Show B Y AMERICAN 0 omalia fairra rA lira irrA 2 the adjutant general of the tile department of the platte is in receipt of a commini communication ca dated camp brown july stating that a party of hostile indians had attacked attached a house near old camp brown which is situated 40 miles north west of atlantic city W WT stand tand wand and killed two women mrs richards and mrs mm hall both were shot with small arms and one had an arrow wound A force in command of wheeler of the thirteenth infantry were sent in pursuit of the murderers general ord and colonel brown leave for an inspection tour through the west A terrific rain min storm prevailed on the union pacific railroad near ogelalla Oga lalla it washed out the track for several hundred feet and passengers will have to be transferred over the break for the present the break will be repaired by tomorrow some time BROOKLYN 2 it is understood that an application will be made today to day for the removal of kate stoddard atias alias lizzie lizzle king from raymond street jail to some other place of confinement and it is said baid her counsel intend applying for the appointment of a commission of lunacy to investigate her sanity A special meeting of mechanics and laborers employed on the new post office was hold held last night the object being to recover the back pay claimed to be due the men from the government the chairman stated that the men had worked for two years at ten hours per day when they should under the law have worked but eight hours consequently the tho pay for two hours or pro rata for those who had worked less jess time during the period is claimed A claim roll will be sent on to washington for presentation through the claim agent to the proper officers of the government 2 on the heels ef of the double execution yesterday another murder has been committed H markers Swedish aX sailor at half past eleven last night was making a disturbance at the barroom of james kennedy ho no broadway because the bar keeper refused him and drunken drunk en companions the liquor they demanded the proprietor approached to ajeet eject him from the tile room when markers with a large sailors jackknife jack knife stabbed kennedy in the head bead as he approached pro pio ached him killing him instantly rys rss the murderer was arrested soon after in bed an and d the knife was found und under erthe the mattrass NEW YORK the london correspondent of the world says in reference to the approaching marriage of the duke of edinburgh and tile the daughter of the czar that the duke of edinburgh is of all the royal princes the least esteemed and most disliked disgraceful and ludicrous stories about him are everywhere current it is said sald that he has turned mady many an honest penny by selI seii selling i photographs of his royal mother upon which he had persuaded her to write her name to bis big ship shipmate shipman mat and others at ten shillings and sixpence and the money mon 07 thus thug received with other sums supplied to him by his loving parent was loaned out at usurious interest to llis ilig hib his young companions taking precious good car cal came care e to exact principal and interest at the maturity of the debt T they hey say the habits thus acquired have not been laid aside in later years and today to day this prince of the blood and future son in law of the czar Is actually in partnership with a well known money lender of london and yet the people are represented as thanking heaven on their bended knees with grateful hearts for the happiness of our noble sailor nor is this the worst of it the prince has been a debauchee although his liaisons are said not to have been of an expensive kind and it has been with the utmost difficulty that the aversion of the tile empress of russia and her daughter to this match have been overcome one of his latest amours has been with a notorious actress of or the opera a woman whose III ill fame is world wide and who long since lost whatever I 1 personal jers personal onal charms she once may have posse possessed ased the story of this affair is too disgusting to repeat repent ST PAUL 2 the rear of the Nor thren pacific expedition reached yellowstone at the mouth of pov PON powder ader river elver on saturday last gen engineer in charge immediately started back arriving at bismarck last evening ho he will be here on saturday morning he brings plots of the located line from missouri to yellowstone the health of the survey party and escort was good no hostile indians had bad been seen by the main body stanleys Stan leys command will remain in camp on the yellowstone washington 2 south carolinians who have been in washington lately give a fearful account of affairs in that state they say the power of the state has literally fallen into the hands of bad negroes and worsen worse white men who have used the blacks as stepping stones to political stations for the sole purpose apparently of plundering the state the most honest officials are said to be colored men the state is so completely within radical clutches that some of the conservatives even are inclined to recommend that their own party take the most decent colored man they can find and nin run him for governor next year the administration seems to be doing its very best to get up a war with mexico gen belknap it is well known would like to have it brought about the administration organs try to fire the american heart by the publication of letters professing to give correct accounts of raids upon american territory by mex mexican I 1 can ean marauders and of outrages on american citizens B by y inquiry at the jhb war department these reports are seldom verified an administration paper today to day demands almost savagely that there be no further trifling with mexico the war department is ready any time to involve us in war but the secretary desires first by these publications licati ons to endeavor to arouse public feeling that will sustain him SARATOGA 2 the selling race for two year olds was won by Crows meat the sequel for three year olds two mile was won by breadalbane Bread albane a colt time li in the three mile selling race nor for 1000 hubbard beat 11 harry B bas q sett set trl try and nd 11 wanderer time NEW YORK 2 A stay of proceedings ce has keen leen been granted in the c case cue of murphy who was sentenced to be hanged banged on friday next washington INGTON 2 the tile report of the investigation of the indian committee of the last house of representatives into the extensive ild iid and rid fraudulent private contracts with various indian tribes for the collection of annul annuities negotiation on of treaties and and other services in washington has just been published the investigation vesti gation extended over more than a year making a volume of nearly eight hundred pages sages the most wholesale a and aud ud unprecedented frauds are proved and a recommendation men dation is made that the contracts be annulled and suits for the recovery of the money be instituted iid lid and rid that im important general legislation for the tetter better protection of the indians be inaugurated the committee announce in in large capitals 91 on the title page of their report that they hope todo to do something to rid the indians and the indian service servio vie of the scoundrels who infest it the report concludes with the statement of nineteen distinct measures s upon which legislative and exec executive action Js s advised T the he whole report is comprehensive and exhaustive ham hau stive and by far the most thorough expose ever made cf frauds by indian attorneys and claim agents it is now definitely settled that the expectations of the advocates of the peace policy will be realized the opinion that the war department would hereafter have control of amm aff mairs affairs is incorrect when capt jack and his big band of murderers have been disposed of all its functions in that respect will cease and that business will again revert to the bureau of indian affairs in the department of the interior those who ou ought 9 ht to know insist that the president never contemplated any other course and they say that control in regard to the indians by the military was never designed to extend further than the trial of the NEW YORK A counterfeit of uhe the half eagle coinage of 1872 has appeared here so closely resembling the genuine as almost to defy detection it is composed of thousandths of gold mixed with copper its intrinsic value being thousandths A A reward of five thousand has been offered ed for information leading to the capture of tb the e dies and the arrest and conviction of the counterfeiters counterfeit ers san SAN SAX FRANCISCO 2 the following is the latest from the portland fire the following brick buildings are destroyed monn ets levee building vaughans hans haus mill monn ets first street building walkers sash factory fryers building weather ford fords Straw bridges elb els Wake fields Re reamed beamed arnes and Popple tons and one or two others some of the wooden buildings consumed were of considerable value it is impossible to give details of the losses yet but the most reliable estimates place the amount from one million to one million two hundred thousand dollars the amount of insurance according to best Inform information balon edlon obtained does not exceed A very large proportion of the buildings burned were not insured many families are rendered homeless by the fire and some have lost everything they had steps are being taken for the assistance of the sufferers the mayor has called a meeting of prominent citizens and is taking active measures to protect property there is great excitement among the people it being apparent that the fire is the result of an attempt to burn the city I 1 during the progress of the conflagration 0 the fire caught in divet divers places in the city all of them in in such places as could not have caught from the fire already raging R bu ru u mors are rife of incendiary attempts in every part of the city and one or more person have been arrested these reports are doubtless exaggerated but they are not without foundation in fact scarcely had the flames enveloped the building in which it first caught when the flames were discovered issuing from about the centre of another r block of wooden buildings building lying plying to the westward of that in which it was first seen the flames spread with ireat great great rapidity among the wooden buildings uil ull dings with which most of the burnt district was densely built anid arid in a few minutes it became ani apparent that it would require the utmost efforts to save any part of the business portion of the city lle ile the lie weather had been dry and hot for some time and the wind was blowing fresh from the northwest north west at the time the fire caught and it continued so during the entire time ef of the conflagration E everything very thing between fort steele and the river from Morrison to Steele the south limit of the december fi nire fire re southerly to clay street is b burned U led except joseph knotts knotty resl resi residence one building was burned on the south fade of clay between front and first streets everything is swept away from yam hill to ojay olay street except three small residences and between first and second the con eon conflagration nna fla gation gatlon extended from columbia to yam hill leavin leaving 9 not a building standing the whole number of buildings consumed is about and the district swept clean embraces twenty two entire blocks and parts of two and three othes others the city loses lokes the engine house of the protection company no 4 and the vigilance hook and ladder companas comp anys house houm among the establishments destroyed are one flowering mill two tivo sash and door factories iron foundry brass foundry lumbering mill mill wagon manufactory besides a considerable number of small arual I 1 factories of various kinds washington T 3 ahe the coinage ringe linge of ot kil kii the new ngn r trade dollar is to bo be pushed forward rapidly especially at the tho san francisco and carson city mints where whelo active preparations are heing being made to coin coln a large number in philadelphia only about pieces were coined up to the of july some somo time having been lost in trimming down the dies and other finishing touches now the dies are perfect and the director of the mint expect to be able to supply the de demand mand in a few days E VANSVILLE ind 3 thirteen deaths are reported from cholera at carmi carml illinois since i the appearance of the disease there thene the r e every thing is quiet there at present two deaths have been reported rent on wabash and one deat death in this city today to day louisville ky 3 mrs west shot her husband in a street car in this city yesterday pm inflicting a severe wound the he parties came to this city a few da days y s ago from st 81 louis and secured rooms at the hotel on friday his wife secretly left the town and started for st louis bat was wag arrested by telegraph and brought back yesterday and while going home together the woman drew a pistol placed it directly against her husbands side and fired when other passengers interfered interfere dand and she was disarmed her husband asserts that his wife la Is subject to insanity and he went her lier bail ball 3 the pre para tory work for the construction of the hudson river bridge at this place is now in progress his this week the foundation for the pier e r will be commenced the first lot t of material for the bridge will reach here in a few days A special dispatch to from khiva by way of london august 3 is full of details of the capture of khiva by the russian troops which have been anticipated by previous dispatches general jeneral kauffman rau Kau timan trman is well satisfied with the result of the campaign the entire russian less is twenty one killed and ninety two wounded including twenty six casual ties tim ST JOSE JOSEPH Pir mo 3 there isbit is but little abatement of the cattle disease which has prevailed for the past st two weeks in the counties of davies tavies davies Dle die kaili kalli and nodaway godaway No daway it is now conceded that two of the iowa R R robbers are the james brothers of clay co who participated in the robbery of the gallatin bank and killed the cashier NEW YORK 3 luu lub ia Is reported here tonight to night that arthur chambers and siddons had their previously arranged fight for the light weight championship this a m it took place on coney island road and was witnessed only by a few friends selected by each of the men they fought for one hour siddons was defeated in the fourteenth round the fighting all through was greatly in favor of chambers siddons being out of condition NEW YORK 3 coroner hermann yesterday held an inquest over the remains of mrs josephine games an old woman deceased who had bad been sum suf suffering flaring from asthma and other diseases for a 2 long time she weighed over five hundred pounds and after death the body lid had swollen to such an enormous size size that the undertaker found it impossible to take the coffin through the front door and the corpse was taken to the rear rearward yard where a door had to be tom torn down to let it in deceased was a native of eastern new york an antwerp carrier pigeon wai was sent off on a trial trip by the th daily eDaily graphic at 3 pm on the 2nd and the bird it was intended should go to river clit cliff near stratford conn the pigeon was wa S F soon oon butof out of sight it is is the intention of prof wise to use carrier and other pigeons for his daily dally graphic balloon which is being built to cross the ocean A prize fight between jack bog lan ian of dublin and peter crocker the celebrated middle weight ol 01 this city is to take place tomorrow to td morrow the men are to fight within miles of this city for and the 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