The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-17

- 0NHuASNA oA 80
elusive express contract for a long term Of
years with tho Chattanooga, Rome & CO.
lumbus railroad. The acquisition opens
to the company an extremely valuable
territory from Chattanooga to Tallahassee,
Fla.
THE W. iron mills of Graf, Bennett &
Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa, have been sold at
auction at $12O. OOOtO satisfy two mortgages
n for $4,000, held by the New York
Life Insurance Company. and the other
for $lCO,OO, held by local parties. The
property was bought in by a syndicate Of
creditors.
BY treaty with the Sultan Of Zanzibar
Italy has acquired a vast tract of land ON
the east coast Of Africa.
THE Locomotive Brotherhood met at st.
Louis on the 9th to consider the Burlington
strike.
By a collision between two trains at
Darling, o., OH the 9th, one engine and
several cars were ruined, but no one was
hurt.
THE President on the 9th vetoed five
more private pension bills.
THE cattle south of Decatur, ILL.,, have
been quarantined because of an outbreak
of Texas fever.
The Anchor line steamer Alexandria.
which sailed recently for Mediterranean
points, had hardly left her dock in Brook.
Ign when an alteration took place between
two Italian passengers and ono of heI
crew, during which the seaman was
stabbed in the breast and died in less than
two minutes.
JEALOUSY caused Shelby F. Parke, .
wealthy citizen of Perryville, Ind, to shoot
md kill DIR. H. H. PeytOn recently.
TIE Michigan Assembly of the Knights
Of Labor have declared strongly for Henry
Georges land tax theory.
THOMAS HAINEs. defaulting cashier OF
the Atlantic g. North Carolina railway, has
been arrested in Chicago. The amount OF
his theft is not known
THE Volunteer won the race at the annu.
al regatta Of the New York Yacht Club on
the 10th.
AT least fourteen lives have been lost as
q result of the floods in Germany.
THE strike of the navvies in Paris has
ended, the men accepting the terms offered
by their employers.
YELLOW fever has caused a stampede
of the citizens of Jacksonville and other
cities in Florida.
THREE dead bodies were taken out of
the ruins of the recent fire at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
MAXWELL. alias Brooks, was. executed
at ST. Louis on the 10th for the murder of
C.. A. Preller at the Southern Hotel, April
&, 1881. On the same scaffOld with Max
we'll Henry Landgraf persisted for the
murder of his sweetheart, Annie Fisch,
March :. 1855.
THE Tennessee brewery at Memphis was
reported on fire on the 10th. Loss, $685.
OW.
A BRAKEMAN named Jones was seriously
maltreated by a humble Of italians who
insisted on riding in the ladies' coach re-
Gently on the Duluth, South Shore & At
lantic railroad near Marquette, Mich.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended August 9 numbered for
the United States. 205: Canada, %: total,
Dis: compared with pig the previous week
and $50 the corresponding week of last
year.
THE steamer Northern Belle. from Oden,
Mich, reports that a small sail boat, three
coats, hats and photographers outfit Ware
found on the shore at Burt Lake.
CHARLES HENRY RIEDEL was hange. at
New Castle, Del, recently. for the murder
of his wife and child on the night of Sep
TENDER IL. 1881.
THE roads interested in Iowa traffic
have agreed to adopt a new distance tariff
for that State. The rates are considerably
reduced by the new schedule, the object
of the reduction being to harmonize rates
within the State with those on Interstate
traffic.
JAMES /. SrADE, a wealthy merchant
and manager of the Tiffany Glass Com.
pany, was found dead in his apartment,
L Eu---u.u A- -, E:l<,,h .<,.a,
New York, the other morning. His throat
was cut. Various rumOrs were afioat, an
attempt being made to hush the matter up.
ADDITIONAL. DISPATCHES.
AN official bulletin Of the 18th reported
twenty-three cases Of yellow fever a:
Jacksonville, Fla, up to date with three
deaths. Cases were reported at other
cities. A panic prevailed, trains going
north being heavily loaded with refugees.
A FIERCE gale was reported on Lake On
tario on The 18th. The schooner Freeman
was on the rocks at OswesO, n. Y. Storms
were also reported at Reading, Pa, and
] Providence. X. /.
GENERAL Wow MOLTKE has been placed
o. the retired list of the German army.
General Won Waldersee succeeds HIM.
A MASSACRE Of Italian soldiers occurred
recently during an attack on Sagneti in
Abyssinia. All the officers were slain.
The catastrophe was credited to the
~treachery of native auxiliaries, who de-
serted to the enemy.
THE Convent of the Sacred Heart, New
York City, an immense building, was
burned recently. Loss, $:O0, 900: insurance,
$$2OO,OOO.
A NUMBER of Hebrews have been arrest
ed at Fall River, Mass, for dancing o n
Sunday.
A DOUBLE casualty occurred OF the Erie
road, near Port Jervis, n. Y, an express
train running into the wreck Of a freight
and setting it on fire. An engineer was
burned to death and several passengers
and others We're terribly injured. Fred
Gebhardt, of Langtry fame, lost a number
of his valuable race horses.
The Alabama Commissioner Of Agri-
culture and a party have started for q
tour Northwest in Il special car fitted up
with specimens of Alabama products.
CHARLES CROCKER, first ice-president
Of the Southern Pacific railway, was re.
ported lying seriously i'll at Monterey,
CAL, and was expected to die.
Tur Nouafo ON tho 18th furthor d;scussoI