The Red Cloud chief., 1891-11-20

year. ~
A HUGE fire At Hankow, China de-
stroyed 300 houses and rendere61a.
600 people homeless II wa believed
that a number of women and CHI fdrtn
lost their lives Two days afteS ards
| 200 more houses were burned
TWENTY tons Of gunpowder exploded
recently at Miller's station. near Val.
paraiso, Ind. No one ~ hurt, but
SIS, 900 damage was done.
The chief Of the bureau Of statistics
reports the total value OF the exports
of domestic breadstuffs during October,
1921, at ga. 6 1884
DURING the month Of October. 1891,
g., 1916 pensions Of all classes were
granted, the first payments On which
aggregated g, 1853. sos or sl32 20 TO each
pensioner.
THE steamer Hawarden Castle was
wrecked at the mouth of the Mersey,
England, during the storm on the 18th
ACCORDING TO a report made to the
general assembly Of the Knights Of
accounts are between $4,000 and $751;
600 short
EVANGELIST SAN SMALL was badly
beaten by Saloonkeeper Tom Miner at
Atlanta, Ga He had charged Miner
with deserving his family.
ROBBERs held up the Chicago express
23 miles south Of Milwaukee at 1 a IN.
on the l2th. A large amount Of booty
was secured Dynamite was used as
in other recent train robberies
THE British ship Talisman was re-
ported on her beam ends of the En-
glish coast Fifty tons of wheat were
j~ettisoned.
THERE is trouble brewing with the
Utes in the vicinity Of Fort Duchesne,
Utah.
THE jury in the Woodruff case at
Little Rock, Ark. were unable TO agree
and were discharged. The jury stood
six for conviction and six for aequittaI.
PUBLIC sentiment in Chicago was
much divided as to the action of the
police in raiding anarchist meeting
places The mayor upheld the officers
in their course.
The receipts from customs at New
York during the first ten days of No
vember were 50. O42, 1903, or S4O3, 997 less
than the receipts during the correspond
ing period last year.
AN entire family Of five persons was
annihilated ;oya tenement house fire in
Columbus, o..
ended November 12 showed an average
decrease of IL 1 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was Ill.
AN alleged Clan-na-Gael agent was
found near G~reencastle, Ind. with
thirty-seven shot wounds in his body.
w. +. BAIRD, president of the Bank
Of Madeira, Cal, and founder Of the
John Brown colony, is said to be $780,
900 short in his accounts and to have
committed many forgeries.
DUN's weekly trade report makes the
usual bright statement The iron out
put is the largest on record and reports
from the cities are good.
A DISPATCH from Essen. one of the
towns in the great coal producing dis
trict of Germany, reports n terrific cx.
plosiOn of fire-damp by which eleven
miners were killed and two Others in.
jured.
FIRE i'm Lawrenceville, a suburb of
Pittsburgh, Pa, destroyed several
| structures, causing So. 900 loss.
THE fires on the coal docks at Du-
luth, Mimi, which have been burning
for over a week, have spread to the
No-th,nrr HAL ~, - Ir,l,, Th~
damage is now estimated at $50. 600
ALEXANDER CRAMBERs was hanged ut
Fayettc, Miss, for the murder of his
partner July II in n quarrel over 25
cents.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended Novcmb Der IL num-
bercd POI, compared with 226 the
previous week and o66 the correspond
ing week Of last year.
BY the derailing of a passenger train
near Calvert, Tex, Tour men were
badly injured.
By the explosion of twenty-five
pounds OF powder William and Dick
JOY. farmer boys living near Kingston,
n. NJ, were literally blown to pieces.
THE general assembly of the Knights
# Labor passed resolutions looking to
cooperation with the federation OF
labor.
SAN FRANCISCO has 80 far raised S5O,-
900 as a fund to secure the holding of
the national republican convention
there.
PEARL PARKER, a boy IL years of age
living six miles north of Cheyenne, Col,
in attempting to noun a pony, acct
dentally spurred the animal, which
threw him and dragged him to death.
ARTHUR W. BOYINGToN. postmaster
at Highland park, the aristocratic
suburb OF Chicago on the Northwestern
road has been arrested for embezzle.
ment of post Office funds.