The Red Cloud chief., 1888-12-14

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TIE drought SILL continues In Victoria.
Austxalia bus ans rains have fallso IN
Queensland.
BUSINESS failures tDsn's ssport) foe he
seven DAYS ended Dsesmbes 8 numbered
3Is. compased with g: the previous week
and 80 the corresponding week last year.
A xswAx Of SO. 90 has been offered
BY the Caiume: and Hecla Copper Mining
Company for the ares. OF tie ma who
set Ore 10 the Calume, shass Thanksgiving
day. The Hre was reported growing
worse.
TIE Miners Progressive union COM
p,e:ed i,s organization at Columbus, o,
on the Eth by the adoption of o coast'u-
ton and ~electio, OF osiccra-
OWING 10 q dispute as . recent meeting
Of the Paris Municipal Council, two Of the
members-M. Memorial, q Boulangist, and
N. Chsu,emps. an irrecoacilable-fought .
duel. The weapons used were swords and
n. Chautenps received . wound In tbe
arm.
BY a collision in the suburbs OF Chicago
the other morning. between . long Pits
burgh. Fort Wayne and Chicago freight
train, drawn by three engines, and .
shIItu CukAoSs
and several box cars demolished. Loss
SO. Ul.
AFTER four days OF intense suffering
without food or drink and dashed to tho
n~f,erhouse, four survivors Of the crew Of
the schooner Ethel ". Davis were rescued
Thanksgiving day and brought to New
York. Three were drowned IN the hursi.
zane Of November p.
z. =. ,~~eul ehss IL, spsr;aA,s A,SfCfa If
Ireland. in Limerick especially, the dis.
sress among the agricultural laborers Is
Many arc asking 70 b. assisted
to emigrate to Buenos Ayres.
SOCIALISTS raided a meeting Of Catholics
at Amsterdam. Holland, recently. called
for the purpose of erecting a statue to the
Pope. A pitched battle followed and many
arrests We're made.
Discount was firm with a prospect OF
money %stringency OH the London Ex-
change during the week ended December
= Americans We're unsteady; Canadians
firm. The German bourses were reported
quiet. 1t was said the German East
African Company had been practically
ruined by hOstilities with the natives.
ALLEGATIONS are made that crooked
work was the cause Of the bursting Of the
big gun at Annapolis. Nd, recently. II
was said the charge was prepared by
parties Interested in making the gun .
failure.
AT Paterson, n. j., the other morning
an Erie railroad train struck a milk wagon
Mt a street crossing aud killed two Of the
three occupants, John Z. Ruff and his
brother. B. J. Ruff.
THREE-QUARrERs Of the large iron ship
building plant Of the Globe iron works in
Cleveland, o.. a destroyed by fire re-
Gently. The burned portion was 30 feet
in length and fifty feet in width. and the
damage amounted to seOO. OGO; insured.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
December 4 showed an average increase
Of 10 l compared with the corresponding
week of last year. In New York the In.
crease was l6s.
JOHN s.. LEWIS, receives Of the defunct
insurance company Of Sioux Falls, OAK,
reports it rotten all through. There were
no assets except worthless notes and the
office furniture.
The smelter Of the copper mining oom-
pany at Anaconda, Mont, has beef hut
down for an indefinite time, throwing
100 men out of work. Twenty-Five hun.
dred miners are also affected.
BY an explosion Of wood dust In the
Northwestern furniture factory, Chicago,
the other morning, five firemen were in.
jured.
The our Of inquiry investigating the
aqueduct tunnel work in Washington has
adjourned TO January 8, having completed
the examination Of witnesses.
ALARMING reports were current on the
night Of the sth that the strikers at Bevier,
Mo-. had burned the LOOMS & Snively
block and were rioting. Militia was called
out, but IL was found that although affairs
were critical, no rioting had occurred, nor
had the Loomis & Snively block been
burned. The buildings destroyed were
frame, which hal caught fire accidentally.
The sensational murders at Birmingham,
Ala, led to a deplorable loss Of life. The
body Of the first wife Of Engineer House,
or Halves, was found in East lake. a
couple of days after the finding Of his
daughters body. The body was weighted
down with railroad iron. The find so in.
censed the mob that an attack was made
on the Jail where Halves was confined.
Sheriff Smith gave his posse orders to fire
with their Winchesters, which dispersed
the rioters and caused the death Of ten
persons and the wounding OF forty.
Among the victims were the postmaster
and others who were endeavoring to qusll
the disorder.
ADDITIONAL. DlsPATCHEA
T. ". BrsBY. . popular young book.