The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

1IErRO BARANOvsKL q Pole. was hanged
at Pottsville. Pa, recently for the murder
Of two women, which was committed while
he was robbing a house.
MAJOR BURKE, ~ex.Treasurer OF Louisi.
ana. has been indicted for the bond
frauds.
HARRY NJ. LoEHR. the tax boodler Of
Bloomington. Ill, has been sentenced to
< year in the ~penitentiary.
The wheat growers Of the Mississippi
valley met in convention at St Louis on
the I'D
An alliance is reported between the Chi
cago g. Northwestern and the Union Pa
cihc sy stems. The c. & N. is under on
troll Of the Vanderbil.s and the report
gave rise to considerable speculation.
A MEETING was held at Washington or
the night Of the cd to perfect an organ.
ization for securing the Worlds Fair in
that city.
By the explosion Of the boiler Of a steam
cotton gin rear Pleasant Plains Ark, the
other day, Flavel and Alphonso Robert
son. brothers, were fatally and two other
men seriously hurt
IT is the general impression Of officials
at the Navy Department that the board Of
survey recently ordered on the Ossippee
will report in favor of ~condenning the
vessel.
JUDGE NORRIS. of the United States
District Court of Baltimore. has decided
that The sinking Of oyster pirate boats by
the State vessels was perfectly justifiable.
AN unknown man was found burned to
death in the Pendleton lodging house in
Duluth, MINI.
Two OF the employees Of the Pension
Office whose pens ons were rerated have
been officially r. requested to refund to the
Government the extra money paid to them
on account of such rerating.
IT is stated at Shanghai that the COL
lapse of the railway scheme is due to
French insistence upon the enforcement
Of an article in an old treaty emitting
France to supply the personnel and ma.
terial for any Chinese railway.
A PLOT to release prisoners at Sing Sing
has been frustrated
ADMIRAL GILLIs reports from Monte
video that yellow fever is spreading in
Brazil and Is likely to give serious trouble
during the coming summer.
GIANT powder was exploded in the bed
of Oscar Steinberg, . sign painter. at
Butte, Mont, while he was asleep the
other night, and he was fatally injured.
His wife and son were arrested for the
crime.
FIRE at Port Clinton, O., the other night
destroyed the lumber yard Of August
Spies & Co and other property. Loss
800. coo.
AN autopsy has been had on the body of
William Burns. q saloon passenger on the
steamer Hondo, who died on the steamers
arrival at New York quarantine 1t
showed cohclusively that Burns died of
yellow fever.
The requirements Of the United States
sinking fund for the present fiscal year.
estimated at $4S,OO0.OO0 have been met
the bonds purchased on the 9th bringing
the total of this fund up to the moun re.
quired by Law.
The examination Of witnesses in the
Cronin case commenced at Chicago on the
oath.
THE annual report Of the supervising in
spector Of steam vessels shows that dur.
ing fifteen years past the number OF steam
vessels in the United States has increased
from 1856 to 6. rs
TIE Supreme Court Of Illinois has do.
cided that . railway company allowing
newsboys ON ito cars 10 responsible for
any damages that they may receive. This
IL the first decision Of it. kind and 10 Of
great importance TO railroad people.
TIE will Of the late E g. Babbitt the
wealthy soap manufacturer Of New York,
has been probated His widow Is left tho
family home and $500 900 cash In trust for
their daughter Ida. Another daughter,
Lila E. Babbitt 10 left 5000 o cash and
$4,000 Of New York Central 4 Hudson
River railroad stock
FrvFhundred Chicago tailoFs struck on
the Path.
JUDGE PRENDHRoAsf has issued war.
rants for the arrest Of w. E Kent and
Thomas Z Downey, Chicago Fifth ward
politicians, charged with procuring .
change of names Of election judges BY
false approximations
TIM jury in the ~ Of Asssmblynan
Smith, Of New York City. charged with
bribery At elections, were unable 70 agrse
and were discharged.
TIE following AMOUNTS were pledged to
the New York Worlds Fair on the 24th:
C. Vanderbilt. 500, 0o0s New York Central
4 Hudson River Railroad Company, $780,.
900; Wagner Palace Car Company, 49,.
600; Joseph Pulit1eE; $4,000