The Red Cloud chief., 1891-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS

THE United Mine Workers decided
that the time was inauspicious for NOV
ing for an eight-hour day; consequently
the great projected strike for May ]
was declared of.
FIRE from some unknown cause broke
ont in the basement Of the Center block
at Franklin, Pa. The local department
was unable to cope with the flames and
aid was sent from Oil City. The total
loss was 500. 900.
RUMORs Of o general strike May I OF
coal miners in Iowa seems to be sus.
tanned by statements made by W. II.
Scott, president Of the miners asso'
citation Of Iowa
THE movement for shorter hours. OF
labor is increasing throughout Italy.
In Messina, Catania and Palermo the
workmen have resolved upon a general
strike unless their demand for a work
ing day of eight hours is granted by
their employers, while in Turin no less
than 30, 200 laboring people have de-
cided to follow the general example.
SIXTY molders at Springfield, O., have
struck for higher wages.
Six hundred coal miners ut Washing
ton, Ind, have struck because a mine
foreman was not discharged Mt their re-
quest.
THE sculling match owe the Para
malta river Sydney between John
Macleau of Australia and James STAINS
bury, also of Australia, for the worlds
championship and e4OO was won by
Stansbury.
An accident by which four persons
were killed and several injured occurred
on the Metropolitan branch of the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad ut Gaithersburg,
near Washington.
The vote for bonds for building new
w~sterworks carried in Kansas City,
Mo-, by five TO one.
Rev. FATHER BRIoDY, Of Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, being in New York recently
with q, 500 in his possession. cOnfded
the money to a policeman he met on
the street for safe keeping. Next morn.
ing he tried to find the policeman, but
he was not there.
INVESTIGATION showed that the Ninth
national bank, of New York, had been
defrauded of $500. 900 by J.. 7. Hill, the
president. who died a month ago.
The Chicago mining stock exchange
was formally opened on the 2sth. Be-
sides some hundreds Of C~hicagoana
present there were visiting broker
from San Francisco. Helena, Butte, St
Louis and other cities
UNDER instructions from Washington,
the Guthrie land Office will wind up all
contests before June SO. Final proof
has been allowed in the case Of Town
send vs. the city of Edmond.
CHIEF Two STRIKES denies that the
Sioux are meditating hostilitieA
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. had q $3.50. 00C
fire on the e9th, commencing In the
Campbell furniture factory.
The Empress Of India, the first Of the
new Canadian Pacific line steamers, AZ
rived of the harbor at Victoria, Il. C..
on the asth. exactly tendays, four hours
and thirty-six minutes from Yokohama.
making the best time on record
Ii was found that FIVE men were
killed in the recent collision on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad near Wash
ington
A FOUNTAIN and statue In memory Of
Henry Bergh, founder Of the American
society for the prevention Of cruelty to
animals was unveiled in Milwaukee
recently.
TIE opera house at Troy. Ala. col
lapsed recently while . company OF
young people were rehearsing. Two
young ladies were killed and two Others
seriously injured
jar GOULD proposes . mortgage OF
$aS. O0O, 900 for the Union Pacific.
The priests and pastors Of Moscow
are overwhelmed with requests from
Jews for baptism In order to avoid ex-
pulsion. The expelled Jews n cruelty
treated. being marched out of the city
afoot chained in bands by the wrists.
The Russians afterward pillage the de-
serted shops and houses
THERE have been 60, 4s9 immigrants
landed at New York during April the
highest number for April s~ince~lsSs.
The aumbes Landed last April va
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