The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-02
manufactured, and the scarcity or high

price OF co ton are the causes.
TEE Esgl,sh Government has sent out in.
| ~vitatiOEs proposing a conference regarding
Egyptian affairs to all powers which
signed thu treaty of Berlin.
THE Knights Of Pythias had a grand
parade i'm Npw Orleans on the oath.
The Assessor and Collector of Salt Lake
County, Utah, was a defaulter to the
amour: of 5000.
HALF Of the Arab quarters at Port Said
burned recently. Four thousand Arabs
were rendered homeless.
THE t oops in Cuba were still unable to
catch Aguero. He was supposed 70 be hid
in the Zapa'a wamps
The Canadian Pacific was about to re-
duce the locomotive department one hum
bred men, owing to depression in busi-
ness.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
notified Wicker, Collector of Customs at
Key West, of his removal from office.
j. G. BURROWS, of Michigan, recently
nominated and confirmed as Solicitor of
the Treasury, has written to the President
formally declining the Office.
THE remains Of Julien Martinetti, the
"clfhtio"h NAO"Hs wiz ltA treu ii tRc
ring recently, at Dayton, o., were taken to
Baltimore.
The American Oak leather tannery
burned recently at Cincinnati. Loss abou
$2O0,0O, nearly covered by insurance.
TWELVE business houses were burned at
Wooster, o., recently. Supposed incen-
diary.
The largest gas we'll in the country wa
struck at Wcllsburg, w. Va, recently, at
depth of 1,2Sj feet. The well was OWNED
by Dalz-ll Brothers & Gilmore, of Pits
burgh. The gas escapes from a six inch
pipe with a deafening sound.
The wholesale drug store of Rumble,
Cutter & CO., of Cincinnati was destroyed
by fire on the morning of the 18th. Loss
very heavy.
The Henry County Lottery of Louisville,
KY, has suspended operations. The Off
GERS claim the company could not be Oper-
ated under existing laws.
THE strikers of the stove foundry Of
Sherman S. Jewett & Co., of Buffalo, n.
Y, resumed work at fifteen per cent re
duc'io in wages. They were sa i,fiei
after a conference with the firm that the
reduction was necessary.
FAILURES the past week In the United
states, 1863; in Canada, II; compared with
116 the previous week.
FRANK JAMES was acquitted at Hunts
v lie, Ala, of the Mussel Shoals robbery.
He was Immediately re-arres'ed for com
piici,y in the train robbery at Ot,ervi,le,
Mo-, on the night of July :, 1876. The last
arrest was thought to be for the purpose OF
thwarting his arrest by the Minnesota
authorities for the bank robbery and muir
der at Nof.htield, in that State, September,
1876.
ADvIcEs from India state that the chol.
era was abating at Calcutta One death
.rom cholera was reported at Bombay.
The Bank of Montreal has declared a
dividend of five per cent for the half year,
and has raised its reserve TO S6,0oJ,D00.
kUGG was found guilty Of the murder OF
Mrs. Maybee and daughter at Oyster Bay,
L. !. A motion for a new trial was denied
The clothing establishment OF j. Knox g.
Co, ut Akron. o., burned the other morn
ing. Loss, $500; insurance, $4,000.
The official report of the Inquiry into the
loss of the steamer Daniel Stcinmann
states hat Captain ~SchoonEoven made no
observations on the day of the diSaste
and was, therefore, uncertain of his posi-.
ton. The night was dark, foggy and
rainy, and it was highly ~imprudent, unde.
all the circumstances, to attempt To enter
the port OF Halifax. To these circurn-
stanc $ alone can be attributed the loss of
the fine ship and the lives of Ia persons.
THE Anchor Line Steamer Jonn Scudder.
from st. Lou to New Orleans, while max
ing a landing ut Bradford's point recen ly |
swung in broadside on the point and stove
In thirty feet of her larboard hull.