The Red Cloud chief., 1891-09-18
NI1SCELLANEOUS.

are expected TO make a pilgrimage TO
Rome the last of the month to receive
the pope's blessing.
A WHOLE family. numbering six MEM
bers, committed suicide In Paris,
France, the other day. The father and
mother showed the way by hanging
themselves, and the others, who were
adult children, initiated their parents
The London Times says that a syndi-
cate of European capitalists has offered
to advance $500. 600 to the Gillian junta
to meet pressing requirements
ARTHUR Hunt and his two sisters
were rowing on the Mohawk river at
Schenectady, N. Y. The boat capsized
and Hunt and one sister were drowned.
The other sister chung to the boat till a
man swan out and rescued her.
THE immense warehouse Of X. G.
Layton. South street, New York, has
been destroyed by fire. The loss run
up to s425, OOO.
THE police of Paris searched the
houses Of several of the promoters Of
the Panama canal company with q view
of obtaining further evidence in the in
vestigation being made into the affairs
Of that organization.
The London Standards Russian cor
respondent commenting on the de-
mands that come from all quarters for
measures to relieve distress, says it is
plain that the distress Is greater and
more widespread than was at first sup
posed and that the worst is still to come.
The British board Of trade returns
for the month Of August 1891. as COM
pared with those Of the corresponding
months last year, show that imports
increased 81. 400. 900 and that exports
decreased 60, $50. 900.
A HORRIBLE affair is reported from
Arcadia La A negro wsylaid. alb
Quoted and outraged q young lady
school teacher. and kept her tied TO q
tree. Two days after she was found
by searchcrs and her abuser captured.
He was skinned alive and cut to pisceA
A DEAL Is reported by which . type
founders trust is completed. The com
bine is capitalized at sls. OOO. 900 backed
by an English syndicate. The small
foundries will be closed.
THE cattle breeders at Porto Prin-
cipe, Cuba have held a meeting to de-
eide upon a remedy for alleged evils that
have been caused 70 their business by
the reciprocity arrangement now In eff
feet between the United States and
Cuba and Porto Rico
BY the collapse of the walls Of an
iron foundry at Leeds, England, four
children were killed.
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress in Chi
cago for the restoration Of the Western
Union wires to the board of trade hall.
By the explosion of a locomotive
boiler on the Long Island railway at
Oyster Bay, -four men were frightfully
mangled. three being killed.
THE Lake Erie & Western has again
been tied up The switchmen demand
ed an increase Of wages.
THE captains and pilots Of all the
steamboats, OF tho Zazoo. Sunhower
and Tallahatchie rivers have sent a
protest to the secretary Of war against
the manner in which the appropriations
are used on the streams
THERE was . democratic picnic and
barbecue at Liberty, Mo, on the 10th
The speakers we're Vest, Cockrell,
Dockery. Stone and Bledsoe-
SALVADOR has been stricken by an
earthquake. Million Of dollars of
damage has been occasioned and much
loss of life was feared.
The building l07 to Ill Myrtle ave-
nue.. brooklyn, occupied by Schellen-
berg's clothing store and a number of
other concerns was burned the other
day; loss 500. oO0.
The distress in Russia is te .rible. In
the provinces Of Tamhof an epidemic
of diphtheria is raging and mothers de-
~liberately expose their children to the
infection preferring death in that form
starvation
LOUIS De LUcA. the life convict who
escaped from Sing Sing prison. Wa re-
captured BY a policeman in Tarrytown
and brought back to the prison He
will not be punished
An American mission has been de-
in . riot at Ichang, China
The situation is considered grave BY
the state department snd the navy
has been instructed to
Adm Belknap's deet in
China