killed. Guristersigo, a famous Creek vention that ratified the national Constichief, was killed. The royalists coming tution. In April, 1792, he was made genout of Savannah to assist the Indians eral-in-chief of the army. were driven back, with the loss of a standard and 127 horses with packs. The men fled back to the city, and soon afterwards evacuated it. Wayne took possession of The defeat of GEN. ARTHUR ST. CLAIR (q. v.) spread alarm along the frontiers and indignation throughout the country. General Wayne was appointed his succes sor. Apprehending that pending negotiations with the Indians, if they failed, would be followed by immediate hostilities against the frontiers, Wayne marched into the Northwestern Territory in the autumn of 1793 with a competent force. He spent the winter at Greenvile, not far from the place of St. Clair's disaster, and built a stockade, which he named Fort Recovery. The following summer he pushed on through the wilderness towards the Maumee, and at its junction with the Auglaize he built Fort Defiance. On the St. Mary's he built Fort Adams as an intermediate post; and in August he went down the Maumee with 1,000 men and encamped near a British post at the foot of the MauRapids, called Fort Miami, or Maumee. Wayne, with a force ample to destroy the Indians in spite of British influence, willing to spare bloodshed, offered them peace and tranquillity if they would lay down their weapons. They refused. Wayne then advanced to the head of the rapids, and at a place called DRAWING-ROOM OF GENERAL WAYNE'S HOUSE. the city, and of the province of Georgia, mee a Brave to the verge of rashness, Wayne received the name of 66 Mad Anthony." Yet he was discreet and cautious, fruitful in resources, and prompt in the execution of plans. After his successful campaign against the Indians, he returned to Fort Presque Isle (now Erie), Pa., where he died, Dec. 15, 1796. His body was afterwards removed by his son and buried in Radnor church-yard, in his native county. Over his remains the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati caused a neat marble monument to be erected in 1809. Wayne, FORT, ATTACK ON. Forts Wayne and Harrison, the former at the junction of the St. Joseph's and St. Mary's rivers, where they formed the Maumee, and the latter on the Wabash, were strongholds of the Americans in the Northwest in 1812. General Proctor, in command at Fort Malden, resolved to reduce them, with the assistance of Tecumseh, whom Brock had commissioned a brigadier-general. Major Muir, with British regulars and Indians, was to proceed up the Maumee Valley to co-operate with other Indians, and Sept. 1 was appointed as the day when they should invest Fort Wayne. The garrison consisted of only seventy men under Capt. James Rhea. The Indians prosecuted raids in other directions to divert attention from Forts Wayne and Harrison and prevent their being reinforced. A scalping-party fell upon the "Pigeon-roost Settlement" HARMAR'S DEFEAT. Fallen Timbers, not far above (present) Maumee City, he attacked and defeated the Indians on Aug. 20. Almost all the dead warriors were found with British arms. Wayne laid waste their country, and at the middle of September moved up to the junction of the St. Mary's and St. Joseph's rivers, near the (present) city of Fort Wayne, Ind., and built strong fortification which he named Fort Wayne. The little army wintered at Greenville. The Indians perceived their own weakness and sued for peace. The following sumabout 1,100 sachems warriors, representing twelve cantons, met (Aug. 3, 1795) commissioners of the United States at Greenville, and made a treaty of peace. mer and MARY' FORT WAYNE in Scott county, Ind. (Sept. 3), and during Wayne, JAMES MOORE, jurist; born in the twilight they killed three men, five Savannah, Ga., in 1790; graduated at women, and sixteen children. Similar Princeton College in 1808; admitted to atrocities were committed by these allies the bar in 1810, and began practice in his of the British preparatory to the invest- native city; was judge of the Georgia ment of Fort Wayne. For several days Supreme Court in 1824-29; member of the Indians had been seen hovering in the Congress in 1829-35; and in the latter woods around the fort, and on the night year was appointed an associate justice of Sept. 5 they attacked the sentinels. of the United States Supreme Court, The treacherous Miamis, who, since the where he sat till his death in Washington, massacre at Chicago, had resolved to join D. C., July 5, 1867. the British, kept up a zealous pretence of friendship for the Americans, hoping by this to get possession of the fort by surprise. They joined the other Indians in an attack on the fort on the night of the 6th, supposed to have been 600 strong. They attempted to scale the palisades, but were driven back. Then, under the direction of a half-breed, they formed two logs into the shape of cannon, and demanded the instant surrender of the fort, which would be battered down in case of a refusal. The troops were not frightened. They knew friends were on their way to relieve them. The besiegers kept up assaults until the 12th, when they fled precipitately on the approach of a delivering force that night which saved the fort. The Indians had destroyed the live-stock, crops, and dwellings outside of the fort. The city of Fort Wayne stands near the spot. Wayne's Indian Campaign. See OHIO; WAYNE, ANTHONY. Weather Bureau. The United States weather bureau, from its organization in 1870 until June 30, 1891, when it was transferred to the Department of Agriculture, was a division of the United States signal service under the War Department. It was organized by Chief Signal Officer Brig.-Gen. Albert J. Myer, under act of Congress, Feb. 9, 1870, the first legislation of the United States for a national weather service. Meteorological reports had been collected and maps sent out daily by Professor Henry at the Smithsonian Institution in 1854, and European governments had issued storm warnings in Holland, France, and England; but Prof. Cleveland Abbé, meteorologist, of Cincinnati, originated the present system of weather forecasts. Professor Abbé began the publication of the |