The Red Cloud chief., 1884-02-29

other white men, followed the trail and
had a fight with the Piegans at Hail Stone
Basin, forty miles northeast Of Billings.
Clancy Ames and Joseph Gate were
killed and Owens and Side wounded.
Four Piegans were killed.
ENGLAND has offered the Arctic steamer
Alert for use in the Greeley relief expedi.
ton.
AT C~oshocton, O., recently, while drunk.
John Brehmer took his gun and shot his
son lead .
STORMS on the coast of Great Britain have
caused considerable damage.
THE Surrogate of New York, has given a
decision in the case of the will of Sarah
Burr who disposed of her real estate, val.
ued at 5000, 900, for charitable purposes.
The Surrogate decides against eontesting
relatives, and concludes that the will EEK.
presses the free, unrestrained and deliber.
ate purposes of decedent that she was
of sound mind and memory when she
signed it, and that it is entitled to be adj
United to probate"
HEAVY SHOWS have prevailed in the
mountain regions of the Pacific States.
Two men were found frozen to death
near Grand Forks, ID. T., having persisted
in the recent blizzard.
Tom ALLEN, the st. Louis prize fighter, is
wanted in Kentucky III a charge of prize
fighting dating as far back as 1876.
A ! at Charlottetown, Prince Ed
wards Island destroyed 5000, 900 worth of
property.
MAORI J. n. EDWARDS, the editor of the
81. Joseph Gazette, fell on a slippery side
walk at Kansas City recently, and broke
his leg.
WORKMEN making excavations ON the
Santa Cruz hacienda, near Morlia, have
discovered a number of idols made out OF
black stone, some finely finished, and orna.
mented articles of pottery and the remains
of several human beings.
SALMI MORSE, the author of the "Passion
Play" committed suicide recently, by
drowning in the Hudson River, New York.
FORTY years Imprisonment was the
sentence passed on Martin Luther CuIlor,
for the murder of ". C. Deck, near Union
vile No., last summer. Deck and Cullor
quarreled about a fence, which led to
Deck being shot through the lungs.
THE five Bisbee murderers have been
sentenced to to be hanged March 18th. at
Tombstone, A. I.
THE report of the Proteus Coru. of In
quiry has been printed. OF Lieut.. Colwell
who was with Lieut.. Darlington, and has
been designated II TAX part in the Greeley
Relief Expedition now being filled out, the
report says: 81 is considered by the
Court as extremely fortunate for the
expeditionary force that the one
officer sent with il. End who commanded
was so ably aidad and supported by
the services of Lieutenant Colwell, of the
United States Navy, who volunteered for q
duty much more severe and perilous than
that which he has been regularly assigned
on board of naval vessels and who brought
to the duty he assumed SO much capacity,
courage and special knowledge"
CLIFTON WADE, a Missouri desperado,
who murdered Robert Cummings at Madi-
son, Monroe County, last summer was
guilty of further crimes in Ellis County,
Tex. As he attempted to escape, blood
were put on his track, and he was
run down and so mansled by the dogs that
he died.
POLICEMAN CHARLES ALLISON was shot
at by a burglar recently at st. Joe, the bull
let passing through the officers trousers
and grazing his leg. The fellow attempted
to go through Erglehart's store, M the
officer pursued him. A running fire was
kept up, but the fellow escaped.
THE London Times considers the Con.
gressional resolution regarding the death
o: Herr Lasker as ill-advised, and Bis.
marck's treatment Of it as ungracious.
TOKAR has been surrendered to the fol.
lowers of FL Mahdi, the False Prophet.
The news created great excitement in Lon.
lon.