The Red Cloud chief., 1888-07-20

A TERRIBLE storm was reported on the
New England coast on the night Of the
18th. Many wrecks occurred, accompanied
with loss Of life.
THE crop prospects in India are said to
be improving with the cessation Of the
drought. All fear Of famine has passed
away except In Orrissa, where the drought
| still prevails.
A DISPATCH from Cape Town, Africa,
| of the 18th says that the Zeebers coal
mine at Kimberly had caught fire and five
hundred miners were entombed and
thought to have persisted.
HENRY NJ. IVES has been indicted by the
| Hamilton County TO- grand jury. What
tho ofYense MAS tho court authorities re-
| fused to tell.
NICHOLAS VERREs Smith, son.in-law of
the late Horace Greeley, was . prisoner in
tho Yorkville IN. W court recently,
| charged by John Allen, proprietor of the
| Hotel Hamilton, Of defrauding him out of
| $3l5, the amount Of his bill for board and
lodging for his wife and family.
JOHN ZACHAR, the Caledonia (Wis.) al.
! legged faster, after an abstention from food
| for fifty three days, is reported to have
| again started his feed mill.
FRED REMINGTON, an artist on Harper's
Weekly, who had been sketching mountain
scenery, took morphine recently with sui
cidal intent, and died at Trinidad, Col.
Unrequited love was thought to have
caused the rash act.
GOVERNOR MOREHOUsE gave Maxwell,
who was to nave been hanged at st. Louis
ON the 18th for the murder of Preller, .
respite of thirty days, but refused any
communication of sentence.
A DUEL between Minister FlOquet and
General BOulanger occurred near Paris Oh
the 18th. The General was quite seriously
wounded in Ike neck. FlOquet was only
scratched.
MCHUGH, mayor of Sligo, Ireland, and
editor of the Sligo Champion, was arrested
recently IN a charge of publishing land
grabbing articles which advocated intimi.
datiOn and melted to violence. He was re.
leased on bail.
JOSEPH WELLS and his twin sister, Mrs.
Margaret Kelly. while returning to their
home in TOmlinsOn, near Little Rock, Ark.
in a buggy. attempted to ford a stream
when they We're caught in the current and
drowned. The bodies were recovered.
Mrs. RAwSON. who attempted to kill At
tOrney Whitney in u court room in Chi
cagO some time ago, has been released on
bail.
TERRIBLE suffe ring is reported in the
lOwlands Of West Virginia as a result Of
the recent floods. Over so persons are in
need of the necessaries of life.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended July II number for
the United States. PIG; Canada, -; total
24O: compared with 2l4 the previous week
and 11y the corresponding week last year.
THE residence of the Queen of Servia
was raided by German police at Wies-
baden OH the 18th and the Grown Prince
fOrcibly taken from her. Much sympathy
was expressed for her ON account of this
harsh proceeding.
CHIEF PIAH, the once notorious chief of
the renegade Utes in North Park, Col, has
ended his career by suicide. The old In
dat shot himself IN the old Navajo trail,
about ~thirty-six miles sOuth of the agency,
about six weeks agO
THERE were rumOrs at Helena, Mont, on
the 18th that IN eastern bound passenger
train went through the Rosebud river
bridge, on the Northern Pacific, and that
thirty persons were drowned.
Two hundred natives and twenty five
whites we're killed in the recent mine dis
aster at Kimberly, South Africa.
The mail train east On the Pennsylvania
railroad struck and instantly killed Mrs.
James Crusan and her n~ine-year-Old
daughter Annie near LatrObe, Pa, re-
Gently.
The window glass workers and manu-
f%acturers of the East have compromised on
last years. scale with the understanding
that the two should work together to regu-
late prices. II
DILLON, GRANT & Co, retail dry goods
merchants Of Louisville, KY, have as
signed with S25,OO liabilities.
THE journal de st. Petersburg denies
that the Russian Government is about q
issue another loan.