The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-01

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sine die at New York On the 24th.
FIyrHEH farms near Fergus Falls Mimi,
have been devastated by prairie firsa
TIE recent wheat growers' convention
ct 1T Louis, after the adoption Of resolu-
lions, elected the following officers: Pres
ideni, Hon. Norman ]. Colman. Of Mis-.
souri,, with the privilege Of naming his
" secretary; executive board, w. l.
Scott and A. D. Noe, of Kentucky; N. J.
| Colman and u. s. Hall, OF Missouri; E H.
| Murphy and F. A. O'Dell. Of Minnesota;
| D. B. Green and J. T. McCaffrey. of ILL.,
nois; Calvin Cole and George Gibson. Of
| Oregon; Walter N. Alien aud ex.Gover.
| nor Charles Robinson. of Kansas; J. A.
| Coates and D. A. Epson. of Indiana; N.
q. Walker, of Tennessee, and H. n. Sar.
gent, Of Ohio.
THE Russian Government has offered
prizes Of 2. 600 franc and q large gold and
several silver medals for the best essays
| on the part John Howard took in prison
| reforms, to be delivered at the fourth in.
ternational prison congress in Russia next
year.
The strike of the switchmen at Evans.
| willie, Ind, has ended in the defeat Of the
men, many OF whom have lost their places.
GEORGE CURTIS and Charles KimmicS
have been held for trial at Ashland. Wis.,.
on the charge Of being principals in .
prize fight
AN explosion Of dynamite in Montreal
| Can, the other morning caused one death
and the serious injury Of Eve other per.
sons.
THREE trainmen lost their lives in burn
ing oil by q wreck and explosion on the
| Laks Erie & Western at Kokomo recently.
Their awful fate was the work Of I'M.
known miscreants who placed an obstruc.
tiou on the track.
DESTRUCTIVE wood fres were reported
at Winchester. forty miles below Pine
Bluff, Ark.
REV. J. w. PowELL's private bank at
Fostoria, o., has closed it, doors The
assets and liabilities are each about $24,.
QUO.
BIZ the premature explosion of . cannon
| during q political meeting at GAINESVILLE,
O., William hewitt was blown fifty feet
and fatally injured.
FIRE in Port Leyden, N. Y. the other
| night destroyed nine business houses and
seventeen dwellings causing 500. QUO loss
with $50. 900 insurance.
The State Departments estimates for
1S99-Y aggregate about $3,0OO.O 600 The
principal new item is S. 900 for new furni.
ture for the department rooms
MICHAEL DAvIrr asserts that the Pigott
forgeries were known to lie fOrgeries by
Mr.. Houston, secretary of the Loyal and
Patriotic Union. before they were pub
lished in the London Times.
GEORGE SABoURIN. aged twenty.one,
working on a new Congregational church
at Newport VT, recently fell eighty feet
from the spire and was fatally injured.
A BATTLE is reported to have taken
place on the island Of Savaii between the
forces Of Malie;oa n Tamasese. Which
parry won was not known.
JAY GOULD thinks that the combination
Of railroads, as often mooted, is not at
present feasible.
The negroes concerned in the fatal riot.
ing on Navassa island, West Indies, have
been landed at Baltimore and jailed.
Two children were fatally injured at
Franklin, Pa. They had found n dyna-
mite bomb and were playing with it when
it exploded. Eight other children were
seriously hurt.
BUSINESS ia lures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October "a numbered.
including Canada, 225, compared with 254
the corresponding week OF last year.
CHARLES McILvAIN, nineteen years old,
murderer of Christian w. Luce while
committing burglary on the night Of Au-
gust 21-22 last, has been sentenced to
death by electricity at Sing Sing prison
in the week beginning December
AT the instance of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Chung
Lee, a Buffalo IN. " laundryman, has
been arrested for abducting two little
girls from their homes.
A SUPPOSED Tascott was arrested at
Reading, Pa. on the 25th. The detectives
were sure Of their man.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHER
VIRGINIA Independent Republicans have
nominated John I. Lewis, Of Rockingham,
for Governor.
GEORGE A. HALEY. OF Newark. N. j.,
has declined the appointment Of Cherokee
Commissions.
1HE position Of the French IL said TO b
critical in Madagascar.
An Anglo-A American newspaper II
shortly to be established In the City Of
Mexico.
1EIssoNIlR, the French painter, has
been decorated with the Grand Cross Of
the Legion Of Honor.
TIE lumber firm Of Wainwright & Bry.
ant, Philadelphia, 10 embarrassed. The
indebtedness though large, II balanced BY