The Red Cloud chief., 1886-02-05

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adopted resolutions calling for tie tn
mediate suspension Of the coinage OF silver
dollars.
suspended payment On claims of all kinds
ON the 9Th. A deficit Of $50, 90 exists in
The various State funds. especially in the
school fund. The cause was due to the ex-
cessiye reduction Of taxation by The last
Legislature.
RossRY MALLOxT. OF the Mallory Steam
ship Line, denies hal: his company vio-
lated the Galveston agreement with the
Knights Of Labor.
THE Attorney General sent . letter 20 TIE
Senate on the 10Th in answer TO the re.oiu-
ton calm. for nj, the documents and ps-
per in relation to the management and
conduct Of the Office Of the United States
Attorney for the Southern District OF Ala
bsma. The particular information Asked
for was refused.
TIN t~wenty-fftn anniversary OF the a!-
mission OF karsas into the Union wa ce.e
brated a. Topeka On the Goth.
KuSIrZKY BEsDoycg, justice OF pear.
Setrrsx Yusky and Oszowsky, recently
condemned to death for belonging 20 n
Polish socialistic revolutionary association
styled the Proletariat, we're executed a.
Warsaw on the 18th.
FIRE originated the other night in TIM
Ryan Drug Company's building at ST. Paul,
MINI. Tnc loss footed up $500; fairly
insured.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has issr,"i
q call for the redemption Of bonds Of tire
3 per cent. loan Of 1882. Tine principal ard
accrued interest will be paid at the Tress-
ury OF the United States i'm Washington,
March |, Isst, and the interest will cease
on that day.
The business failures occurring through
out the country for the seven DAYS ended
the 2sth numbered for the United States,
2I2; Canada, "a. total, 2s9; compared with
80 tine week previous.
ARSENIC was recently placed in the tea
pot of Mrs. Mcconnell, at Davenport,
Iowa, and the whole family Of seven were
poisoned, some fatally.
THE Delaware q Hudson locomotive en-
gineers, who are members of the Brother
hood OF Locomotive Engineers and Knights
OF Labor recently refused to haul cars at
Troy, N. Y, because the goods contained
in them were bOycotted. Trouble Was ex-
pected to grow out Of the affair. II an en-
ginecr was discharged oil the others, it was
said. would strike.
THIRrY-YIvE thousand acres of land were
inundated recently by the breaking Of .
dam at Roberts Island, near Stockton, Cal.
Six houses in the Holloway road, Ion
don, collapsed tine other day. Five passers-
by were instantly killed and q number of
others were injured.
The count of the coin in the sub-treasury
at New York has been completed and
shows that the vaults contain five cents
more than the books call for.
AMERICAN railway securities were in
good demand on the London Exchange.
A FIRE broke out the other night in the
building occupied by the clerks employed
in examining the records of the medical
and hospital department OF the army at
Washington, but was cxtinguished before
any great damage was done.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
January 90 bowed an average increase OF
80 compared with the corresponding week
of last year. In New York the increase
was 4S7.
AT Telluride. Col, the other morning a
snowslide demolished four cabins at The
Sheridan mine, burying twenty-five men
under seventeen feet of snow. -Four men
were killed and two fatally injured.
A FIRE broke out recently in the four
story brick building owned by =. and q.
Lindsey at Orange, n. j. The loss was
estimated mt 100000.
THE engine house at the head OF Masonry
Planes. near SHENANDOAH. Pa, took fire
early the other morning and Mas totally
destroyed. The massive engine md ma
chincry were totally wrecked, and several
weeks will be required to repair tie dam
age. The loss to the Philadelphia & Read
ing Railway Company is $4,000.
FOUB unknown men attempted TO cross
the river 20 the Kentucky side in Il skiT,
near Evansville, Ind, the other day. The
river was full of gorged ice, making cross
ing very difficult. About midway across
they encountered a heavy foe, which
crushed the boat, and all the four men
were drowned.
ABOUT one mile Of the side Of Scrsper
mountain. near Sterling. Ala, fell into the
Chattanooga river recently. There WAS no
loss OF life or property, but the crash was
something awful, creating great cOnsterna-
ton.
THE House Committee on Public Lands
has agreed to n bill forfeiiing the land
grant OF the Atlantic & Pacific railroad.