrival, they would submit to the requirements of the Government. u.j ~

ArrtmoN signed by several thousand citizens of Chicago, askipg the resignation of Judge McAllister, of‘the Cook County Circuit Court, because Of-bis alleged unfair rulings in the Sullivan trial, was presented to that gentleman by a committee appointed or that purpose, on the 6th. The Judge answered that he had nothing to say in reply. On the night of the 6th a pier of the Chicago, Alton Louis Railroad iron bridge, wh>eh spans the Mississippi River at Louisiana, Mo., fell, carrying yrith it two spans of the bndge, each 160 fdet in length. Both spans fell into deep water, and are buried out of sight The loss to the Railroad Company will be nearly *200.000. The bridge will be repaired as speedily as possible, and in the mean lme passengers wil) be conveyed across the river in a boat, No train was upon the bridge at the time of the accident, and hence no harm resulted beydttd the loss to the company. f A bloody p olitical riot broke out .in Charleston, 8. C-, on the night of the Sth, which wh- quelled by a Company of Federal troops. <): aiMgfo wps mogially, and eight o hers seriously, wounded. Que white man was killed and * >out a dozen wounded. Is Chicago, od th J Btfi, : Spring wheat, No. «. closed st «f.OM.I.OfiM cash. Cash corn closed at 42>$c for -Nq,. 2. Cash oats No. 2 •old at 31@31>£t; December options were sold at 32%c. Rye No. 2, 56@ 56Mc. Batlef No. a, T7@7B*. /Cash mens pork dosed ,at »15.75®16.00 Lard, *0.70 @9.75. pood to choice beeves brought medium grades, butchers' stock, *2.40 ®2.86; stock caVJe, etc., Hogs brought C».fio(A6.l9i< for good to choice. Sheep sold at *[email protected] for good to chMca.