The Red Cloud chief., 1877-04-12
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

Chicago. has been arrested for stealing
business letters to Chicago merchants.
He confessed the theft, placing the
amount of his stealings at $500. The
officers suspect that the sum is much
larger. The Indianapolis National
Bank was robbed recently of about
S25, Nv. ID. Morton & Co., of De
troit, have failed liabilities about $780,
600.
George L. Whitney, head book keeper
of the Brooklyn Bark N. ~, was ar
rested March 23d. charged with having
robbed the bank of $4,000, leaving
$4,000 unaccOunted for. The circum-
stances of the robbery are, that a few
eve ings before, after banking hours,
Whiting was correcting some cler-
ical errors in company with another
clerk, and remarked that he heard the
officers intended reducing his salary but
he did not propose to let them do 1t
easily. He would compel a cOmprom-
Use. Whiting had surreptiously learned
the combination of the safe, and 70
naming after the rest left, opened the
vault and teOk 100000 in bills and $780,
600 in greenbacks. left a note Offering
to compromise for half the money and
the assurance that he would not be pros
ecuted, and declaring that otherwise he
would destroy the whole package. De-
t~ectives worked up the case, end caught
him. He revealed where the money was
secreted, and it was found inta8....
The stock banking firm of Callaghan
& Lynch, San Francisco, has failed.
Liabilities. 100000; assets unknown.
THE New England Glass Company,
Eas. -cridge, Mass, has voted to
wind up its business, being unable to
compete with Southern and Western
concerns. Two hundred men will be
thrown out of employment. &c. o.
Hencker, a pork packer, New York,
has failed. Liabilities, 100000. The
still of the Boston Lye, Wood and
Chemical Co., Boston, exploded, March
23d, badly scalding four men. two
probably fatally. The buildings were
demolished. IAN accident to a freight
train, with passenger caboose near
Worthington, Ind, March 23d, killed
one passenger, seriously hurt others,
and slightly injured a considerable
number. LIN the Rhode Island legis.
lature the proposition to amend the
constitution 90 as to allow women to
vote when taxed has been defeated by
q vote of 2e to %.
The National Bank, Indianapolis, has
increased the reward for the rObber of
its funds to $4,000 for the money, and
5000 Or twenty per cent. for any part
of it. Walter C. Adams, agent for the
Star Line of Packets and commission
merchant, New York, has failed. Liza
bilities, 100000; assets, $4,000. A
large part of the Indebtedness is in
Europe 80. John N. Ferguson, pork
packer, Louisville. has failed. Liabil-
titles. $4,000; assets nothing IA re-
ceiver has been applied for against the
Wabash Railroad. Owing to the Grand
Lodge of Good Templars of Massa-
chusetts excluding colOred men from
membership, dissatisfied members are
moving to establish q new Grand Lodge.
....Whiting, the Brooklyn bank robber,
who robbed the institution of which he
was boOkkeeper of 100000, has been
committed for trial. He still refuses to
say what he did with the missing SlO,-
coo. alleging only that he had spent it.
The detectives say thar while Whiting
was stopping at the Vandyke House, he
was intimate with achambermaid, Nelly
Morrison. and her friend a Miss Hig-
gins, and that Whiting gave Nelly some
money. The girl has disappeared....
Albert Brown, cashier Of the First
National Bank of Springfield, Vermont,
is said to be q defaulter to the amount
Of $4,000. NO more suits against
Tweed will be brought to trial. 1t is
said to be definitely settled that in a
few days Tweed will be released from
custody. The village of Maderie, n.
Y. was visited q few nights ago by
burglars. who. after plundering some
stores, set FIRE to them and the village
was nearly destroyed. Some of the
persons engaged in the murder of China
men. at Chico, California have been
arrested 80. r T. Taylor, defsulting
cashier Of the Franklin Bank, who was
taken to the Inssue Asylum q Indian