Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-01-09


from the snlns OF the Thanksgiving
day fire IN Boston.
| TELEoRANs from the American anC
English eclipse expeditions to Afrlot
show ESQ expeditions failed to secure
photographs on December p Of The
corona, owing 10 cloudy weather. The
cable between Cayenne, South Ameri
ca, and Trinidad is broken and no news
has been received from the eclipse par
ties sent out By the Lick Observatory
and by the Royal Astronomical Society
to stations IN South America.
A LETTER containing 100000 has
been stolen in transit between Vienna
and Pesth.
A NEW customs tariff ID being pre-.
| PARED by the Russian Finance Minister,
II will take effect July |.
SECRETARY WINDOW has ordered the
transfer Of s20, 000, 900 IN gold coiu
from San Francisco 10 New York, there
being too much gold at the former
place.
WiLNoRE HALL, colored, has been
hanged at Louisville, Ga, for the mur-
der Of j. l.. Evans. white man. lie
confessed,
THE New York Bible House since
April last has issued 725, 900 volumes.
New YoRK last year spent sl7, ,0O0, 900
on her public schools.
THERE has been a skirmisli between
Turks and Cretans III which tlahy
were killed and wounded. Sixteen
wounded Turks were brought to Canea.
THE imperial cable from Bermuda
TO Halifax will be completed in June.
MRs. BRENNAN, of Holyoke, Mass,
under Indictment for poisoning mem-
bers of her family ia order to obtain in
surance on their lives, is dying in the
Jail at Springfield, Mass, OF Bright's
disease.
IN an encounter between Yaqui In
dian and Mexican troops at uuthofti,
Sonora, Mexico, several Indians were
killed.
ONE span Of a new iron bridge at
Holyoke, Mass, was blown down the
other day and one man was killed and
two others injured. Thirty workmen
managed to escape to othef spans in
time.
BUSINESS failures tDun's report) for
the seven days ended January num-
bered S32
A DISASTROUS snow slide occurred at
Sierra City, Cal, recently. Two
houses and church were torn to
pieces, involving the loss of about eight
lives.
TRAVEL has been interrupted and
railroads much damaged by heavyrains
In Arkansas.
AK unfinished trestle on the Brier-
field, Blocton & Birmingham (Ala.)
railroad fell the other morning, carry
ing down TIVE ty-live carpenters
David j. Webb and Carl Mark were
killed and twenty others were injured
THE brigantine Czarowitz was run
down in the Mersey recently by the
White Line steamer Britain ie. The
captain Of the brigantine was drowned.
The Ereste Fabricken, in Pretoria,
the largest structure in the Transvaal,
has been destroyed by fire. The loss
was cl00,O00.
The railway workmen Of Scotland
have taken a vote ON the ten hours
question. Th majority are against
strike and express = desire 10 confer
with the masters,
FLooDs are reported In the orth-
west portion Of Queensland, Australia.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended January showed an average
increase Of compared with the cor
week OF las. year. In New
York the increase was l04
WILLIAM WEAVER, young farmer,
was instantly killed recently near
Wabash, Ind, while cutting timber,
the rebound of branch crushing in
his skull.
ST. JOINS, n. f., IN eighteen months
has had 2,004 cases of diphtheria and
i0l deaths by the disease.
Four men two Russians and two
Greeksl lost their lives on the northern
side Of the Golden Gate, San Francis
60. while out fishing in boat recently. !
Rev. T. NJ. JOINER, a British sub
iect. has laid formal complaint before !
the British Minister complaining OF !
rough usage by mob while preaching |
10 the negroes at Holly Springs, n. G. |