The Red Cloud chief., 1889-05-24
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materially advanced.
The Sioux Indians at the Yanktou
agency will negotiate with the Govern
ment for the sale of seven townships in
the north part of their reservation. The
tract will furnish homes Of l60 acres tc
1000 families.
81. SAUvEUR, q suburb of Quebec, waa
seriously damaged by fire ON the night OF
the 18th, 500 frame buildings being de-
stroyed. In demolishing buildings te
prevent the flames spreading, two soldiers
were killed by an explosion.
THE wife and two children of Lewis
Palmer were burned to death at Rockdale,
Tex, recently. The unfortunate woman
dropped . lighted lamp which set the
house on fire.
COMMISSIONER SrOCKSLAGER has refused
to allow the Government acre" at Guth-
RE, Oklahoma, to be used to build q FIRST
class theater" on. The petition was signed
by its mayor, City Council and prominent
citizens.
TIE Alliance and Whsel~ convention q,
BirminghsR Ala, rejected the bagging
trusts offer of jute bagging at rates equal
to five cents per pound, though cotton
bagging costs no less han 12h cents per
pound. The convention had no faith in
the trust.
EIGHT workmen were recently injured,
three seriously. by a freight train on the
Pittsburgh. Virginia e. Charleston rail-
road backing out from a siding ON which
q work train was standing.
PASSENGERS ON arriving trains at Ash
land, Wis, on the 10Th reported from three
to FIVE inches of snow all over Northern
Wisconsin.
The American Meat Company, recently
organized. of which ex-senator Warner
Miller is president, has agreed upon terms
with the officers of the American Cattle
Trust by which the W. corporations will
work in harmony.
The steamship Columbia, which arrived
at Astoria, Ore, on the 10th. brought are.
Navigation Company's magnificent side
Wheel iron steamer Alaskan. which is re-
ported to ave foundered off Cape Blanc,
while o n her way from Portland to San
Francisco.
The doctors who performed an autopsy
on Mind Reader Bishops body so soon
after his supposed death have been held
in s $500 each to await the result of the
investigation.
FIRMIN APIANo, an Indian. was hanged
at Tucson. Ariz. on the 18th for the muir.
der of Patrick Ford, a prOspector. This
was the first execution of an Indian in
Arizona under the recent decision of the
Supreme Court, which gives to the Terri
torial courts jurisdiction over all the In
criminals.
BUSINESS failures Dams report) for the
seven days ended May IL numbered 252,
with 2a7 the previous week and
1S9 the corresponding week last year.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for the
West End Mining Company, a corporation
owning iron mines in Hunterdon County.
N. j., and in Pennsylvania. The liabili.
ties of the company are reported to be
$500. 900 to $4,000 greater than its
assets.
IT is stated at Cettinje. the capital Of
Montenegro. that the Christians are being
massacred by Turks on the M~ontenegrin
J. 7. STEWARDS big packing house at
Council Bluffs. Iowa. was destroyed by
fire recently with all its contents. Loss,
800. 600; well insured.
A FIERCE hail storm visited the section
between Dewitt and Clinton, Iowa, doing
great damage to crops and window glass.
BY the bursting Of a mold filed with
liquid iron in the Union works. San Fran
cisco, recently, eleven men were badly
SEVENTEEN able-bodied miners, heads
Of families. recently applied to the poor
board of Pleasant Valley. Pa, for relief.
They claimed to be on the verge of star
AT the South Glastonbury Comm MAY
the other night v M hundred
persons were poisoned by eating ice
cream. Physicians in attendance ex-
but slight hopes for the recovery
Of thirty. -four of the victims.