The Red Cloud chief., 1884-06-06

employed laborers forced q strike q
Wells;on.
| CAPTAIN ". E. Dove, of the Twelfth
United States Infantry, was drowned while
attempting to cross to the Canada siG(
from Fort Niagara.
+; The Spanish Liberal press is Indignant
at the Government d~issolving a meeting Of
the opposition journals to discuss means
Of lettering the condition of the impris
once journalists.
The Belmont coal mines, in Jackson
County, Ala, which were purchased by
Grant g. Ward from General John B. Cor
don, shut down recently, throwing several
hundred men out of employment.
THERE will be no June term of the Fed.
eral Court at Springfield, ILL.,, because OF
the exhaustion OF appropriations to meet
expenses.
DECORATION DAY was observed in nearly
all the cities of the Union, on the Both,
with more than the usual display of bunt
ing, patriotic addresses, and so forth.
Some places reported exceedingly fine pro.
cessions.
jim TUCKER, colored, was hanged at
Paris, Ark, on the 3tth. He murdered his
companion for a small sum Of money last
December.
A CAVE in under the track Of the Reading
Railway at Turkey Run, Pa, recently, rem.
dered six collieries idle. All traffic on the
railroad was suspende l. The body of a
workman was not recovered. The breach
covered two hundred feet. A new track
was being built around the breach.
WILLIAM BRowN, who murdered the ped
der La Vigne last February, at Cahokia,
ILL.,, was hanged at Beileville on the 3Dth.
ROCHEFoRT, editor of the L~'IRtrdnsige-
ant, OF Paris, continues his violent attacks
upon Genera Grant. 1t was reported his
reason was that Grant refused to receive
him when in America.
The Hooper cotton warehouse at Balti-
more fell on tie 9th. A large number of
persons were killed i'll the ruins and many
injured. The disaster was due to the build
ing being overloaded, the foundation sud
denly sinking.
The men who recently struck on the
Wabash Railroad returned to work on be-
ing assured their pay would be forthcom-
ing in a week.
FROsT was very general on the 10Th and
30th. The damage in the Eastern States
reached hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Along the West Shore Railroad and other
places there was quite a heavy sno fall.
Six degrees of frost was reported in New
Jersey.
The French Government proposes t.
celebrate the centenary of the mmenc
ment of the French revolution in 1850. II
is also Intended to make an especially bril-
liant exhibition at Paris in 1SS9.
THE work shops of the Swan Electric
Light Company at Lille, France. the capt.
tai of the Department: du Nord, burned, re-
Gently and four persons We're inbred by
falling floors.
SPIEGEL Bros, book aud gents FURNISH
ing store, at Greenburg, Pa, was closed by
the Sheriff on executions amounting 10
$4,000.
FERDINAND VI ARD TIE other day said the
responsibility of General Grant and John
ID. Fish in the finn OF Grant & Ward, was
the same as his own.
PERRIN II. SUMNER, a broker. was ar
rested at New York on the charge of
swindling Daniel NJ. Davidson, late of West
Virginia, out of $4,000.
KATE Cotton, a colored girl of Cairo,
H., was convicted of murder in the second
degree and sentenced to Imprisonment for
life. She poisoned a whole family last
September, and one person died from the
eff acts.
THE stove molders of all establishments
mt Pittsburgh, Pa, have struck against a
fifteen per cent. reduction.
THE murderer suggs, who escaped from
Jail three months ago in Texas, was cap
tured at Carterville, Ark. He was the
actor vino killed Manager Plotter in
Adairsville last fall.