AMERICA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5541, 19 November 1879, Page 3

AMERICA.

An outbreak of Indians occurred at Colorado, United States, when Major Thornbury's command of three companies of cavalry wag ambushed by seven hundred savages near Milk River. According to orders from the Indian Department, the troops did not fire until fired upon. The extent of the ambush was then disclosed. Major Tnornbury ordered a charge, and fell fighting. Fifteen soldiers were killed and forty wounded. The troops retreated to the wagon train, which was used as a fortification, like the British at Rorke's Drift. Only a handful of men were left fit for duty, Captain Payne, the commander being wounded, as well as the surgeon. Nearly all the animals in the train were killed. The Indians established a regular siege, but the troops had seven days' provisions. A scout ran the gauntlet and brought the news, and in a short time 12,000 men were got together and advanced to the relief of the besieged, but two days before they arrived a captain of a colored regiment and 40 men forced thier way into Payne's camp and saved the command from extermination. The fire was incessant for seven days,, and the stench from the dead animals was oppressive. The evening General Merritt with the relief arrived he had a skirmish with the enemy, who drew off. The troops arrived at the White lUver Agency on October 12, and found the buildings destroyed, and the bodies of eight white men and the Indian agent were lying dead and mutilated. The women and children were carried off, but were surrendered uninjured on October 25th. A collision between passenger trains on the Baltimore (Ohio) railroad, both going at the rate of 40 miles an hour, resulted . in the death of several persons and injury ty- to others. The business part of the town of Shediac, New Brunswick, has been burned. The Cincinnati mariuo railroad and dock have been burned, together with the steamer Bostonia on the stocks. Memorials have been adopted" in Canada requesting the Dominion Government not to permit the employment of Chinese on railroad construction. Strikes for advances in wages have been numerous all over the Western States. The men generally have had their dei^^mands acceded to. i^^ A suburb ; of - Montreal has been burned, leaving 200 poor people homeless. Murphy, the pedestrian, won the O'Leary belt aad io,ooo dollars at New York. Sir Francis Hicks, the President of .the Consolidated Bank of Montreal, has been convicted of publishing false statements regarding the bank. Six other directors and the manager are on trial. Two men were recently killed in San Francisco during a Sunday balloon ascent from Woodford's gardens. • The grand Btand at the Michigan State fair at Adrian fell, precipitating two thousand people among the exhibits and on the crowd below. Sixteen persons were killed, and seventy-five seriously injured, several of whom subsequently died. An accident at the Michigan Central railroad at the Air Lino junction near i^ Detroit, resulted in the death of twentyfive, and wounding of thirty-one persons. The Apache Indians in New Mexico slaughtered forty white men in five days. Large numbers are on the war path, and evidently intend making a stand in the Rio* Grande valley, near Colcradotown. Murders are of daily occurrence. The body of Dr Lemoyne, the famous cremationist, was reduced to ashes in his own furnace at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Hanlon-OourtMey rowing match, announced to take place at May ville, N.T. , qn October 16, was an inglorious "fizzle." Courtney's practice and race boats were found sawn in two in the boat-house. Han-

lon rowed over the course alone, making four miles in. 33 mm and 56£ sees, pulling at the rate of 32 strokes to the minute. The time was the best by 1 mm 14£ sees of auy previous time. There was a good deal of feeling about the race, the general opinion being that it was a gigantic fraud. Both Hanlan and Courtney it is believed wore privy to the destruction of the boats, and that the understanding was that the purse of 0000 dollars should be shared equally if Hanlan was allowed to win. The Irish-Americans are holding meetings all over the country in sympathy with the anti-rent movement. Parnell, tho Irish tenant right agitator, wiil visit America in November. All Government obligations are now paid in gold and silver. Charles Wheatley. has returned to New York. He was supporting Clara Morris at the Park Theatre, Brooklyn.