Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-03-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

snow blockade across the San Jua
range at Cumbres, on the east side {
the divide. The snow was reported sis
ty feet above the top OF the TELEGRAPH
poles and for miles on each side IL wa
from twenty-fiH to forty-nye feet deer
AN epidemic resembling influenza !
creating havoc In India
FoUR Of the party who lynched Olsei
at Whitehall Wis, October "a last hay
been found guilty, among them Olsen
wife, who urged the lynching and pro
! yided refreshments for the mob.
TWENTY thousand men employed Al
engineers in Northeast England have
organized strike for shorter hours.
In the Lower Rio Grande country II
Texas cattle are suffering for water.
A TERRIBLE landslide occurred in {
cut on the West Virginia Central rail
road, forty miles west Of Cumberland
Md, on the 14th. work train was
wrecked and three men were killed and
four injured, mostly Italians.
The river reached the highest poini
known at Memphis, Tenn, on the 14th.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report foi
the seven days ended March IL num-
bered 252, compared with 260 the previ.
GUS week and 26i the corresponding
week OF last year.
SECRETARY WINDOW has received a let
ter from Secretary Blaine, asking for an
additional appropriation Of s35, 900 To
meet the expenses OF the international
marine conference held in Washington
last autumn The original appropria-
tion was $50, 900.
TnE L. Baurie woodenware factory,
petowskey, Mich, was destroyed by fire
the other day causing 500, 600 loss
Two men we're burned to death re-
Gently while asleep in the workmen's
building near the new bridge at Johns
town, Pa.
SECRETARY WINDOW has executed a
lease with the North American CONNER
cial Company, of Now York and San
Francisco, for the taking Of fur seals on
the islands OF ST. Paul and ST. George,
Alaska, for a period of twenty years
from May next
TIE steamship George II. Chance, OF
Astoria, Ore, with crew OF fifteen
men has not been heard from for a
month and is reported lost
CHEAT damage to wheat In Central
and Southern Illinois by the recent cold
snap is reported to the State hoard OF
Agriculture.
A SWITCH near Andover, o., was spiked
by mscreants the other night to wreck
fast passenger train. Fortunately a
slow freight preceded the express and
struck the switch. Little damage was
done
T--e boys went under the ice N+rile
skating at St. Paul, Mimi, on the 10th
THREE fishermen were lost on the
lake near Chicago the other night
They must have been capsized or per-
ished with cold on an ice foe.
THE three desperadoes who escaped
from the Rio Grande County (Col.) Jail
recently were overtaken in the mount
aims and on resisting arrest were killed.
CLEANING house returns for the week
ended March Is showed an average in
crease OF 6, compared with the corre-
spending week Of last year. In New
York the increase was 81.
BY landslide on the west side Of
" dIfth mn ab iEbNt y. - reNeHLigt
two dwellings were demolished and
three persons killed and several INJURED.
Two workmen were torn to pieces and
several other persons were badly in
jured by boiler explosion at the north
west colliery near Carbondale, Pa.
By the burning of Robert William
Livingston's farm house near Quebec
Can, the other night, two children per
shed.
A DISPATCH was received at Baltimore,
Md. on the 10Th that the United States
steamship Dispatch was ashore at Cedar
Points. Secretary Tracy and party
were on board bound for Newark
TIE late revolt in Afghanistan ended |
n complete victory for the Ameer,
sho beheaded many OF the captured |
eaders
SECRETARY PRoCroH has issued an or
Ter transferring the headquarters Of the
department. OF the Missouri from Leav-
'nworth Kan, 20 St Louis Mo.
TnE New York star says that William
Iunt the distinguished sculptor, Ia In
ane. lie had been wandering around
he country, but was finally found by |
lis friends.