Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-04-16
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The excitement in the coke regions
Of Pennsylvania gradually subsidec
during the past week. Several coke
strikers were arrested . = The bodies o.
seven Italians and two Americans were
taken from the ruins OF the fire al
Rochester, Pa. One hundred and fifty
thousand dollars y gold, belonging L
the Italians, was sssE F~end, and an
Italian girl who escaped by jumping,
says there Is $500 more in the debris.
Frost in Alabama killed potatoes, to-
matoes, cucumbers, squash, beans and
peas The visible supply Of wheat
and corn is respectively y, 4S3,9l0 and
266l 233 bushels. Since last report
wheat has decreased 26l, AL bushels,
while corn has diminished TO the ex-
tent of 326, S07 bushels.
Butter on the Elgin board OF ira de
Monday was lower and easy. All sales
were at 20 cents per pound. a year age
the price was 20 cents.
Gonsawlls was murdered and robcd OF
81, $50, the day he WAS TO pay it for a
home for his intended bride at West
Liberty, Pa Eighty thousand Texas
cattle which have been sold TO Chicago
packers cannot be shipped, owing to a
recent quarantine order of the govern
ment. The first case under the act OF
congress forbidding the importation OF
foreign labor in Ohio was decided by
Judge Sage at Cincinnati. The olfense
was bringing an expert to take charge
OF Louisiana sugar mills, the court
holding as the expert made no contract
the case did not come under the law -.
Edgar j. Somerville and james B. Ed
dy Of Pendleton, Oregon, have been ap-
pointed special agents to allot lands in
sevepalty to the confederate band Of
Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla In
dians residing on the Umatilla reserva-
tions, Oregon .. .. Bids for the Mines
building will soon be invited by the
Worlds fair officials. Professor John
M.Coulter has been elected president OF
the Indian University. -. The New Or
leans grand jury has begun an active in
vestigation Of the lynching OF the Ital-
ians. The leaders OF the mob say they
desire to be indicted The Rev. Sam
Small has been asked TO account for
funds entrusted him for building a
methodist university in Ogden, Utah.
He repels the insinuatlon and courts
scrutiny . Five Peoria citizens have
been summond before the Federal grand
jury in Chicago, and tits thought sem
sational developments in the Gibson
whlskey trust dynimito conspiracy
case are at hand. 1t Is expected that
over 1000 delegates, representing 27
states. will attend the nirdparty con-
yention in Cincinnati, Maybe. l.. Is.
lmboden, prospective bank president
OF Fort Worth. Tex, pleaded guilty to
forgery and and embezzlement, and was
given a five years sentence, ,Secre-
tary Tracy told the republican club Of
Massachusetts that he intended TO
reform the service by eliminating
machine politics from the navy yards
Prices OF pork produced viii rise on ac-
count OF the removal OF Germany's EN-
bargo Jack Halsey, sport. once a
millionaire, is dying in a Brooklyn
charity hospital ..P. 7. Barnum, the
famous Snowman, died at his home IN
Bridgeport, Conn, after long Illness.
William Mccoy the suspected
murderer at Kansas City, could not be
arranged owing TO fears OF mob violence
... Harry Donovan, aged 7, heir to
Sl00, 600, was recovered by his father IN
a lonely farm house on Long Island
He had been kidnapped from school
in New Haven. Conn, a few days before
at his graBdmothers instigation. -.
Mills friends deny indig-
nantly that be is out 0f the race for
the speakership. In tho Wisconsin
legislature reapportionmentw was passed,
uniform text books defeated and a reso-
luton passed fayoring the election OF
United States senators by popular vote.
..,, The steamship Cashmere from
ports arrived at New
York having on board 1000 Italian
This is the largest mum
Der OF Italians ever brought 10 this port
by one vessel.
VIM. Wallace, postmaster at Indiana
polls, is dead . . Hundreds OF Italians
are being landed IN New York. =. Mrs,
Annie Besant, the English theosophist.
has arrived In New York At Rome.
Ca, Mrs. Ora Mckee was acquitted OF
the charge OF numbering Mrs Wimpel
80. .Congressman-elect Watson Of Geor
gia has declared his opposition TO
Crisp for speaker. Twenty national
banks in Kansas viii denationalize and
under the new state banking
aw. =. Governor Eagle says he will
call a convention at Little Rock TO de-
wise ways and means for the Arkansas
exhibit at the Worlds fair The
sOke strikers will endeavor 10 settle
heir troubles by dealing directly with
he employers, the labor leaders having
agreed to step aside. All the miners
n the country will strike for eight
hours May !, the conference between |
workers and bosses at Pittsburg having
adjourned without making an agree
nent.