Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-31

HE notorious lhpD suns buhu bl OuF
laws ia Choctaw couuty, Alabama, shot
three people dead, mortally wounded
two others, wounded three more aud
burned the house. They proposed TO
burn other houses
Gov. FRANCIS, of Missouri, has pub
lished an opinion of James o. Broad
head concerning the convening OF the
Legislature, who says that it is optional
with the governor whether he shall re-
district the state or call the legislature
10 do so, but that il must be done.
In collision between beer wagon
and a cable car at Pittsburgh. Pa,
Benjam Wise and Abner Edwards,
passengers, were fatally injured and
six others were more or less hurt
LATER reports show that eleven per-
sons were killed and four badly iu-
jured by the telescoping of the sleeper
Gibraltar at Hastings, N. Y. Only
three occupants of the car escaped.
TiTE Chi;ngo grand jury has indicted
Thomas J. Llderlkin, Thomas Nelson
and Robert Lindholtz, officers and
members of the seamen's union. for
conspiracy.
Ir is reported in Valparaiso that the
two men who confessed to participa
ton in the Baltimore outrage will be
| punished and that Chilli will settle with
/ the United States.
TnE Canadian government has de-
cided TO continue the payment of II
bonus TO each new settler in Manitoba
The Bob Sims gang of outlaws was
| pretty well exterminated in Choctaw
county, Ala A piece of artillery was
| brought to bear on Sims house, when
| the gang surrendered to the sheriff. A
mob later on took the desperadoes and
| hanged them. The next day two more
of the gang were lynched
In London financial stringency is
threatened as the result of drains of
gold The stock exchange expects i'm
provements from America. Continental
bourses were quiet the past week.
GENERAL MANAGER SARGENT has is
sued instructions under which the
Grand Trunk railroad will at once
resume its passenger relations with the
Chicago & Alton.
Ten lives were lost in panic caused
by false alarm of fire in the theater
at Gateshead, England.
NINETEEN business houses were de-
stroyed by fire in Chattanooga, Tenn,
on the 27th. The loss was $3.50. 900
with $500 900 insurance.
AN insane man made a call at the
house of Cornelius Vanderbilt, but was
arrested before harm was done
SERIOUS wreck occurred on the
Santa Fe road, near Neweomb, Mo
Woodwork probably fatally.
THE governor of Durango, Mexico,
reports deaths from starvation Gov
ernment relief measures are ordered.
On the Sixth avenue elevated road,
New York, one of the engines jumped
the track, causing a blockade. While
this was in progress a train crashed
into the rear car of blockaded train.
The rear car was derailed and but for
the guard rails would have topped over
into the street below
A DISPATCH from Teheran, Persia,
says that the shah has issued procla-
nation ratifying the abolition OF the
tobacco monopoly.
NJ. De BRAZzA, the noted explorer,
at the head of an expedition of /, 200
persons 600 being Senegal troops and
60 Europeans, with plenty of provisions
and f.earms, left LibreviIle, in the
French Congo coiony, November :,
for the purpose of marching on Lake
Tchad.
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress for
the purchase of the Hostetter Coke |
Co. 5 plant in Pennsylvania by the FriclI |
Coke Co, for 81, ,50O,O 600 in bonds 10 the
latter concerI. If the deal is closed it |
will give the FriclS company almost a
monopoly of the Connellsville coke |
trade.
ELEVEN cases Of death from la grippe |
were reported by the New York health |
board in that city on the 21th.
THE situation at the burned eastern
Michigan insane asylum at Pontiac was
much improved the day after it was de-
stroycd. The 500 inmates found quar-
ters in neighboring asylum cottages
and in houses Only one man was
mi ,sing. The loss was $500, 600.
Tue steamer Bothnia, which has
sailed from Queenstown, Ireland, for
New York, carried l. 5l7 sacks the larg-
est quantity of mail matter that has
ever crossed the Atlanti,
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