The Red Cloud chief., 1884-04-25

| Fanny Davenport sent a check for $500 il
lieu OF a performance at Baltimore. At Bos.
ton the performance netted 81, 463.
SHERIFF DAVIDSON, of New York, in
dicted tor receiving money under false
pre'enses, has been acquitted.
The c~oroner's jury ~exonerated Frank
Shenton, who killed his father sSsnsiy
near Cambridge, Md. 1t was proved that
his father was about TO murder his mother.
when Frank struck him over the head with
a club.
THE cae hundred and ninth anniversary
of the battle of Lexington was celebrated
at that town Oh the 18th.
THERE was a large attendance Ct the
Wendell Phillips memorial services at tic
fremont Temple, Boston, on the 18th.
George William Curtis delivered the ora.
ton.
THE Southern Press Association has for.
warded to members of Congress a protest
against the scheme to establish a Govern
m,nt telegraph system and a resolution in
dorsing the Newspaper Copyright bill.
4 HILL near Comatlin, Mexico, called
the Cerro Del Aqua, has show recently
the effect OF volcanic disturbances, and g
considerable porlion OF it has SUM away
and almost disappeared.
THE Custom House at Mazatlan, Mexico.
has issued an order that hereafter all pack
ages containing an iEfiamable material
likely to explode shall be marked with q
large red skull and croSsboneS.
The people of Manitoba expected an In
dian outbreak in the Northwest Territory.
THERE was great excitement in mining
towns of Colorado owing to rich gold finds
near Pixies Peak.
The La,hrop, Cal, levee broke the other
morning, and The San Joaquin River was
spreading rapidly. If the break cannot be
repaired 10000 acres of wheat will be de-
stroyed.
A DEATH from cholera occurred on a
British troop ship in the Suez Canal.
THE anthracite coal companies have de-
cided to restrict production during the
year.
THE failures during the past week in the
United States were $50, in Canada, lG;
against PA the previous year.
CAPTAIN WINDER, of the steamship
Jamaican, stated at New Orleans that the
report of Yellow fever existing at Vera
Cruz was untrue.
ToBE TURNER, who was waiting to be
hanged at G~reenville, Ga, for the murder
of Shuttles, choked himself to death with
a silk handkerchief.
MILE. COLOMBIER, the writer of the book
''Sarah Barnum," has been colnmig ted for
trial on the charge of outraging public
morals.
THE United States Navy formed a Gordon
around KY West to prevent the sailing of
any more filiUusters.
ACoLoRED school house was blown down
recently at Dallas. Tex, injurlns several
children, one fatally.
THE steamship lines of the North Atlantic
Conference have reduced the steerage pas
sage from New York to Liverpool to SIS.
and still further reduction will be made if |
to compete with outside lines.
BY the neglect of a telegraph reporter at
Steubenville, o., to deliverthe proper train
two freight trains on the Pah-Han-
die colliied near Wheeling Junction. Both
and ten cars were completely |
ANNIE WAGNER was fatally sho. by her
aunt, Mrs. Maher, at HarrisI urg, Pa, who
didn't know the pistol was loaded when
she playfully pointed it at her niece.
NEW HAMPSHIRE m Maine towns report
heavy floods. A pier of the Maine Central
bridge at Orenio, Me-, was con-
siderablv damaged. Saco River was higher
since 1870 AMI still rising. At Union,
the s.. CrOix River, the New Brunswick
pier and two spans of the bridge have
fallen.
THE Excise Commissioners of New York
to renew the licenses of Harry
Hill, the notorious sporting man, and Bill,
Madden, forme ly hacker of Sullivan.