The Red Cloud chief., 1885-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

and the PRESIDENT has accepted 1t. Mr.
Hay has for some time been seriously sick
MISCELLANEsDUS.
THE Westmoreland County .(Pa,) Coal
of $4,000, has failed. The liabilities were
not known, but are heavy.
WHILE unloading the hold of the burned
and sunken propeller Blanchard, at Mil
waukee, James Porter, Michael Farmer and
Dan Sweeney were overcome by the gas
which had been generated in the cargo.
Porter was taken obt dead. The others
were likely to die.
THE officers and crew Of the French gun.
boat Renard, wrecked in the Gulf of Alden
last month, nave been found on an island
near he scene of the disaster.
ANARCHIST Lieske, who murdered Herr
Rumpf, Police Counselor, in January last,
at Frankfort on the Main, was convicted
and sentenced to death.
In the Chicago street car drivers strike
on the LIST. several policemen were injured
and the cars thrown from the track and
overturned by q riotous mob.
An officer committed suicide in Austria
recently by placing himself in front of the
mouth of a cannon and firing it with a
match stick.
CONNECTICUT oystermen were recently
greatly agitated over the report that a de-
structive insect had been at work on their
oyster beds and that of the 10000 bushels
Of seed planted last year about $1,000 have
been destroyed.
UNDER the agreement between Lord
Salisbury and Prince Bismarck, the Ger.
man naval demonstration against Zanzi-
bar has been cOuntermanded. The German
squadron has been ordered to abstain from
all appearances Of hostility.
The public debt statement for June
showed a reduction Of ! ,5O0,O 600.
WHILE Frank Otteo, Minnie Bolton and
two others were on the bay Mt Toronto,
Ont, the other evening in a sail boat a
strong wind sprang up and drifted the
boat out into the lake where it upset and
the two named were drowned.
VERY cold weather was reported from
the southwestern portion of Virginia. On
the Goth of June snow fell in Tazewell
County and ice formed in Wythe County,
The jury at Chicago, in the case of the
Caruso murder found that Azari, Gelardi
and Silvestri were perpetrators Of the
crime, while Bove and Mercurio, their al
legged co-conspirators, were not guilty.
TWENTY villages were ignited by light.
ming and burned in the recent storms in
Austria. Six men wers killed while try.
ing to extinguish the flames.
1T was reported that Lieutenant Davis
had an engagement with the Apaches, in
which he succeeded in killing sixteen and
taking twenty prisoners. The loss Of whites
was not reported.
THE Salisbury Cabinet has decided to en-.
tirely abandon coercion in Ireland and rely
upon the strict administration of the gen.
eral law.
THE following United States District At.
torneys have been appointed: William
Dorsheimer, for the Southern District of
New York; Robert p. Shields, of Ohio, for
the Northern District Of that State; Charles
H. Pearce, of Texas, for the Northern Dis
trict of that State.
The case of Adolph B. Spreckles, charged
with assault to murder N. H. De Young,
proprietor of the San Francisco Chronicle,
ended in a verdict Of not guilty.
In q fight at Stepstone, KY, the other
evening, DR.. James Carter was shot and
seriously wounded and Q negro killed. The
affair grew out of a local option trial.
THE South American Commission recent
ly had an interview with the President of
Chilli. The latter was free and outspoken
in his remarks, saying that he did not be-
lieve In conventions or treaties as making
any great amount OF trade, nor did he want
to give or receive any special favors. The
ports Of Chilli were open to the vessels Of
all foreign nations alike. The President
favored an international silver dollar.
The east, west and north river districts
Of Canton Province, China, were reported
recently. There were many
breaches in the dykes and great loss Of
life.
Mrs. DUDLEY was seut to the Middle
town IN. W insane asylum.
The total number Of new cases Of cholera
reported In the infected districts Of Spain
on the LIST was l,4ss; total number Of deaths,
6a..
MAcKIx, charged with perjury In the
Chicago election frauds, was found guilty.
and sentenced to i've years in the peniten.
tiary.
The other night some Of the militiamea
in the National encampment At Fairmount
Park, Philadelphia, were enjoying them
selves, tossing In . blanket A woman
came along and tool part in the sport, and
was tossed in her turn In . rough and tum. |
bic fashion. The affair ended In the arrest |
Of Captain Curtis, OF the Indianspolis
artillery.
]. G. DAMON, keeper Of general store
in Montreal, Can. has failed with $4,000 |
liabilities and $4,000 assetsL
SfRiKERs In the Cleveland (O.) rolling !
mills forced the enginesrs = hank their
fires on the I'd. Affairs were tArsassning, |
but no other violeace vas attempted.
In answer 10 inquiries from Seats On
cials the Postmaster General has ordered
hat penalty envelopes can not b used 20
co~rreoponAence On State aRaiu. |
when enclosed with matter properly
mailalae in penalty envelopes
vERT heavy rains and foods were ~
ported IN So0theaseern Kansas, ext0ding
Tar west - Stafford Ccaney, whas .
,ycloas wrought some dsmAea. Many
,ridgss and other property v2Sdsseroysd-
Two raiiroed men were rsp@eo1 dFovDed
= LAbstts Csssks = 1sssp0. !