The Red Cloud chief., 1884-04-18

uncert1fed lands of the Sioux City & st.
Paul Railroad to the General Government,
in accordance with an act of the Legisla.
ture at its recent session.
THE eastern part of Pennsylvania was
visited by the heaviest snow-storm of the
season on the 9th.
A DISASTROUS wreck occurred on the
Panhandle at Beaver Station, near Dayton,
O., the other night. The engineer was
killed and two or three other persons Sc
verely injured. The passengers were
badly shaken up.
FIRE at Pensacola, Fla, the other morn.
ing destroyed the Louisville & Nashville
freight depot, Golay mills, transfer stable,
Hoffman House restaurant, Masonic build.
ing and several other minor buildings.
Loss, $4,000.
THE strike on the Toledo, Cincinnati &
st. Louis Road ended by a compromise.
IT is predicted that the coming wheat
crop of Califo, MIA will exceed that of 1889.
PROSECUTORS from the Upper Yellow
stone report the discovery of a new geyser
basin. Two gevsers were in action.
A NEW trial was refused in the case of
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der at indianapolis, and the prisoner sen
fenced to be hanged June %.
ACCORDING to the returns of the Depart.
ment of Agriculture the winter wheat area
this year will exceed that of 1880 by 2,OOO,-
900 acres.
A SERIOUS political crisis is imminent in
Pekin. The Empress has publicly de-
graded Prince kung and -four members of
the Privy Council. They were stripped of
all their honors because of the d"ilatory
manner in which they nave dealt with the
Tonquin affairs.
ONE thousand five hundred miners of the
West Moreland and Pennsylvania Gas Coal
Companies, at Irwin Station, Pa, went
out on a strike.
THE Secretary of the Interior has decided
that the affidavit required of homestead
applicants under section 1904, revised
statutes made hey ma before Judges of
Probate in Dakota, such officers being, Jun
der the Territorial code ex-officio clerks Of
their own courts.
BUSINESS failures for the past week in
the United States were 10, Canada, 81,
compared with 211 the previous week.
THE Dutch authorities have blockaded
the Acheenese coast to compel the release of
the ships crew captured some time ago.
The work OF recovering the bodies of the
miners killed and buried in the Pocahontas
mines was being pushed forward rapidly.
Out of sixteen bodies recovered only six
were identified.
The wreck on the Little Miami division
of the Pan Handle Road near Dayton, O.,
was a complete affair in its way, ard the
is that so few were killed. It was
believed that some miscreant removed a
rail with the purpose of throwing the whole
into the river.
A COW BOY named Mitch Marcy killed
Juan 3. Patron in a saloon at Puerto De
Luna. n. NJ, recently. Thu murderer was
captured. Patron was Speaker of the
House in 1878. He was a wealthy and in
.1uential man. No provocation.
GAMBLERS of Buffalo, n. V, nave been
accused OF attempting to bride the Grand
Jury.
THE trial of Thomas Samon, of Lacon;a,
n. H., for the murder of Mrs. Ford, james
Ruddy and Ruddy's fourteen months old
son last fall, has ended, and Samon was
to be hanged April Il, 1885.
FOURTEEN prisoners emptied themselves
but of the Des Moines, Iowa, Jail one light
The vapor stove manufacturers of the
have formed a combination for
he purpose of holding up prices.
A FIGH occurred between gang OF sixty
and an equal number of Irish la
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It st. Thomas, Ont. 1t was caused by the
Directing to the employment of
The police, with the assistance
# citizens, succeeded in stopping the fight
seveial on both sides had been Sc.
7erely wounded.