The Red Cloud chief., 1884-10-17
r.

GENERAL
VARIOUS scandals are nf9at In the Brit
fish Navy, caused by the embezzlemeut Of
enormous Quantities Of ship stores.
RICHARD CL-sS, Of Caledonia, Can, an
empioye Of F~orcpaugh's circus, while
opening the ventilator il a cage n few
days sinca, had his band seized by a tiger,
and while trying 20 release himself was
seized by two other tigers aud dragged in
side the cage. Tie animals were finally
beaten off with iron bars after Clark's
arms and legs had been crushed and mutt
lated.
The National Prohibition party i,sueI
an order not long ago for the Observance
Of Wednesday, October .9-h. as Il day Of
fasting, humiliation and confession. Il,
was decreed that the day be- consecratei
70 prayer for the triumph Of the prohibit
tiOn cause.
At late meeting OF Liberals in Brussels,
J~aris0n, the Radical leader, stated that il
was the intention OF the Radical party to
support tie w~orkingmen's candidates ia the
coming COMMUNAL elections. This declara.
ton, il Is expected, Will cause q division
'A hiaN ll1 va hAAt 14e'i-4 ATS.
As unsuccessful attempt was lately made
10 wreck q Methodist excursion train with
80 people on board, near Toronto, Canada.
There was great excitement: over the mat
ter when il was found that an attempt had
been made TO wreck the train, but 10 on.
was injured.
TWENTY persons were lately killed and
fifty injured Ivy a cyclone which swept
through Eantania. Sicily, a few days age.
AT "A late meeting of the Congregational
Union Of England, in London, addresses
were made by many American ~clergymer.
ENGLAND i, threatened with serious com
plications in South Africa on account OF
alleged encroachments by the Beers in the
countries adjoining the Transvaa!, and the
re stiveness of the native tribes.
AN official dispatch lately received n,
Paris from Eanoi reports that Colonel Den.
nier, at the head of two battalions Of the
French Foreign Legion, inflicted sever
less on the Chinese ut the Loo Chuan River.
Four gunboats assisted the French.
COLONEL VINCENT, financial adviser 81
the hhedive, recently made known that h
wants a suspension of payment Of the -.
$4,000 annual tribute 10 Turkey. England
will veto it.
The steamship Miramar. from Yoke.
homa to Hong Kong, lately foandered at
sea, all on board being lost.
OwISG 10 agricultural depression, Prince
John, of L~ichtenstein, Austria, lately re.
duccd his tenants rent by 100000 forms.
AT the annual meeting of the Western
Union Telegraph Company a few days
ago tie report of business for the year
ending June 81, 1881, was presented. From
that report it appeared that the capital
stock of the company is SSJ,o00,00), and
the bonded debt S.,2Ii, 000.
THE steamship AsSyrian Monarch, which
arrived from London recently, by way OF
Havre, brought seventy Norman horses.
They will be sent TO Western farms, where
they will be used for breeding purposes.
AN Alexandria, Egypt, paper has beer
suppressed for advocating the restoration
of lsmail Pasha.
a FOREIGN syndicate has taken what.
ever may be left of $500, goo in bonds and
the same amount in stock issued by the
Louisville & Nashville Road.
Two Brussels editors fought a duel re-
Gently. Neither was hurt.
HU-kI, the new Chinese Ambassador TO
Washington, has reached his post.
By IN explosion of fire-damp in a mine
in Moravia, Austria, recently, twenty per
sons were killed.
ENGLISH vessels plying between the Is
land of Formosa, of the Chinese coast,
and Annoy, were lately searched by French
cruisers.
THE soldiers of the Cuban army have not
been paid for six months, and they are al.
most starving. In the interior towns OF
the island they obtain Zoe by force
THE Orangemen at Harbor Grace, New.
foundland, were lately on the war-path.
They tore down a convent gate and beat o
man almost to DEATH.