The Red Cloud chief., 1884-02-01
recently favorably reported 70 the House,


the appropriation being $2S0.O00.
Mr.. SrERRETr, q farmer, seventy year
of age, left his home near Mount Pleasant
Ia, the other day, and was told by his wifi
that she would spend the day with hel
sons, but would leave food ON the table fol
him on his return, calling attention to som,
strained honey of which he was particu
larly fond. The old gentleman returned
and ate some bread and butter, on which
he spread some of the honey, which hi.
wife had poisoned. He was instantly taker
with spasms, but succeeded in attracting
attention. Immediate antidotes saved hi.
life. It is thought that his wife, who il
about the same age, had become insane.
A BILL has been introduced in the House
of Representatives providing for a ~nationa,
series of textbooks to be printed at the
Government Printing Office for use in the
Territories, which, if it becomes q law, the
author thinks, will result in a saving OF
over fifty per cent. to the purchasers o.
books to the country governed thereby ,and
probably result in the general adoption Of
such a series throughout the States.
The highwaymen who robbed the stage
carrying the United States mails, near Lam
pasas, Tex, a few weeks q, were arrested
at Austin recently. Some of the stoler
property was found upon the robbers.
MASTER ship builders at Aberdeen, Scot
land, have notified their men that wages
would be reduced ten per cent.
AT Liberty Mills, Ind, the other nigh
the twin babies of Isaac and Rebecc.
Martin were frozen to death in their crib
which had been placed in a ~fireless room.
| The babes were three months old.
LATER accounts placed the number OF
killed by the mine explosion at Crested
Butte, Colo, at ffty-one men and boys.
On the 18th a heavy snow storm prevailed
in the New England States. In Canada all
trains were abandoned.
The Pullman Car Works, of Detroit,
Mich, recently discharged a large number
of men.
FRANK De WALT, d~efaulting President OF
the defunct First National Bank Of Lead.
vile, Colo, was arrested recently at Ell
Paso, Tex.
A MIXED train on the Lake Erie s. West.
ern Road was wrecked near Button, O.,
the other morning by a broken rail. A
passenger car was turned over and took
fire. Several passengers were seriously in
jured, and it being very cold several train
men were badly frozen.
THE House Committee on P~ost-ofices and
Post-roads recently agreed to report favor.
ably Mr.. Moneys bill fixing the rate of
postage on second class publications de-
posted at letter-carrier offices at two cents
a pound.
der, were hanged at Mount Vernon, Ind,
for the murder of young Van Way, in
August last.
As Ignatz Puslejotsky, a farmer, was re-
turning home with his wife, near Schulen-
burg, Tex, the other day, his horses got
frightened, upset the wagon and both were
mangled so that the woman soon died. The
man would also die. He was too drunk to
manage the team.
AT a late meeting of the House Coin,nit-
tee on Education a committee from the Ma
tional Colored Convention, held at Louis.
Vile, were present and urged that tine col
ored people should be aided by an appro-
p~riation for educational purposes.
In his statement to the House Committee
on Commerce lately, a prominent Eastern
railroad official took the broad ground that
no power of Congress could regulate rail-
road interstate commerce in the sense pro-
posed by the bills before the committee. He
asserted there was no such thing as COM
merce between the States by rail in the
constitutional sense of the words. He ar
gued that the roads are chartered by the
States, are under State control, nave rates
regulated by States, and it is only through
agreements between railroad companies
terminating at State lines that Interstate
commerce is now carried on.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
THE Mormon press and church are jubi-
liant over a special dispatch sent from
Washington by Elder Caine, Mormon Dele
gate from Utah, announcing the discovery
of charges against Governor Murray.
Every effort is being made by the MormOns
to get the Governor out of the way. The
Governor t~elegraphed to Washington that
he was ready to meet and refute all
charges.
EARLY on the morning of January 26 q
fire broke out in the State Prison at Still
water, Mimi, and in spite of all efforts the
buildings were destroyed. All the prison
ers, including the notorious Younger
brothers, were taken out and placed under
a strong guard in the yard. The loss was