The Red Cloud chief., 1888-07-13

An expedition Is being formed at Berlin
for tho relief Of Emin Bey.
TIE severest rain, hail, thunder and
lightning storm experienced In Scranton,
Pa, for many years prevailed ON the 5th.
Bartholomew Reagan and John Armstrong
were struck by lightning and killed. The
rain fell IN torrents, choking b sewers
and flooding the streets and cellars.
A DISASTROUS fire broke out At Marys
Vile, O., early on the morning Of the 5,h ia
the block in which the most valuable bust
ness houses in the city were located. Los:
was s9O0.O0O; insurance. $4,000.
HARRY c. TUCKER and his father end sis
ter were drowned in Lake Johanna, neal
81. Paul, MIMI, recently by their boat cap
sizing.
THREE men were arrested reccatly and
taken to Chicago. charged with being in q
conspiracy to wreck trains and destroy
property on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy. Dynamite was found in their pos.
session and q card of membership of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers.
TIE business portion Of Maumee. O., was
destroyed by fire the other morning. Loss,
100000. Cause, firecrackers.
The disorders at Seoul. Corea, have been
ended. They were caused by Store s that
foreign cannibals had abducted native
children.
The monument to Francis Scott Key, the
gift Of the late James Lick to the city Of
San Francisco. was unvailed on the 4th.
Eleven Of Key'sdescen dants were present
FOUR Of the principal business houses Of
Durango Col, were destroyed by fire on
tho 4th. Loss, $4,000.
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house products still continues with una
prospect Of . settlement. 1t is generally
| conceded BY freight men that the rates
will yet e lower q that the rates on
other commodities will be cut before very
long.
GUs BoGLEs, aged nineteen, was hanged
at Fort Smith. Ark, on tibet 9th for the u
der Of William Morgan in tho Creek Nation
last year.
SOLOMON NELSON ana E. C. HedberG were
drowned in Belle creek near Cannon Falls,
MIMI, the other dav while repairing o
bridge, the latter falling into the water
and the former going to his rescue. Mel
son was q prominent business man.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended June 5 numbered for the
United States, 1872; Canada, %; total, PA,
compared with al the previous week and
l4 the corresponding week last year.
As u coal train was passing through the
village Of Dayton, n. j., recently it was
struck by a cyclone and Conductor John
Dyer, of Trenton, with two Of the train
men were blown from the train and fatally
hurt.
REPORTS have been received OF the kill
ing Of three Illinois runaway lads in the
Seminole country by Indians. The boys
had previously killed an Indian.
NEARLY 1900 Italian immigrants arrived
at Castle Garden during the past six
months. Many of them are in a destitute,
even starving. condition in New York.
J. W. BROWN. the alleged polygamist re
Gently arrested in Chicago. was arraigned
at Detroit. Mich, in the case of marrying
Mary Benjamin, pleaded not guilty and
was remanded to Jail. 1t is now stated
Brown has been married no less than thirty
two times, and many of his dupes are Ca
pected to be present at the trial.
FIRE destroyed sl5o.OOO worth OF proper
ty IN New York on the morning Of the 9Th,
breaking out in the Century office,
East Eighteenth street.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the Elgin. Joliet
4 Eastern road was wrecked recently
near Joliet, ILL.,, by distractions on the
track. Three Italian laborers were killed.
Engineer Wright was fatally scalded.
By q collision between passenger trains
near Nanticoke, Pa. the other day one
fireman was seriously and thirty passen-
gers slightly hurt.
TIE Russian Government has signed the
convention for the abolition Of sugar boun-
ties.
ARTICLES Of incorporation of the Men,
phis, Little Rock & Indian Territory Rail.
read Company have been filed in Arkansas;
capital stock, $4.6oO,OO0.
A BATTERY Of boilers at the tannery of
A. Il J. Groetsinger, on River avenue, Al
wrecking several buildings and seriously
ipjuring six persons, three fatally.
ADDITIONAL DIsPA1CHES
HENRY ". MOOKE and Mrs. Norton, who
elOped recently from St Louis. were ar
rested at Topeka. Kan, on charges OF
grand larceny preferred by the husband Of
the woman
Herr: DIETz. an Alsatian railway Official,
Nine. Dietz. his wife, and q ra.lwly as
named Appel who were charged
having sold to the French Govern
nent information relative to German mill |
larry movements, have been convicted and
Die'z has been sentenced to ten years and
wife to four years penal servitude.
A0pei was sentenced to ten years. impris-
and nine years detention in q
fortress.
THREE mon were killed by the explosion
,f a boiler at the Adelmide silk house, Al.
entown, Pa. recently.
BAD storms were recently reported in
he vicinity OF Parkersburg, w. Va. and
Athens. .. One man vas killed by light
'ing and another drowned in \ swollen
DURING election riots in Belgium the
'thcr day, gendarmes fired on q mob and
oayoneted several persons.
GENERAL SHERIDAN passed a quiet day
It NOEquitt, Mass, on the 9th. HIS appe-
its was reported improved and his respira-
ion better.
Tue Senate on the 9TH passed Cullom's
Dill to amend the Interstate Commerce
lct. The House was in committee on the
Tariff bill. Cannon's amendment to put
sugar on the free list and pay a bounty OF