The Red Cloud chief., 1884-04-11

The register was signed by Morton, the
United States Minister.
FIVE prisoners escaped from the Jail at
Lexington, Ga, by knocking the jailer
down when he was giving them their
breakfast.
DURING the last four years the Metho-
dists of this country " paid out for
religious publications $G,455,00O.
PERRY CARILL, convicted of the murder
of A. Bracknell at Bryan, Tex, has been
sentenced to be hanged Nay ..
THE steamship Neptune arrived in st.
John, N. F., Thursday, with the largest
catch on record-41,5O 800 seals, valued r.
$125, 900, taken in twelve days.
A MEETING of barbed wire manufac-
turers, held in Chicago on the Sd, advanced
the price of wire ten per cent. This is the
second advance within sixty days. An
advance of half a cent a pound was made
at st. Louis recently.
THE result of the late three days riot at
Cincinnati was fifty-one killed and one
hundred and ~ninety-five wounded, Il mag
| nificent court house in ruins, nearly all the
public records and a magnificent library
| wiped out of existence and some des.ruc-
ton of private property. The city has
q~uieted down and troops gone home. A
bill passed the State Senate providing for
the maintenance of the aged mother of Cap
tain Desmond, who was killed at the head
of his company; also granting one hundred
and twenty days pay at two dollars per
day to all State troops disabled by sickness
or otherwise during the riot.
TIM, Na,, V,rly D,;V,t Tn,aa,,I D,,yy.
tine of April 4, gives the details of fires in
March, showing an aggregate of SS,230,O0
destroyed during the month. OF this
amount $685. 900 was burned up in ten
fires. The January, February and March
fire record shows S27,25O,0W, being $780,
OO more than in the first three months of
1885,, and at the rate of Sl09,000,0U for the
year.
TWENTY-FIVE persons were injured in a
railroad accident on the Louisville & Nash
Vile Railroad at Belleville, ILL.,, recently,
caused by the train backing into an open
switch.
HENRY s. CHURCH, the %defaulting City
Chamberlain of Troy, n. Y, now in
custody, has returned to the authorities
$4,000 of the money stolen Ey him from
the Municipal Treasury. From whence the
money came is a mystery, as when arrested
Church had only S34 in his possession. 1t
was reported that some person who profited
by Church's specu!ations returned the
amount, fearing exposure.
THE body found in the woods near At
lanta, Ga, the other day, turned out to be
the remains of DIR. Hugh POLAND, OF Cliff
ton, s.. &. He was Il hard drinker, and it
was supposed he had shot himself.
THEODORE A. PERRY, a train robber, was
arrested in Boston and sent to Chicago.
THERE was talk at Mahoning, Pa, OF
passing an ordinance prohibiting any Hun.
garian from finding lodging there. A
dozen Hungarians, including a woman,
took quarters near the East Franklin col.
liery and were willing to work at any
price. The miners notified the boss to give
them notice to cave the place. One even
ing recently, a lot of laborers m miners
made a raid on the place with shot gun
and revolvers. The HungarianS quickly
bucklei OH their cooking utensils and ran
down the mountain side and disappeared.
Miss JOHNSON, aged sixteen, living neal
Forrest Park, n. Y, was murdered by her
dementcd mother.
BUSINESS failures the past week Were:
United States, Us; Canada, 81; against 2Oi
the previous week.
The steamer Daniel Steinmann was
wrecked off Sambro Island near Halifax.
n. S., on the night of the 81, during a heavy
sea and thick fog. IL was an unaccount
able place for the ship to be in, being full Of
shoals and other dangers. OF one hundred
and forty persons on board. only the cap.
tain, five of the crew and three passengers
were saved. The vessel was bound from
Antwerp to Halifax ar! New York.