The Red Cloud chief., 1884-02-22

HIGH ouOe q man 6oSC IAc u0LA.C VI NlC-
tor Grafton Andree, %wounding him in the
thigh. Thinking she had killed him, she
placed the pistol to her temple and blew
her brains out, falling dead qp the spot.
The man said he knew the woman, but de
clined to say why she shot him.
THE other day United States Treasurer
Wyman received from an Ohio bank two
packages purporting to contain $1,000 each.
One was found $3.50 short; the other con-
tanned two pieces of flannel.
A MIXED train on the Southern Central
Railroad dropped into the Seneca River
at Weedsport, N. Y, the bridge having
been weakened by rains The engineer,
fireman and brakeman were drowned.
SECRETARY LINCOLN estimated that the
purchase of supplies by the May ors of
the various towns along the Ohio and the
costs of expeditions to sufferers from Pitts.
burgh to Louisville, would aggregate $3.50,
600, leaving $4,000 of the appropriation to
be expended by General Beckwith, in
charge at Cincinnati.
In the trial in the United States Court
at Petersburg, w. Va, of David C.. Kel-
lar, pilot of the steamer Sciotio, sunk by a
collision with the John Tomas, July 4,
1882, at Mingo Junction, in which fifty.four
persons were lost, the jury the other day
returned a verdict Of guilty of voluntary
manslaughter, with a recommendation to
mercy.
AFTER reaching a height of seventy-two
feet, the Ohio River began to fall on the
18th.
A FEARFUL disaster was caused at Gin
cinnati on the 18th by the collapse of a
building that had been weakened by the
food, and occupied as a boarding house.
Ten persons were borne into the water by
the falling walls and drowned. Their
names were: John w. Kyle, son of the
proprietor; Mary E. Golfer, Maud Ellis,
James Ogden, Barney Woenker, Mrs. Bar
ney Woenker, Thomas Burke, Mrs. Lena
Burke, William Burke, Louis Burke.
THE wife of James Hunter, a wealthy
farmer of Green County, Tenn, was in.
stantly killed the other night by some one
who fired a gun from the outside. Hunter
and his wife and other members Of his
household were sitting around tho fire at
the time. Hunter had just received a large
amount of money. Two brothers named
Moore were arrested.
MRS. EMMA UHLER, made notorious last
year by figuring in a murder case that
made a great sensation, died from morphine
poisoning in a New York hospital the other
morning.
THOMAS BENTON was hanged at PlcG=e-
mine, La, for the murder of Robert
Duggan.
DELEGATE SINGHISER, of Idaho, lately
appeared before the Committee vn Indian
Affairs Of the House, and made an argu-
ment looking toward the ratification of a
treaty made with the Bannock and Shes
hone Indians four years ago, whereby GER
tain of the lands occupied by them were
to be thrown open to settlement by the
whites.
IT was currently reported that the Atchi-
SON, Topeka & Santa Fee Road had pur-
chased the California & Southern Railroad,
extending from San Diego to Cotton, one
hundred and thirty miles.
THE House Committee on Public Lands
recently agreed to report bills declaring
the forfeiture of the land grants of the On
tonagan & Brule River, Marquette & State
Line, and Marquette, HouGhton 6 Ontona-
gon Railroads. the rights of cash and
homestead entries to be protected, the
preference being given to the latter. About
twenty thousand acres are included in the
forfeiture.
A FIRE at Sprague, Wash. Ter, recently
destroyed a bank and several stores.
Loss, $4,000. The town had a narrow
escape from total destruction owing to the !
water supply being frozen.
THREE attendants in the State Lunatic
Asylum at Utica, n. Y, lave been arrested
for causing the death by violence of Evan
D.. Hughes, a patient.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
The destruction caused by the Ohio
flood in what is known as Pomeroy
e was peculiarly distressing. Tn bend
IS narrow, with bottoms on both sides of
he river, and contains some twenty coal
mines, eighteen salt works and twelve
aggregating $1,000 inhabitants, of
eight thousand are laborers. Six of
he mines are flooded and will not be
pumped out for six or eight months. Eight
thousand people are idle, and nine Thousand
1t was estimated that five nun.
ired houses had been swept out of the
welve miles of the bend. Government re.
ief boats were busy distributing supplies.
SEVERAL weeks since a citizen of Mime
'polis, Mimi, named Homerling, bought a
lam and took it home. All of the family
tie of the raw meat. Some days after. Mr..
1omerling, his wife, three children and a
lister of Mrs. Homerling were taken vio-
ill with symptoms of trichinosis.
drs. Homerling die in great agony and it
thought her sister and two of the chill
lren would die.
ISAAC GATEwooD, a st. Louis carpenter,
killed his wife with a club while
10Th were intoxicated.
E. LaTHBURY & Co.'s box warehouse at
Philadelphia was recently burned, in
which was stored twelve or fifteen thous-
nd barrels of -four.
DICK CRAIG and Wallace Brockman were
ound dead in their room at the Ashland
Hotel, Lexington, KY, the other morning,
aving gone to bed while intoxicated and
! was supposed blew out the gas and suf-
At the Phoenix Hotel in the same
ity. W. d. Key was found nearly dead
rom the same cause, but was restored to
lie with difficulty. !
THERE was a strong array Of representa-
ives of the steel and iron and iron ore (
interests, in the of the Committee on