The Red Cloud chief., 1884-02-15

and who served in the war, should be re
quired to prove that they were sound in
health at the date of their enlistment in
order to obtain pensions
WHILE firemen were recently working on
a fire in the factory of KaSsmer & Kluch-
per, at Allentown, Pa, the walls fell out
ward, killing five and severely wounding
eight firemen.
REPORTS from the Upper E,khorn coun-
try in Nebraska were that Kid Wade,
leader of a band of NiObrara outlaws and
horse thieves, had been hanged by Vigil
lantes. 1t is stated that the Vigilantes
nave headquarters at q place called ''The
PEN" at the mouth of the Long Fine, and
have arrested a large number of men in
various parts of Northern Nebraska and
taken them to 1.-THE Pen," where they were
tried and disposed Of in some name 1t
was said to be positively known they had
lynched eleven men and equally sure tina.
others had met the same fate.
The infant son of Mrs. John George, of
Galveston, Tex, was recently drowned in
a boiler of water which had been carelessly
left where the child had gone to play.
The town of Lonoke, Ark, was almos.
entirely wiped out by q recent fire.
THE region of country about Silverton,
Col, suffered recently from the most de-
structive snow storm of the season. The
snow was several feet deep on a level, with
prospects of being much deeper. Business
was at a stand-still, transportation blocked
and snow slides reported numerous.
A MOVE was recently made in the Cana
dian Parliament looking to the impeaching
of the Finance Minister for having adj
vanced $500, 900 to the Exchange Bank, of
Montreal, last year, when he was aware at
the time of making the advance that the
bank was embarrassed.
DETECTIVE Brown, who was investiGat-
ing the murder of the Crouch family at
Jackson, Mich, was assassinated the other
night.
AT Coshocton, o., on the Sth the flood
was at a greater height than ever before
known. A lady was drowned and three
brothers who were in a boat were struck
by drift wood and drowned.
A BILL has been reported favorably by
the House Committee on Banking and Cur
rency for the exchange of trade dollars for
standard silver dollars at par, by January
1, 1885.
THE President has appointed the follow
ing Commissioner to the Worlds Indus
trial Cotton Centennial Exposition of New
Orleans: Charles j. Harrow, of Louisiana,
Commissioner; W. j. Hodgsen, Alternate;
VIM. F. Goulding, Maine, Commissioner;
H. s. Howe, Alternate.
C.pr.Y~ Tou~ S.pcp~r of xbo .to,u,o.
Harry, recently shot and killed his en-.
g%ineer. William Phillips, OF the Sunlower
River, at Rolling Fork, Miss. Sargent re.
proved Phillips for neglecting the boiler
and making an explosion imminent, when
the engineer attacked him and lost his life.
At the examination Sargent was acquitted.
ALATE fire i'm the Standard Oil Works
at Long Island City, n. ", destroyed oil
and other property to the value of $4,000.
A MOVEMENT has been inaugurated st st.
Louis among some of the carpenters and
plasterers looking to a demand for an nd.
vance of wages to 1850 per day during the
coming season.
CURTIS, the young st. Louis dude who
about a year ago ran away with Mrs.
Dixon, a married woman, and afterwards
deserted her and sneaked back home, the
other day eloped with another married
woman, Mrs. Wilson, the wife of a grain
merchant. Mrs. Dixon never returned to
st. Louis after her escapade with Curtis,
and it is said fills IN obscure grave in
Florida.
T. c. WELLS. of Lockport, NY, recently
killed himself at Dallas, Tex. He was six
ty-five years of age, and once a prominent
merchant of Lockport, but failed and went
to Texas to retrieve his fortune. Ee was
unable to find employment, and in such
Strengthened circumstances hat the week
before his death he subSisted on one meal
a day.