Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-01-23

Six stores in potsdam, N. ", we're dc.
stroyed BY fire recently, causing loss Of
$40, 900.
BUSINESS failures (Duns report) for
the seven days ended January 10 NUM-
bered 800, compared with a78 the prcvi-
Gus week and $50 the corresponding week
OF last year.
THE Glendale accommodation on the
G., II. q y. railroad was wrecked near
Cincinnati the other evening, the Chica-
90 vestibuled train running into the
rear. The debris caught fire and six or
seven persons were killed or wounded
EDWARD GALLAGHER, aged seventeen;
Tim Gallagher, his brother, aged fifteen,
and Mrs. Kate Stockhonse, their sister,
aged twenty-five were killed by cars at
Morrellville, Pa, the other day.
INFLUENZA in severe form prevails
among the officers and crews Of the
American squadron Of evolution now In
the Mediterranean. There are ls0cases
Of the disease on board the Chicago
alone.
OK the streets Of Clay City, Ind, Gran
Vile Cooprider, desperate, shot and
killed Policeman John y. Miller in re-
vengc for q recent arrest. The murderer
stole horse and escaped.
ISAIAH and Charles Dent, negroes,
have been hanged privately in the jail
yard at Clinton, La, for q murder last
July. Both made speeches acknowledg-
ing their guilt and the justice Of their
fates.
JAMES hoLcoMB, colored, was hanged
AZ St. Johns, La, for the murder Of
little colorcd girl. lie protested his in
nocence TO the last
FIRE in Boston recently did $4,000
damage to the shoe warehouse Of Clafiin,
Coburn & Co. 1t was insured.
J. W. WENNAIANN, a New York cotton
broker, has suspended.
BY collision between freight trains
near Newburgh, N. j., one man was
killed, another seriously hurt and many
cars wrecked.
THOMAS cREHAS, the seyenty-yoar-old
fatber-in-law of Oliver Doud Byron,
died in Justice Tighe's court room at
New York the other morning. He was
taken there to answer charge OF ha-
bitual drunkenness, preferred by his
son, but fell dead before his case was
called
In disregard Of the emancipation de-
cree the Arabs are enlisting hundreds OF
slaves in Zanzibar for the Congo with
the Sultans consent.
A TERRIFIC gale, accompanied by thun-
der and lightning, prevailed on the 10th
on the Irish sea. Much damage was done
TO property along the coast Several per
sons were killed by lightning and a
number drowned.
MAURICE BARRYMoRE, the actor, was
arrested the other night at broadway
and II sirtys rst street New I8rk, Charged !
with disorderly conduct. He made a
oountercharge against the officer. He |
was hailed out and discharged.
A prsPATcm from Oquawka, H., says: |
Elmer +. Reed, Silas Tracy, Charles |
Wilson and Alexander Whihnore, OF |
Gladstone, were drowned in Griswold's |
slough, near Burlington, the other
night They started for a dance but |
their team became unmanageable and |
backed over the bank and broke the ice. |
Both horses were also drowned.
News has reached Alexandria, La,
that A. II, Butler, living near Moreland
station. had killed his brother-in-law,
B. NJ. Hayes The deceased and Mrs.
Butler were grandchildren OF the late
Governor Thomas O. Moore.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended January Is showed an average in
crease OF Is compared with the corre-
spending week Of last year In New
York there was decrease Of 10.
PowDERIY, OF the Knights Of Labor
was we'll enough of the influenza on the
18th to be arrested at the suit Of Cal
laghan at Scranton, Pa.
A WRECK occurred on the Georgia Pa
cific railroad near Birmingham, Ala, re-
Gently. Engineer Deery was killed and
several other persons were seriously and
perhaps fatally injured.
The Katie Robbins steamboat was
sunk after a collision with a barge re-
Gently near Vicksburg, Miss -Four deck
hands were drowned.
TnE jury at New York in the suit OF
Caroline Cammerer, OF Philadelphia,
against Clemens Muller, the sixty-y ear
old real estate man, for $780, 900 dam
ascs for breach Of promise Of marriage,
rendered a verdict in favor Of the plain
till for 81. .OeO.