The Red Cloud chief., 1884-08-22
MISCELLANEOUS


LIEUTENANT GREEDY admitted in an in
terview that Private Henry had been shot
He says that Henry was in the habit O
stealing food and they killed him to pre-
serve their own lives. He says there may
have been isolated cases Of c~annibalism.
THREE children, Robert Wood, Louise ID
Wood and Kate Shaw. all under ten year
Of age, were recently burned to death in
barn on a farm near South Ferry, o.
j. q. BLAINE spoke at a public meetin.
at Maranacook, Me-, on the 18th. Their,
was a large crowd present to hear him
and considerable enthusiasm was mani
Tested.
The Rev. II. NJ. Collision, pastor OF tn,
Fullerton Avenue Presbyterian Church
Chicago, shot and killed his wife recently
and then shot himself through the mead
He was i'm trouble with his congregation
and it was thought his mind was unbal
anced.
BLACK DOG has been elected Chief Of tn,
Usage Nation, Indian Territory.
The other day while Robert knight and
William Smith were tamping in a dynd
mite cartridge for blasting purposes al
Granite Falls, Mimi, it exploded prema,
turely, killing the former and seriously il
not fatally injuring the latter.
AGRAND RAPIDS g. INDIANA freight train
ran over n man at Salt Lake, Mich, re
Gently, killing him. Subsequently he was
identified as Lewis Youmans, of Oakfield,
Mich. He was lying between the rails, evi.
IDENTIFY intoxicated.
MISS GERTRUDE T. BOOMER, who rad
been a teacher in the village school at
Philo, ILL, for several years, recently com.
mitted suicide by sa~turatinS her clothing
with kerosene and setting herself on fire.
A RIOT occurred recently at Iowa City,
Iowa, over some liquor prosecutions. A
mob captured the prosecuting attorney
and tarred and featherel him and nearly
citizens rallied and organized a special po.
lice to preserve the peace.
THE Duke OF Wellington, son of the hero
Of Waterloo, died suddenly at Brighton,
Eng, on the 18Th.
DURING a severe storm in England and
Scotland recently, several persons were
killed by lightning, among the number
Earl Lauderdale, who was overtaken by a
storm while out riding.
A LONDON journal says the child of the
Duchess of Albany (widow of Prince Leo.
pold) is so delicate that it can hardly be
expected to live.
The scheme to shut down pig-iron fu..
naces was likely to become general, i'm
which event the coke ovens will also close,
the demand for coke coming principally
Tor its use i'm pig.iron works.
THE Salvation Army was mobbed at
Toronto the other night and pelted with
rotten e
A PHILADELPHIA company struck an.
other heavy gas vein recently at Home.
wood, Pa, inside the city limits.
A WRESTLING match between Delmas
and Cannon, at San Francisco the other
day, consumed three hours OH the third
round, and was declared q draw by the
weary referee.
The schedule of Jeremiah Steebman, in
solvent commission merchant of New York,
show liabilities, $4,000; nominal assets,
$4,000; actual assets, $4,000.
SCHEDULES of the insolvent jewelry firm
of Goodman Il R~osenberger, of New York,
show liabilities, 100000; nominal assets,
1000 actual assets, $4,000.
AUSTRIA was recently excited over Ger.
tain mysterious and heavy mail robberies.
NEWS comes from Madrid that Marshal
Serrano was dying at Biarritz.
The town of North East, near Erie, Pa,
was destroyed by fire recently. The loss
amounted to S2o0,OOo.
AT Wausau, Wis, a son of Rev. F. Kern.
fifteen years old, was drowned i'm the Wis.
consin River the other day while bathing
horses.
MICHAEL MCDONALD, engineer in a box
mill at Milford, Mass, caught his sleeve in
the screw of q shaft, and for some time was
whirled at the rate of four hundred revolu-
tions per minute. Every stitch of clothing
was torn from his body, but when he fell TO
the floor he was absolutely uninjured.
Two hundred unions. forming the Cigar
Makers International Union, nave agreed
to loan "a one hundred dollars As the
nucleus of a cooperative factory in Cincin
natl.
A UMB Of bank presidents have writ.
to the Postmaster-Genera asking him
to exclude the Thompsoa's Bank Note and
Commercial Reporter from the mails. As
sistant Attorney General Freeman said the
Postmaster General has 10 pc wer to pro-
tect bankers from this sheet
LIEUTENANT GREEDY has asked for an
into the execution of Private
Henry for stealing provisions from the
Arctic party on the Oh OF last June.
The body of Lieutenant Kislingbury, of
the Greedy Arctic expedition, was exhumed
the other day. Til remains showed that
the fteshy parts had been distracted, cor
Dborating the charges that the survivors
had been addicted to c~annibalism.
The Bank of Montreal has been advised
Of the departure from London of Samuel
Rabbi Archer and Benjamin l.
Cohen, who intend to explore the north
west territories OF Canada to find homes
Tor colonies Of Russian Hebrews.
A FURrHHR suspension Of the window I
glass factories at Pittsburgh was probable. |
GoyERNoR MURRAY, Of Utah, has tele- |
to tn Indian Department that
he Indians areoi: the war path in Colorado
md Utah, and asks that troops be sent to
the whites.
NOTICE. has been given to citizens Of
Alsace and Lorraine that q pilgrimage to !