The Red Cloud chief., 1884-03-07

of the Rio Grande against Americans, con
sequent upon recent ~extradition proceed
ings. Robert Halence, of Rio Grande City,
Is the last n supposed to have been mu~
dered because Of his unpopularity with the
aforesaid class of Mexicans.
REPRESENTATIVE BREWER was directed
to report favorably his bill to impose a fine
of not more than n hundred dollars
or punishment by Imprisonment for three
months, on any person interfering in ap~
way with a commercial traveller selling
goods by sample.
LIEUTENANT g.. b. HARDER, who has
Just returned from Siberia after a search
for Chip and party, of the Jeanette crew,
has been rendered a reception by the citi
zens of Youngstown, o.
JAMES O'BRIEy, ons Of the men arrested
for the murder of William Pugh on the
night of the 18th inst, at Philada lphia,
confessed that William Casey, another OF
the prisoners, struck the fatal blow.
4 FIRE broke out on the third
floor of a frame building occupied by
Cornelius Van Ripen, his wife and three
children. and n. Connolly, New York.
Van Ripen and the three children were
.suffocated and burned to death. His wife
jumped from n third story window and
was instantly killed. The damage to the
building is slight.
EXCEPTIONS to the Masters report in the
case of j.. N. Lusk ct al, against the Pitts.
burgh & Western Railroad Company and
others, were argued before Judge Stow, at
Pittsburgh, Pa. a quarter of a million dol
lars is involved, the Master decreeinS that
the defendants pay plaintiffs that sum fol-
depriving them by fraud of their rights in
the New Castle & Lake Erie Railroad. The
decision is reserved.
THE widow of John Brown, of Harper's
Ferry, is dead.
NJ. T. Polk, the defaulting State Treas
urer of Tennessee, is dead.
A STEAM pipe burst at st. Patrick's
Church, st. Louis, the other evening. Fully
one thousand persons were assembled. A
panic ensued, and a wild rush was made
ously injured, a lady who had tainted be-
ing badly trampled OIL.
A SPECIAL from Franklyn, La, says: W.
Moore, colored, was hanged for the
murder of Lee Amman, a Chinaman, last
spring. After Moore had been hanging
about half a minute it was discovered that
the ROPE was too long and the feet of the
culprit rested on the floor. He was raised
to the platform, the rope shortened and
latiOn.
BUSINESS failures for the past week. re-
ported by X. &. Dunn & Co.: United
States, 1913; Canada, A.; against 2i6 the
previous week.
A BRIDGE on the Grand Trunk Railway
near Montreal gave way while a freight
train was passing over it, precipitating
eleven cars loaded with general merchan-
disc into the bed of the river, seven of
them being mashed into splinters.
PASSENGERS from Northern Mexico con-
firm the existence of the so-called yellow
fever at Mazatlan and M~anzanillo, and say
it is worse han last fall.
THE Red River food is at 9 stand at
Shreveport. For one hundred miles above
and below the city the river plantations
are overlooked.
The hard glove fight at Pittsburgh. Pa,
between John Smith, of Colorado, and Will
liam Mcdonald, of Liverpool, England, for
a purse of SEQ, resulted in the defeat of
Smith in the fourth round. The mill lasted
fourteen minutes. Both men We're ba1ly
punished.
THE church trial of Rev. NJ. Spurlock,
charged with falsehood. immortality and
undue intimacy with Mrs. George, until
recently a teacher in the Methodist Sunday
School, at Geneseo, ILL.,, has been brought
to a close. After being out fifteen minutes
the committee returned a verdict of guilty.
This suspends Spurlock from the minis
try.