The Red Cloud chief., 1885-08-07

have struck. claiainS that they were bens
under paid.
II was affirmed in Shanghai hat Ch.na
would declar. war against Russia.
The Venezuelan Instruction has been
again "supprcssed."
MONUMENT 60 tb~ memory OF Rsbeccn
Nourse, who ~as hanged for Hi:chcrsit,
July -, lc72. was dedicated al her old home
in DaHvers, Mass. on the 2)-h.
Twoearthquake shock. were experienced
az SMYRNA on IT," JF-s-
Is the British House Of Commons
al amendment Re the Criminal hill
providing for the fiocEin. Of prisoners con-
yicteI Of ~outraSjns children was rejected
br Ia u ~ An amendment raising tn.
age OF protection % girls To sixteen as.
carried by a vote OF - - Il.
NINE men got into a buckle, % be hall-I
TO ;be top Of z shat, connecting with tine
new CrptOn agueducts at New York the
other day. When up ~ feet the bucket
caugh; on n projection and tipped. -Four
men were thrown ont. two chung g The
bucket, but the other two, William CGa-
ningham AMI Timothy Harrington, were
dashed 10 dcat--
TIE crew Of :he bark Belle. which was
lying al Nets Que. n.utsn.ed against the
master and tO4E pOss.ss!Ds Of the vess re
Gently.
Ir was reported at Cairo tha: Osmau
Digna was killed in the kassala hattie.
The Mahdi's followers We're every - here
/ dcmOraIiZei.
TIE findings 81 the naval court martial
before which cx-SurgeCn General Wales
was recently tried were for suspension
from rank and duty for five years on fur
lough pay and IL retain his present num-
her in his grade during that period. Dr..
/ Wales was tried Tor culpab!e .u-ttcieucy "A
the performance Of his duty AID TOR neg
lect of duty. lie YVES found guilty on both
CHARGES.
GEORGE WILSON, Charles Davis and
Mathilde Jones, all colored, were executed
at Plagu.mine, La, on tn" "lst for the
murder and robbery OF Mrs. Henrietta
Cole. in that town, on the night of Jauu-
AIRY - last.
The Italian Consul at Tamatave was re-
ported negotiating with the !Iovas i'll The
interest of France, with a view OF arrang-
Ing a peaceful settlement: Of the Madagas-
car difficulties.
FIVE American steamship companies, the
Pacific Mail, San Francisco II Australia.
the Red .D," New York to Venezuela; the
Clyde. New YORK to Turks island: the
New York, Havana and Mexico. and New
York and Cuba lines, nave declined 10
carry United States mails any further I'M
der present arrangements.
GENERAL GRANTS cottage at Vt. Nc
Grcgor. y. Y. was struck by lightning on
the evening OF the 3Jth. The electric light
above the casket was eXtingUishri, and
Colonel Beck and General K. II. Jackson.
the attendants in charge, were rendered
inseusible for some time by the shock.
THE Secretary of State received from
Lima recently a TELEGRAM announcing the
death of Lieutenant Nye, the naval attache
10 the American Leg .tion at that place.
BUSINESS failures for the United States
for week ended July 30, Us: for Canada,
-; n total of 2Jl rs against 2l5 the week
previous.
THE property of the Bankers & Mer-
chants Telegraph Company was sold at
New York recently and brought 500, 900.
1t was purchased by Edward =. Stokes Oh
behalf OF the reorganization committee.
CHARLES L. SKINNER, of Baltimore, was
disharred from practice rs an
attorney before the Interior Department
at Washington for extortinS Illegal fees.
THE Registrar-General's quarterly return
estimates the present population of Ireland
at i,92i,3i2, showing n great decrease,
which is chiefly owing to emigration To
America.
By u violent storm ut Fargo. OAK, re-
Gently, an iron electric tower, 100 feet high,
was blown down and twisted out of any
semblance of its original appearance.
Many tin roofs and trees in the city were
carried away and great damage done in
the country near Glynndon.
THE Boer Republic of South Africa de-
MES the claims of the British Government
upon st. Lucia Bay and asks Continental
European powers to consider the bay "a
free port.
The incoming Leadville passenger train
due at Denver at 9:3D the other morning
exploded another dynamite cartridge about
two and one-half miles south of Denver.
engine and tender were badly wrecked
and one length of the track was torn up
IT, passengers were uninjured.