The Red Cloud chief., 1888-09-14

A HoRrA Of $4,000 or more has been
found in the account of Secretary List, Of
the DuckwOrth Building Association Of
Cincinnati. He attempted suicide.
The telegraph operators Of the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Com
pany have been ordered to leave b order
Of railway telegraphers or their positions
EIGHT men were terribly injured. sOms
fatally, by the explosion Of the boiler OF a
threshing machine at Glendale. Oak, re-
Gently.
A RAILROAD wreck near Dion, France,
on the 9th resulted in twelve persons being
killed and thirteen seriously injured.
THE spinners in the Narrngansett mills,
Fall River, Mass, have struck because
compelled to work overtime to make up fol
time lost.
JUDGE NEY, of " aterloo, under the Iowa
PrOhibitory law, decides that a man can
not lawfully manufacture cider for use in
his own family, and instructs the grand
jury to indict if they find that such a thing
has been done.
By the explosion of a steam thresher neal
Seymour, Ind. the other day, one man was
killed and three fatally injured.
ALMOST the entire business portion of the
village of Jennings. La. has been de-
stroyed by fire, causing $50.OOG loss.
FROST, which did much damage to crops,
was reported in New England on h 9Th.
THE ~spinners in the cotton mills at Boil
ton, England have struck against a new
system Of weighing cotton.
MAYOR HEWITT, of New York City. has
issued an appeal for aid for the yellow
fever sufferers at Jacksonville. Fla.
AT MilbrOos, Ark, election day, it is
claimed, the negroes attempted to steal
the ballot box, and finding the whites on
guard gave them a volley and fed. The
fire was returned by the whites, but with
out effect. The wounded men were John
McMaith, shot in temple: J. h. kinton.
James Jones, Robert Ragsdale, !. NJ. Mas
sey, George Williams and B. +. Hood.
THE forthcoming report of the POST
master General will show that the number
of Presidential p~ost-Ofiices July l. ISIS. was
2,yE-an increase during the year of l6t;: to-
tai amount of salaries paid to Presidential
pOstmasterS, Si,2O2, SOO-an increase under
the act of March 3, 1883. of $3s2.j0O. or s
per cent. total gross receipts from Prcsi-
Dental pOst-Ofiices for the year, S:jS. 49,
9sS. an increase of $3.50 saG. or 3 per cent.
AN attempt to rob the grave of murderer
Maxwell at 81. Louis was recently frus-
trated by a private Waterman.
~LONGSHOEEMEN on strike at Fernandina,
Fla became riOtOus recently and fifty of
them were arrested.
INTELLIGENCE has been received that
the Hattields, OF Logan County. who We're
charged with the murder of odd man Nc
Coy and his family neal Pikeville. KY,
rave had their trial at jackson and been
acquitted.
n. II. L. DAWSON. COMMISSIONS Of Edu-
cation. in his annual report, avs that
more than twelve millions of children at
tended the public schools some part of the
last fiscal year. and of these nearly 6.UE.-
GOA Were in average daily attendance. In
both respects the Southern States. once SO
backward, have made greater progress
han other parts of the country.
THREE persons We're killed at Matanzas,
Cuba. by the recent cyclone.
BUSINESS failures lDun's repOrt) num-
bered :34 for the seven lays ended Sep
TENDER u.
THE French Government has ordered an
investigation Of the report that dhOws
CARRYING the French flag are engaged in
the slave trade in Madagascar.
THE National Marine Underwriters AS
ISOLATION has decided not to refuse to in
cotton when well covered, even if
jute bagging be not used.
JOHN Z. GRAVES. ex-county treasurer Of
COrydOn. Ind. has been found to be Sll,GD
in his accounts.
THE new iron railway bridge at Grand
View. ". Va, has been carried away by
a flood, causing Sj0.V0 loss.
CHARLES VOGr Il Co., importers of china
aud fancy articles. New York City. have
with 100000 liabilities and $SV,Oo
nominal assets.
81 a collision between an engine and a
train near Louisville. Ky. the
day several cars were wrecked and
IN unknown tramp was killed.