The Red Cloud chief., 1884-01-25

| stock the range adjacent TO the lands Iur.
chased with forty thousand head of cattle.
In New York the other day Mrs. McDon-
aid locked two children in . room while
she took the third to school Returning
home she found the two children dead.
| They had lighted a fire on the floor and had
sufYocated.
IL the new rules adopted by the United
|, States Senate the sale of Intoxicating
| drinks in the Senate restaurant Is expressly
prohibited
The Grand Montezuma Hotel at Las
/! vegas. n. NJ, burned recently. The guests
lost everything. Total loss, $4,000.
THE Indiana fruit crop was reported
killed by the late cold weather.
! VALUE of exports Of domestic breadstuhs
for December, 1888, Sl2,94 ,693, against
81, ,0s7, 80 for the same time in 1882. For
the twelve months ended December 81
1ss3, S112.692, $50. against S1Sa. I. .SI for the
same period 1882
An aged Mormon, residing near Salt
Lake City, Utah, recently read the Gov
ernor's message. against polygamy, and
then went out and hanged himself, leaving
four widows.
SECRETARY CHANDLER reported to the
Senate that there were ninety-three vessels
on the naval register in November, 1882, o.
these twenty-five were built prior to the
rebellion, thirty during the rebellion, anG
forty-one since the close Of the hostilities.
AT a spelling school the other night neal
Hillsboro, H., Walter Watcher killed
! Stephen Sturgeon. They were rivals for
the smiles Of the same girl.
MISS FLORENCE HAssER, a highly re,
spectacle young lady of Vandalia, No..
was to have been married a few days since
to a young man of that town, but he failed
to keep bis engagement, when she poisoned
herself. The recreant youth fed.
The other night the residence of John
| McQuirk, a miner, in Leadville, Colo, wa,
blown up by giant powder. A lighted
candle set fire to the curtains and sooI
communicated to the woodshed where the
powder was stored. McQairk saw the
danger, seized his three children and
escaped just as the explosion took place.
SENATOR EDMUS Is was present at q
| recent meeting of the Senate Committee on
Post Offices and Post-roads and gave his
! views upon the points involved in the con-
sideration of q postal telegraph: He enter
tanned no doubt in regard to the constitu
tional right of the Government to build
telegraph lines, but strongly opposed the
purchase Of existing lines
The House Committee on Pensions has
made a favorable report on the bill grant
ing pensions to all survivors Of the Mexican
war. wars with the Creeks, Seminoles and
Black Hawk war.
The other morning the body of Prof.
Peter Voltz. a prominent citizen Of Ale
ghany, Pa, was found at the South street
railroad bridge in Pitts burgh, with a bullet
| hole in the temple. He had been murdered
! and robbed.
The Senate in executive session rejected
the Mexican Reciprocity Treaty.
THE House Committee on Commerce is
said to be by no means unanimous con-
corning the immediate retaliatory meas
ures against France and Germany. TIE
| Townshend bill was defeated in commit
tee recently and the whole matter tempo
rarily postponed.
THE steamer City Of Columbus that left
Boston on the afternoon of the 18th for Sa-
vannah, Ga, was wrecked at what is
known as DEVILS Bridge, some hours after
sailing. Seventy passengers n thirty
four officers and sailors were reported
lost.
THE business failures for the week ended
January IS were 423, against 333 the pre-.
vious week
THE shock Of an earthquake recently
stirred up the people of Wilmington, Beau.
fort and other places in North Carolina.
IT was denied in Paris that the United
States will mediate between China and
France.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES
CONGRESSMAN KELLOGG, of Louisiana,
in whose State Mrs. Meyer Miller made
application for a license as master Of a
steamboat, argued her right before the
Solicitor Of the Treasury the other day.
The Solicitor acknowledged there is no law
to prevent her holding a license, and so de-
rided. Secretary Folge- will order her
license issued.
C S~CHAFYNER, while on the way
from New York to Las Vegas, n. NJ, re-
ceived intelligence at La Junta of the
death of his brother at Las Vegas, which
caused him to become insane. Before
reaching Las Vegas he escaped from the
train, and it was feared lad frozen to
death. 1t was thought he had considerable
money on his person.
A RECESr boiler explosion in the Cincin-
natl tO.) Corrugating Company's manu-
factory set the building on fire. The loss
was $4,000. There were many narrow es-
.capes, but no one was seriously fnIrt- Fiji
teen girls in the Irvine factory on the second
floor were panic stricken and several
jumped safely from the windows. Two
tainted on the stairway, but were rescued
by young men employees, who rend cred in
valuable Md. One saved the wraps of the
girls, but had to jump from a window to
escape the flames.
NIKE CUDDIGAN and his wife who recent
ly caused the death of little Mary Matthews
by cruelty, in Ouray County, Colo, were
taken from the officers by a mob and both
hanged. For want OF sufficient evidence
John Carroll, the woman's brother, was
permitted to live.
SEVEN members of Henry Kendall's
family resiuing near Louisville, KY, were
recently poisoned by eating Rouch on Rats,
which by mistake had been put in biscuits, |