The Red Cloud chief., 1884-01-04


The m knocked Curriers' hat of
when he pushed her away. Then she sho
him.
MISS STEVENSON, a young lady Twin,
near Bastrop, La, was accidently sho
and killed Christmas day by a young MAJ
named Kitchen.
THE first five months of the present fisca
year the total internal collections wer'
SOL, 9,43s, being ST., :S43,91 less than thu
corresponding period last year. In spirit.
the total increase of collections were So,
on, III; fermented liquors, increase, S497,
3Ss; total decrease of collection in take
on tobacco, $9,191, 601; from banks anC
bankers, $1O,6s2 ,92l miscellaneous taxes
s.. 6OG,231.
A SERIOUS riot took took place at Harbol
Grace, Newfoundland, recently, occasionet
by an Orange procession being fired upon
Four men were killed, eight reported NOR
tally and eighteen to twenty slightly
wounded.
A PETITION requesting Congress to pre-
vent the Importation of foreign laborers
under contracts made abroad was said to
Eo receiving many signatures of working
men in the mining and manufacturing dis,
tricts of Pennsylvania. Z
JOHN A. CLARK was hanged at Bozeman.
NJ. T., for the murder of Thomas Rodgers
in June last.
THE number of failures in New York
City in 1885 was 34S; liabilities, S2O,S57,Si3;
actual assets, S9,5G4,45l.
HEAVY snow storms lately blockaded
travel and interrupted telegraphic com
munication i'm the Northern and Eastern
States.
A FIRE at Saranac, Mich, the other morn.
ing, destroyed Thomas Folks furniture
store, C. A. Burbanks, jewelry; Rouner &
Hunter, boots and shoes; Anderson &
Walker, hardware; j.. p. Anderson, dry
goods; j. H. Kilmer, groceries.
LAST July Gretchen Rummel, in her
eighteenth year, daughter of a barber liv.
ing in Munich, Bavaria, took fifteen hun.
dred marks her father had saved up n
ran away to America. She went to Cleve-
land, o., where a woman friend lives, and
found work Us a domestic in a farmers
family at Collamer. Recently she wrote a
penitent letter home and by means of the
postmark her father traced her, and the
other day the father and daughter set out
on their return to Europe.
THE Free Thinkers' Convention met at
Salamanca, N. T., the other evening. There
was a large attendance. Among the
speakers present were ex-Rev. Burnnan,
of Michigan and John Z. Remsburg, OF
Kansas.
THREE msn while recently digging coal
near Granville, Pa, were buried by fall.
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seriously injured.
Two b'Others, JEFF. and Thomas Hobbs,
quarreled on Christmas eve at Fairfield,
Mo-, wien JEFF. pursued Thomas with a
knife, cutting him on the left shoulder.
Thom.s h turned and picking up a stick
hit his brother over the head, infiicting in
juries from which he died during the night.
JEFF. was twenty-three years of age and
Thomas thirty. Both were. stock traders
an0well to do. The trouble is said to have
grswn out of business relations.
A C dispatch from Hanover, Ger.
many stated that Colonel Henry 4. Rath.
lone killed his wife and committed suicide.
they were connected with the most prom.
hent families of Albany, N. Y. She was
IA daughter of ex-United States Senator
Harris.
IT was reported tina. the French Govern.
ment had telegraphed to Admiral Courbet,
urging him to follow up his victory at
Sontay with the utmost promptness and
energy compatible with prudence. 1t was
expected that Admire Courbet would make
an attack upon Hong Hoa before marching
against Bacninh.
Crnv c1iIoy continue - a--s1:y-Ao q
esr in Colorado.
ADDITIONAL DISrATCMEA
THE sanitary condition Of Havana (Cuba)
IL reported to be improving. Only ten
deaths from yellow fever for the week ended
December &c. The cases were scattered
among the population and not confined to !
and military hospitals as they |
are.
MISS HILL, of Hill Sharon fame, recently
had Frederick c. Burchard arrested at San
Fran cisco for testifying in court hat on
April IS, 1881, he was engaged to be mar
led to her. @
In a late interview with Mr.. Morrison
Chairman of the Ways and Means Com
he is quoted as saying that the con-
nittee will report a bill making a prett
general reduction in existing duties: TIN
arranging the provisions of the bill t
committee will look to the possibility
preparing a measure that can pass CO.
,ress, but whether or not the bill can
the House without being amend
10 as to destroy its usefulness, is a mat
If mere conjecture. 4
THE French Government has decided 4
the importation of Areri(
;alted meats until the Chambers have
upon the bill which the Mis-
# Commerce will introduce at the be-
ling of next session. The prohibition
lot apply to the ports of Havre, Ma
nd Bordeaux, where, however, arr
re subjected to rigid scrutiny.
The dead body of Penn Grit, q .
was found the other da1
niles from Brinkley, Ark, beside a
lad killed. 1t is believed he was sh@
nediately after killing the hog.
The Trades Congress at Toronto
unanimously resolved that the futul
are of the working people of the Dot
equired the prohibition of the inpoAxAi !.
# Chinese labor.
UPON evidence showing fraud in making
ntry, the Commissioner Of the General
and Office recently Cancelled twenty-one
.ntries Of public land in Colorado, twelve
II Dakota and seventeen in New Mexico.