The Red Cloud chief., 1886-03-05

The senate COMMITTEES on Indian AZ
fairs reported favorably Hr. Dawes bill n
amend the az. for the sale Of the Sac and
Fox and Kiowa Indian re~serv III Kan.
sas and Nebraska.
The House Committee on Indian Affairs
has instructed Chairman WelIborn 10 re-
port favorably bills granting right Of way
through the Indian Territory to the For:
Scott & Kansas, Fort Worth & Denver,
Kansas a. Arkansas Valley, and Kansas
City. Fort Scot, & Calf railroads.
{. N. FKEID, general merchant Of Darda.
nellie. Ark, failed recently. Liabilities,
$JO,OJU: assets not given.
K g.. DUNS 4 Co. report business failures
for week ended February - as follows:
United States. ga; Canada, -; total. 2&s;
against M last week and 70 the week pre-
vious. More han half Of the failures 90
CURED in the West and South.
THE New York Senate has passed tho bill
ceding to the United States jurisdiction
over the Drexel cottage at Mt. Mcjregor
in which General Grant died.
The strike at the Mccormick reaper
works at Chicago ended by the majority Of
the hands %repudiating the Knights Of La
Dor and seeking a conference with the
managers OF the firm.
TIE Ealambrosia skating rink at Troy.
". Y, was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Loss, SlJO.Oo. Loss 10 other buildings
amounted to $500.
\ FATHER PoiSr, Quebec, dispatch Of the
9Th says: The worst Snov: storm in
twelve years is now raging. Twenty-Five
inches of snow has fallen in twenty-four
hours, and the snow j. ten feet deep IN
places.
TIE Houston. Tex savings bank sUs-
pended on the 2Gta. Deposits amounted to
about $1,000; capital stock. Sl0J.Ou. II
was not known what shape the assets
were in.
\ Young man named Parker was re
Gently seriously poisoned at Columbus,
Ga, by eating an apple after he had kept
il in his Goa: pocket along with some
st%rychnine he was using 10 poison crows
on his farm.
THE clearing house returns for week
| ended February =. shove an average in
crease of .a6. In New York the increase
was $40.
GEORGE f. GRAHAM. the bigamist and
horsc-thief. who WAS recently accused at
Springfield. Mo, Of the murder Of his first
wife, has confessed and given "a detailed
account of the terrible crime. He lays his
misfortunes to tine neglect OF good training
early in life.
The other evening as Hugh Oliver, aged
tw~enty-three. an employe OF the Evans
Vile Ind) Electric Light Company, was
a -. --.I. a,r.a- an thA ..nr.
dynauo- with his right hand, the screw
slipped, and e~ndeavorinS to catch it he
placed his left hand also on the dynamo,
causing the electric current Of 1900 candle
power to pass through and kill him.
A DISPATCH from Oil City, Pa. says: The
Derr;ck's field report of the February oil
operations shows 30 completed wells. 3,.32
barrels of new production, - dry holes.
20 rigs and ;s}1 drilling wells. This is an
increase over January of 10 wells, 515 bar
rels of new production, Is rigs and IL drill
ing wells.
ALL the miners in the Aveyron district,
France. numbering $50, nave threatened
to join the strike of workmen there. The
project of the department has teleSraphed
to VI. Sarrien. Minister of the Interior, for
achievements of troops.
GOVERNOR MCENEIY has decided that the
execution of Pat Ford and John Murphy
shall take place at New Orleans on Friday,
:Iarch IL.
THE pension payments during February
were about 81 ,00.on.
THE Italian Senate by a vote Of 81 to 6 has
adopted a bill to equalize the land tax.
THE municipal authorities of Paris have
that the name Of the Deity he g
plunged from children's books issued by
the metropolitan school committee.
ASASTA FE N. NJ special of the 18th
SAYS: Steven Purple, Lee Ham5lctt, Kid
Wilson and Robert Holt, charged with the
of the three Mexican sheep herdc-s
in the Calico canyon, have been arrested
are in custody at Bloomfield. These
are the men for whose arrest the Govern
mcnt offered q reward of 800.
\ DARN robbery was committed ct
Tex. the other night. While
the clerks in William Cameron 4 Co.'S Of
were posting up the books three masked
men entered. and covering the clerks with
proceeded To rob the store and
Of about Sl.:a. As soon as they
one of the clerks. named Coker, fired
shots after the retiring men, one OF
whom was struck and instantly killed.
The lead rOl.bcr Lad none of the stolen
money in his possession.