The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-23
GENERAL.


THE Emperor Of Germany refused to
sanction the betrothal of Princess Victoria,
daughter of the Crown Prince, to Alexan.
der 1. of Bulgaria.
A BRIG-KIGGED steamer was recently
seen ashore off the island of AnticOsti, in
the mouth of the st. Lawrence.
The treaty between France and China
BILE for France.
A PETITION signed by Florence Night.
ingale, Mrs. Kendall and many other ladies
was sent to the English House of Commons
asking the passage of laws for the ell.
reimbursement of womeH.
THE Gladstone ministry was sustained
by 3U3 to 215 in a recent motion to censure
the foreign policy of the English Govern
ment.
The Paris newspapers were jubilant over
the signing of the Franco-Chinese treaty.
Three regiments were recalled from Ton
quin.
IT was reported that the African ex-
petition under Joseph Thompson had
reached Uganda, in the region ruled by
King M,esa. 1t was believed tina. Thomp-
son's presence at Uganda will increase
General Gordon's chances for safety in
case he should be compelled to try to
escape from Khartoum by going to the
southwark.
PRINCE BISMARCK has ordered the Der.
lin correspondent Of the Paris newspaper
La France TO be expelled from Germany
because of statements in his dispatches to
the effect hat the German Chancellor was
intriguing to produce a rupture between
France and England on the Egyptian ques-
ton.
SEVERAL Servians were wounded by the
military at Notwithstanding, in South
eastern Hungary, in dispensing a meeting
recently.
THE British House of Commons rejected
the motion for a second reading of the
Channel Tunnel bill by a vote of Dbl to 81.
IN an attack upon friendly tribes near
Tamanieb recently, Osman Digna and his
men killed twenty-one of the friendly
Arabs, took forty women prisoners and
captured many cattle. or the rebels only
five were killed. The tribes attacked are
able to muster 6,0C0 men. They are deter
mined to avenge the death of their COM
rades and recover their women.
SECRETARY LINCOLN, General Sheridan,
General Stager, John Mccullough Cen
eral c. II. T~hompkins, Bishop McLain and
others to the number of fifty, went to Pelee
Island, Canada, recently, 10 fish for black
bass.
CABLEGRAMs report that Woolwich ar
senal narrowly escaped destruction by
dynamite recently, as detonators and ex-
plosives were found under the walls.
RECENT railroad accident near Paris
caused the death of the engineer and the
injury of thirty-one passengers.
ROMERO, the Mexican Minister, has in
formed the Department of State that he had
received official notification from his Gov
eminent of the ratification by the Mexican
Senate of the reciprocity treaty between
the United States and Mexico.
TIE Berlin correspondent of the London
Times is authorized to announce the NOR.
ganatic marriage of Grand Duke Louis of
HeSse, at Darmstadt, with Madame kola-
mirick, legally dissolved.
Ex-SECRErARY WINDOW, who was in
Paris recently, will sail for home early in
June, after "a brief visit to England.
THE LATEST.
The srrair shops of the New York &
HarlRsA Railroad Company at New York
w.rn larned recently. The building COW
s:eH q large area and contained the ma
{ hire shops and work rooms W here all the
rerai'inK of the rolling stock was done.
Spsras from the burning building set fire
to several small dwellings. Loss, 500 900.
Ti,E Siamese Embassy left Washington
for New York recently, with the intention
Of making a tour of the country.
RECENT advices from Vera Cruz state
that that city was remarkably healthy and
ex ceptionally clean. The inhabitants did
not fear an epidemic this season, notwith-
standing the fact that yellow fever existed
At certain points below, OH the coast.
THE King Of Greece entertained the
American Legation at lunch on the 18th.
Schuyler, the American Minister, gave a
garden party to the Diplomatic Corps.
w. & HALLIBURTON, telegraph editor of
he Baltimore Erening Ne,rs, died sudden
ly the other evening. He was discovered
in an unconscious condition and before a
doctor reached him, expired. He was
iorty-two years of age.
II Senate was not in session on the
18th. The House was occupied with minor
matters. Business seemed to lag or was
neglected, for, in the debate upon the ques-
ton Of dividing the judicial Districts Of
Missouri, a quorum was wanted and the
House adjourned.
ERNEST HoEFLER, of st. Louis, missing
in New York for several days, had a large
amount of money when he disappeared.
Hoefier and his wife only recently returned
from Germany.
LoRDST. LEoNARDS. of England, arrested
on a Charge of ~assauiting a maid servant
of his host, demands a trial by his peers.
The Treasurer of the United States for.
wnrded 100000 in legal tenders to the
Assistant Treasurer in New York, recently,
for use in case of necessity.
A p n Of Henry Ward Beecher was
a member of one of the firms that failed in
New York during the recent panic.
TIE Secretary of the Navy re-
Gently received a telegram from Comma
dore Batcheler, commanding the Galena
at Key West, Saying the threats against
the life of the Spanish CONSUL at that place
were made in a bar-room by two or three
drunken Cubans, but that neither the Con-
sui nor the authorities there attach much
Importance to them.
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