The Red Cloud chief., 1889-08-02

TEE work Of investigating tho Pension
Office will probably occupy several weeks.
LEWIS Bros. & Co extensive wholesale
dry goods dealers Of Philadelphia, have
assigned for $1,000, 600 Declining busi-
ness and heavy losses in the Johnstown
foods were said to be causes Of the disas.
ter.
The slayers Of "Cattle Kate" Maxwell
and her partner Averill in Wyoming have
been arrested
THE Surgeon-General has received q tel.
egram from the president OF the Gaines
Vile (Fla) Board of Health, denying
that cases Of dengue fever existed there.
A BON Of Marshall II. Twitcheil, United
States Consul at Kington, Ont. has been
arrested on the charge Of being the
masked burglar who entered the residence
Of Mrs. Martin. He was . mere boy and
up to the affair bore a good character.
THE Union Pacific earnings for June
were $24,970 larger than tho same month
last year while the net earnings were $191. f.
062 more.
Over $500. 900 has been subscribed at
Syracuse. N. Y, t the North American
Salt Association.
TEE mayor and leading business mon of
New York City held an enthusiastic meet.
ing recently to take steps to secure the
worlds exposition in 1897. Tho Chamber
Of Commerce also appointed q committee
Of sixty for the same purpose. headed BY
ex-President Cleveland, Vice.President
Morton, Senator Evarts and other noted
men.
SfHPHEN W. DORSEY was taken in
custody recently a. New York for con.
tempt Of court in neglecting to put in an
appearance at the supplementary pro.
ceedings on a judgment obtained against
him by the Nevada Bank.
KnRAIN, the pugilist, went on Q tear 1T
Baltimore Nd, the other night, amusing
himself in smashing window4 etc. acting
a. though he had won the fight with
Sullivan.
TIE court martial Of Colonel Fletcher,
charged with conduct ~unbecoming q zen.
tleman and officer, commenced at Fort
Omaha ON the 25th.
TIE Brotherhood Of American Railway
Brakemen held its annual session in Otta.
va, Ont, recently with 20 delegates
present.
LIGHTNING struck the house Of w. b
Cunningham at Ben Brook. near Fort
Worth, Tex, the other morning, instantly
killing Mrs. Cunningham. At the time the
house was struck, Mr.. Cunningham, his
wife and one child were on the same bed.
The father and child were not hurt
A. J. BLErHES, proprietor of the Minne-
apolis Tribune. las purchased the Even.
ing Star, Of that city, and, beginning Au.
gust 20, will conduct it under the name of
the Evening Tribune. The intention is to
run an all day paper. The price paid has
not been made public.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
sever days ended July &c numbered ZIG.
including Canada. The previous week
2oS failures were reported.
LAWYER DUNN. who tempted Cashier
Scott to rob the Manhattan Bank. Of New
York. of $1s5.OOO has been sent to Sing
Sing for nine years and six months.
IT is officially denied hat there is any
yellow fever at Tampico. Mex, as had re-
Gently been reported.
The Yellow river of China has again
burst its banks. The authorities at Pekin
were dismayed.
A MOB Of Paris. KY, lynched James
Kelly, colored, for outrage ON q Mrs. Crow
recently.
The officials of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company have notified the Trans
continental Association hat unless the
subsidy from railroads is increased they
will cut rates and take all the freight they
can get. 1t was thought this was the pre-.
liminary step to a war against the Cana.
dian Pacific road.
The great British war ship Sultan.
which sank on a rock neal Malta some
ago.h has been successfully raised.
The Cincinnati dry dock buildings were
destroyed BY fire early the other morning,
causing $50. 900 loss. 1t is thought to have
been incendiary.
A CYCLONE passed through Lebanon,
Ind. on the Goth ~unroofing au entire
block and deluging property. Crops were
damaged.