The Red Cloud chief., 1885-10-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE people of Berbcr. i'm the Soudan,
have declared themselves independent.
| The Governor has offered his submission to
| the Kheiive.
JAMES STEPHENS recently issued a man
ifcsto i'm the shape of a public letter TO Mr..
Michael Davitt. The ex-Fenian leader de-
mands that the Irish National Democracy
| of both ireland and America be united in
one confederation, with a view to enabling
Irishmen 10 unfurl the flag OF revolution in
| the event of Mr.. Parnell's effecting a re-
storation Of the Irish Parliament.
CHAS. a. DANA presided the other nigh.
Mt New York over a large meeting of the
Irish National League, held for the pur-
pose Of raising money 70 aid Pnrnell in Ire
land.
THE action of the Montana citizens in
petitioning Lieutenant Walker TO have the
Flathead Indians ordered back to their
reservation tor committing so many dep
| relations outside their bounds was sue
| ~cessful, and the Indians have been or
derei to the reservation.
THE widow and other heirs of Robert
Treat Paine, who, by his will, gave $1,000
to Harvard College to found an astrono-
mical professorship, have filed an appeal
against the clause on the ground that Mr..
Paine was not Of sound mind.
ADvICEs from Tonquin to the Temps de-
scribes the situation there as very gloomy.
Since the beginning OF the summer 5000
Frenchmen nave died from cholera, and
large numbers are daily succumbing TO the
disease.
TnE increase in the visible supply and
other causes had n very bear.sh effcc. on
the grain markets on the Goth.
Two New York customs inspectors have
been suspended: one for wearing a coat
with n large open pocket in which a pas
senger from abroad was seen To drop two
cuineas: the other for receiving money for
expediting goods through the customs
house.
THE United States Court ut st. Louis
has issued an order for the sale OF the st.
Louis, Hannibal & Keokuk Railway. The
sale will take place December :.
THE wife and daughter Of John Conway,
a milkman, were brutality murdered in
their home on East Eighteenth street,
Kansas City, recently. The heads OF
mother and child were horribly beaten
in with n coupling pin. 1t was thought
the murder was due 10 an attempt at rape
and that the culprit was n negro.
Four miners werc killed and twelve
Others fatally injured recently hy an eN-
plosion Of gas in the mine of the Delaware
& Hudson Company at Plymouth. Pa.
By the collapse of a frame building in
Wabash avenue, Chicago. recently. three
! men anu q woman were bu led. One Of
the men was Killed and the other persons
were seriously injured.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT in Ire New York SUI
preme Court dismissed the complaint in
the suit of Mrs. Mary Maud Watson. grand
daughter of the late Job Anderson. the
millionaire t~obaccouis:, to establish her
/ claim TO more Of her grandfa;her's rloney
than she was awarded by the viii.
THE 81. Louis police recently claimed 10
have discovered an internal machine
placed upou the street car track, which
thev alleged was lone by strikers.
THE English Privy Council on the eei
rendered its decision in the appeal case of
Louis Riel. the Canadian rebel. dismissin-
the petition Of the condemned man. which
requested a Communication OF the sentence.
MANN descendants OF the fiu-urIfI> met
in the Church pu s.. Esprit. New York. on
the o2i. 10 celebrate the bi-ceutenary OF the
revocation OF the eiict of Nantes. John Jay
presiding. Among those present was Sec
rotary of State Bayard.
\ GREAT fire broke out in Moscow, Rus
STA. recently and caused enormo losses.
seven persons were killed and four injured.
AT Darlington. =. c.. recently. fire
caused a loss of >,5.0Jo. distributed among
the following business men: J. A.. Pierce,
J. c. White. A. Nochman, $. Marco and n.
Hiaiey.
THE English Farmers Allianc. has
adopted a resolution stating that 70 avert
the ruin of the present racs Of farmers,
land owners mast forthwith reduce the
rents OF farms and the Government must
formulate a measure which will prevent
the raising OF rents on the Improvements
of tenants.
MOB attacked a section house near
Rock Springs, Wyo., on the night OF the
2lst. The Cinnamon were driven out half
naked, and they sought refuge in the
n~eighboring hills, nearly perishing from
co:d.