The Red Cloud chief., 1886-08-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

A TELEGRAM has been received from Lon
don by Mr.. Dodge, statistician of the De
partment OF Agriculture. stating that the
shortage OF wheat IN Great Britain for the
present year was estimated at $1,000, 0Gi
bushels.
THE Acting Secretary Of the Treasury
Fairchild, has issued another call Cor So,
600, 90 3 per cent. bonds To mature on DC
tober | next.
a SPECIAL from Sandusky, o., says: A dis
astrous incendiary fire occurred in the Mas
sillon Steel Works, built in 1872 at u cost oi
$2U0,O1. No insurance.
THE Lewiston IMe.) Steam Mill Company
has made an assignment, with Sl,61S,UU
liabilities and assets unknown.
JAMES SCOTT, a fisherman, Of Lewiston
attempted to swim the whirlpool rapids al
Niagara Falls on the 10Th in a cork suit.
His dead body was picked up at lewiston
an hour later.
County, Wis. ten thousand acres of Gran
berry marsh and timber and were burned.
Many farm houses were burned and stock
DESTROYED.
OK the 10Th two more bombs, one gas
pipe and one round, were discovered on
the Lake Shore tracks at the stock yards
~" Chicago, and taken TO police head,
quarters.
a DISPATCH received ut the War Depart
ment states that Geronimo, with forty In
dams, Is e~ndeavoring to make peace with
Mexican authorities on the Mexican from.
tier:
JrDsoN 4 Co, carpet dealers in Chicago.
have made an assignment. with Ss5,OOO liza,
bilitIes and assets of $i1.OO.
THE Swiss Bundesrath has adopted strin
gent measures to prevent the importation
OF cholera from Italy.
HUNDREDS Of sparrOws were killed BY hail
at Carlyle, ILL.,, recently.
Ten thousand pilgrims arrived at Lourdes
on the Goth from various cities in France.
Eight hundred cures of invalids were au-
nounced.
The trial OF the anarchists, at Chicago.
after lasting several weeks. ended in the
following verdict: We, the jury, find
the defendants, August Spies, Michael
Schwab. Samuel Fielder. A. II. Parsons.
Adolph Fischer. George Engel and Louis
LingX guilty Of murder aud conspiracy rs
charged in the indictment. and fix the
penalty a. death. We also find Oscar
Neebe guilty OF murder in the manner
charged in the indictment and fix the pen
atty at fifteen years imprisonment"
TUE North German Gazette, of Berlin, states
that Prof. Brackenbush, the German ex-
plorer. has made O large annexation Of
territory in parts Of Patagonia in the name
of Germany.
The Weymouth (Mass.) Iron Company.
nail manufacturers. stopped payment on
the 10th. The trouble was hcought about hv
losses caused by the flood las, spring and
the suspension OF the Bridgexater Irou
Company. Liabilities, &:ua.G0o; assets the
same.
Tns newspapers Of the couutry generally
expressed satisfaction with the verdict
against the anarchist prisoners at Chicago.
4 gale r2vssed GalvestsR on the
Goth Six lives ~refc reported lost
TuEES will be . monster sociSlistie con
ventios in Auburn, X. V. in the middle of
September. at which. it Is expected over
~. "a socialists from all parts III the c0tiu-
try Wl, BE in attendance.
THE Ceasral Traffic Associates, has or
dcred the ahrogstiou 81 switching charge.
ef $40 p~r . on grain T;.is wiH lower
the tax - the storage of grain IN e1e~
fog short periods ia Chicago.
FORTY hoasss were burned recently IN
EousS St. Augustine. France
4 y hxi storm, visited Hancock.
Me. recently. Many windows uerr trok-u
and TIE crops wsre seriously damaged
The next day was 80 cooi tkat tae hail
which lad gathered in the cutters did not
melt.
lSFoRNAfioN has been received at Tomb
S:on-. ARK. hat Captain LA~son ani
Lieutenant: GatewoSd wou!I De hom. from
Sonora ia q fsw days LAYTON found no
Indians in the SiA ra Madres. Those seen
recently at Frou,eA - no doubt doubled
back between the ca nvNnds of Law ton
and Gatewood. Grass assi water AT. now
plentiful everywhere in r., ,Hn.=ins
ne has0ies - Gs4so About 80
Their p.casa,.