The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-23
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
THE Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing
Company say that the report that they
have bought 4 college in Mount Morris, H.,
and intend converting it into wagon shops,
''has not the slightest foundation in fact"
4 GOOD deal Of excitement was raised in
Denver the other day. A new City Clerk
had been elected by the Council and the
office was refused to him by the old Clerk,
who thought the election was a fraud. The
new Clerk, aided by his friends, forcibly
took possession of the Office and stood the
old Clerk in the street.
Mrs. ROGER N. SHERMAN, eldest daugh-
ter of the late Governor Bagley, Obtained
a decree of divorce from her husband in
the courts of Detroit, Mich, recently, and
was awarded the custody of her two
children.
The war on Eastern passenger rates at
Denver was severe on the 18th. The fol
lowing were the rates bulletined Missouri
River points, distance 635 miles, 81; s..
Louis, So; Chicago, 81; New York. SO.
Proportional rates to other Eastern points.
IL was stated that scalpers were selling to
New York for so.
THE old Van Buren, tavern, ut Findlay,
o., for years q famous s~topping.place for
stage-coaches, before the day of railroads,
was burned to the ground the other morn.
ing. the loss was $1,000. 1t was insured
for 1880.
A CoLoRED porter in Chicago went to a
gambling house the other evening to get
change for a fifty dollar bill, and was given
ten notes of five hundred dollars each.
When he returned to have the mistake cor
rected, he was not even thanked.
Two swinilers have been canvassing for
insurance in Fountain and Warren Coun-
ties, Ind, securing a bankabie note at the
bottom of each application. Recently
they sold 500 of these notes to a ban at
Attica, stole a horse and buggy, and dis
appeared.
An exciting scene occurred in the Senate
the other day. Van Wyck severely crit;'
cised Blair for something he had done in
committee. He was repeatedly called to
order by the President of the Ssnate.
Blair said that Van Wyck was either
| grossly mistaken or an intentional f~alsifier.
DAVID E. HARBAUGH, for many years
| Revenue Collector and Police Justice at
| Detroit, Mich, died recently in the insane
asylum at Pontiac, aged seventy.six years.
The annual financial statement of the
| Kansas City, Fort Scott e. Gulf Railroad
| Company for 1893 shows earnings, S2,0I6,.
! Do: an increase of ii $500 per cent. Ne,
earnings, $685., $40; an increase of II "a 1G(
per cent.
The Colorado railroad rates to points
East have been restored.
THE bone factory of A. r. Meyer, st.
| Louis, burned the other morning. Loss,
| S65, $50; insurance, $1,000.
SEVERAL times lately people at Racine,
| Wis, claim to have seen an animal dis
porting in Lake Michigan and resembling
a sea.lion. 1t has been conjectured that
the animal might possibly be the sea-l;on
lost from a m%enagerie several years ago.
| Over one hundred persons saw the strange
| animal the other day.
ANOTHER diamond has been found at
| Eagle, Wis.
A GLENDIvE, n. T., special says: While
United States Paymaster Whipple was on
route to Fort Buford from Glendive re-
Gently, about forty miles out, he was at.
tackled by road agents. Sergeant Conrad
was killed and two privates seriously
wounded. The mules attached to the am.
bulance in which the paymaster, clerk and
~treasurer's box were, ran away and thus
made their escape.
TIE Duluth and Superior City ferry-boat
Mary Martin, collided recently with a sail
boat used as ferry between Rice's Point,
| Duluth, and Connor's Point, Wis, and
smashed it up. Twenty-one persons were
| in the sail boat at the time. Isadore Plum
madore, who ran it, and three Swedes,
dock laborers, names unknown, were