The Red Cloud chief., 1884-01-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr.. BUCKNER, Chairman of the Commit
tee on Banking and Currency, was reporte,
to be preparing a bill to introduce whel
Congress ~econvenes. 1t will provide 70
the issuing of treasury notes without tn
legal tender quality, to take the place o
banking notes going out of existence. Tn
purport of the measure is the same as tina
of the bill introduced by Mr.. Ruckner tn
first session of last Congress.
THE large Touring mill of George. c
Thilenus, at Cape Girardeau, No., burned
recently. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000
IT is stated that France is determined t,
enter into no negotiations for peace will
China until the French occupy Bacninh.
A REscUING parry of thirty-one person.
went from Curry, Colo, to the Virginius
mines to take away the victims of the mine
disaster of the day before, and while re-
turning with the bodies on sleds a second
snow slide came down and the party had a
miraculous escape from being over
whelmed. The sleds containing four dead
bodies, however, were carried W. Thousand
feet down the mountain side, and then
hurled over a precipice five hundred feet
high, where they must remain until spring.
The party finally reached Ouray, nearly
dead from exhaustion.
ABOUT eleven O'Clock the night before
Christmas Henry Pferfer, Wright McLe-
more and Thad McLemore were taken from
a saloon at McDade, Tex, by fifty well
armed masked men, carried a mile into the
brush and hanged to a tree. The men
were under arrest for horse stealing and
other crimes. The next day six men,
friends and relatives of those hung, went
to town and provoked a quarrel with some
of the men supposed to be engaged in the
hanging. A fight ensued, during which two
of the six, Jack Bayley and Asa Bayley,
were killed, and a third, Howard Bayley,
badly wounded. A young man named
Griffin, was also mortaily wounded.
Mr.. BLAND, Chairman of the Committee
on Coinage, Weights and Measures, is said
to favor recoining trade dollars into stand
ard, and thinks the issuing of the latter
should not be stopped. He is also of the
opinion that a mint ought to be established
in the Mississippi Valley.
A LATE fire at Fargo, D. T., destroyed a
number of business houses. Loss, $4,000;
insurance about half that amount.
ANOTHER Colorado snow slide recently
occurred near Telluride, carrying of four
teen men. eight of whom were killed.
IT was reported thai there were prospects
of trouble in the bitusninous coal districts
of Pennsylvania. Over fifteen thousand
miners have expressed a willingness to CO.
operate and assist in a general strike.
WILLIAM HATFIELD, an escaped convict
from Michigan,ssvas arrested recently al
Malone, N. Y, 3 Sheriff Stockwell. Hat.
field stabbed tn Sheriff, also Allen Stock
well and wife He was finally captured
after being SD through the thigh.
The other yght, as the collector of the
Firt Nation1 Bank of Nashville (Tenn.(
was going p the post-office with the days
mail, he WIS assaulted as he passed his
gate and beaten OH the head with q
large stole, the assailant securing the bag
with the mail and disappearing in the
darkness.
PETER MCKINNEY, night Waterman on
the Government feet, fell of one of the
boats the other night, at Mount Carmel,
ILL., His wife held his head above water
for some time, crying for help, but as none
came he became exhausted and went down.
The issue of standard silver dollars for
the week ended December ed was $416 800.
The ~four-year-old daughter of Alonzo
Campbell, residing "a Bellaire, O., was
recently burned to death by her clothes
fire from a CRATE while the parents
were absent from the room.
IT was currently reported that three
ovnnIOUoC nf tho Noffono1 T,,ha-
Company at McKeesport, Pa, will
accept the reduction of from twelve to