Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-04-24

By an explosion on the Harmoria es-
tate in Cuba the other day three persons
were killed and fourteen injured.
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were killed and fourteen injured.
A WAGON loaded with nitro-glycerino
shells, used in shooting oil and gas
wells, exploded recently with terrific
force at Cygnet Q. Two mon who were
on the wagon were blown hundreds OF
yards, and nothing was loft OF them but
few strings of their clothing.
N. r. CLARKs stock barn at Brookway
MINI. burned tho other morning and
twenty-one imported breeding mares
perished. They were valued at $4,000
The barn cost 81, There is an in
surance of $40 900.
An American syndicate is reported TO
have purchased controlling interest In
all but ono binding twine factory in
Canada.
TnE schooner Annie May was wrecked
lately OIL Newfoundland and the captain
and three men drowned.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has refused to
pardon Henry A. Schmidt, Of Missouri,
convicted of violating the Alien Contract
Labor law.
TmREE men we're instantly killed by
the premature explosion Of blast
at cement mill near Sclcrshurg, Ind,
the other day. All we're horribly man
gled.
ABRAHAM BoGARDUs, superintendent
Of mails in the postofliee at Rochester,
N. Y, has been arrested for rohbng let
ters. lie was caught by dccoy lcttors
LEN SING, the Chinaman who was re-
fused entry to Canada or the United
States for forty-eight hours, which no
spent on the Niagara Falls suspension
bridge was allowed to enter Canada.
THE Turkish Sultan has dismissed a
swarm OF palace spies, thus saving $40,
900 yearly and will organize the ntelli-
gence department on better footing
In letter to T. d. Murphy OF the
Atlanta Ca journal John H. Parncll,
brother of Charles Stewart Parnell, said
that the recent reports Of poverty and
suffering OF their mother are merely
sensational.
A GREAT forest fire was recently re-
ported as raging in tho Gcrmania s.
trict in New Jersey Over one hundred
acres Of valuable timber had been de-
stroyed and thore was little hope Of
staying It's march.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended April 10 showed an average in
crease OF l2.s compared with tho corre-
spending week OF last year In New
York there was an increase OF 10.7.
THE strike agitation begun at Ostrau,
Austria. p.aSe reported on the Goth as
spreading to Prussia. Cavalry was
guarding the frontier Ten Czcch agi-
tators had been arrested on Prussian
soil II was believed that Austrian and
German anarchists were in London rails
ing money for tho agitation At Nut
hansen |, roo spinners and wcavcrs were
idle and total ccssat on OF work in all
factories was expected.
THE London stock markets we're re-
ported moro active and prices we're
high. Continental centers were in
active.
ONE hundred houses at Taungdwingye,
India, including the commissariat
stores. containing $50, 600 rupees worth
OF corn, have been destroyed by FIRE.
FIRE the other night in a dwelling
house at Brooklyn, n. u. spread to nd.
joining stables burning seventy horses
TO death Loss on building sl2, 900.
CHARLES II. WHITING was recently
convicted OF criminally assaultng his
niece, little girl Of eleven years. at
Toronto, Ont, and was sentenced TO one
year and eleven months Imprisonment
and twenty-five lashes with tho cat
He screamed loudly at each stroke OF the
cat No blood was drawn.
II. i. FosrEn. who is travelling in the
South in the interest OF the Oklahoma
immigration Society, recently stated
that 10000 colorcd people would start
from Alabama July to settle in okla
homa. A letter has also been received
from Atlanta, Ga, saying that l.7Oo
negroes had already left that place for
Oklahoma and that moro would follow.
A LIVELY row occurred in a Christian
Church at Chicago on the 10Th. II was
the elimination OF the trouble in the
Illinois conference OF the Evangelical
Association. which resulted in tho d.
vision Of tho conference recently into
two sections. Each section appointed
pastors for all the churches in Illinois
so that each church had two ministers.
Hence the row.