Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1883-07-06

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TnE Minnesota State Convention met Al
81 Paul. Governor Hubbard was rcnom
mated by acclamalion. G. A. Gilman was
nominated for Lieutenant Governors Fred
Won Baumhack for Secretary of state;
Chas, Kittleson, Treasurer; w. J. Hahn
Attorney General, and J. II, Baker, Rail
road Commissioner.
Tux Iowa Republican State Convention
recently IN session at Dies Moines. nomi.
mated Burr Il. sherman for Governor; o,
II. Manning, Lieutenant Governor, Prof
Akcrs, Superintendent OF Public instruc'
uon, aud Judge Reed for Judge Of tho su.
preme Court,
THE editor Of the Cincinnati Price Cur.
rent publishes the result Of an extended in.
vestigation through the producing States
Of the West concerning the corn and wheat
crops. He places the aggregate Of wheat
al ii0,0Oo,oO) bushels, against loi,0oo,00o
last year. The corn crop Is reported in
good stand generally, the acreage is con.
siderahly increased, and the condition
averages we'll. Though backward IN many
sections, Il is now having a drawback from
excessive rains, which interfcres with till
ing. Seventy per cent of the returns re.
port fair to good supplies Of old corn on
hand.
TnE four.ycar-old son Of Philip Rainey,
Of Petersburg, Ills, was recently burned 10
death while playing with matches with lit
tie companions in rplay.house.
A DOCK with 100000 feet OF lumber fell
into the lake at Muskegon, Mich, the other
afternoon, precipitating about twenty men
at work on it into the water. Three or four
of them were missing. A boy named Frank
Barhardt was crushed under 1000 feet Of
timber. Two immense piles of lumber
adjoining which threatened TO fall prevent.
ed a search for the bodies.
The other morning, while the Helena
bound Deer Lodge coach, was crossing the
main range of the Rockies, eighteen miles
west of Helena, NJ. T., two men with hand
kerchiefs tied across the lower part of
their faces, stepped from te brush and
ordered the driver to halt John McCor-
mick, post trader at TT. Missoula, was
on the box with the driver, and drawing a
six shooter quickly opened fire on the high
waymen. One was badly hurt and crawled
back into the brush and the other returned
McCormick's fire seriously wounding one
of the wheel horses. The team took fright
and ran and was soon out OF the robbers
range. The treasure-box was on another
coach following
THE creditors of NJ. s. Nichols &, Co.,
Chicago commission merchants who were
carried down by McGooch, Everingham &
Co., will not get fifty cents on the dollar
THE attorney for the Chicago & North.
western Railroad Company recently made
argument before the PostmasterGene in
support of the application of the company
for a remission of fines and deductions for
non-performance of contracts to carry
mail. The company allege they are not
properly responsible for delays caused by
floods.
A MuscoGEE, Indian Territory, dispatch
states that the settlement of the Creek
trouble is to be made through military
occupation A company of cavalry will
establish camp at Okmulgee and COM
pany Of infantry at Tulsa. A general sur
veilance win be made of all parties and the
killing of Pawnees and any like offense
will be adjudicated by court martial
which has been arranged for. This is the first
assurance of peace since the outbreak one
year ago. Spioche's band are 70 be moved |
from Fort Gibson to their home at once,
under protection of the military.
AT Keithsurg, Ms, recently, Hiram
Blair shot his wife and then committed sui
eide. The wife may recover.
As THE freight train on the Northwestern
road, drawn by two engines, was crossing
the iron bridge near Norwalk, Wis, re.
Gently, the structure gave way, letting
down both engines, with three cars on top
of them. Albert Getthing, fireman OF The
first engine, was scalded to death.
DURING a late fire in the warehouse Of ].
II. Ashdown, at Winnepeg, Manitoba,
number Of kegs Of powder exploded, tear
ing the building to splinters, injuring TWEEN
ty persons more or less, several fatally,
and smashing the windows of one hundred
of the principal stores to atoms. The con
cussion shook the entire city as by an
ABOUT 5000 bushels of new wheat from
Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri
arrived at St. Lonis' one day last week 1t
was about equal % No. Q, and some Of it
sold at IL.
DURING Sunday School procession the
other day at Milwaukee, Wis, farmers
team become frightened Mt the band, ran
away and dashed among the children and I
then to the crowded sidewalk and trampled
he people under their hoofs in every direc- 7
lion. One school girl was killed. Schmitt, !
)wner of the team, received fatal injuries,
md Mrs. Engel, who saved the lives Of two d
title ones by pushing them aside, was :
severely kicked. Over dozen were in
ured
A FAMILY Of five--father, mother and '
hree children-were drowned in the river 1
wenty miles below Madison, Ind, recently, S
he waves from a passing steamer upset v
ing the skiff. a
THE steamer Bright Light was sunk at t
3oonyille, NO., q few days ago. Total loss, 4
Except machinery, which will be raised. O
THE negro who SO brutally assaulted /
roung lady at louisiana, No., last week {
vas later arrested and subsequently hung
y a mob. 4
Az outgoing train on the Chicago & Alton
Dad from Chicago, the other night collided !
With a street car near the southern limits q
4 that city, smashing it to fragments. The
amps in the car exploded and set hro to it. b
u thirteen persons in the car only one n
scaped unhurt, and It was believed that b
wo or three Of the worst injured would n
lie. Several were badly burned before a
hey could be extricated from the blazing o
fragments. v
SAMUEL GREEN was fatally stabbed BY G
'harles Niles, At Sturgis, Ohio, the other n
light IN a drunken fight
THE SOUTH. G
TIE rancnmen In Western Texas are re- \
lorted to be lameniing the scarcity Of wa L
sr and the parched condition Of the grass. h
he stock is Suffering. h
A LkTE cyclone blew doern sixteen build
ngs At Elbcrton, Ca. and killed one man. a.
THEEE men were recently killed at Col d