AMERICA.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 116, 20 December 1879, Page 3

AMERICA.

An outbreak-of ,the Indians occurred at Colorado, United States on September 29tb, when Major Thornbury's command of three companies of cavalry were arnbnshed by about soveu hundred savages, near Milk River. According to the orders of the Indian Department, the troops did not fire until they tired 'upon. The extent of the ambush was then disclosed. . Major Thoriibury ordered a charge,.and fell righting ; fifteen were killed and forty wounded. The troops retreated to the waggon train, which was ..- userLqg.a fortification, like the British at Rorke'B Drift. Only a handful of men were left tit for duty, Captain Pay no, commander, being wounded, also the surgeon. Nearly all the animals in the train were killed. The Indians established a. regular siege; the troops had seven days' provisions.; A scout ran the . gauntlet, and brought the news. In a short,space of time 1200 men got together and advanced to the relief of the _ besieged, but two days before General Meirit arrived the captain of the coloured regiment and forty men traversed a very difficult country, and forced their way : into Payne's camp. This saved the command .from extermination. The tiro was incessant for seven days, and tl)e Blench from the dead animals being oppressive. Tho evening' General Merrit arrived ho had a skirmish, with the enoruy, who drew olf. Tho troops arrived at .-■■• White ltiver Agency on October 12, and found all tho buildings' destroyed, the boilies of eight white men, including the Indian Agent, were lying dead and mutilated. The women and children wore carried off, but were surrended uninjured on October-23. .A Colljsion UetWei'lj ■ [fciMnngcr tminK on the "Baltimore and ■ Ohio railroad on the 12th Octobor, at tho rate of 40 miles an hour, resulted in the death of several persons and tho iujury of others. The business part tho town of rjhediac, New Brunswick, ha* been >•* but nod. The Cincinnati! marine railroad and • dock has been burned, together with tho steamer Bsstonia, on the stocks. Businoss is improving in British Co- .„ lumbia, consequent on tho announcement of. the Finance Minister of Canada that ..the Pacific railroad will bo pushed for- • ward rapidly. Railroad construction i -in Vancouvierlslands oommoncod inline- •>:; <HateJy. memorial has beeu adopted the Dominion Gov w#Wrment not to permit the employment .-of CfiiuuKo on railroad construction in ; British .Columbia. -';-. Ohio .and lowa have gone Republican • in the late State elections. • Strikes for advanced wages are nu- '"*"" roerouß all over the Western States. v "Tho inert generally, have their demands "' acceded to. ''Thei ; 'cigar-makers &i Chi-' cngo got twatlollarß per- thousand advance. ' The iixHlworktrs - and cabinet makers more frequently strike.. • ••. An.in<*ndiary.fir* : destroyed a wing of Jha Bethany College. West Virgina, ■■• tog'ether with tbo .valuable library., •• • A ' suburb of Montreal has beon • -burned'Joaving 200 poor .people home•"•less.;- . -i ■ »••• . •','• ■_:••• :i "'- '.'.Dk.-Froitfwalkilled by'the- yellow ... "fot'er aVMfephTS: oif October 25. ,„.:'' . w won the'o'Le,ary ~ bety dollars nt "Now York, •&H ThotKsUkihsWp * .%bek;:h»a arri.vod ■-»• ot.QuobOCiiifroni Giangtoe, aridv reports 'K swept overH*b»anl .during T.hoavy'galo. I" .'■■"'Bir -Fmrioia Hiok* wprtmdent of tho B, Coniiolidated' Bunk, -Montreal- lias beon m <Wvfctod of publishlni|f M"' slatomoiits ■ regarding tho bank. I tjix other directors mud the manager on trial.

Nearly a million . sterling, in gold, arrived at N«w York ' from. Europe during, the three days ending October 32. About one million arrived from Bremen oh" the 25th. Since th'o resumption of specie, the greater position being since the Jst of August. ' Nine men fell down a shaft of the Tioga mime Bodie, California, 500 feet in depth. Five are dead, and the remainder seriously hurt. Two men were recently killed at San Francisco during a Sunday ballon ascent from Woodford's Garden. .There is ah'oxtensive striko of killed labourers in Cincinnati, who demand 15 per cent, advanco in wages. A further 6trike at Fall River is re-ported,-consequent on the exactions of employers: The Grand Stand at Michigan Stato fair, Adrian, fell, precipitating two thou-, land people among...the exhibits and large crowd below. Sixteen were killed outright andseventy-tiye seriously injured. Several subsequently died. .An accident on Michigan Central Railroad,, at Air Line Junction, near Detroit, resulted in the death of twenty ; five and the wounding of thirty-one persons. ■ A switch engine and freight cars collided with the Pacitio express, bound West with 'emigrants. The Apache Indians, in New- Mexico, slaughtered,forty whites, in five days. Large numbers are on the war-path, and evidently intend making a stand in Rio Grande Va.lley, near Colorado town. Murders are of daily occurrence. Tho body, of Dr. Lemoyne, the.famous cremationist, was reduced to ashes in his own furnace, Pittsbut g, Penuysylvania, on October loth.