The Red Cloud chief., 1884-07-18

absence of the Speaker. Adopted unani
mOusly. The session on Monday began at
.noOn, and on motion OF Mr.. Randall the House
cOncurred I'm the Senate amendment to the
adjournment resolution, fixing the hour OF
INA adjournment at two O'Clock. On motion
of Mr.. wOOlford, a bill passed increasing the
the shoulder Joint to the amount received by
those who have lost a leg at the hip Joint
The House then adjourned until December.
WASHINGTON NOTES
THE Spanish Minister at Washington
says that the reports afloat Of the proposed
sale or transfer Of Cuba by the Spanish
Government are untrutbful and absurd.
A TREMENDOUS Newfoundland dog. be.
longing to the Russian Minister, bit a child
severely about the face and head at Wash.
ington the other day. Tn dog soon died,
exhibiting strange symptoms, but q care
full post-mortem examination failed to dis.
cover any evidence Of h~ydrophobia. No
explanation could be given of the animals
strange attack and death.
A RECENT Washington special said
Logan ~telegraphed to Blaine his letter OF
acceptance as ready and desired to know
when Blaine proposed to issue his, so that
he might make his public at the same time.
Logan's letter; in addition to q formal &C.
ceptance Of the nomination, will treat
upon the results accomplished by the war,
and urge the necessity of maintaining the
same in accordance with the principle in
vOlved in that struggle.
TIL Comptroller of the Currency has
directed that an assessment of one hundred
per cent be levied on the shareholders of
thu Marine Nofsonol ponL - No. VII
The American Lacrosse team, which re-
Gently returned from England, were again
defeated by the Canadians at New York.
The score was 6 to l.
The Secretary of the Treasury on the
9Th made an advance payment of 1898 ,:333
to the President Of the Worlds EXPOSE.
ton, at New Orleans.
The Comptroller of the Currency has di.
rected the assessment of one hundred per
cent. on the shareholders of the First. Ma.
tional Bauk of Monmouth, Ill.
p. The President recognized j. G.. BAN.
berger a Consul of the Swiss Confederation
ut Louisville, Ky.
The Secretary Of the Interior has re.
Qussted the Secretary of War to cause the
arrest OF Payne and such of his party as
enter the Indian Territory. 1t was re-
ported that the number was fifteen hundred
or two thousand now upon the Cherokee
outlet lands of the Indian Territory. 1t
was desired to expel all other intruders
now upon the lands before the movement
assume more formidable proportions.
THE EAST.
The failure Of A. Dyatt & Co. was an
nounced on the New York Stock Exchange
recently. This was the firm with
which John C.. Emo, President of the Sec.
n National Bank, transacted his stock
operations.
DAVID JONES, Of Petersburg junction,
N. ", was found dead in bed the other
morning He used paris green in his pc.
tato field. and was supposed to have in
hailed the poison.
The racing at Monmouth Park, New
York, on the Sth, was sensational because
OF accidents. In the third race Himalaya
threw a Jockey, who ruptured a blood YES
sci in the head, and was carried of the
track unconscious. At the close of the race
the horse Orator, coming in fourth, dropped
dead just as he was being pulled.
PHILIP HAMILTON died at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, on the 9th, aged eighty.tw He
was the youngest son of Alexander Hamil-
ton, the famous statesman, who was killed
in q due with Aaron Burr.
The strike of the molders at New Castle,
Pa, has ended, Baldwin & Co. withdraw.
ing the notice of a reduction. The same
action was taken by Bradley & Co., of
Pittsburgh.
In the South Boston iron foundry re.
Gently a twenty ton gun had just been cast,
when the mould burst, completely running
h casting. The gun il finished would
have been worth $4,000.
Boxo, who xsaA elled from the Boston
Union Base Ball Club, has been engaged
BY The violence Club.
b PAWS, a salesman, was ar.
New York for forging the names
PUditors Of newspapers to requests for
'theater, railroad and steamboat passes.
LEWIS Bishop, an actor, aged thirty,
shot himself at New York the other night,
probably fatally. He played last season
in the Kate Caxton company in the 1.-TWO
Orphans"
Ar Centralia- Pa, recently, John Kia.
mus. Abner Rice and Borie Sponemith
were fatally injuredlby the premature ex.
Plosion of a blast
THE worst Ere that ever occurred in the
history OF Bradford, Pa took place on the
11th. The fire originated in the bakery of
Mrs. Charles Reibley and it burned ten
houses. Mary and Lizzie Reibley, aged
" and six years respectively, and a
servant girl were suffocated and
to q crisp. Mrs. keibley, in her
enorts to rescue her babes. was terribly
and died in q shsrt time. Lena
Gerwitz and Mary Touhey ~ere asleep
when the fire broke out, and hey escaped
by jumping from q window. Both were
severely injured and Miss Tt,uhey it was
thought would die. John Holdea and II. |
6erwitz were also badly hurt The latter
vas the father of Mrs. Reibley.
THE VEST.
A MYSTERIOUS disease within two weeks
swept on fifteen hundred hogs in the vi
Unity Of vandalia, III.
J. B.SRowN, q farmer aged fortv wears,
Fas droy ned the other day while bsthine.
: Licking Greek three miles east of New..l
I, Ohio. He left q wife and nine chill.
RAE1, Q blacksmith employed in the
Milwaukee & ST. Paul round
que, Iowa, was drowned the
keapsixing Of askiR while |