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0 j TO ADVERTISERS: THE MESSENGER has a Larger 4 5-- THE MESSENGER ! ' It PublUheii In Three EdlUofia: ! Tfc DAILY MESSENGER, Circulation than any other New - i WEEXLY KESSCCCElt. Tb TRANSCRIPT-MESSENGER itColUtorotN.C. . All Tbree nre Attractive Eight Pae Papers. paper In the Statel J THE BEST ADVERTISING! MECIU.VI in the South. V , I - , I . if - f'tf""'''' 1 1 t ' si i i LU VH.1'7 ll''ll li Mill II 1 1 x!5 j) - y ESTABIIJ8HED 18G7 TKLEORAPU1C SUBIKAKTf Hon. Paul 0. Caroeron, of Ilillsboro, N. C, died yr sterday, aod 82 years, The aerioui- iifif a of the situation at Pine, Ridge agency in crease. Short BilL in command of the hos tile?,, ep.ys he will take the agency if it ;oet e cry ai rior he haa. ilalf breeds of the agency have been warned by fnenda among tbo hos tiles and are leaving with a rush. Plana fo? attacking the agency haire been fully decided upon. Gen. Miles says the situation is criti cal. The Indian babe found upon the battle field has been adopted by a Washington! lady. Father Stphani, a Jesuit Missionary, says there will be more bloodshed and the gieatest fight i4 yet to come. The Supreme court of New Ilampt-hire dismissca the caes against the clerk of the Assembly on the Ground of want of jurisdiction. f Ex Treasurer Areher of Ma ryland, was taken into court yesterday to.testi fy against hh bondsmen, but ref ued to testify. As he was alreadyjh prison he couldn't be pun" ished for contempt 'of court. It is said that the Indians yesterday captured Harper war H artist, and after taking from him his tobacco and sketch book turned him loose. j-The London .newapapcri make various comments upon the status of tjhe Behring Sea controversy .between England and the United States. Spme of them think Mr. Blaine is1 playing a game of .bluster. The "St.- James Gazette" wants to know why the United States Navy is being massed in the Paaifi-S ocean.-! Quite a lengthy correspondence has been going on duringjthe last few days between Gen. Miles and Gen. 'Schofield in regard to the Indian situation ; as a result GoL Forsythe has been relieved of jhia command. The democratic House caucus, at a late hour last night nominated Bepres'en tative Doaghton of Alleehany, for Speaker.-f Ice, has formed ten inches thick at Staunton, Va. Twenty acres of land at Skjlandpas been formally transferred to1 the southern W.C. T. U. assembly and the contract let for erecting a large hivilli m where the next assembly will' be helJ. Parnell and O'Brien were in confer ence at Boulogne up to a very late hour last night. There is no j information yet as to the result of the conference. -Pennsylvania lie publican Legislators will choose Senator Came ron's succesdor today. Ia the Federal court at Macon, Ga., yesterday, four j of the, Forsythe conspirators were sthenced jto life imprison- ' ment and one to six oears in the Columbus, Ohio,-; prison. -The South Dakota Legislature me,t yesterday. jThe Senate elected Republican officers and the House an Independent as Speaker.- Thel Atlantic and Danville railroad haa been placed ijii the hands of a recruiter, 1 PISTOL-GRAPHS. Re Dr. Gurry will take the place of Bishop Haywood jin the general agency of the Slater Fund. j Tho Wilmington messenger is seven Hears old,l newsy,! clean, intell gent and for North. Carolina every time. Ashevillc Citizen. Mr. E. W. Pointer has sold his In- terect in the t Monroe Register to ht9 partner Mr. M.A. Underwood. The best wishes of j the Messenger attend both. ! j . The Indian are ga hering their fnrppw jiml nro'-Knifl to ha numerous Bat Gen. Miles is reported to have not les than 8,000 men in the field inthe aevenil command 4..'- Some, hard fight- ing may be looked for. i x Mr. Walter R. Abell, youngesof the proprietors of the .Baltimore Sn,whos4 death has been alijeady announced, was in his 4 2d year,anl is said to have beeil remarkable for his rentleness of chart acter and bis unvarying cpurtesyX The Chicago Tnbune.St. Press and St. Louis Globe, Paul Pioneer. three of thiSi most influential Republican papers in the great region; of the country in which they aiC published, are strong in their open opposition to the POshl patisau Bayonet bill. Here is a lesson that . might note. Last year other towns the town of 1 Danbury, Conn - ''produced more than X half of the hats made t in the United r Sttes-nore thari G,o00,000. See what a 6mall place can do when it has a mind to do it. The Tarboro Southerner is venerable with years. It has just begun its sixty ninth year. That is a long time for a Southern newspaper to live. . Think o theworkdone in those sixty-nine years. 'May it long Five to serve its State and ; country. j The New rork Herald gives out the following, not newf but a fact: , t4The young menj of the) country are leaving the Republican party by hun-. drods. ( Give us a few more Force bills and there woort be anything leit of that party except a reminiscence ami a few petrifactions." j The Baptists of INorth Carolina are moving to raise $46,000 additional en dowment for Vake Forest College. The -Georgia Baptists are worker g to raise a similar sum for their chief institu tion, Mercer University. Mr. Rocke feller has promised; 110,000 if they raise $40,000, ,Mr.'R..W. Covington has disposed of his interest in the lied Springs Farmer nd Scottish Chief to .Mr. D. W. Town end of the Ttlephone. We wish him much prosperity and happiness. Mq made, his paper use ity and . the State. ul to the commun- The Messenger wishes all 6uccess to Mr. Towneend. PAUL C. CAMERON DEAD, j HE DIED AT HILLSBORO YESTERDAY IN HIS EjGHTY-THIRD YEAR. Purdle Jacob' Death Sentence Commuted Small Froportlon of OIuNJIembera In This Lgllature Death of BIrs. More head Valuable Laud to be Divided The Purchase Tax to be Contested. ! MESSENGER BUREAU, ( Raleigh, J. C Jan. 6. f At 11:S0 o'clock this morning news was received here of the death of Mr. Paul Carrington Cameron at his home at Hillsboro. His health had for some years been growing more and more fee ble. He was a man of wonderful vital ity and, though hearing was impaired, spoke and wrote with facility and was clear in mind to the last. He was born September 25th, 1808, at Stagville, Or ange county, and was the son of Judge Duncan Cameron and his wife Rebecca Bennehan. He was a descendant of Rev. Dr. John Cameron, who was born in the village of Farintosb, in Scotland, a lineal descendant of Sir Ervarr Came ron, chief of the clan of that name. In 1832 he married Miss Annie Ruffin, daughter of Chief Justice Ruffin, in Al amance' county. From this union there were seven children. Mr. Cameron was educated at Chapel Hill and at Trinity College, Hartford, - grad uating at the latter in 1829. He read law in this city with his father, Judge Cameron. He had an im mense property and this large landed interest and a great number of 1 slaves required all his time and care of man agement, so he became of necessity a planter. He managed estates in North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi. He was a studious farmer and warmly fa vored improved agricultural machin ery. He was president of the first Ag ricultural! Society organized in the State. He was one of the first men to engage in the construction of the North Carolina railroad and was the first to finish his section. Later he became pre-ident J of the load. In 1856 he served in the State Senate. He owned 1,000 slaves. It is said that once he sent a family of negroes to Liberia, having made them free as requested a dead friend who, had sodeviseu. All the negroes returned ; and asked Mr. Cameron to take them back as slaves. He was a devoted friend of the State University, and always attended its commencements. Cameron avenue there is named in his I honor. He was for years chairman of the University Alumni Association. He delivered the address at the dedication of Memorial Hall there in 1885. Governor Fowle to-day commuted to lffe imprisonment the death sentence of Purdiei Jacobs, of Robeson county. He was convicted of killing Mrs. Car dace Earp, anagerlwhite woman, some eighteen months ago. Steve Jacobs, his nephew, was hanged several months since for the same crime.Very earnest appeals had for some time been made to the Governor to commutexPurdie's sentence. s , Nearly-all the members of the legis lature arrived here to day. To say that. they were besieged by omce-seekers is to put it mildly. Farmers' Alliance members and old soldiers were the principal candidates for the minor po sitions. One-armed and . one-legged men were plentiful., Much interest was felt in the contest for the speakership, which it was known would be settled by the Democratic caucus to night. Tt had for weeks been a current rumor that CoiNHarry Skinner, of Pitt, was one of four candidates, but he said pos itiuely lyst night that he was not a can didate.: This left R. A. Doughton, of Alleghany, T. H.xxSuton, of Cumber land: and A; D. Jonesof Wake, in the field. ;V i ' x N XNN - ' Only five; members of thelast Senate will sit in the; Senate this term. In the House tbev proportion of new men is even greater. The members appear to be a quiet lot of men and nearly all of middle age. .. X . A great deal of xthexmost valuable real estate in Raleigh has for many years been known as the "Smith es tate." It was once ownedxbyvRichard Smith of this city, and passed to his daughter, Mits Mary Smith,x who be came Mrs. Morehead. She was di vorced after the most sensational trial in North Carolina, For many years she had been in a private insane asylum at Philadelphia. Sunday she died. mere are nosts oi neirs, rne prop erty is worth any where between $250, 000 and $400,000. This will be divided among many persons. Numbers of stores belong to the estate, which has for a quarter of a century been man aged by administrators. The develop ment o. the property consequent upon frits division. ! will be of benefit to the city. j For years,J under the revenue act, merchas have had to pay a tax upon purchases. They claim that this is an improper tax and a great burdea, and so they will make a test case to settle the question of illegality. The gro cers n- re are subscribing. A Winston merchant will bring the, test case,-, and the subscription is made j,o carry the matter through the courts or before the Legislature. A member of a grocery firm here tells me it is th heavest tax that is paid. The Biblical Recorder, the State or gan of the Baptists, is out to-day in an editorial attack upon the school teach ers' plans. It declares that there is a purpose to establish a guild of teachers and allow only persons who have passed through the teachers' training schools to have places in the public schools. It also attacks the suggestion of re quest that the school tax shall be doubled and made 25 cents instead of 12 cents on the $100 valuation of property. Adjutant General Glenn, who is here jto-d ay, tells me he has received the (Official acceptance from the First Vir ginia regiment of the invitation to en camp at Wrightsville next summer .with the North Carolina State Guard. WILMINGTON, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7.1891. THE national capital. The Correspondence Between Gen. Miles and the Departments Made Public-The Reason for Colf Forsythe' Sapensin. Washington, Jan. 6. Thei follow ing correspondence in regard to the Forsythe case was made public to-day. Under date of December 30th, Gen. Schofield telegraphed Gen Miles ask ing that his thanks be given to the "brave Seventh Cavalry for theinsplen- did conduct." Under date of January field as follows: k Your telegram of on, vcu. luiitis iciwg t auucu jcu. uvuv- congratulation to the Seventh Cavalry is received, but as the action of the Colonel commanding will be the sub ject of investigation, I thought proper to advise you. In view of the above facts do you wish your telegram trans mitted as senif It is stated that' the disposition of 400 soldiers and guns of artillery was fatally defective, and a large number of soldiers were killed and wounded by the fire from their own ranks and a very large number of women and children killed in addition to Indian men." Gen. Schofield telegraphed under date of January 2; In view of the as pect of the case presented you had bet ter not deliver my message until I have seen your report after the investigation proposed. The President hopes tne report of the killing of women j and children at Wounded Knee is unfound- ed and directs that you cause an imme diate inquiry to be made and report the result to the DepartmentIf there was any unsoldierl conduct you will relieve the responsible officer. Gen. Miles telegraphed Gen. Scho field under date of January 3 as follows: Nearly all of the Sixth and Ninth Cav alry and Second and Seventh Infantry with 100 Indian scouts are practically . m . 1 . 1 on three sides oi tne nosuiea aiong Beaver creek, White river and Porcu pine with Gen. Brookes in command. This mav hold them in check. Gen. Schofield received a telegram from Gen. Miles at Pine Ridge dated January 5th, as follows: In accordance with your telegram and the President's order, I have detailed a board of officers consisting of Col. Carr of the Sixth Cavalry, Maj. Kent of the Fourth In fantry and Capt. Baldwin of the Fifth Infantry to investigate the affair at Wounded Knee. Is this in conformity with President's directions and does he direct that it constitute a court of Sin quiry with power to take testimony un der oath Gen, Schofield replied that the pur pose of the department was simply for Gen. Miles to make investigation him self at present and not how order a court of inquiry. Y Don Rh ton Nominated for Speaker, j , Raleigh, Jan. 6. Special) Very great interest was shown in the contest for the caucus nomination for Speaker. The Alliance men were divided,though most of them favored Doughton, The. Alliance men held a caucus this after noon. ! The following will be the officers' of the Senate: Principal Clerk, R. M. Purman; Reading clerk, George P. Pell; Engrossing Clerk, Mike Brad shaw; Principal Door Keeper, J. M. Hinant, of Wayne; Assistant Doer Keeper, A. M. Noble. Officers of the House will not be nominated until after midnight. . LATERVThe Democratic caucus of the Legislature to-night aftermuch balloting nominated Richard A. Doughton, of Alleghany, for Speaker of the House. His opponents we re Thos. H. Sutton, of xCuirberland, and A. D. Jones, of Wake. X v j i4 Telegraphic Sparks,, The west bound Pan Hande passen ger train yesterday evening, about one mile east of Coshocton, ran intbtwo handcars containing twenty-two work men. Tjto men were instantly killed Silas Burgess receayed injuries from which he cannot possibly recover. The other men saved their lives by jump-, ing. , . .T . ". The, rolling mills of McSanhan, Smiih & Co., of the Portage Iron com pany, Holiday sburg Iron company and furnaces Nos. 1 and 2 of ,the Cambria Iron company, of Pennsylvania, have closed down on account of the coal and coke famine. .'. The Sonth Dakota Legislature. j x Pizrre, S. DJan. 6 The Legisla turex organized to-day. The Senate elected Republican subordinate officers by one majority. The House elected Seward, Independent, Speaker by one majority The Democrats and Inde pendents are .united in both branches with the exception of one Independent and 'one Democrat ho voted with the Republicans in the House oh choice of Speaker, There are understood to be sixteen contests in the House which may result in increasing the fusion ma jority. - V ' X-. xN-. v -r ; Pennsylvania -Republicans to Caucus, j Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 6 The Re publicans have decided to-night that a joint Legislative caucus to N select a candidate lor United States,Senator to succeed Senator Cameron shall be held to-morrow as soon af ter 12 O'clock as possible. There 'seems to be no doubt that Senator Cameron will practically be the unanimous choice of the caucus. The Forsyth Conspirators Sentenced. MACON, Ga., Jan. 6. In the Federal court to-day Judge Speer sentenced the Forsyth conspirators as follows: Luther -A. Hall, Charles Clements, Louis Knight and Wright Lancaster to life imprisonment and John K. Lancaster to six years all in the - Columbus, O., penitentiary., Mr. George E. Pell, son of our old friend. Rev. William E. Pell, who was a man of ability, and judgment far be yond his fellows, who has been con nected editorially with the. Winstom Daily ; has taken the place with the "Rn 1 P i or h Chrnnirl vo no tori Vw TTol Ayer. Mr 'Pell is a young man of ( promise andsre wish him tuccesa and I nappineas. ,; i CONGRESS.- : 1' .THE SENATE DISCUSSING THE FINAN- i X CIAL BILL. Senators Deny the Existence of a Compact Between' Silver and AntI Tore Bill Sena torg The Ilonse1 Partes eyeral Bills Amending Maritime Laws The Shipping Bill Under Discussion. Washington, Jan. 6. I"3enateI kSenators Edmunds, Dixon, Washburn, Male, trorman and Faulkner were the only Senators present this rooming when the Vice President called the Senate to order at 10 o'clock. !A call of the Senate was entered upon. No quorum appearing on the calL, Senator Ldmunas offered, and the Senate adop ted a resolution requesting the Serv geant-at-Arms to invite the absent members to appear. After a lapse of three-quarters of an hour aqucrum ap peared and the joxrnal of yesterday's proceeaings was read and approved. The morning business having been concluded, the Senate resumed con sideration of the Financial bill and was addressed bySenator' Teller, who opened his speech with, a denial of the charge that the Democrats and Silver Republicans of the Senate had formed a bargain. The bill was then discussed by Sen ators Morreil and Vest. Senator Vest alluded to the j state ment that he had received a I letter from ex-President Cleveland recouting some of his views on the silver ques tion and said that that was a mere fig ment of imagination coming fiom some newspaper source, and that it had not the slightest foundation. He had never bad a letter from Mr. Cleveland on the silver question and had neyerhad more than one conversation with him on the subject. All that he (Vest) had1 ever said was that he had reason to believe that Mr. Cleveland had, after further examination, modified to some extent, his opinion in regard to free coinage of silver. Hut that he had said ! that Mr. Cleveland had taken back all that he had ever stated on that subject was ab solutely without foundation. As to the alleged combination between the Democratic Senators and silver Senat ors he denied his existence. The state men t that the re had been any agree ment or any understanding to take up one bill in order to defeat another was absolutely false. ; He had been always in favor of free coinage of silver, and he had come to the conclu sion that the time had arrived when the Election bill (painfully and purely a partisan measure) should be laid aside in order that general demands for fi nancial , legislation to relieve people should be met. . At the close of Senator Vest's re marks the Senate went into; executive se8sion,and when the doors were opened adjourned. 223 ' ' - j-.v. HOUSB OP REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. Spooner, from the committee on Military Affairs, reported the Military Academy Appropriation . bill; placed upon the calendar. The bill passed to limit and govern the changing of vessels' names; also the bill requiring vessels to display their names on both sides of their bows, and also the bill repealing the law authorizing the President to; sus pend the tonnage dues. ! The House went into Committee of the Whole for consideration of the Shipping bill and Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, was accorded the floor in op position to the measure. Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, said that an organized lobby had been at work for ten years to press this bill through, and it was here now because it saw its last opportunity1 for years to come. The Republican party was about to go out of power in the House. Before it went it proposed to leave it as a legacy as a codicil to the McKinley bill, constantly increasing the debt for the next twenty yearsX He saidthat in I860 the United States did 70 percent of it's foreign carrying trade; now iVdid but 12i per cent; but in the meantime the commerce of the eouniry had steadily increased so that the commerce did not follow the flag. He opposed I the bilKon the ground that it would grant subsides to useless vessels. Three times , hadx the system of subsides been tried by ihe Unfted States and three times hadNlt been abandoned. r Pending Mr. Herbert's remarks the committee rose, "and the House ad journed. I . ' ' ( BOULOGNE, Jan. 6 Parnell and his party arrived here this forenoon. O'Brien was I already here. Both par ties are at the hotel Du Louvre. Par nell and O'Brien held a short confer ence immediately after Parnell's arri val. Then an adjournment was taken for luncheon.! Afterward Parnell and O'Brien resumed their talk, remaining in consultation for an hour and a half. Oher members of parliament in the party were' then invited to join tee conference, the whole party remained t in deep ' consultation with closed doors until midnight, when Red mond and Gill emerged from the con ference room. The two gentlemen were immediately surrounded by the waiting reporters to whom they imparted this informations ; "The consultation be tween Parnell and O'Brien is still pro ceeding and will , be continued to-morrow." The outcome of the conference Is awaited with intense interest. , A Permanent Assembly Room. A SHE VlLLE, N. C, Jan. 6. Mrs. M. S. Wells, of Chattanooga, President of the Southern ; W. C. T. U. assembly and training school is here, and a for mal transfer to the assembly of the twenty acres of land at Skyland Springs has been made. The contract has been let for the erection of a pavilion with, a sealing capacity of 25,000, and the assembly will meet in this new struc ture July 19th and continue in session thirteen days. A largo attendance is proaueed. f but"" LAT1ST FOREIGN NEWS. The London Press on the Behrlne ?ea Slt uatlon Accnslnc Mr. Blaine of Blnster Serious Rioting at Glasgow. London, Jan. 6. The St. James Ga zette to-day says that it accepts the offi cial denial in regard to the Behring sea trouble, addiDg, however Why Is the United States , Navy being massed in the Pacific ocean unless- it is to make Behring sea a mare clausum? Of ficers of the American, navy do not act upon rumors printed in American pa pers." X i .: The Palllfall Gazette says: Mr. Blaine obviously means to try more 'bounce" for the sake of making polit icai capiT . we are convincea, now- nntfVf an,h? Ame,!;ican; wil1 n?,t 8T J?wtJJf'?i!allieli 't Pe uf Twhe ""Vff ia dASl1' u The Globe sava that it attributes the ical capital. We are convinced, how- f iction of MrB ain spre.deagleha, ?iHA8thCPK rlhat !n vIf w0'lfhe sible,though unlikely display of force in Behrinesea, Great BrttU.' ought l?- stantly to strengthe her Pacific sqad- rons. The Globe also advocates the settlement of all matters in dispute by means of arbitration. The Press As sociation of this city announces that Lord Salisbury is engaged in the con sideration of a forty page despatch received from Mr. Blaine on Decem ber 30th the latest despatch .received from Washington. It does not con tain definite acceptance of Lord Lord Salisbury's prosposals for arbitra tion on the main question, but of the right of British sealers to catch seals in Behring sea, Mr. Blaine discusses only the subsidiary point viz: arbitra tion on the time of closing sealing. Mr. Blaine has not replied to Sir Julian Paunceforte's letter of June last, In which the latter says that his Maj esty's Government must hold the Gov ernment of the United States responsi ble for the consequence of the trouble with British vessels contrary to the principles of international law. The Press Association also States that no preparations nave been made to aug ment the British fleet in the North Pacific ocean, as such a step might be regarded as a menace. Glasgow, Jan. 6. The disturbances, aused by the evic'ions of! railroad! strikers from the quarters provided for them by-the railroad companies, haye not yet ceased, in spite the presence on the scene of evictions of large forces of police backed ubbv troops. Rioting was resumed to-layat Coalbridge about nine miles from here the chief centre of iron manufacture in Scotland. The police and troops, who have now been almost continuously on duty for forty-eight hours, passed a wearisome night, as the strikers now driven to extreme desperation, are making wild- est threats. However, the strikers practically abstained from violence through the night hut this morning tney mustered at an eiriy nour aoout the dormitory at Coalbridge occupied by non-union men, who had been em ployed in the place of the strikers. Af ter pelting the building with stones, the rioters made a rush forward and stormed it. The police on duty at that spot made a gallant defence using their batons freely and charging the strikers in spite of the showers oi stones nuned m a. a. at them. During the conflict a number of police and a still larger number of strikers were more or less seriously in- lured. The rioters were hnally re pulsed. Washington, Jan. 6. The Senate has confirmed the following postmas-, ters: T. N. Tolbert. Abbeville, S. C. A. G. Foster, Clifton Forge, Va( Warsaw Items. The festive days having passed our a uiet little villasre has assumed an air of business and tho people generally have gone to work. The labor agents from the South have departed with the negroes, much to the delight of the farmers, who cuuld make no permanent arrange ments for the season. Miss Nettie Cannon of South Caro- J. F Woodward of this place, during u vio F ' ft The well known firm of Hines & Best, has been dissolved by mutal con sent. Mr. Mines buying out the entire interest of Mr. Best. Mr. Joe Jordan will open a and dry grocery in the, Hunter this week. 6 tore Mrs. J. S. Kennedy left on the morn- ibe- of the 6th inst.. for her', home in Bertie county. Miss Nell Johnson is quite 6ick at her home in this place. Miss Laura Parker, the young lady from South Carolina, Tvho . has been sick so long at the Carlton house, is up and has left for her home. Miss Hettie Watson, of Wilmington, paid her friends in this place a flying visit last week. Ex-Treaurer Archer Refuses to Testify. Baltimore, Jan. 6. Ex State Treas urer Archer was taken from prison to court to-day to testify in the suit of the State against his bondsmen. xWhen he was called to be sworn he quietly but firmly refused to take tha oath or testify. The Attorney General turned to the court and said that as Mr. Arch er wa3 already imprisoned, he could not be punished for contempt of court, and that the State would do nothing further in his case. At this Mr. Archer and the warden left the court roemand returned to the penitentiary. The New Hampshire Legislative Case. Concord, N. H., Jan. 6. The Su preme Court, Chief Justice Doe deliv ering the opinion, decided to-day to dismiss the case against Clerk Jewett on the ground of want of jurisdiction. This decision leaves the entire matter of making up the roll of members of the Houe ia Clerk Je we tt's hands and the admission of the "if entitled" mem bers will result in the election of Tuttle (Rep.) for Governor and a Republican united States Senator. E FIVE OESM. THE SITUATION CRITICAL THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE INDIAN AFFAIRS INCREASING. The Indians Determined to Take the Agency at all IIMirds-lIair Breeds Wrned by their Friends and Learloc Pine Kldge-Only Six Hundred feoldlers . at the Reserratlten, Omaha. Jan. 6. -Th bne t li fal lowing from its staff correspondent at Pine Ridge agency: The announcement of the suspension of Gen. Forsythe came like a flash and eratftd nmQ: mem in some minds. Official mnuthK ar0 closed to u inqulrie8 on th7 ject. It will probably become know to the general public, however, lat on that the unfortunate disposition of ,i.t , U"KU,.I,,U w rSS-fw iWlS1Wffaln,; one another constitutes part and pSf.- sibly. the greater nart nf thJ . ftiS. tetSXvSfJSJES'?. The seriousness ol the situation hAM is increasing. Snort Bull, the leading uusuio uiuei, wno nas distinguished himself all along during this trouhlA by never for a moment considering any of the overtures looking to an amid- nie seuiement and has now assumed command of the great body of hostlles, ia mgni uia our spies that h would ,take this agency if it cost every warrior he had. Half breed. here have been informed by friends and relatives, whom Rom nf them have among the hostiles.that they uau. ueuer immediately move their families a long distance from the agency ,as a great raid and massacre was certain. The half breeds araehnwfncr us what they think of this information by getting their families out of here with a rush. Government herder John Dwyer, and Issue Clerk Pugh, have both discovered through their Indian friends of yeara standing, that the raid and massacre has been f ullv decided upon and maturely planned. Gen. Miles is thoroughly conversant with an tne lacts and himself Cairo 4 VAf situation is exceedingly critical. There are ie88 than 600 soldra hpr nM n told. . The partv sent to Wounded TfnnA to bury tfte'dead Indians returned late last nignt.; They found and burlaJ eighty-four' buck and "sixty three squaws and children, making the total numoer killed In that battle two hun dred. V A little Indian baby girl about thrto months old, being one of the two mi raculous survivors of the battle of the Wounded Knee who lay for three davs beside the dead body of its mother has been adopted by Mrs. Allison Nailor. 1.1 1 1 -r-ww a wealthy lady of Washington. Jack Red Cloud and a small party of friendlies came in from the hostile, camp last evening and asked that the i inaians now at tne agency be sent out to help the Indians who fled from the agency on the night of the battle of Woundel Knee, to get away from the hostiles. The authorities look upon the rjfuest with distrust and reserve their decision. -y ', 1 has left for, the Eist. . Although ha re-, a.- uivuuaiit, ancsuib UilSSluaurVl I m . a W mained jier but :orty-e:ght hours; or so, he-is authoritatively said to havo' 8uece8sfully drawn upon 6omo of the Vtf-&t WlllPflPS nf 1 nffirmil t inn omnnrr Vtr hostiles. As he was leaving he 6ald to me: 'I am convinced there will be morp bloodshed aud that the greatest tight is yet to come." Regarding tho condition of Father Craft, who was stabbed in the battle of Wounded Knee. Father Stephani said: 44 We can now tell nothing at all about how he is com ing out of it. I would give very little for his life as nutters - now stared with him." St. Louis, Jan. 6. A special from the camp near Wounded Run creek,S, D., gives the particulars of another en gagement what took placeatthat point yesterday morning. A detachment had been sent out from camp to meet a wag on train with supplies for the camp. ana, wnen ten miles out tne wagons wer fo"odT eiged by a band of one hundred Indians. Seeing the troops approaching the red skins scattered in all directions but immediately returned to tne attack on nndiog the email num ber of men in the detachment. A ecu- a i : i. . t . i ioi tvclo ecub ucu;(i tu Mixmy iur iC'cU" forcement; but in the mean time an in cessant fire was kept upon both sides, ro sulting in wounding one soldier, killing and wounding Re vera 1 Indians, the ex act number of which could not be as certained as they carried their dying and wounded away. About three hours after the courier's departure troops were seen coming at a full gallop to the rescue. As the troops rode up the In diana scattered in all directions and tho troops pursued them, but abandoned the chase on account of darkness. The wagon train was escorted to camp in safety. - White River, S. D., Jan. 6. Fred erick Remington, Harper's war artist, was captured by a small party of hos tiles yesterday. Remington was un armed and the Indians turned him loose and told him to go home after taking his tobacco and sketch book from him. - . The New York Legislature Convenes. Albany, N. Y; Jan. C. The Assem bly was called to order at 11 o'clock t'lis moming a d 1 n mediately elected its officers, b ur the first time in many years theDemocrat controlled the body. Will am F. Shceian was elec ted Speaker, receiving sixty-felx votes against fifty six cast for Milo M. Acker, the candidate of tho Republicans. The Governor's message was then re ceived and read. ' '. lee Ten Inches Thlck.x Staunton, Va., Jan. 6.V. Th weather has been very cold here for the past forty-eight hours. Ice is from eight to ten inches thick acd a larg crop has been gathered. B-X i
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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