The Red Cloud chief., 1884-02-08

have been seized by the National Inspector
and sold as public property Of the Nation.
MUCH excitement prevailed at Dubuque,
Iowa, over the sudden disappearance of
Laura Rowland, q highly accomplished
and educated girl of fifteen.
THE House Committee on Territories re-
Gently ordered a favorable report ON the
bill providing that hereafter no Territory
shall form q Constitution or apply for ad.
mission Is q State until it shall contain q
population equal to that required in a Con-
gressional district in order to entitle it to
representation in the House of Representa-
tives.
THE safe in the post-ofice at Blue Island,
a suburb of Chicago, was blown open the
other night and stamps, money and Other
vaiuables to the amount of $4,000 stolen.
The House Committee on Banking and
Currency at a recent meeting discussed the
resolutions offered by Representative
Hunt, which declares that the public vel.
fare demands that the benefits of the ma
tional banking system be substantially
preserved and continued for the time be-
ing, provided that the resolution be not
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the p~erpetuation of the public debt, and
agreed to it by a vote of nine to four.
The annual report Of the operations Of
The Patent-officei for the calendar year
showed an increase of seventeen per cent.
in the number of patents, trademarks and
labels issued over the preceding year.
The cash receipts increased $137 900; excess
of receipts over expenditures, 100000;
cash on hand, $2,677,476.
A DIFFICULTY occurred recently in Henry
County, Ala, between John Boatright
and Rev. ]. w. Malone, Baptist minister,
in which the latter was fatally cut with a
knife. An old fued led to the trouble.
Both were represented to be men past the
prime of life, of steady habits and respecta-
bility.
PUBLIC debt statement for January:
Cash in Treasury, $685. $50; debt, less cash
in Treasury, 81, 1896 ,Os3, 10; decrease for
January, $11 ,95S 1908; decrease since June
30, 1883, 6 ,OO7,4 S7.
The south.bound accommodation train
on the indianapolis & Chicago Railroad
while crossing a truss bridge at Broa6
Ripple, seven miles from Indianapolis,
Ind, the other night, broke through and
the wreck Immediately took fire. John
Brewer, engineer; J. E. Ricketts,, baggage
master; George Lowry, brakeman; Thomas
Parr, bridge foreman; Abel T. Smith,
American Express messenger, and a pas
senger named John Bray, were killed. and
about fifteen injured, several fatally,
The breaking up Of the Allegheny and
other rivers in Pennsylvania did a great
mount of damage. Bottom lands were
flooded and families had to seek safety in
flight. The town of Freeport was at one
time in danger of destruction, the ice being
piled thirty feet high.
The other afternoon a terrible gasoline
explosion took place in the business center
of Alliance, O., originating in the store of
F. NJ. Orr. Three brick blocks were
wrecked and the ruins took fire. F. NJ.
Orr, his son Elmer. Mrs. Homer Highland
and daughter, Mrs. Frank Evans and two
children were either killed outright or
burned to death, and many injured.
A COMMITTEE, composed of members of
different labor organizations with head
quarters at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently went
to Washington to urge the passage of a bill
restricting the importation of foreign labor
under the contract system.
ROBERT w. LEONARD committed suicide
on a sleeping car of the Ohio & Mississippi
Railroad, at Cincinnati, the other night.
Boys recently discovered the mutilated
body of a man IN the prairie, near Gum
Island, Tex. Both legs were cut of and
his neck broken. Noclew to the perpretra.
tors of the deed.
THE business portion of Belmont, Wis.,,
burned recently.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
Ar Lancaster, Tex, the other day, John
Nash, an old gentleman, was fatally
stabbed by a maniac brother. He had been
for the demented relative and kept
him in a room at his home for a number Of
years in preference to sending him to an
asylum. On the morning of the tragedy
the maniac escaped, got hold Of a knife
and inflicted several frightful wounds
upon his brother before he could be Sc
cured.
THE Hamburg American Packet Com
pany recently telegraphed the Secretary of
Navy, Offering to transport to New
York without charge the bodies of Captain
DeLong and party, expected to arrive at
Hamburg shortly.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER recently
placed at the disposal of the House Com
mittee on expenditures in the Department
of Justice, the entire force of the Examiners
to be sent alone or with sub
to investigate the alleged IT.
in the offices of United States
1t was said the committee would
probably go to New York City for a short
time and investigate the office of John ].
Supervisor of Elections.
THE Senate Committee on Judiciary re-
Gently ordered the Lowell Bankruptcy bill
to be favorably reported, with amendments
It preserves State exemptions, and author
ICES involuntary proceedings only against
persons whose debts amount to more than
one thousand dollars and only against
1t diminishes the number of Com
in Bankruptcy.
SXrY.Two new pupils recently entered
the Indian Training School at Carlisle, Pa.
MILERsBURG, O., was recently shaken
up by an earthquake.
THOMAS CoLLYER and his wife, residing
on Long Island, N. Y, were recently
poisoned by pepper used in the household.
John Cowley and his brother-in-law. were
arrested on suspicion of having poisoned
the pepper. Annie Cowley, a sister to
John, was also arrested. The only motive