The Red Cloud chief., 1885-11-20
MISCELLANEOCS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
THE backbone Of the strike among the
miners at Shawnee, o., was broken by sew
eral Of the companies giving the advance
asked.
THE scaffolding OF the new iron bridge
at Keithsburg, H., fell into the river the
other day, and Patrick Conway, Jamas
McCanna and John Olsen were buried un-
der the debris in he bottom OF the river.
All lived in the East. Two others were
seriously injured.
ADvICEs from Melbourne say that no
credence was given there to the report that
the natives of FLY River murder d all the
members of the Sydney Geographical As
sociation's expedition t. New Guinea
THE charge of indecent assault preferred
against Editor Stead and others in the
Armstrong Gaze in London ended in n ver-
dict OF guilty and they were sentenced as
follows: Stead, three months; Rehecca
Jarrett, six months: Sampson jacques,
one month; all without hard labor; and
Madame Louise Morey, six months with
hard labor.
THE thief Of the Bureau of Statistics re-
ported that during the ten month: ended
October 81 last, there was exported from
the United States 4,5.o22.63i gallons Of
mineral oils valued at 81, joS, i2i; the ex-
port during n similar period last year
amounted to iia,9.9,,2 gallons valued at
Sio,i6 ,02j.
GEORGE j.. PRAYER, express agent, tele-
phone agent and postmaster at Glencoe,
Ont, has absconded, taking with him be-
tween six and seven thousand dollars. He
took a woman with him, leaving his wife
i'm destitute circumstances.
THE court martial selected to try Lieu
tenant Colonel Sneathen. OF the Eighteenth
Regiment for conduct p~rejudicial to mill
tary discipline in purchasing pay warrants
at a discount from men during the State
encampment at Lake C%onneaut, convened
in Pittsburgh. Pa. on the 10th.
FoRTY-SEvEN stowaways were recently
discovered in the hold OF a vessel which
was about to sail for America from Glas-
gov.
MICHAEL MYERS, one of the jurors in
the famous Walkup poisoning case at En-.
poria, Kan, dropped dead of heart dis
ease at his home near Neosho Rapids. Mr..
Myers WdS OHe " u SIX III it'u wiz
voted from first to last for Mrs. Walkup's
acquittal. He was about forty.six years
of age.
FORTY persons were affected recently at
Chattanooga, Tenn, by drinking water
from a well, which, it was thought, had
been poisoned.
FORD and Murphy, Of New Orleans, who
were sentenced to be hanged on November
Ii. for the murder of Captain Murphy.
have been granted a respite for thirty days
by the Governor.
THE committee which had been arb;trat-
ing between the Knights of Labor and the
adopted a resolution recommending that
Agent Sawyer. whenever he needs labor.
give the preference to the men who were
at work on the wharf at the time Of the
strike.
SIXTY students Of the Ohio Wesleyan
University, at Delaware, near Cleveland,
o.. recently attended the opera house to
witness a production Of Richard ILL.," by
Fred Warde. They did SO in violation Of
a rule Of the institution, for which min
students were suspended for the remainder
of the term, the other ffty-one being com.
PEELED to sign an agreement not to repeat
the offsnse.
The n.Americans recently ex.
| PEELED from the island Of Foehry Schleswig
have also been ordered to leave Prussia.
Two naturalized Americans. natives Of
Tarp aud Schottenburg. have also been or
dered to leave, one by the eud OF Novem-
Der, and the other by the end of the year.
THE Washington express on the .Balti
more & Ohio Railroad, going west. went
over an embankment near Collinsville, Pa,
the other morning aud was badly wrecked.
Congressman Boyle. of Fayette County.
and fifteen Others were seriously injured.
The clearing house returns for week
ended November : showed an average in.
crease of &S6 compared with the corre-
spending week Of last year In New YORK
the increase was 6s.a.
An explosion of gas occurred at the Pine
iron works village near Reading. Pa. re-
Gently. Jeremiah Zimmerly, William Eagle
and William Baughber were Ir~isntfully
burned
A DIsPArc from Washington saws: The
court martial at Fort Myer, which tried
eighteen signal service meu on charges Of
naturalization. founda all guilty and sen.
fenced them to be publicly reprimanded BY
the Chief Signal Ohicer. II is said that
the Court was satisfied that the o1ense
vas due to ignorance OF military Law.
TaK japanese Postal Commission &C.
companied by the japanese Minister, called
1t the Post-o6iee Department, Washing.
ton, on the 18th. They were received BY
First Assistant Postmaster General Stew.
enson. who explained the American sys.
tenn and escorted them through the vaIi.
Gus bureaus Of the departmenk