The Red Cloud chief., 1884-04-04

STATES cOnvenlnS the plenary cOuncn at
the Cathedral in Baltimore on the 9th of
November next. Provincials of religious
communities and superiors of Summaries
will also attend.
JAY GoULD'S yacht Atlantic made the
trip from Fortress Monroe to New York in
eighteen hours.
The American Bell Telephone Company,
experimental in conversation between
Boston and New York, over a No. II copper
wire, and with the aid of ordinary tele-
phone instruments the faintest whisper of
conversation could be heard.
The British captured Tamanieb on the
9th, Meeting with but little resistance.
Osman fed to a village five miles distant.
SENATORS INGALLS,, Sawyer, Jones, of
Florida, and Henderson, with their fami-
lies, left Washington OH the 9th for a
pleasure trip to Jacksonville, Fla. They
were accompanied by Sergeant-at-A Arms
Canaday, of the Senate.
ABOUT fifty buildings were unroofed by
the storm at Denver on the 9th.
LESLIE LAVENDER, a boy r~uffian, aged
sixteen, attempted to rob a farmer named
Owens, near L~ynchburg, Va, shooting the
latter II his wife, supposed fatally. Law
ender then stole a horse and fed.
AT a meeting of the SeaIpen's Union held
at Cleveland, o., wages were fixed at one
dollar and a half per day on sailing vessels
the spring, this including fitting-out, paint
ing, etc.
THE failure of the paper-manufacturing
firm of William Butler & Co., whose mills
are located in West Philadelphia, is an
nounccd. The firms liabilities are eSti-
mated at $4,000.
INDICTMENTS against Henry W. Moore,
managing editor, and Florence White, re-
porter of the Post Dispatch, for abstractins
court records, was nolle pressed in the st.
Louis Criminal Court. These indictments
grew out of the publication inthe POst-Ds-
patch of an investigation by the grand jury
last fall into the gambling ring.
The Department of State has received a
copy of the proposed treaty between Great
Britain and Portugal, by which American
interests on the Congo are affected. 1t is
understood the terms of the treaty are not
in accord with the views of the President
on the subject, as expressed in his last an
nual message. The treaty will be referred
to the Senate Committee on Foreign Re-
latiOns.
TIE stage running from San ANGELA to
Burnett, Tex, was stopped by road-agents,
the driver robbed, and letters opened. The
thieves built a fire and awaited the other
stage, but fell asleep and let it pass un-
molested.
DANIEL S. HoLCoMR and Judd d. Crouch
nave been committed for the murder of
Jacob d. Crouch at Jackson, Mich. Judd
D.. Crouch is also charged with the shooting
of Galen T. Brown.
WISCONSIN winter wheat is reported
looking good.
The Poplar River Sioux have been re-
lieved. There were several deaths from.
starvation, but the reports Of ca%nnibalisn:
are unconfirmed.
The jury rendered a verdict in favor of
Lady Colin Campbell in a suit against her
husband for divorce. Her husband is the
youngest son of the Duke of Argyle.
1T is reported it was Bernard Coleridge
and not Lord Coleridge who made Mary
Anderson an offer of marriage and was re
fused. Bernard is q son of Lord Cole
ridge.
THE Southern Railway and Steamship
Association has decided to make a reduc-
ton of rates between various points, in
Guiding Atlanta and Augusta, Selma and
Montgomery, Ala, and Chattanooga Tenn,
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYSEN has received
a dispatch from Rome stating that the
American College will be exempted from
the impending sale Of the Propaganda
property.
BUSINESS failures reported for the past
week for the United States, number 112;
Canada, -; total, 2O4, against 2l3 the pre-
viouS week