Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1882-11-03


the theater when the fire broke out. Sh
viewed the confagation from the balcony o
her hotel only two blocks away. The theate
had been newly frescoed and upholstered il
preparation for MIRA Langtry's debut. Tn
scenery for the play was costly and elaborate
especially that of the second act, being paint
| ed on satin and hand embroidered. 1t was al
destroyed. Mr.. Abbey Immediately made ar
rangements to open the Grand Opera Hous'
for Mrs. Langtry's debut, which was neces
sarily postponed.
THE WEST.
Major r. W. Petriken, Chief Engineer of tn,
Mexican and Oriental Railroad, was murdered
by Indians in the mountains of Chihuahua
few DAYS since.
pork packer from st. Louis and connected
with c. B. Carter q Co., of that city, killed
himself recently at Houston, Texas.
Bob Ford of Jesse James notoricty, who
had for about week been on trial at Platts
burg, Mo-, upon the charge of numbering
Wood lIite, one of the James gang, some
months since, was acquitted by the jury aftel
being out forty-one hours. Ford was arrested
soon after he killed Jesse james upon his own
declaration that he had killed Hite in quar-.
rel
Mary Stockton, of Cincinnati, in fit Of an
ger following a quarrel with Mrs. Welsh,
poured bucker Of boiling lye over the head
and shoulders of the latter, injuring her it ID
thought mortally. Mrs. Welsh is the mother
in-law Of sedden, the prisoner who was burned
to death in the County Jail recently. Mrs
Stockton was arrested.
The matinee at the Olympic theater in st.
Louis, given by John Mccullough as benefit
to the widow and children OF Col Slayback,
netted between 5000 and 5000.
Not the slightest clew has been obtained OF
Maggie Hennicke, who disappeared from Mil
waukee recently. Great excitement prevails
in all circles, as the rumor gains belief that she
h~~ bssss-- s.lastsa- fes . 60 ai f.sr-<-ss. 1ss
father offers $500 reward
John Heiser, lately member Of the firm of
Carpeles, Heiser a. Co., trunk manufacturers
Of Milwaukee, Wis, has disappeared with
S25,0)0, leaving his family in destitute circum-
stances.
A man named Thomas Talbot was fatally
shot by his wife at Cheyenne, w. T., during a
quarrel, his wife claims In self-defense. Tai
bott is about 3s years old and has nine chill
drcn.
Taylor seiders, a Young man residing near
Cole Camp, Barton County, No., was accident
ally shot by Albert Tucker, ncghbor while
recently out hunting. seiders wore one OF the
new yarlegated style OF hats. Tucker seeing
that through the brush thought it was deer
aud fired
The total output OF coal for the State of
Iowa from July I, 1851, to July 1, 1882, was
al27,7o0 tons; average prices per ton for
mining, % cents making the total earnings of
74,too miners q, $3.50, or 81, ,4'j6 per month
per man. The wages range all the way from
three 10 five cents per bushel.
A man named Frank slocker was perhaps
fatally injured near the State Line Depot, at
Kansas City He was coupling an engine TO
freight car on Missouri Pacific track, and
his head was caught and crushed. lie had
been railroading but about two months.
While five men were returning from a po-
litical meeting at Wyandotte, Mich, about
midnight on a hand-car, they we're overtaken
by an East bound night express over the Can
ada Southern. Three jumped of safely, the
other two were thrown with the car into a
ditch. Jerry Ryan was killed instantly and
his brother fatally injured
Mrs. Elizabeth stahrles of No. 453 West
Huron street Chicago, suicided recently by
hanging.
The child of Lewis Walker, OF Dayton,
Ohio, was scalded 70 death by the upsctting
Of teapot.
The tugs wctzel and sill, of Racine (wis.)
harbor, engaged in = race for a vessel they
sighted. The race continued for some miles,
when the boiler Of the Wetzel exploded,
the entire upper works and bodies
of the crew in the air, all sinking together
with the hull Of the craft. The crew Of the
Nctzel consisted Of Capt Frank Lowell, Ra-
line; Engineer Vim. Kelly, Chicago; Fireman
Patrick White, Racine. The Wetzel was |
-sIzcd harbor tug, valued 1t 5000
The jury in the Mrs. scovillc insanity case At |
declared her TO be insane, and that |
insanity was hereditary in her family. After |
ne verdict Il was found that Mrs. scovilic |
,ad disappeared, and It was reported that |
'ome Of her friends had ivoved their infen- /
Ion Of taking her on TO Canada
Truckee, New. suffered from 4 disastrous |
Ire on the night Of the 2sfh. Among the |
buildings DESTROYED were the American Hotel. |
Merritt House and Odd Fellow Building.
The loss viii probably be upward Of 100000,
wo-thirds Of which Is covered BY fnsur-
nee
A special from Winnipeg savs: "The three
tory brick building Of the Bank Of Montreal.
lso occupied BY the general ofices Of the
'anadisn Paciac RAILWAY. was damaged bv
Emil Tronp<tor stabbed and instantly killed |,
Inton Delsno at q mechanics boarding house
n Liberty street. m Cincinnati. because the |,
litter persisted in dancing in his room TO the |,
nnorance Of ether boardcrs. Both men were |,
rnorfed 70 he sofer.
william Por,ufeau. Superintendent OF the
unnel Mines, While hunting near the head