The Red Cloud chief., 1885-11-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE stage from Abilene, Tex. was
robbed by masked highwaym"n the other
night, and the mails carried away. The
driver was made 10 hand over his express
packages at the point OF the rifle.
1T was rumored i'm Raogoon that a rev.
olution had broken out at Mandalay and
that King Thebaw had been murdered.
RELEASED polygamists in Utah declare
their intentions t. keep their covenants
hereafter secretly. President Taylor.
Cannon and other heads of the Church
were reported to be still i'm hiding.
THE steamer Plowboy, n small packe:
engaged in the transportation business be-
tween Keokuk, Iowa, and Warsaw, H..
and Alexandria, Mo-, burned at the wharf
at keokuk the other night. Loss. $1,000.
In the Ferd. Ward trial at New York, on
the 18th, ex-Banker Fish continued ais
damaging testimony against Ward. FISH
laid all his troubles to Ward and said il he
were not such a contemplate, bypocritical
sneak he would nave killed him.
THE case of the State against Samuel {.
Schaeffer, charged at Kansas City with
obtaining money from John l. Blair. of
Blairstown, n. j.. by "A cheat and a fraud.
was concluded on the eth by the jury
finding the defendant guilty and fixing his
punishment at eight years in the State
penitentiary. The trial of the cause &C.
cupied over three weeks. The affair orici-
mated over the sale Of land.
THE ship building trade on the Clyde is
generally depressed. Over - per cent.
of the workmen are out of employment.
Soup kitchens have been opened to relieve
the sufferings of the poor.
A from Rio Janeiro says that
the Empress of Brazil had fallen down a
staircase aud broken her arm. Her Ma
jesty's condition causes much alarm.
THE rumor telegraphed recently that a
revolution had broken out at Manialav
and King Thebaw had been murdered was
not true.
THE steamship Great Eastern WAS re-
Gently sold at public auction at London for
fs6, 100.
ABOUT 80 feet of the bridge of the Pleas
ant Vale & Atlantic City N. j. Turnpike
Company fell recently while about fifty
people were on it. Many were thrown
into the water. but none were drowned.
The cause of the accident was the eating OF
the piling by worms until it was honey
combed.
THE schedules in the assignment OF Sout.
ter n CO.. of New York. show liabilities of
81, ,l2.25S. of which S955. 30 are secured
and S.56.4.. unsecured. The assets are
nominally worth SlS2.0.a, and actually
worth Sl.3,9la.
EDWARD STOKES, Of New York, and
William King, Of Minnesota. ex-Pcs;masier
Of the National House of Representatives,
are about to build a telegraph line from
st. Louis 30 Duluth. The estimated cos.
OF the plant is placed at $1,000 and e pur-
ton OF the construction is expected 10 BE-
done this year.
TEMPORARY c~oercive laws have been
published in the official Gazette a. Copen-
hagen and a force of military and police
have been formed to assist the civil au.
thorities in carrying the laws into effect.
THE Servian Government has replied TO
the collective note OF the powers and re-
fuses 10 disarm Servian troops until ehe
equilibrium in the Balkans has been re-
stored. The Government was aRgrr be-
cause the Balkan conference is to be held
at Coustantiuople instead of Vienna CT
Pes:h.
A from Madrid confirms the
recent statement tina. the Ainsricau Cor.
ernment has intimaeed 20 Spain if tue lat
tsr's sovereignty Of the Caroline Islands
is recognized the American Protestant
mission mus, be respected And freedom of
religion permitted.
NJ. DE FREYCINET, the French Minister
of Foreign Affairs, was shot At in Paris re-
Gently by . man supposed 70 be q Corsican-
He was uninjured. The would.be assas-
sin, on being arrested. claimed his motives
were not political. It Vas thought he was
. ~lunatic.
A. J. BURNS, . young man, shot and seri-
ously wounded two young women. sisters,
in the hallway Of r. G.. Dunn's Office. Chi.
cago, recently. He had been discharged
for insulting the sisters md took this mode
Of revenge.
The conspiracy to murder Mrs. Nellen.
for which Mrs. Coolidge wa placed under
arrest in Boston recently, was alleged 70
b Q huge schem. Of h,ackmaiL