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The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30

The Russian Finance Minister attrib-
utes the gloomy condition of finance.
trade and industry in Russia to the COM
petition of the United States, Canada
and India as the wheat-exporting coun-
tries. This stagnation in the corn trade,
it is added, affected land owners, who
consequently bought less of manufac-
turers. Manufactured goods also suf-
fered from over-production, chiefly rs
regards cotton goods and railway roll
ing stock. Mr.. Kennedy. Secretary of
the British Embassy at st. Petersburg,
in referring to these circumstances, OBJ
serve that the ont of the Minister'S
statement on the budget estimates for
the current year, is ''despondent;" that
the report anticipates no improvement.
while it u the necessity for in
creased taxation as q means of raising
the revenue and developing manufac-
turing industry.
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
MISCELLANEOUS

ZEBEHR PASHA sent messengers by three
distinct routes to Khartoum to discover
General Gordon's fate. 1t was expected
the messengers would return in August.
HENRY F. GILLIG, President of the Amer.
lean Exchange in Paris, gave q dinner re-
Gently TO Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor
of "Liberty Enlightening the World."
The wooden suspension bridge over the
Scioto River at Portsmouth, O., fell the
other morning, carrying own:woc children,
who were OF it, and both were drowned.
A GENERAL strike by the Pennsylvania
iron workers in juno was regarded rs i'm.
probable. 1t was understood thu several
firms would sign the scale when presented
by the Amalgamated Association, and
this would prevent other manufacturers
from holding out who might be disposed
70 fight for q reduction. III
THE duty on cattle and sheep has been
doubled by the French Government, and
lie Paris says the French artists will avenge
the refusal of the United States Congress to
reduce the duty on works of art. They win,
the paper says, demand that toe French
salon exclude the works of American ar.
fists. --'
The railroads interested In Missouri
River business had a meeting at Chicago,
and decided to advance lumber rates TO
points on that river from fifteen to eigh-
teen cents between Chicago and these
points. e
TEXAS had another de,uSe of rain on the
clst. In places thef fall ranged from four
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30

The new system of interlocking rail
road switches vas recently put into op-
GRAFTON on the Pennsylvania Railroad al
Dillersville, and was said to work finely.
The switches were of the same kind as
those used at the Broad Street Station,
Philadelphia. They control all the track,
of the Reading IS well as Of the Penn.
s~ylvania Railroad. being operated by a
series of levers in a telegraph tower
erected specially for the purpose. BY
the new system it is impossible for col
lisions to occur at this rather dangerous
crossing if the signals are properly OBJ.
served. The officers in the new tower
have control of all trains on the Penn.
sylvania Railroad as far east as Wilmer
Station, and as far west as Landisville
and Mountville, respectively.
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
LOTS OF GOLD.
Gold Almost by the Bucket at C9rr
d-AIene for Enterprising Miners.

SALT LAKE. UTAH, May 20.-H. Penn
Jrooi:. editor OF the Ceur d'Alene Pioneer.
writes in a private letter that on leaving
Belknap with the printing outfit there wer.
.wciye III the PARTY. each laden with one
hundred and fifty pounds of freight; thst
the trail was bare for the use of the sleds
oa some parts and the loads had to BE-
packed from a quarter Ia half a mile al a
stretch. They crossed Eagle River twenty
seven times in a distance Of ten miles. One
Of the party was drowned while crossing
lie liver on a foot log. lie Slipped
ard ieil into the rushing torrent. and was
>unk ~ the weight lie carried. The writer
aids: Now | am here and you want 10 know
!hout the country. / have had good oppor-
turtles 10 see what it is here, and when /
tell You it is the greatest gold country / have
ever heard of OF seen i tell you what can he
proven beyond the least doubt. Every
lam That has been opened pays big. ami
nany are taking out five hundred dollars
Hcr ta:. The gold is coarse ami of the
iEA>t grade. Those VINO rushed in
mere in the midwinter can not be
Blamed for their false reports, but
now that the snow is gone and
The evidence is presented to ones
Swn eyes. the true status of the country
viii he properly represented abroad. You
hear any more of those No Gold
stories about the Ceur d'.Alene. The
is absolutely rich and extensive.
There is an ~inexhaustible field for the
hydraulic miners, and rich quartz lOdes have
been found which guarantee the sue
.ess Of the CPur d'Alene as 4 mining
for many years. There will be ten
meii engaged in business before
leXt summer l am doing a big business
md the Pioneer is a general ~favorite
the country. My expenses are
The town of Murray, above
acre, is looming up.
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
A Kansas City Tragedy.

KANSAS CITY, May 2O.-This morning, al
tie city hospital, Darius Weaver, n Negro
patient, in a violent fit OF insanity,
attempted to burn down the building.
setting fire to the bed of a paralytie
named Skies, whom he held on the
flames. The fire was subdued, wher
the maniac made q rush at John Hughes, ar
aged patient, and cut his throat from ear tc
ear. The hospital steward, DR.. Winfrey,
closed with the negro, and was struck
a terrible blow over the head with
an adj handle. DR.. Winfrey then drew hi:
revolver and shot the Infatuated maniac dead.
Hughes is lying in a very low condition,
while DR.. Winfrey is severely injured. Oar
fus Weaver was a pauper shipped in from
UP the river last January.
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES

A CUCSHhTTA, La, special Of the 18th
said: Tie heaviest rains Oh record ave
fallen here during the pas. ten days, and
the river is higi,erthan Tor q number of years
Crops are suffering. and hands ere unable
to work. All the creeks and bayOus Of
any nSeQuenc are swelling into i'm
tnense propo tions, ard planters and bust
ness men are very much discouraged.
The Senate was not in session on ths
,4th. In the House n bill was reported To
permit l.. f. Reynolds, of the navy, to Re.
ceive the Order OF Francis Joseph from
the Emperor of Austria for the saving OF
the lives of eleven Austrian sailors at sea.
Robinson, of New York, protested, and
spoke of Reynolds as a "dude," which
created considerable excitement. The bill
passed, Robinson not succeeding in mus
tering enough members to call for the yeas
and rays. The Bureau Of Animal Indus.
try bill was finally disposed Of.
i RAILROAD collision at Savannah, NY.
On the 18th, caused the death of four per.
sons and the injury OF seven others.
THE fire ut the oil works of the Atlantic
Refining Company az Philadelphia con.
tinued to burn on the 18th but it ~as
Thought the danger was past. The estimate
phcci the loss ut about S400,O0l.
THE Committee on Ways and Means re-
Gently continued the consideration Of that
portion of Tire Hewitt Tariff bill relative
70 the administration of the present law.
While having taken 10 vote on the ques.
ton Of considering that part of the bill
proposing a reduction of tariff. members
of the committee say positively it will not
be discussed in committee. E-E
FATHER BoNIFACE has brought suit
against the Boston Hsra'dfo for 1oc. ocO dam.
ages for associating his nane with a Ger.
tain crooked money transaction.
AN insane woman named Edmont, living
in ST. Louis, murdered her two infants,
Sunday, and attempted the murder Of an.
other child and OF herself. She was the
wife of a railroad engineer and formerly
lived at Poplar Bluff, Mo-, and had rela.
tives living in Cowiey County. Kas.
Enc, the ~defaulting New York bank
president, Is missing. Warrants were out
for his arrest
HANLEY, one Of the principals in the late
prize fight organized il Omaha and
fought in Saunders County, Neb., after q
trial of q week was sentenced to three
years at hard labor in the renitentiary.
The case was to be taken to the Supreme
Court.
JAMES d. FISH. Ire President of the de
funct Marin Bank, of New York. was
jailed on the 25-h on TIE charge of misap
propriatin. tho funds Of The hank in col
with the firm Of Grant & Ward.
S. j. DRAKE declined the nomination OF
President OF the New York Sock E1
change.
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
An event, the Importance of which to

AN event. the Importance of which to
cattle-raisers can hardly be estimated,
has occurred in Arizona, in Sulphur
Valley, hitherto streamless and decided
to be in all respects of the common type
of dry valleys which are SO abundant in
that Territory. An enterprlsing citizen
was led to experiment for water by Dor
ing last month with an artesian well ap.
plnnce. At the shallow depth of thirty.
eight feet water was struck-water that
rose to the surface and is now giving a
a steady stream of from forty thousand
to fifty thousand gallons every twenty.
four hours. Within a distance of eight
miles, eight of these wells have been
sunk, none of them deeper than eighty.
three fect, the flow from which is twenty.
five thousand to fifty thousand gallons
of water in twenty-four hours. The
water already obtained in this way i.
sufficient to water at least thirty thou.
sand head of cattle, besides affordinc
sufficient irrigation to maintain the
gardens that a population attending
the stock would require, and perhaps
tree plantations for the relief of stock
from the sun and wind. If the success
which has attended the former operation
continues to the line, the artesian wells
of this part of Sulphur Springs Valley
will supply water for at least n hun
dred head of stock
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
Justi;iable Homicide.

MALVERN, IA, MAY 81.
c. A. Wallis, of Glenwood. shot and
killed John Ciinsersmith at that place at
noon yesterday. Ciinsersmith, who is
Mrs. Wallis %son-in-law, has been abusing
Wallis for some time, and not long ago
had thrashed him severely. Yesterday he
went to Wallis office and began threat
ening him again, when Wallis drew q re-
volver and shot him. The ball tool effect
over the right eye and crossing the base
of the brain passed out behind the left
ear. Wallis gave himself up to Sheriff
Farrell and was lodged in Jail. There is
no excitement over the affair as the kill
ing is considered justiGable.
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
Condition of the Crops In the Western and
Northwestern States.

CHICAGO, May 2l.-Crop reports received
oy the Farmers Rsrielc, up to May 10, arc
to the effect that the conditions for both
wheat and corn are better, but
The general situation is by no means
reassuring as yet. Winter wheat
beginning to head and spring wheat is grow
ins well. with generally good prospects in
Illinois. Certain sections report improved
indications for winter, but the crop for the
State at large promises TO fall short of the
average. The spring wheat prospects in
Iowa are good, but corn planting
IS greatly delayed. Michigan predicts
a small wheat crop, and harvest two weeks
late. In Minnesota and Wisconsin the wheat
prospects have improved the past two weeks.
kentucky and Tennessee report improved
wheat prospects, while certain counties
In Kansas predict not TO exceed half
a crop. Other counties of Kansas continue
to sen in very favorable reports. Ohio
and Indiana report fair prospects, only for
wheat. In certain sections of Missouri the
chinclI bug is feared. Dakota prospects are
very promising.
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
FLOOD y STORM.
BSd Condition OF Things Along the MS
sissippi R~iver-Storm In Ohio.

Bi88fppl 6AS0T@StoE" ~ ohfos
CArRo. ILL, May a0.-The condition Of
the country throughout that section border
ink OH Davis Bend, located twenty-five
miles below Vicksburg, is in a sad plight
wO\se probably than at any other point on
the Mississippi River. The water still re-
mains knee deep on the plantations. and the
planters have given up all hopes OF raising
5 .rop this year. and have been obliged 10
pay the expense necessary in getting the
negroes and their families 10 such points as
will enable them to gain the actual neccs-
saries Of life. The whole country is abso-
lutely destitute of provisions, and the exc
dus of the poor negro is necessary to
GRADE starvation. Parties of thirty
knd forty have been leaving there
/by every boat for several weeks. going
Tin every direction. many seeking the higher
Elevations up the Arkansas and White
Rivers. Others passing here were destined
for almost any point on the Ohio or upper
Mississippi which seems tn promise them a
living. Last Week. about two hundred
negroes and their families, all valuable
farm laborers, and hard to replace at ali,
price. left Point Pleasant, La, in Davis
Bend, on one boat, and d~isembarked at
Terrcne, Miss, destined for the Upper Ar
kansas and White. the expense being borne
10y the white planters, who, rather THAI see
the poor people suffer. have contributed sui
iicient means 10 help them away. The'loss OF
this valuable labor can not be as fully sus-
ta:nct as the rayageS of the waters, and
while the floods at an early day promise To-
return IL the river bed. no improvement o;
The condition of things can be anticipated
in the absence of the bone and sinew which
is To build, plant and rcnovate.
SEVER STORY
CoLrMBUs. o., May 20.-A heavy wine
and rain storm visited the village of TarI-
ton. ~Iickaway County. yesterday afternoon
About thirty houses were mrOOfed, being
nearly the whole village. Fences Were
blown down, trees uproOted and a man
named kershner dangerously hurt by 4 fall
ing blacksmith shop. The saine storm
passed in the vicinity of Lancaster, Fayette
County, where several buildings were un-
roO:ed and the amphitheatre at the fair
grounds and race course destroyed. Sew
clal hOrses were killed by falling barns.
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30

Ferdinand Ward, Behind the Bars of Ind
low street Jaii-He Occupies the Room
Where the Famous William VI. Tweed
Died-Deputy Warden Herman VITA
Watch " ell his Three Hundred Thousand
Dollar Prisoner.
NEW YORK. May =.
Ferdinand Ward, the captive ~swindIer,
watched by Deputy Sheriff Brown, slept
last night in the Sinclair House. lie
spent most of to-day in Receiver Davies
office. Mr.. Davis read and reread papers
with Ward and others to an unlimited eX-
tent. lie said that he had heard th.t Nr.
Ward could easily have obtained TIT
$500, 900 bail, but had refused TO accept
it, knowing that he would probably H.
arrested Immediately on other suits,
which might run the bail up 10 two mi
lions. Deputy Brown sat al Gay
in one position, looking straight a.
his prisoner. The prisoner represent,
to him a responsibility of $500. 03p. i:
$40 the Office was cleared. Almost thu
last to leave were Deputy Sheriff Brow
and his prisoner. They slipped quietly
out of the side door on Wall street an
walked to the offices of Butler, Stil.U4a
{ Hubbard.
TAKEN TO PRISON.
There they were met by Sidney Green
Wards bro,her-in-law, and by order oi
Arrest Clerk Moore, with whom they letr
the Office. Half IN hour later Z
hack, with two white horses, drew
no in front of Ludlow Street Jail.
and the coachman got down ana
rang the bell with all his might, while
Ward, Brown, Moore and Green stepped
out of the carriage. Deputy Warden kier-
nan unlocked the three iron doors Sepa-
rating the prisoner room from the street
and Ferdinand Ward preceded by hi
faithful custodian, who still diplOrlatical-
" said, "Step this way, Mr.. Davis. and
take a look at things" Mr.. Ward was
led into an inside office by
Deputy Brown, who still caileG
him Davis, and there swore that he
was able to support himself and would
pay for his board. Mr.. Herman gave 3
receipt for his body. Ward SIT for CT
hour in the prisoners room with his
brother-in-law. At $50 O'Clock they We're
taken to the room which Ward Is TO &C.
cupy, fronting on Ludlow street.
COMFORTABLE QUARTERS.
The gas was lighted and the room
small, comfortably furnished, WAS very
Ward Frightened up forthc first
time since mornin" and his h-Cth"r-In-.aW
when invited by Herman tn loOs-
through the window a1d-admire "GOoSe-
as that section of Ludlow street
is called. Mr.. Ward laughed, too. quite
naturally. II guess" said he, II >aal,
be eli right here among the geese If nc
foxes get in among them. Then
the warden went away TO or,,cr
supper for the new prisoner
and to see about getting him a bed, and
the couple were left alone. The room il.
which Ward is to stay is the one in which
died April u, six years co. The
of the prison will be augmented to
six men, and two will have the special
duty of watching Ward. both asleep am
awake. IA no time said Herman,
evil he be left unguardcd. | am re-
spon>ible for the prisoners. and III !onH
for him Is carefully - | would $780,,
BOO with legs"
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
Scalded to n

CREsToS, Ia, May 2G-Late AZ night .
freight train became stalled going up the
Vi!lisca hill. The conductor got off the
train TO flag the e train following, wheu
the last two cars Of his train broke 8
coupling and started back down the hill
The engineer and fireman of the approach
Ing train jumped and escaped, but the only
occupant of the detached way-car, c. e
Swain. was asleep, and he did not awaken
unit! the car ran into the engine. He wa,
badly scalded, and died in a short time
Swain was an emigrant on his way to Ne
hraska with his stock and household goods
Ills home was at Coldwater. Mich. whsr
ac !eA"ss a wife aud ono child.
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.

The Louisiana Legislature elected James
B. Eustis United States Senator to succeed
Jonas.
TIE Ohio Democratic State Committee
fixed Oh Columbus as the place and June
"a and % as the time for holding the next
convention.
The Democrats of the Fifth Indiana Con-
gressional district, in convention at Bloom
ington, renominated c. c. Matson on the
twenty-first ballot.
PRINCE VICTOR, the Napoleonic leader of
France, has fallen heir to $4,000 from some
unknown person.
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30

"A Chinese farmhouse is generally
Sheltered by groves Of feathery bamboo
andthick-spreading banyans. The walls
are OF clay or wood, and the interior
consists of n main room, extending
from the floor to the tiled root. with
cioset-lookinS apartments in the cor
ners for sleeping-rooms. There is a
Siding window in the room, while the.
sue windows are merely shutters. The
noor IS the bare earth, where at night
faii there often gathers together a mis-
ceianeous family of dirty children,
Iowis, ducks. pigeons and a litter OF
pigs, all living together in happy har-
mony.
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30

A New JERSEY capitalist has set 10O,-
600 South American cocoanut plants on
1000 acres of seacoast land in Southern
Florida at q cost of $4,000. He ex-
poets that in six years these trees will
pay ten per cent. on IN investment of
50. 600. 600.
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30

A CONTRACT for building ten locomo-
at SO, 900 each, delivered, has just been
taken by an Eastern company. which
sold locomotives precisely similar only
a little over a year ago for $4,000.