The Red Cloud chief., 1885-03-13

the tide carried Oh the f~amfoa dock
bodily 20 the .ounA. The damage IL 500.
Numerous veGsels which . been fast In
the ice were badly damaged. During the
night . large schooner, the Loitie Me'stoi,
VA sunk. tn. crew were saved
TIE formal setting Of the corner store
OF the new capitol building at Austin. Tex,
took place on the ID
Car1Ary Couch and nine other Okla
homa ..boomers- were arrested in Arkan.
ras City, Kan, on the 9Th, charged Win
melting instruction Each one ~aive-i
examination and was placed under a bond
of 5000.
THE New York ItriIy COMMERCIAL Bal
lefia estimates the aggregate IRE loss :or
February at S~I0,oco,cDo. fifty per cent more
than tn. average loss Of February 70.
wears past. Including January some ,ls,-
5000 worth Of property have leen burned
up thus far in Isat.
OSE OF the last acts OF Secretary Teller
was TO issue patents for Louisiana land
granted to aid the construction o! the
New Orleans 4 Pacific Railroad These
lands, embracing about $1,000 acres. COIN
prise what Is commonly known as he
Backbone grant"
AT New Orleans, the other day, seven
prisoners escaped from the parish prisoc.
The crimes OF the conyicss ranged from
murder 10 petty larceny.
CHICAGO special from Winnipeg. dated
the 9Th, says: Farmers OF the province
met here to-day, many accessions beInS
received 20 the ranks Of the secessionists
81 ...~..v,t. Ragplrtinns ,y,rl
passed d~enouncing Premier Sorquay for
failing To secure concessions from the Do
minion Government, and calling for the
redistricting for seats and an appeal to the
country.
The Ohio College Of Dental Surgery OF
Cincinnati. at its thirty ninth annual com
mencement, gave diplomas 10 twenty-six
graduates. The gold medal honor wa
taken by Carrie Lloyd, Of Indiana, the only
woman in the class.
GEORGE HAzES. Of Minneapolis. Mimi.
has been disbarred from practice rs AttCr-
ney before the Interior Department.
A the City q: Mexico on the lst of March
there remained a cash balance III the Ma
tional Treasury Of sii2,s9..
FOREIGNERS at Ningpo, China, were re-
ported exceedingly nervous. Threats were
constantly being made tn massacre them.
PAUL BAUER, the proprietor of the
Brighton Hotel at Coney Island, y. ".
who had pool rooms in his club house OPP
posite the hotel. and said 10 be worth $780,
0o. was recently convicted of pool selling.
and was sentenced TO the p~enitentiary for
three months and To pay a fine of so.
INSPECTOR W. &. BAIRD, OF tn. Post
office Service, arrested at Memphis re-
Gently James A. White. colored, mailing
clerk, for robbing the mails.
An explosion occurred in a colliery ut
Karwin. Austrian Silesia, recently. III the
time I&7 men were in the mine. IL was I'M
known whether any of them were saved.
An Illinois Central train collided with an
express eight miles south Of Grenada, Miss,
recently. Both firemcn were killed and
eight other persons seriously injured. The
accident was caused 10y negligence on the
part of the express.
Brown, the suspended State Anditor, was
fusing the Governor access Ia his Office
books and papers, but the case was dis
missed as not n statutory offense.
ONO miners were reported willing 10
work ut a reduction of ten cents per on.
THE Ohio crop report for March. for
warded TO Washington on the 9Th, shows
forty-fonr per cent. over the corn crop o.
1884 still on hand; and wheat forty per
cent.
THE German Eeichstag rejected a motion
in favor of the establishment of a bi-me-
tallic standard of currency.
THE total enrolled volunteers in Great
Britain az the present time is 2li,o0o men,
the greatest number Vet attained.
FAILURES for the week ended March y:
United States, 23s: Canada. -: total, 80.
~ compared with ~ las; week. Three
fourths of the casualties were furnished ly
the Western. Southern and Pacific States
and Canada.
THE French transport Tonquin. formerly
the City OF Paris, ans in collision with
another transport ofr Malaga, recently. and
sunk, carrying down twenty -four OF her
crew. The remainder were rescued.
THE Denver Chamber of Commerce
unanimously adopted n resolution recently
requesting the new Secretary OF the Treas
urv 10 paw out the silver coin now boarded
in the vaults of the Treasury, in order 10
stop the contraction of the currency. and
thus relieve the business depression OF tho
country.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.