Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-01-02
hIIsCELLANEots.

trains on the Lake Erie Il Western road
near Glenwood, the other morning,
thirteen cars Of grain and two car loads
Of hogs were completely wrecked and
the locomotive badly damaged. Traffic
was delayed nearly all day.
A SERIOUS race riot occurred at
Jessup, Ga, on Christmas day. Two
whites and several negroes were killed
and many wounded.
SEVEN prisoners escaped from the
penitenUary at Kingston, Ont, ON
Christmas eve, after overcoming and
gagging their keepers.
SOUTHERN Ute Indians of Colorado
are anxious for their speedy removal to
Utah.
WHILE returning from Christmas
eve dance Miss Mamie Campbell and
her escort, Benjamin Lovett, were
struck by the oyster express on the
Pennsylvania railroad, near Pitts
burgh, Pa. Miss Campbell received in
juries that resulted in her death in a
few hours, and Loyett was fatally hurt.
A MAN answering the description of
Silcott has been traced TO Ottawa, Ont.
lie was greatly changed in appearance;
his hair was dark brown. BY inquiries
he made ii was thought he was trying
to leave the country via British Colum-
bia lie had plenty OF money.
CHRISTMAS day, 1889, will long be re-
membered in the United States for the
phenomenal mildness of the weather.
WILLIAM GRAHAM, of Gainesville,
Ga, stenographer of the Cherokee ju-
dietary circuit, and Anna Jones were
married recently. The bride is seven
teen years old and is a daughter of Rev
Sam Jones. The parents opposed the
marriage.
SwlTzER, NEwITrER x Co. and other
firms were burned out at Vicksburg,
Miss, on the night of the 2ith. The
loss was sl7O,0OO
WHILE number of men and women
we're skating ON the Ruhr ut Warden,
Rhenish Prussia, the other day the ice
gave way and three of the skaters were
swept under the ice and drowned.
In is reported that horses in Austria
are afflicted with the prevailing mdu-
enza.
HEAVY storms were reported on the
26th from various places in New York,
Pennsylvania and New jersey, accom-
panied by loss of life.
THE recent California rains proved
especially disastrous TO railroad prop
erty. In places the tracks were eight
cen feet deep In water.
JoHN p. JONES aud William II.
Palmer were found dead in hotel AT
Bethlehem, Pa, having blown out the
gas the night before.
The four stamp clerks in the Chicago
post-oilice are very much worried over
the unaccountable disappearance of
stamps since last July. Every effort to
solve the mystery has been failure.
SuRGEoN-GENERAL HAMILTON, Of
the marine hospital service, has pre-
pared regulations to prevent the intro
duction Of leprosy into the United
States.
Two old ladies living alone near DE
Witt, n. Y, were asphyxiated 10y coal
gas the other night.
Ten ears of a Wabash freight train
went down an embankment at Delphi,
Ind. Three tramps were slightly hurt.
LENA SCHPP. a poor woman of
Omaha, Neb., deserted by her husband.
has been terribly afflicted. She left
her three children the other morning to
go out washing VIXEN the house burned
and all three pedshed. One was babe
six months old.
The Salvation Army people in swift
erland still continue TO defy the au-
thOrities, and more vigorous measures
than ever are proposed.
TuE Pittsburgh Southern Coal Com
pany, the syndicate OF large river coal
operators which was formed three years
ago with a capital stock Of sl,o0O, 900.
has gone into liquidation.
THE United States Cruiser Charles
ton went into service at san Francisco
ON the 26th.
GAINESVILLE. Tenn. was afflicted
with a race riot on Christmas dav.
One colored man was fatally and an
other seriously wounded. A yeritable
reign of terror existed at Jessup, Ga,
Brewers outlaw gang being hunted by
armed parties Of whites.
FIRE broke out the other evening in
the Everett building. corner Of Nassau
and Ann streets. New York. and burned
for hours. Loss to occupants and
buildings. s35,000.
MRs- Cox has placed temporarily in
the National Museum at Washington
the jewels and other decorations given
her husband. the late Congressman
Cox. Later on they will be returned
10 The Sultan, as custom in M0ham-
medan circles requires that such ex-
pensiye gifts shall he returned 10 the
donor when the recipient dies.
DR- GAMBLE has returned 20 I.eola.
:. d. from trip TO IIeyd, the settle
ment Of the scene Of the diphtheria ep-
idemic. lie has the names Of thirtr-
seven Russian children who have died
Of the disease. Only two have rrrovs
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