Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-08-28

cause of the recent accident on the Old
Colony road. The man working II was
unaware OF tho approach Of the Inflated
train.
THE engineers, hremen and brakemen
at the Union stock yards, Chicago
struck for higher wages on the 22d
Much inconvenience was caused TO the
packing houses etc.
A TERRIBLE accident happened on the
gravity railway at Reading, Pa, on the
ED. After car containing eighteen
passengers had been pulled to the top
it suddenly started down, going at
eighty miles an hour and dashing over
an embankment -Four persons were
killed and the rest were seriously in
jured.
In the canton of Vaud, Switzerland,
recently a cyclone occasioned great
damage and the loss OF l50 lives.
GEORGE EARLY and Bird Woods, two
of the four negroes accused of setting
fire to Rocky Mount Va, we're executed
in that town on tho 22d The other two,
Annie Woods and William Brown, will
be hanged September 0.
JUDGE BEACH has entered an order in
the Supreme Court at New York discon-
tinuing the action brought by Colonel
William Dudley to recover damages
from George Jones, treasurer Of the
Times Publishing Company, for alleged
libel in publishing the alleged "blocks
of five" letter The order was entered
by consent of counsel
THE mountain desperate. Joe DANA
ron, rlngleader in the French-Ever-
sole war OF Kentucky, has been captured
and is in tho Perry County jail.
CHOLERA is spreading in Valencia and
Toledo. There are several suspicious
cases in Madrid.
Snow stlll remains on the ground in
tho Yosemite region. Many mountains
in the Sierras are still covered twenty
feet deep, and the result is that tho
melting snow keeps the streams full
and tho waterfalls are superb.
THE fight amoag the Bishops OF the
Evangelical Church has been taken into
court by Bishop Dubs who asks the
Cleveland judges to enjoin Bishops Esh-
er and Bowman
ELEVEN thousand five hundred miners
were on strike in Belgium on the 22d.
THE potato blight is still spreading in
West Ireland. One death has occurred
from eating diseased potatoes.
AUSTRALIAN employers are combining
against the organized workingmen
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report for
the seven days ended August 81 num-
bered 1872 compared with 1917 the previ-
Gus week and 20G the AsrrespondineA
week OF last year General business
was good, notwithstanding the press
ure in money at New York.
Mr.. WERB refused the offer Of the
State Board OF Arbitration to consider
the New York Central strike. Powderly
accepted it on behalf of the strikers
PALo Afro trotted mile at Chicago
on tho 22d in 2:lS.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended August 2S showed an average .in-
crease OF 20.1 compared with the corre-
spond ing week OF last year In New
York the increase was 1871.
The yardmen OF the Delaware & Hud- |
son struck at Albany, n. Y, on the Esd,
refusing to receive or deliver New York
Central freight
RAILROAD Federation officials met at |
Terre Haute, Ind, to consider the strike
on the New York Central
THE negroes of Mississippi will send |
a committee Of three to Oklahoma Ter |
ritory TO investigate and report the
Of that country and If a salts
factory report is mado over 500 will emf
CRATE at once.
TnE British war ship Buzzard has ar
rived in Canada from Jamaica with
nineteen cases of yellow fever on board.
One of the crew died. Five are still
with the fever, but the other
thirteen have recovered.
THREE bricklayers were fatally and
four other men badly hurt by the fall OF
a scaffolding sixty-fve feet down fur
mace stack in Baltimore, Md.
SEVERAL cases of leprosy are reported
at Englishtown, n Il.
RUSSIA has presented a vessel of /, 200
tons to Montenegro
BUSINESS was active and firm on the
London Stock Exchange during the
week ended August %. Silver securities
were especially strong. The Paris
Bourse was quiet. Berlin was active.
Another panic was reported in Buenos
Ayres.