A man named IlallGrubb committed
gross outrage on a woman at Wath
ena, Kansas. , lie Was sent to jail at
Troy, in charge of a constable and
guards' The wagon containing the
prisoner was followed by an excited
crowd of men and women on foot, on
horseback, and in wagons, the former
armed with guns and revolvers, and the
latter Carrying ropes and : demanding
revenge. When abont a "mile from
Watheoa, Grubb sprang from the wa
gon and attempted to escape, but. was
immediately riddled with bullets and
instantly killed. -
Advices from El Rito Creek, New
Mexico, to July 11, say: Twenty-one
persons, six Americans and fifteen Mex
icans, have been killed by Indians be
tween Fort Bascom and Raton Moun
tains np to the present time, and four
hundred horses have been driven out of
the Territory. A company of the 8th
Cavalry left Fort Union on July 17 for
Dry Cimarron river, the scene of late
Indian outrages..
Pecuniary trouble deranged the mind
of Charles Cook, a merchant of Auburn
county, Missouri, and cansed him to
tbrat a knife blade through the brain of
his infant child, aud inflict mortal injury
,f . -fc batcbet
The eommiHee appointed by Legisla
ture to revise the tax laws of New
York State went to Saratogo to begin
the discharge of that duty.
A suit has been instituted against
Lyman C. Cotton, attorney ar.d civil
engineer of the Little Miama branch of
tbe Pittsburg, Cincinnati aud St. Louis
Railroad Company, for embezzling six
teen thousand dollars. Tbe embezzle
ment is said to have occurred through
tbe obtainment of light of way and
title aud transfer -of real estate along
the lailroad route.
