Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-08-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

| the ranks of the Guatemalan army on
the Salvadorlan frontier.
THERE was bad explosion recently
at the Kendall soap factory, Providence,
R. |. Firo broke out and acids were
blown over number OF men.
INFORMATION has been received OF the
murder in the Soudan by Arabs of +. M.
Gates, T. Kingman and John Il. Jader-
quist, Presbyterian missionaries, who
left tho United States in May last.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report for
the seven days ended August IA num-
bered 1917, compared with 2OS the pre-
vious week and 2i3 the corresponding
week of last year
THERE was terrible cloudburst at
Colorado Springs, Col, recently A
man and woman were swept away and
drowned The damage to the city and
vicinity amounted TO $780, 600
CHOLERA has appeared at Cairo, Egypt
UNKNOWN mlscreants placed ties on
the Il l& o, track twonty miles from
Pittsburgh, Pa, and wrecked an excur-
sion train. Two engineers and tramp
were killed.
By the explosion Of centrifugal ex-
tractor in tho cleansing room OF the
Tillit silk mills at Pottsyille, Pa, girl
was killed and young man fatally in
jured.
TIE spring wheat crop OF the North
west is estimated at 93, 600, 600 bushels
30, 600, 900 In the Dakotas and $4,000 600
in Minnesota.
ALFRED LUDINGToN and George d.
Rossitu, two Pinkerton policemen from
Philadelphia on duty at Albany, N. r.,
were killed by passenger train while
walking on the track.
The memorial TO Daguerre presented
by tho National Photographers Asso-
citation. was recently unvailed by Secre-
tary Noblein the rotunda OF the Nation
al Museum at Washington.
THE population Of the State Of Della
ware is 1o7, sri Tho population in 1850
was 14G, COS The increase, therefore.
has been 81 2Gs, or 1850 per cent
THE population of Providence, r. l.,
is 1872, 043 against 104, ss7 in 1880, an in
crease of 81. 1856. or 20 % per cent
CArrAIN MARSHALL, United States
engineer corps declares that the Chica-
go outer harbor is completely useless
and might as well be filled in.
AN American named Schrelber and A.
X Won Mekll, OF Moscow, have started
company for the expectation of meat
from Russia to England.
CmNA's solitary railroad is cighty-one
miles long and cost $4,000 mile. II
uses American locomotives.
A LARGE clay bank in brickyard
near Bordcntown, n ~ caTed m re-"
Gently, killing three men and severely
hurting a negro named Collins.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended August 16 showed an average in
crease Of 1872 compared with the corre-
spending week of last year In New
York tho increase was 140.
THE London Stock Exchange de-
veloped unexpected strength during the
week ended August 49, Business was
also active on the Continental bourses.
THE Dunnell print works at Paw
tuclSot r. l., have been destroyed by
fire. Loss, $3.50, 600
Ar Albany, N. Y, on tho nth there was
considerable rioting over the New York
Central strike. Pinkerton men used their
weapons on the crowd, wounding
woman and two boys. One of the Pink
ertous was almost lynched by the in
consed people,
THE stables of tho Lyon brewery in
Harlem, N, ", were burned recently.
The loss was Sl75, 900. Forty-fve horses
out OF the 13s in the stables perished
The brewery was saved
By the breaking OF scaffold on a
new building in ST Petersburg. Russia
eight workmen were killed and eight
injured.
TIE strike OF the switchmen OF the
Macley system of railroads has ended
in favor of the men, who demanded the
Chicago scale, and were aided by con-
ductors and brakemen.
ALBERT LAWRENCE, son Of the late
superintendent Of waterworks, Michael
Quinn, Mary Gail and Miss Mcnamara
were drowned in Crystal Springs lake
near San Francisco by the capsizing OF
a yacht in a squall.
A CYCLONE and hailstorm in the de- |
partment Of Aube, France, destroyed /
the harvested and growing crops The
loss was estimated at nearly $4,000, 600 /
f-ancs