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News of the Day. A dispatch from Deadwood, dated yestersays: During the last week numerous reday, of Indian depredations have been coming To. ports from small towns adjacent to this place. in these rumors assumed an alarming aspect, day substantiated the news of simultaneous to and different directions. which leads this that the Indians are attacks the belief in surrounding train was capVolen's large cattle near Bear Butte herd of mules was also tured vicioity. Fletcher's entire yesterday. captured short and in Montana ranche, a the from here, was attacked the Indians capturing all the distance same same time, vicinity. which about the was stock. near Wigginton's herd of horses, City, was also captured. Wigginton ConsidCrook wounded and his assistant killed. were was crable stock in the vicinity of Spearfish run off. A smuggling conspiracy, by which extensive smuggling of goods from Canada has been carried on, has been discovered in New York. have Samuel Stratford and Charles B. Spear arrested. D. McClanaghan, proprietor be been of Express Hotel, Montreal, is said with to the and front of the conspiracy, sevand and telegraph operators Montreal, eral the head U. S. inspectors baggage-masters likewise. seized at at A of smuggled prunella was of merquantity York yesterday. Many arrests others New middlemen, U. S. inspectors and been de chants, expected. The government has for are frauded out of vast sums by the smugglers several years. The plot was one of the deepest and best planned ever discovered. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has advised of the arrival of two companies of been at Georgia, to assist the in the enforcement of infantry civil officers Cartersville, that the place revenue has The revenue agent at laws. from Washington 10 purchase for use in raiding among horses been authorized the commenced illicit disoperations are to be as little delay as possible. tillers. with Active killed The raid upon very Lieut. McIntyre was was a nearly which one, and men and horses were will have severe with constant labor. They the short season exhausted a of rest before going into mountains again. Rochester, N. Y., woman recently ap. peared A on the streets at mid-day in a ball dress with low neck and short sleeves, and was ar. la court she proved her respectability, which rested. her lawyer argued that a dress light and be word in a ball room by gas in the might without impropriety was fit to be worn subsc. by day. She was released, but street quently reappeared on the street in the same costume and was rearrested. The Boston and Maine Railroad Company announces that no more engineers or firemen wanted on the road, a sufficient number the are been secured to take the place of having The railroad officials swear that the and they propose and trains as usual strikers. strike freight is ended, passenger by to Wed. start still next. The striking engineers are have to firm, needay and claim that the road will yet accept their terms. Indian Commissioner Smith called on the President yesterday with a view to having consideration given to the case of the Indians, imprisseventy in number, who are now Florida, about oned at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Indians, convicted of various depredations, and the been in prison for nearly two years, Execu having strong efforts are being made 10 have tive elemency afforded. Dr. M. M. Wishard, superintendent of the Orphans' Home at Knightstown, Ind., com mitted suicide by cutting his throat at the St. James Hotel, New Orleans, on Wednesday 00 11c disappeared from Knightstown the night. 8th iost. His accounts have been examined and found to be correct. There was a run on the City Savings Bank Bridgeport, Cona., yesterday, and up to is of $75,000 had been paid out. The demands bank noon to be amply able to meet all days said without availing itself of the usual sixty notice. The Virginia Cane Fibre Company's build fire ings at Fredericksburg were destroyed by 130 Wednesday. The factory employed last hands. The property was valued at $50,000, and is partially insured. lu the U. S. Senate, yesterday, the tax rate for the District of Columbia was fixed at $1.50 the $100 of all real property, churches, asylums on and educational institutions to be exempt from the operations of the tax bill. The President yesterday signed the set authorizing the commissioners of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company to buy in certain real and other property and to seli the same public and private sale. The steamship J. B. Waiker sailed from New Haven yesterday with arms and Her ammuni- cargo tion for the Turkish government. is valued at over a million of dollars. destructive fire occurred Wednesday A in the town of Smithfield, N. C., en- of morning tailing a loss of $15,000 or $20,000 worth property
