Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-10-08
GENERAL NEWS.
The Happenings of a Week


mison.
There are rumors Of an impending
general strike on Kansas Oity stree'
car lines
Several schemes TO limit the owner
ship OF land are being adopted among
the Cherokees.
Rev. Frank Talmage lectured at the
Ottumwa coal palace The best place
to live in.n
Henrietta Miller. colored, was hanged
at Smithville, Va, for the murder ol
her child.
Two women we're killed 'and' third
fatally injured in a runaway accident at
Marietta, Ca.
A verdict OF not guilty was rendered
in the Buck Donaldson murder case at
Denton, Tex.
A former Siberian exile is to bear dis
] patches from Boston to Nihilist head
! quarters in Russia
Prisoners in the Gadsden (Ala.) jail
almost succeeded in hanging a deputy
sheriff inside the prison.
A dime museum freak, known as'the
living man with the broken neck" at
tempted suicide in Milwaukee.
/ A small subteranean lake near Wa
verify, H., disappeared Immediately af-
/ ter the recent earthquake.
John w. Mackay rode from San
Francisco TO New York in days, II
hours and % minutes the fastest on
record.
There was another sensation in the
famous Juyenal case when that individ-
ual appeared in court with his divorced
wife.
Mrs. Catharine Heath burned herself
to death in Salem, Mass, because some
one dilled her pug dog and sent Its col
lar TO her.
Kalph Ray. who murdered his mother
in Durango, Colo, has confessed, Civ
ing details with no show OF remorse.
New York detectives have succeeded
in locating the underground home OF n
gang OF thieves. 1t was located 10 the
rear OF a West Thirty-ninth street
house.
Objection Is raised to the statue OF
Jefferson Davis designed to be placed In
the confederate monument at Jackson,
Miss, that it is not good likeness.
Marion Gadd committed suicide at
Cotner university, Neb., because he did
not win first prize in an oratorical con-
test and thereby lost the hand OF the
girl he loved.
A West Virginia baby month old
weighs only two and quarter pounds
and goes into quart cup.
President Fitzgerald and Secretary
Sutton will sever their official connect
ion with the Irish land league.
All efforts TO extinguish the fire in
the Delaware and Hudson colliery at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, has proved fruitless
The decision OF his bondsmen to give
"a Ia }, fne. a
ind. defaulter caused him TO become
very i'll.
A party OF Burlington and Missouri
surveyors are supposed to have perished
in the mountains in the Sinking Water
country.
Special dispatches show. that the re-
cent earthquake was felt in the states
Missouri, Kentucky, lndiang Illinois
and Iowa
AT Henderson, KY, Mrs Emma Her
kins was shot dead by Charles Johnson,
a former boaIder, who had been sent
away for Objectionable conduct.
Henry Walters OF East Orange, N.
j., married man, wanted TO elope with
Gertrude Beck of Newark, but she
found his wife and hrd him arrested.
The steamer Circassian, outward
bound from New York, collided with a
schooner and was so badly damaged
that she was compelled TO return to
port
A California ranchman named VIII
son, who folnd himself surrounded by
flames was saved by the pluck OF a mus
tang pony, which carried him through
the flames to safety.
James r. Cunningham was shot dead |
in the streets OF Montgomery, Ala, by
Colonel Bradfore Dunham, superintend- |
ent OF the Midland railroad, Tor having |
insulted Mrs Dunham and boasted of |
it.
Miss Cora Calm, daughter of a New |
York Hebrew millionaire, having de- |
nounced Judaism, will marry Herr Os- |
car Won Calm, aide-de-camp TO the he
reditary successor Of Emperor Francis
Joseph.
The product Of the coal mines in the
census year amounted, in ealue, to $780, |
1927, 1923.
William Dyne goes to the Indiana
penitentiary for five years for attempted
train wrecking.
Granville G.. Thompson was found |
dead on his poarch at Macon, Mo, with
q bullet hole in his head.
David Roe was stabbed and probably |
fatally wounded in sturges county, Miss
ouri. by S. p. Hopper.
Chris Buckley, who for twelve years
has been the democratic boss OF Cali
fornia is fugitive from justice.
The trial of James Brennan for the
murder OF Sam Wood will take place al
Hugoton. Kas., November I.
A committee OF the national civil
service reform league will critlclse the
taking OF the census in New York.
Twenty-one deaths from malignant
typhoid fever occurred In the neigh
borhood of Columbus, Ind, in eighteen |
days.
A mob of fifty white caps beat a wo-
man nearly to death in Dubois county, |
Ind. Her morals were offensive to |
them.
The Thornton 'castaways" are back |
at Brooklyn and their tale Of woe is be- |
lieved by the family, who welcomed |
them with effusion.
James Gray, the convict serving q
life sentence in the Chester penitenti- |
airy for a murder committed by Jacob |
Brown, refuses to reveal his identity.
According TO the Chicago News there |
is practically no corn OF the old crop to
be bought by legitimate dealers in this
country on account of the manipula- |
tions OF professional gamblers.
At the cabinet meeting Monday Pres
ident Harrison and his advisers are be- |
lieved to have considered the state
ments Of Minister Egan and Captain |
Schley relative to recent occurrences In |
Chilli. They also discussed the riots |
against foreigners in China
Argument Is in progress in the supe- |
rior court in Indianapolis, Ind. In the |
case OF Philip c. Decker, president of |
the German bank Of Evansville, charged
with contempt OF the state board OF tax
commissioners in not furnishing q list
OF depositors to the board.
In the London grain market foreign |
wheat is steadier, though prices are
against sellers.
Butter Is in fair demand on the Elgin
board OF trade; 1000 pounds sold ct Is
cents, against % cents one year ago
Masked men gained entrance 70 the
Cheyenne, Wyo., jail by strategy, and
liberated two convicted murderers- One 1
was recaptured.
John and Rube Elan, charged with /