The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-17

Topeka, kaS.. conveying directors had
been wrecked, and that General Manager
Robinson had been assassinated.
A NOTION TO set aside the verdict and
award a new trial in the case of Hallet Kill
bourn vs.. United States ex-Sergeant al
Arms Thompson was argued recently al
Washington. The District Attorney said
he would advise the Government to let
judgment go for $4,000, and if the verdict
was reduced to that amount he would fur.
Their suggest that no appeal be taken and
the money paid. The court reserved its
decision.
DURING the trial recently in Russia OF
the Nihilists Dubetzki and daughter, the
prisoners stabbed themselves, the father
fatally and the daughter dangerously.
MUCH uneasiness was expressed in Rus.
sian Government circles at st. Petersburg
over the immense emigration from Finland
to the Northwestern States Of America,
which has been noticeable ever since the
beginning of the emigration season this
year.
A PENITENTIARY guard in charge OF
eight convicts whom he was transferring
from Frankfort, KY, to prison on the Ken
lucky Central Railroad, reached Frankfort
safely and started on foot for the prison.
Later five of the prisoners were met who
said one of the prisoners complaining that
his handouts We're hurting him, too adj
vantage of the opportunity to overpower
the guard, seized his gun and killed him,
when three of the prisoners escaped. The
other five were trying to reach the prison.
IT was reported that the affairs Of Grant
& Ward, the firm which went down with
the Marine Bank of New York, Were in a
far worse condition than at first expected.
One report said the liabilities reached up
to $40, 000, 003, while the assets would turn
out to he small. Generel Grant was
believed 10 have been sadly victimized, as
he was in the habit of giving his notes for
worthless paper.
AT Washington, on the 9th, Judge Hag-
ner set aside the verdict of $500 as eX-
cessive i'm the case Of Halle: Kilbourne
against ex-Sergeant-at-Arms Thompson,
but said if the plaintiff would accept his
Judgment for $4,000 it would be allowed Tn
stand; otherwise he would grant Il new
trial.
The steamer Thetis, of the Greedy exoe-
dition, arrived at ST. Johns, y. F., on tn. 9th.
EX-MAYOR SANDERS, OF Lawrence, Mass,
has been held for trial for ballot-boX stuff
ing.
THE business failures for the past week
reported by X. G. Dunn & Co.'s mercantile
agency are as fOllows: United States, Us;
Canada, 33.
DURING a game of base hall at Chilli
cothe, o., recently, the grand stand fell, in
juIipg twenty persons, some seriously.
There were two hundred persons on the
stand.
DANIEL c. ritter and Alexander Burket
were crossing the Allegheny River recently
at Freeport, Pa, in n sanIboat, when it
sprung a leak and tine two men were
drowned.
THE House Committee on Expenditures
in the Department of Justice decided To
no investigation OF Senator Keliogg's
case except SO far as it may be necessary
to prove the good faith of Government otii-
cials in securing indictments.
A PANIC in a chapel at Trieste, Austria,
was caused recently by the altar catching
fire. Many people We're injured.
A MORMON Missionary has been con-
demned to imprisonment at Trieste, Aus
tria.
TRAIN robbers, forty miles below Quere-
taro, on the Mexican Central, succeeded in
derailing a train. They were shot at and
one OF their number killed, when the rest
fed.
FRED HoPT, sentenced to death at Salt
Lake City, Utah, having the right of chooS.
ing between hanging and shooting, chose
the latter method. Tie execution was
fixed for June 18Th.