The Red Cloud chief., 1885-08-07
MISCEIIANEDCC.

Cooley, Lovague * Co., Of Duluth, and
plying between Duluth and Port Arthur,
sprung a leak on the 18th and sank near
Susick Island. All the passengers and
crew were saved. She was valued at SD
900 and was fully insured.
DUEL between ". Il. " alker and Sam
ucl J. Dalton, az Aberdeen, Miss, was
frustrated recently by the arrest of the
parties at Starkville. They were on their
way to Memphis to arrange for a fight.
ONE hundred female employees in the
weaving department of the cotton mills at
Evansville, Ind, struck the other day on
account of n reduction OF IL per cent. in
their wages.
The other evening, during a heavy thun-
der storm, lightning struck the house Of W.
j. Rains, at Loyeiady, Tex. Six children.
playing on the veranla, were Frustrated
by the shock, one Of whom died. Two
others were in a critical condition and
could hardly survive. Mrs. Rains was
severely Frustrated.
THE clerks in the Fourth Auditors Office
at Washington were dismissed on the 18th
for various causes. Their places were filled
by transfers from other Offices.
r. X. MILLS, Secretary of the Iowa Lee
gion of Honor, his daughter and her friend.
Miss Hull, were drowned in the Cedar
River, about fourteen miles below Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, the other morning.
A FIRE broke out in Williams & Co.'S
planning mill at Memphis, Tenn, recently,
burning that building together with I,OoD,-
600 feet of lumber; also the warehouse, and
w. y. Wilkerson * Co.'S warehouse, two
brick residences on Gayoso street, Sale,
Cole Co.'S warehouse on the corner of
GayoSo and fernando streets, and eight
small dwellings,. Total loss about SlaJ, 000;
| one-thiri insured.
THE United States Consul ut penia,
Spain, reported To the State Department
at Washington 10y cable that cholera had
been officially declared at that port.
The rate of postage on letters from the
United States TO Australia AMI New Zea-
land via England, Brindisi and the Suez
Cana! has been reduced from II to L. cents,
making it uniform with the rate via San
Francisco.
a DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred ut Manns-
vile, n. V, the other morning. Every
store in town, nine dwellings and the
Church of the Disciples were burned.
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The committee appointed to inquire into
the disclosures recently made 10y the Pail
.WaH Gd=ette reported the charges Of i'm
morality against the rich classes of London
as substantially true.
Ben SIMPSON, the United States Marshal
Of Kansas, was reported to have sent in his
resignation.
A soUrH-BoUND passenger train on the
Chicago a indianapolis Air Line division
of the Louisville, New Albany Il Chicago
Railroad, when rounding a curve a mile
north of Delphi, Ind, ran into a drove of
cattle. Baggagemaster Robinson was badly /
hurt and eight head of cattle were killed.
There were fifty passengers aboard, none
of whom were hurt.
EXTENSIVE frauds have been discovered
in the accounts of the Munster Bank Ire
land). Mr.. Farquharson. one of the joint
managers of the Dublin branch. is missing
with $4,000 of the banks funds.
THE employees Of the Westinghouse Air
Brake Company. at Pittsburgh, Pa, have
been notified that their wages will be re-
duced from ) per cent. in some instances 10
So per cent in others. The average re-
duction is - per cent.
I'll people of Huesca, Spain. nave risen
in revolt against the execution of the ex.
else laws. The rioting was serious. The
enraged people attacked the office of the
excise collector and burned it 10 the
ground.
II other evening the Brownwood AMI
Cisco tTex.( stage was robbed a mile and
a half south Of Cisco by two mounted men.
RECEIVER Brown, OF Brown. Bonner &
Co., at Youngstown, o., has signed an
agreement 10 pay the AmalSamated Asso-
cations scale OF prices. The works en-
ploy 1900 men.
In the whole of Spain on the aath there
were reported 3,l6S new cases of cholera
and LESS deaths.
TERRIBLE and destructive storms. ac-
companied by thunder and lightning. nave
prevailed over the southern provinces of
France. In Rodez. the capital Of the
province OF Aveyon. lightning set fire To
the priests Sc m!nary.
SECRETARY BaYARD received a di-pa:ch
from the United States Consul at Mar
settles on the 3oth saying tha: the recent
report Of an outbreak of cholera in France
Was unfoundei. 4.
JEROME r. MANNING. an attorney. has
been disharred from prac;iciug before the q,
Co1rt Of Alabama Claims for alleged inso.
lence "a the court. !,
MAID = trotted a mile in 2:OSa AZ Cleve {
land. o.. on the Soth, the quickest mile /,
ever made.
sixty Russian criminals, who had been ,
10 exile N Siberia recently, /.
while an ronte rose against their guards
and, although Unarmed. began a desperate f,
fight for liberty. Tts battle lasted a long a
time and the soldiers were absolutely I'M
able 10 conquer their ma nacled assailanfs. c
Twenty of the corvlcts were snot dead T
and of the other forty thirty succeeded in .
their escape q