The Red Cloud chief., 1889-10-04
MISCELLANEOUS

The National Bankers Association mel
in annual convention at Kansas City, Mo,
on the e5th.
TIE fast mail train ON the Mobile &
Ohio road was held up the other morning
by robbers at Buckatunna. Wayne County,
Miss, and the mail car rifled.
LEwIs Bros. & Co, the dry goods com
mission merchants Of New York, have
to compromise at SIX cents on the dollar.
This 10 TX cents moro han they and the
assignee thought they could pay when
their schedules were filed.
ELIZA Cook. the English poetesa died
ON the 18th. She was born in 1873
The men employed in farnell's quarry,
Ireland, threatened to strike recently be-
aus Of Al obnoxious foreman.
The boiler at the sawmill Of Pritz Bros,
Berlin, Pa. exploded recsntly. John
Pritz. Edward Pritx. Oliver Ross. David
Ross and David Baker were instantly
killed. Two brothers named Brant were
badly injured.
Sol PURNELL. anegro was hanged re.
Gently by q moi at Winona, Miss He had
assaulted q white girl.
THE jury in the Ives case at New York
disagreed, standing ten for conviction
and two for acquittaL He was remanded
to the Tombs for . new trial
IT IL reported that Christians In Crete
are being logged and tortured and WON.
en- subjected to gross indignities. A
Greek gunboat has been dispatched to
Crete to put . stop to outragea
A RACINE, Wis, special says: Rev. A.
F. Packepe . Lutheran minister who
came hero two years ago has absconded
with . portion Of the money raised to
build q new church. He caused Q split in
the congregation shortly after his arrival.
ALONG the line Of the Mississippi Cen.
trail the whites are organizing in oppo.
sition to the blacks. already organised. A
grave state Of affairs exista
A MISS GLEASON was killed and Mr.. and
Mrs. Gale were seriously injured by their
carriage being struck by . freight train
recently at Hardin, . Q Greeley, Col
THE schooner Alpha, Of Port Townsend,
sea.
FIVE hundred men working on the Bay
de Chaleurs railway, In Canada, have
amounting to $4,000.
BLISS & CO.. syrup factory at Kansas
City, Nc. was burned out early on tho
morning Of the 9th. Loss, 81 1000! In.
surance on contents, $4,000.
A BRISK now storm prevailed on the
18th in Northern and Western Wisconsin.
Two miners were killed by black damp
in an abandoned shaft near Pottsville, Pa,
recently.
ExKRY's large soap factory, Ivorydale,
O., was DESTROYED by fire the other night,
causing $125 600 damage.
n Temple Of Heaven at Pekin, China.
containing the great throne Of the sacred
dragon, has been des royed by fire.
THE NJ. Latin and Rand powder mill at
Cressona, Pa. blew up recently. The ex.
plosion was terrific in force. William
Schropp. Samuel Stotsf and Henry Reid
were killed and q number Of other work.
mon injured.
By the collapse Of an unfinished house
in Milan, Italy, five persons were killed
and twenty injured.
The first convention of the Union Pro.
hibitory League Of Pennsylvania. a non.
partisan scheme, having for its purpose
the suppression Of the saloon outside Of
party lines, was held at Harrisburg, Pa,
on the 26th, with about 100 delegates in
attendance
The fifth annual convention Of tho Ger.
man.American technicker verein wa in
session In Washington.
Ar the business meeting Of tho society
Of the Army Of the Tennessee held at Gin.
cinnati on the Goth. officers were elected
q follows: President General w. T.
Sherman; recording secretary. Colonel L
n. Dayton: treasurer: General Force;
corresponding secretary, General A. Kick.
enlooper.
TIE fourteenth annual convention Of
the American Bankers' Association ad.
tourned 1t Kansas City, No, On the 18th.
b following o6lcers were elected:
Charles Persons, Of 1t Louia president;
Morton HcMichasls, OF Philadelphia, flrst
vice-president; George +. Baker. Of New
York, treasurer. William b Greene Of
New York, Vas elected SECRETARY; d.
v. Reiger. Of Kansas City. wa made vice.