The Red Cloud chief., 1889-08-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

HE steamship Montreal, OF the DO.
minion line, from Montreal to Liverpool.
was wrecked recently ON Belle isle. The
passengers and crew were saved.
The arbitration committee Of business
men, to whom was referred the wage dis.
pute in the Streator (IlL.) coal fields, rem.
dered a decision, fixing the price to be
paid workmsn at s2H cents q ton. The
demand of the miners was for so cents
The prisoners confined in Fort San Juan
De Ulloa at Vera Cruz, Mexico. recently
revolted against the officials. The troops
on duty at the fort shot twenty Of the
prisoners and quelled the uprising.
THE Galveston News has published the
last OF its crop reports. The reports were
almost unanimous in ch~ronicling the best
corn crop for years while the yield for
other grain was fully up to an average.
The cotton crop was . splendid one.
THE report Of Captain Shepard, com.
manding the revenue steamer Rush, in re.
gard to the British sealer Black Diamond,
which was mailed at San Francisco has
been received ct the Treasury Depart.
ment Acting Secretary Batcheler re-
fused positively to give it to the press
but admitted that it confirmed substan.
TALLY the newspaper reports concerning
the seizure.
A DISPATCH has been received at New
York police headquarters from Detective
Phil Reilly. dated Panama, announcing
that he had given up all hope Of recaptur.
ing Bushnell, the d~efaulter; and that he
was on his way homo alone.
A LOSS Of about $50, 900 was caused BY q
fire which started the other night in A. C.
Trentman's building, ON Calhoun street,
Fort Wayne. Ind.
On the night of the 9Th the Rio Grande
Western train No 3 known a the Modoc,
was held up rear Thompson's Springs by
train robbers. Efforts to break into the eX.
press car failed. and they secured only
about $1,000 and some jswelry from the
passengers.
THE committee to report on the books Of
E H. Stedman, county treasurer. Of Des
Moines, Iowa. report . deficit Of $11,500.
The wreck Of the steamer Montreal in
the straits Of Belle Isle was due to an ice.
berg. which forced the steamer aground.
The finding Of the dead bodies of Ollie
Jones. his wife and two other persons was
reported from Corvallis, . small
town in Butterrot valley. in Western
Montana. A young girl, who had been
shot in the hip. was also found on Big
Hole mountain. All Of them had been
in the back.
EBEN s. ALLEN. president Of the Forty.
second Street Car Company, New York.
has been arrested for forging certificates
Of stock for about 700 shares The AMOUNT
Of his defalcation 10 stated to be $l25, 900
or $4,000. Tho money was probably
SUM in . worthless fire escape patent
A DETERMINED effort 10 being made in
Chicago to abolish the illustrated police
newspapers. ell
BENJAMIN r. EPAxDAUHR. who Wal the
principal witness against Nra Sarrat
hanged 1t Washington In 1855 o. the
charge Of conniving 1t the assassination
Of President Lincoln, died recently in the
Maryland penitentiary.
TIE annual convention Of the American
Catholic Total Abstinence Society closed
at Cleveland, O., on the 6th. Rev. ]. n.
Cleary, Of Wisconsin. was elected presi.
dent.
TIE Columbus Iron Company, Of Ian.
caster, Pa, recently posted . notice Of
increase from $a5o to 8 IS for padding
and other wages in properties, thus keep
ing b promise made four months ago
that when trade grew better they would
advance wages to the old standard