The Red Cloud chief., 1889-02-22

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road directors have declared . dividsad a
0ne per cent
A LIVELY VA ON freight rates 10 brow.
ing among the Atlantic steamship lines.
The White Star Company has cut rates
from Europe 6fty per cent aud the Other
lines are ready to follow suit
| TIE odicial trial Of the new gubboas
Yorktown VA made in Delaware bay -.
| Gently and was pronounced . success
TEE stock barn Of ID. Henry Riemaa ssas
Emmettsburg. Nd, in which were several
valuable horses and . great quantity q
produce. WAS destroyed by fire the other
day. Loss, 5000; cause. incendiaris0.
THREE buildings in Gluckman & Heller's
block. at Chippewa Falls, Wis, were de-
stroyed BY fire the other morning. The
loss on the buildings and stock Was about
$40. 0O0. Partly insured.
Tue Bartholomay. Genesee. Rochester
and possibly the Miller breweries. the four
largest in Rochester, n. Y, have. i: is
said. passed into the hands Of the
great English syndicate said to ave Sl.5.-
0OO.OO capital.
THERE is some anxiety among farmers
and miners in California on account Of the
absence Of rain in the valleys and snow
in the mountainA
BUSINESS Il lures tDun's report for the
seven days ended Feb uary II numbered
2S9. compared with 3a3 he previous week
and 213 the corresponding week Of last
yea.
JoHS LEE was hanged at Alexandra,
MINI, recently for killing his rival in .
love affair in cold blood after . spree.
John Moe, his partner in crime. was
granted q Communication at the las: moment
By the explosion OF the boiler Of loco.
motive at Norris.own. Pa. recently the
engineer and fireman were killed
Four ladies were severely hurt In
Chester, Pa, recently by o collision b.
tween . railway train and . street cal.
THE Opera House block in Cape Vincent,
N. Y. and the bank in which were 10
pounds Of opium recently seized nave been
destroyed by fire. Los, $40. 900.
MONROE WILEERSOS, a colOred muir.
derer condemned to be hanged at Scots.
willie, Ky, March -. made . desperate at
tempt to escape the other night but was
recnptured aud chained to the Jail floor.
JOHN GRAY. q prominent citizen Of Pitts
ton, Pa. was found murdered on a BY
street recently. Italian robbers were sus.
pected.
The committee appointed at the recent
meeting OF the American Shipping and
Industrial League have presented to Gen.
eral Harrison tho resolutions adopted by
the league.
Mrs. OLIVER Z. FRIEND. her ~stepfather,
William f. Howard; her mother. Emily
Howard: Orrin A. Halstead and George
Halstead. the parties charged with con-
in the Electric Sugar Refining
frauds, have been arrested and
u aced in Jail ut Ann Arbor, Mich.
CLEARING HOUSE returns for the week
ended February lG showed an average in.
crease of :sa In New York the increase
was :sil.
McDoUGALL's elevator and adjoining
mills at Montreal burned recently. Lost.
OOo.
THE American schooner Carrie W. has
been seized at 1T. Andrews, n. b., for .
mistake in the manifest |
The Missouri Pacific has inaugurated Q !
Of economy by taking OF local
On the Wichita, Lexington and
other branches. compelling through trains
TO do the local work.
THIRTY feet Of the surface over an ahan. |
mine or Mulberry street, Scranton. |
Pa, caved in recently, breaking Of the |
Ias and water pipes and stopping street
carx. Cos from the broken pipe ignited |
and before it could bs turned Of exploded
terrible force, the concussion knock.
ing people down and e~ndangering sur.
rounding property.
The Typographical Union has taken
OF the composing room Of the
Chicago Globe Publishing Company. This
acquisition makes every newspaper Office
n Chicago a nnion office.
THE new Owings block, corner Of Dear.
,orn and Adams street. Chicago. one Of
he largest buildings in America. collapsed
IN the morning q the 18th. Ten floors fell
me after the other.
BUSINESS on the London Exchange dur.
ms the week ended February IL was in.
lctive and depressed because of Afghan
umOrs. American railroad securities
we're unsettled. The Continental bourses
we're quiet and firm. French rentes show.
a rise, Panama shares a fall.
n steamer Mayipo.a from Australia
nd the Samoan islands arrived at San
on the 18th. Among her pas.
was John L. Klein. the American
correspondent, who figured In
he Berlin dispatches as having led the
in the recent battle with the Ger.
mans. but who claimed to have witnessed
ne fight rs a non-combatant in his ca.
acity rs correspondent