The Red Cloud chief., 1879-02-06
NEWS o. TINE WEEK.


~ u sshoffy MN
The Firs, National Bank u Gran.
vtiis. ohio, has suspended
DIR. Lindsrmsn. director 81 the mint,
Phiisdslphis, Died Jan. Ttb.
The Nsedham Savings Bank. Boston.
has eioss5, owing 10 . lac u basiress-
Jasper a Co.'S elevator AZ Quincy.
~, tumsd "a the night ~ Jan. nj Los..
sio.0o.
The Warner House at Sparta. Wis,
~ss burned Jan. ais, Lo.., s2s,0o, insur.
snos, sls,0o.
Mat, n. Carpenter has been elected
United state. ssns,os In Wisconsin To succeed
Senator T q. Howe.
The Legislature u Arkansas has
elected J D. walker, Of Washington county,
United state. senator.
Gov. Hartranft has been appointed
and confirmed a. Major General Of the Va
tionAi Guards u Prnnsyisanis.
One section ~ Armour n cos ware.
housc, at the Union Stock yards, Chicago,
burned Jan. Nth. io.s, i0.Ooo
The National Marine Bank. Oswego.
y Y, will be closed because u the bigh rate
~ taxation and low rate 81 interest.
Tho report Of the Illinois Central
Railroad for ISIS, show. = gain In the net traf.
&c Of $3.50 70 over the preceding year.
The Judson Bank. nj Ogden.burg.
y Y. eloscd January s2d. With moderation
on the part 81 liz creditors It expects to pay
In full.
In Scranton. Pa. n few nights ago.
Nbs Davis and . one year old child we're
burned to death by the explosion Of q koro-
scnc lamp.
The Irving mills, with two run of
stones, burned at NJ. Paul, Milan Jan. ~.
Lo.. On mill, sio,cO. aud on wheat, sI,so,
Insurance, $500.
lyochman's confectionery establish
msnt at Milton, Pa, burned January cath.
An explosion during the nre killed one man
aud injured several.
H. l.. 7. Beal. Conservative, elected
Ia the Forty sirth Congress. has been chosen
to al the vacancy caused by the death Of Rep
re.entative Douglsssin vrgiais.
At Mertvillc, Maine, Jan. 25th. John
Mcfarland, wife aud daughter were killed by
q maniac named Roweii, who wAs aftsrwari
shot dead by q neighbor whom be had at
tackled.
A iirc In Elizabeth, N. j.. January
9is,, damaged the Arcade Block, belonging to
cS Congressman Clark, To the eItctt Of ei00,.
10; insurance, tdo.oO, The original cost Of
the structure Vas esso,00.
In tearing down the walls Of \ build
ing recently burned IN Cincinnati. Jan. s.ud, .
portion Of . wall crumbicd away suddenly,
prccipisAting two men into the cellar. . dist
ance of sixty feet, and both ~erc killed.
A collision of freight trains on the
Central railroad near Tarrytown, v. Y, Jan.
a6'h, resulted In the death 81 byron Wright,
conductor, and David Jones, fireman. and the
smashing ~ four cars, q locomotive aud q ten
der.
On Sunday evening. January 26th.
a tornado struck the town Of Lockport, Te1a.
dcmolishing forty houses, including churches,
the conrt house aud Masonic hall. A child
was killed and several other persons badly
hurt.
An attempt tn throw out some dyna-
mite cartridges At the 6un Powder Water
Works, Baltimore, January 2ist, resulted In
the killing Of I've mea, the destruction Of the
boiler house, ami the carrying ~ the boiler
some ATTY feet.
On the morning Of January 9th n
rrc broke on, In Turkey City, Clarion county,
rapidly in all directions, ana In m hour half
Of the bcs, portion of the town IVES In ruins.
Loss, about $4,000.
A fire swept v the valley twenty
miles north Of Dcsdwood, Jan. ath, burning
No tons of hay aud dwelling several ranches 10
the ground. The same day . heavy gale Of
wind prevailed doing much damage In Dead.
wocd Guich, u~nrocang houses, uproo,ing trees
and blowing down fences.
At Meridian. Miss. Jan. cath, three
negrocs named Alexander, and three white
men named Gambia, quArreiled about the
possession Of sonc land. Afterward the ne
groes smbushed the white men, killing one
and woundiug another. The are wAs returned
and two Of the negroes were killed. The 9TH
~ one nrd.
The Dayton 4 Michigan Railroad
Company's elevator u at Toledo, Ohio, with
its contents, consisting Of 10000 bushels Of
grain, mostly eoro, vas entirely destroyed by
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