The Red Cloud chief., 1884-08-01
HaocELLANEOUS

Mr.. Elkins was at)ut thirty-eight years OF
age.
pascELLANEOUS
ELIZA mksox, an inmate of the Louis
Vile wor<house, was run over and killed
by a Ch6speake & Ohio passenger train
the otherday while walking on the track
GENERL HAzES says that Lieutenant
Greedy lterally accomplished everything
he was s,nt to do, and brought his party
safely n the point were his responsibility
endedjviz. Cape Sabine.
A TERRIFIC gas explosion in the German
Bank o, Wheeling, w. Va, recently, badly
burner Chief Clerk James He'll
WuBUsH, POWELL & Co.'s printing
| Office at Kansas City, fell the other even.
ins. A girl named Lola Close was serious
y injured. The damage amounted to
! about $15. 900, including a loss OF about
$500 to the Lire Stock Indicator. The
cause OF the accident was due to the exca-
walton for a new building.
AT New Orleans on on the 22d, q child
died with symptoms of yellow fever. The
black vomit was microscopically examined,
however, and physicians declared it was
not the black vomit of yellow fever.
AT a meeting OF the Municipal Council
| of Paris, on the 22d, the Director Of Public
Aid declared that no case OF genuine Asi.
| attic or sporadic cholera had been reported
| at the Paris hospitals. He said the deaths
attributed to cholera were really due to
other causes.
The extensive dry goods house Of Wear,
D---I-- O. r. Ga -.,.u .-,:-raI -.
Gently to Nathan Cole. The assets of the
firm were given at about $500, 900, embrac.
ing goods and merchandise, $4,000; open
accounts and bills receivable, $4,000;
other matters, 5000. Liabilities were
not definiately known, but aggregated
about $780, 600.
The Erie Preserving Company of
Buffalo, N. Y, suspended recently for the
purpose of looking over the books pend
ing a settlement with creditors. 1t was
claimed their embarrassment was brought
on by the failure of j. K. Armby & CO.,
Chicago. whose draft they accepted for a
large sum.
HELEN OWENS, a handsome and edu-
Gated young lady of Anne Arundel County,
Nd, has eloped to Washington with a mu-
latto coachman.
AT Gloucester, Mass, recently a work.
man carrying a bucket Of dynamite
packages discovered a spark among the
cartridges, and Immediately hurled the
bucket away. 1t struck a tree, Inc a ter.
rible explosion of cartridges followed,
badly shaking the houses along Washing.
ton and the contiguous streets, and break
ing many window glasses. No lives were
lost.
SALVATION LANDINA an Italian who muir
murdered his wife July 4, on being arrested
New York a day or two ago, swallowed a
fatal dose of poison.
AT Jackson, Miss, an engineer named
Amos was shot lead by Everett Stratton,
a fireman on the same engine.
At Cincinnati Patrick Hartuck was con.
victed of murder. He chopped his wife's
head of with an ak.
The deerstalkers, gillies and laborers on
the estate of the American millionaire,
Winans, near Inverness, Scotland, en-.
gagged in a terrible fight recently. A gillie
named Campbell killed a laborer named
Macgillivray. Campbell was arrested.
BARTY TURNER, the Sheriff Of Phillips
County, Ark, was reported short about
$1,000 in his accounts with the State.
THE treaty recently negotiated by Great
Britain with the King of Abyssinia binds
the latter to abolish slavery and the slave
trade within his kingdom.
A GENTLEMAN from Philadelphia has
showna secret service officer in Chicago a
twenty dollar treasury note made wholly
with a pen, its execution being SO complete
as to deceive a keen expert.
MRS. ANNIE PIERCE, the widow of a IA.
nous lieutenant in the Confederate army,
hanged herself at her home in Baltimore,
recently, because she was unable to pro-
vide for her three children. Before the
war she was the belle of Staunton. The
Confederate Society will care for her or.
phaned offspring.
A MEETING of creditors of whittemore,
Cabot & Co., dry goods dealers, were held
at Boston recently. Their liabilities were
found to be $4,000 Of which $4,000 was
secured. The assets, according to the
books. nominally aggregated $lG5,OO
A DISPATCH from Cincinnati, dated the
oath, says: A very w drouth is now
affecting nearly the whole of Ohio, Indiana
and Kentucky. In many places there has
been no rain at all since June Il. Unless
rain comes within q week most serious
losses will occur.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN, President Of the
Irish National League, has calleda conven-
tion at Boston for August Is
IT was officially announced on the s4sh,
at Paris, that the cholera epidemic at Mar
settles and Toulon was decreasing, The
health Of Paris wa good.
A. OvERHoLr& Co.'S distillery at Con.
nellsville, Pa, caught fire recently, and in
less than three hours the main building, to.
gether with the bonded warehouses and
seven hundred barrels Of whisky burned.
The gross value Of the whisky was $4,000,
and the loss on building and machinery,
$4,000.
RED JAcKEf and forty other Indians,
heavily armed, ~arrivedin Durango the other
day. The City Marshal attempted to ar.
rest one of them for carrying firearms,
when q running fight took place between
the band and citizens. Twenty shots were
fred, but no a was reported hurt
DxrosrroRs were excited over the Harri-
SON Bank failure at Indianapolis. Gross
frauds were alleged and Harrison was
recommended to the consideration Of the
grand jury.
Man nashville, Ind, . steam thrasher
exJaodsd on the farm Of Jessph Hall.