The Red Cloud chief., 1879-02-27
Eubri.m uv.ter and wife. Of Som

Ephriam Hyster and wife, Of Som
eryiIle, Me-, went 10 . ~nelghborin. town
shopping. leaving their three ehildren
locked In the house. During their ab>ense
the House caught fire and burned. together
with ell its contents, including the three
children. Their ages were 4 and 2 I-e yeap
and . months.
Rev. Peter Waits, q colored Baptist
preacher Of Jacksonville, o., was shot and
killed on the night Of the 18th by An
drew Emery, = colored boy Of Il, employed
as q coachman by Mr.. Jewett, OF Red
Bank. Waits Wa lodging around yeweft's
house in a suspicious manner, and young
Emery, mistaking him for = burglar, fired
his gun with fatal effect. The house had been
burglarized only \ short time previous, and,
the family being absent, Emery was on
the lookout for another attempt 1t IL be-
lieved that Waits's mission was one OF love,
not burglary, A. he was somewhat intimate
with n young colored girl, \ servant In the
house. Deceased was 20 year, old and had
a wife and family.
Matt. Pollock, a printer well known
In many Offices throughout the country, was
shot and killed by Jim Barr At Bellefontaine,
o., on the morning OF the 10th. Both were
under the Influence Of liquor at the time,
although the murder seems TO have been
committed in 4 cold blooded manner. Pol
lock was q feet 8 inches high and very thin.
and bore the nickname OF shorty" Pol
lock.
The GOvernor-General of Canada, in
his address to Parliament, says he will press
for the most vigorous prosecution OF the
Canadian Pacific Railway.
A panic exists among the white set
tiers Of Alaska, owing to threatened HOSTILE
ties on the part Of the Indians. The trouble
arose out OF the arrest Of two Indians charg.
ed with murder. At last accounts the
whites had armed and fortified themselves
and were awaiting an attack. The Collector
at Sitka has telegraphed Secretary Sherman
for aid, and meanwhile the commander OF a
British vessel has been asked to afford them
protection.
John Geyer and VIM. Wilson lost
their lives in a burning building in Frank
lin Township, near Pittsburg, Pa, on the
night Of the 18th.
A difficulty occurred on the 18th, at
Jacksonville, Miss, between Col. Holman,
DIR. Lowrey, DIR. Walker and Mr.. Arnold.
The fight was begun by Holman shooting
LOwrey; Arnold shot Holman, wOunding
him, then shot and killed Walker, and
was himself shot in turn by Holman. Ar.
mold and Lowrey have since died. Holman
was arrested.
John McLeon has been arrested at
Marion, Mcdowell County, n. c., on a
charge of bigamy. 1t is said that he has ~
wives now living in various parts OF the
country. He was formerly a Methodist
minister, is said to be exceedingly prepOs-
sessing in his manner, and has apparently
made a bus ness Of going from State to State
and marrying in every community where he
temporarily located.
A mob of masked men undertook to
take a prisoner named Dallas Rogers from
the Jail at Graham, Texas, on the night Of
the 18th, but were resisted by the Sheriu's
posse and one Of the mob, named A. w.
Hayes, was hot and killed.
Mrs. Wolf, wife of a farmer living
near Olathe, Kansas, on the 18th was out.
ragged by a negro workman during the alb.
sence of her husband, who then cut her
throat and left her for dead. The brute
was captured and lodged IN Jail. Mrs.
VOLTS injuries were fatal.
Pleuro-pneumonia is spreading among
the cattle in North and East Yorkshire,
England.
Summary proceedings have been in
stituted against Deputies Fritzche and Has
sclman for alleged violations Of the Socialist
law. Warrants have been issued for their
arrest.
The l.. G. Mccormick, a small steam
er, running between Marietta and Zanes-
vile, on the Muskingum River, exploded
her boiler when near Beverly, on the 18th,
killing the fireman, Mike IIavemeyer, and
seriously scalding Capt. Martin, two Of the
crew and three passengers. The boat sunk
q few minute after the explosion.
Secretary Sherman has ordered the
revenue cutter Oliver Wolcott, now ut Port
Townsend, to Sitka, to preserve peace, and
the british man-Of-war Osprey has gone
from Victoria, b. g., to Sitka, at the earnest
request of the citizens, who represented
that they feared an in~discriminate massacre
by the Indians.
The chartered steamers Dublin Castle,
from London, with the Sd Battalion Of the
Goth Regiment, andthe Pretoria, from South
ampton, with the 91st Highlanders, sailed on
the 18th for the Cape of GoOd Hope, and
several other ships were in readiness to fol-
low at intervals of a few days.
Col. Edmund Rice and Lieut.. Fred
Sibley, of the Fifth Infantry, accompanied
by Morris Cohn, a trader, with an escort of
six soldiers, were surprised and captured
near Glsndive Creek, on the Yellowstone,
while en- route from Fort Keogh to Bis.
marck, by four masked men, armed with re.
peating rides. Thu whole party were rob-
bed of their money, Cohn losing a bag con-
tanning $500. A party Of soldiers went out
from Fort Keogh after the daring freeboot-
ers and captured one Of them, named VIM.
Dixon.
The Senate has passed the House bill
reducing the tax on tobacco and snuff to 16
cents a pound. Heretofore the tax On all
kinds OF tobacco has been "a cents per pound
and on snuff 81 cents.
FORTY-FIFTH