The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-24

TIE Governor of Queensland, in opening
Parliament recently, announced that he
would support the Canadian Pacific cable
The Senate Committee on Military has
authorizes its chairman to prepare q bill
| givip & to the Major-General Of the army
all the rights. privileges and powers that
haii been enjoyed by the General and
Ii euteaant-G General of the army when
t'Aose offices existed.
THE Supreme Court of Washington Ter.
risssy has decided the law granting sui.
lht4Re to women unconstitutional. The
IErcands for the opinion were based on the
fact that tho Legislature exceeded its
powers. The court took the ground that
the word ''citizen" in the organic act can
not mean any thing else h male citizen,
l IT is reported that the Cheyenne Indians
( IRE ready to sign h treaty for the open
/ ing of the great Sioux reservation in
1 Dakota.
THE worlds convention of Y. NJ. C. A
opened at Stockholm, Sweden, on the 18th.
The officers reported an astonishing growth
Of the association.
GENERAL BOULANGER arrived at Able
Vile on the 10th and went to the ceme-
terry for the purpose of putting a wreath
upon the tomb of Admiral COurbet. He
was accompanied by q large party, but the
police at the entrance to the cemetery
would not allow them to go In with the
General and he was compelled to enter
| alone. Upon leaving the cemetery he ad-
| dressed the crowd which had gathered.
| A row followed and gems d'armes dis
persed the rioters.
RECENT stories of trouble between the
Hatfield and Mccoy gangsin Pike County,
KY, are positively denied.
REPORTS to the Ner England Homestead
from 134 correspondents, covering the fruit
growing regions of New England, New
York and Michigan, show an enormous
yield of grapes in all sections, a remark
ably short crop of pears of all varieties, q
full crop of peaches in Delaware, Michigan
and other sections.
THE temperature at st. Vincent, Minn.,
on the 18th fell to 80 degrees, the iirst kill
ing frost of the season.
Two children Of Jacob Schwane, a farm
er living neal Greenfield, Mich, were
burned to death recently during the alb
sence Of their parents.
ALEXANDER WOOD was hanged at Black
foot, Idaho, on the 18th for the murder Of
his wife.
A TERRIBLE race war is reported from
Iberia Parish, La. On the 10Th the whites
mustered in force and killed thirteen ne.
grOes who refused to lay down their arms
and surrender. One white man, e. X.
Smith, vas killed.
SECRETARY WHITNEY, has ordered Ad.
miral Luce, commander of the South At.
lantic squadron, to proceed in the Galena
to Port-au-Prince, as the presence of an
American man.of-war is needed there.
In the cases Of the naval cadets, who
were recently tried by court-martial at
Annapolis for hazing, found guilty and
sentenced to dismissal, the President has
modified and committed the sentences to
confinement for thirty days and a depri.
walton of One.half of the annual leave.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended August 16 numbered for
the United States, 1877; Canada, 32; total,
2l9; compared with 2S3 the previous week
and l61 the corresponding week of last year.
The next meeting of the National Fire.
mems Association will be held at Kansas
City, Mo-, September II, X year.
THE American Bar Association, recently
in session at Saratoga, n. Y. elected David
Dudley Field, Of New York, president.
Among the vice-presidents elected was
General Harrison, the Republican Pres
idential nominee.
TIE twenty-fifth anniversary of the
founding Of the Brotherhood of Locomotive |
Engineers was celebrated in Detroit on the
18th with 1900 members present. Chief |
Arthur presided. |
THE strike of the navvies of Paris has |
collapsed for lack of funds.
THE wheelhouse Of the powder mill at
Windsor, Province Of Quebec, Can, was
up the other day and two men
THE petrified tusk of a mastOdon. meas
uring Ii feet, . inches. has been found on q
farm near Bismarck, Oak.