The Red Cloud chief., 1884-07-18
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
A I'VE mile foot race, at Toronto, Ont.
on the 9th, between David Bennett, O
Toronto, and Edward Case, Of Hamilton
for two hundred dollars a side, was VOL
by Bennett Time 1920.
The London Times a y Of the Franchis,
bill that the House Of Lords have ~nulliieC
four months labor Of the House Of Com
Mons.
IT was rumored that France and Portuga
had concluded a secret treaty sgains
China, by which France would be allowed
to make Macao the base of a and attacl
on Canton. Action would be taken to com
pei China to recognize Macao as Portu
guese Territory, which had hitherto beer
refused.
THE cholera has driven thousands o.
Americans from French soil to London
Any infectious cases in the latter city vii
be taken to Gravesend hospital.
CORNWALL, Secretary of the Dublin
Po~st-ofice, has fed the city since the fail
ure of his suit against O'Brien, as hav.
also several other persons involved will
him in criminal acts.
The steamship Lincoln City, Of thu
Furness Line, from Stockholm, for New
York, with a large number Of passengers
was ashore near Isaac Harbor, near New
York recently. 1t vas the first passage OF
the Lincoln City.
THE Grand Lodge Of Masons passed
resolution that it was not desirable thai
f.vra,xal NJ e~;,S lrnr, ,hn,ll H.
placed on the refreshment tables of private
lodges.
A DISPATCH from the steamer Faraday,
laying the Bennett ackay cables, states
that she has picked up ON the Irish coast
one end which was two hundred miles out
and that she has laid two hundred and
fifty miles.
The Pope had one or two fainting fits re-
Gently, caused by excessive heat. These
caused a dissemination of rumors that he
was dangerously i'll.
A DORCHESTER, n. B., dispatch SAYS the
recent rain eliminated in a freshet which
caused great damage.
AT Vienna twenty.six workmen from
Bohemia were arrested fer holding secret
luccOtuSS o0u IL ScultIOuS lcltcTS duO
prints from America.
AT B%rookville, Ont, the first Odd Eel.
lows International demonstration ever
held in Canada opened On the 9th under
the most favorable auspices.
An explosion in a powder factory al
Como, Italy, recently, killed six persons.
A number were injured.
Urn srtorior ~ Tho pay .a- "A
Madrid, Spain. was burned recently. Most
Of the contents were destroyed.
The French cabinet has decided to limit
immediate demonstrations against China
to a great naval demonstration. There
will be no military movement until the close
of the hot season. Transports were col.
lectirg at Brest.
TEN deaths from cholera occurred at lou.
Ion on the 10th and twenty-five at Mar.
settles. The panic at Marseilles was in.
creasing. The exodus is now twenty
thousand persons. Many persons were
knocked down and trampled upon by the
great crowds seeking tickets at the rail.
road stations.
THE failures in the United States for
week ended July 10 were IS4, and in Can.
ada seventeen.
ITALIAN troops were blockading the
roads leading into Italy from France tc
prevent the introduction of the cholera.
All travellers, including those from Swift
zerland, were ~quarantined.
THE LATEST.
A CALDERA dispatch recently received
at Galveston, says: The steamer Majoca,
belonging to the South American Com
pany, struck a rock of Caldera light house
ma dense fog. The steamer being in a
sinl1 & condition was run ashore. The
and nearly all the cargo were
saved.
Four men were severely injured and
one, Charles Crutz, killed by the upsctting
VI a car of a gravel train on the Lackawan-
Railroad, at Boonton, N. j., recently.
The firm of Halstead, Haines & Co., i'm
and jobbers Of dry goods, of New
York, filed an assignment recently for the
benefit Of their creditors, to Lewis May,
with preferences $4,000. The announce
ment was received with much surprise
among business men. The liabilities were
said to foot up S2,OOO,O 900.
CORONER MUsCRoFr has ended the in.
upon the dead bodies of the
persons killed in the late riots at Cincin-
natl. He enumerates OF these that he finds
Captain Desmond was killed by unknown
persons in the mob; one man (Goetz) shot
himself accidentally; another (Smalz) was
shot on the Sunday afternoon
by the militia, and all others were justifi-
ably killed, they having failed to obey the
commands of the Sheriff to disperse.
CONSIDERABLE damage to crops from a
severe hail and rain storm was reported
from various sections Of New England on
the 18th.
Ii was reported that Patenotre, the
French Minister to China, had granted the
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs q de-
lay Of two days, but il they failed TO give
assent to the terms Submitted by France
Admiral Courbei's squadron would BON.
bard the forts of Shanghai and Admiral
Lespes, would disembark his forces at Foo
choo and seize the arsenal there. Two iron
have lett Brest to reinforce Admiral
A SKIFT containing eight men capsized in
he MOnongahela River at Pittsburgh, Pa,
be other afternoon and August Schrieber
vas drowned. The others were rescued
With difficulty. ,
JERRY PARIRANDE, aged sixty, and son
rank, aged nineteen,were instantly killed, !
nd Joseph Mascoete, fatally injured at Cat
ms stone quarry .ear Burlington, Vt, re
emily. by . powder explosion. The Par
randes were blown sixty feet in the air.
lascotte was thrown Any feet and buried
nder Q mass Of stone.
As the train which left Fiola on the after
DON Of the 18th, after the n on which
rae Emperor Francis Joseph, was passing
,rough . gorge near Podgefitza Il vas
that tte rails had been mis-