The Red Cloud chief., 1885-11-06

Az inquiry has been commenced at
Chicago into irregularities said - eHist IN
! the Cook County Hospital ami tue Jefferson
Insane Asylum
FsRD. WARD was convicted in View
York of larceny in the fret degree on the
-:h. The sentence was postponed. II
would probably be ten years impr SON
ulent.
HENRY KELLEN. in the Missouri psni-
ten.iarv. las confessed that he WAS con-
cerned in the Coolidge. Kan. train robbery
in lss3. and that Abe Waller aui Fred A
| Bunk were the other parties
| The steamer Hackensack. Of the Hobo
ken Ferry line, came into collision with
the ocean steamer ServIa at S-w
York recently. a great panic prevailed
on both vessels. In his fright, John NAL
| low, "A sailor on the S.ryia, jumped over
board and was drowned
Two striking coal miners. named Smith
and johnson. who wer- tryinE 10 persuade
non-unipn men 20 Gn.t work. we're arrested
al Pittsburgh. Pa, recently On the charge
| Of conspiracy.
AN express train on the railway from
Lisbon TO Madrid recently let the rails
while ON a bridge ov-r n river near the
boundary between Spain and Portugal.
The train iell into the river AMI several
persons. were killed and many injured.
o containing whole family, father,
mother aud child. WAS csp,iz-i in the -.
Lawrence nea- Montreal aud all were
drowned.
II. Y. PIHKvEY, charged with aiding the
IL II - 4H.H- fF--.-
pany, an EnSl sh corporation, !" d~;rsUd
the Government. out OF the larger part OF
5000 acres of public domain in Bent
| County, Col, was arrested In ~. LpuiS r.
gently. Pinknev was formerly n clerk III
III. Pueblo Land Ohice, and he AMI :. &
/ Bloomfield, manager IF the cattle COM
pany. wer. charged with irauiulent.y
conspiring to acquire the land. Bloom
field was convicted, but P!n.n-y forfeited
his bond and f-i.
A DISPATCH from Dallas saws: Colonel
J. y. Simpson, Pr-siden: Of the Texas Cat
tlenen's Association, declines To call the
convention TO elect delegates to the ~.
Lous convention. He says while the stock
men If Northern Texas are unanimously
in favor of calling "A convention, those Of
South ard West Texas do not seem to
want il.
SIX or seven employees Of In" Roberts
Laundry. West Twenty-sixth street. New
York. were seriously scalied the other
morning by tn. explosion of II steam drum.
THE other morning n fire broke out in the
fiour mills OF Bush Is Co., at Seymour,
Ind, totally destr0yin, them. Tn Ohio
IL Mississippi Railroad shops and two
dwellings were also damaged. The loss IA
800 900: INSURANCE. on mill, 81, 90. :
OS account of.the prevalence of diphthe-
ria in M. Vernon, o., the pa Bile schools
were closed by direction of the Board Of
Education.
DIR. kIMBALL, Director of the Mint. has
reduced TIE estimate OF the APP ropriation
for the mint service for the next fiscal
year over >2l",0oo, compared with the esti-
mates for the present wear, and over >i,UJp
as compared with the actual expenditures
Of the last wear.
\ FEARFUL explosion occurred recently
in the mines at Colquechaca, Bolivia.
Several persons were killed.
THE monthly oil report from P-nnsylva-
MIA shows the following totals: Wells
N'ihliTitA. '"i- ~" pi'Autsitus ''p'f bii
rels: dry holes. forty-three.
Ir is charged that Nelson Cris'. a real
estate and insurance agent OF Niagara
Falls. y. v. who was recently killed by
the cars. had defrauded persons to the ex-
tent of $4,000.
BUSINESS failures OF the seven DAYS
ended October - numbered: For the
United States, IA: for Canada, -; a total
Of POI. as compared with III the week
previous.
WHILE j. Y. Myers, n painter. was rig
GinS n scaffold about the spir- Of the Meth.
odist Church at Clinton. H., his foot
slipped and he fell over one hundred feet
To the ground and was killed Instantly.
W. l.. SIMMONS. a grain dealer at Sand
witch. ILL.,, made an assignment recently.
Liabilities, 5000: assets, $;p.on.
THE half-treef prisoners at Regina and
Stony Mountain have forwarded n petit
ton 20 the Dominion Government begging
for mercy.
TIE remains OF n lion tanner named
Stewart, with the dead body Of a lion be-
side him, have been found in a room at ,
smsli hamlet just outside of Paris.
AhDItIpNAi p1>IAINht>.
IL the Wa.kup trial at Emporia, Ran.
on the 3lst, the State INTRODUCED testimony
impusnlrS the evidence of DIR. Scott. Nor
ton and other witnesses. According u the
state Walkup was not Mt SCOTS office in
Kansas City at the time mentioned, nor
was he i'll Dodge City according To Nor
toa's evidence in April, list. Is the En-
poria records showed That he was present at
the Cry Council on tho dates covering tho
time occupied in the so-called 'jamboree"
with tie witness.
THE Missouri Board OF Prison reporters
say they have no further choice than
Louisiana. No. for a site for n branch
penitentiary. Governor M~arrnaduke, for
various reasons. having vetoed ali their
previous selections for the proposed addl-
tional state prison.
THE Post-onice Department has been in
formed that the Interchange OF money or