The Red Cloud chief., 1888-09-07
THE NEST.

Denver, Col, ON the 18th. Governor
Evans was made temporary chairman.
THE Papal brief appointing Rev. John
S. Foley Roman Catholic Bishop Of Detroit
has been received by Cardinal Gibbons,
but conservation will not take place before
November.
THE Ninth Indiana district Congression-
al convention has nominated Hon. James
McCabe, of Warren County.
CONGRESSMAN j. G.. BURROWS has been
renominated by the Republicans of the
Fourth Michigan district.
The report from Ashland, Wis. that
work on the Duluth. South Shore & At
lantic railway had been stopped because
of the Presidents retaliatory message is
positively denied by officials.
AN epidemic of malarial OrtyphOid fever
with over twenty-five deaths and seventy
five sick persons is raging at Caldwell, ..
NEBRASKA Democrats have nominated
Hon. Johl A. McShane for Governor.
The Union Labor party of Kansas
has nominated r. T. Elder, of Ottawa, for
Governor.
TROUBLE is brewing on the ShoshOne
reservation. Fremont County. Wyo. T.
The Sioux visitors of the ArapahOes are at
the bottom of Inc trouble. Two white
men We're found dead near the Rattle
snake mountains on the reservation, where
they were doubtless murdered by the
Sioux, who dOnned war paint after being
ordered of the Shoshone reservation.
FIRE at Lancaster. Wis, recently de-
strOyed eight business houses and their
contents. causing $4,000 loss.
\. J. TnoCKMORToN, nephew of eX-Gov-
ernor Thockmorton. of Texas, committed
suicide in n cheop lodging house in Denver
recently. Cause. liquor and lack of money.
\ HORTAGE of =. I90 has been found in
the accounts Of the late City Treasurer
McGeochen, of Lafayette, Ind, who died
recently.
C.. ]. CosGnOvE and c. W. Gerard have
been nominated for Congress by the Dem.
ocrats of the First and Second Ohio dis.
tricts respectively.
GEORGE W. Cox was hanged at San An
dreas. Cal. on the 3lst, for the murder of
his %son-in-law, Henry g. Cook, last No
vember. Cox manifested the utmost in
difference as t. his fate.
GREAT excitement exists at Howard. D.
T., brought out by the finding Of gold dust
thickly mixed with sand thrown from an
excavation which workmen were digging
for we'll purposes. Old miners pronounced
the find a very promising one.
FIVE cowboys are reported to have been
drowned by a cloudburst just west of
Pixies Peak, in Colorado. They were
sleeping in the dry bed of q stream at the
time.
MISS Lillian DEPLEY, of st. Paul, MIMI,
aged about fourteen years, is reported to
have eloped with her fathers ~cOachman,
William Stewart, a burly negro.
A from San Francisco says:
Three steamship lines, which have been
competing for the China trade, hav
formed a pool on -four rates. Their agents
have notified shippers that hereafter the
schedule rate would be - per ton to China,
and that this figure will be a fixture.
AT Cygnet, o., recently, a 5000 barrel
oil tank exploded and the oil scattered in
all directions, killing two persons and in
juring a nnmber of others.
FIR.D's Biscuit and Cracker Company Mt
San Francisco has made an assignment.
The liabilities are estimated at Sl09.OU,
and assets at about SlJD,U00.
The other morning fire broke out in the
American House at West Superior, Wis,
and did 5000 damage before it vas extin-
guishesi. Three men were burned to death.
The fire was caused by the explosion Of a
lamp in a occupied by drunken
dodgers.
The great sugar and syrup house Of
Samuel Bliss & Co, Chicago, has made an
assignment.
FIRE broke out on the I'd in the town Of
The Da!lss, Ore, and soon destroyed two
blocks. The total loss was $4,000; par
TALLY insured.