Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-10-06

| IliIhE were reasons 10 DtlleVe tndJ
the four persons found dead in the
house burned after a thunderstorm
near Wellsville, Kan, were not killed
by lightning as reported, but were
murdered and their bodies cremated.
THREE telegraph operators on strike
have been arrested at Cedar Rapids, Ia,
for tampering with the wires
! MASCOT paced a mile mt Terre Haute,
Ind, in 2:O4-Nancy Hanks trotting
time.
MARrHA WILKES trotted a mile in
2:0s4 at Evansville, Ind.
IT is officially announced thnt eholern
is present in Odessa.
THE boiler of a locomotive exploded
near Summit, Pa, aad Lewis Wise and
Charles Flynn, engineer and fireman,
were literally blown to pieces.
FIRE in the Nickel Plate freight yards
at Chicago destroyed forty car loads of
merchandise, causing a loss estimated
to exceed 500, 600
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended September 30 showed an average
decrease of l6.9 compared with the cor
responding week OF last year. In New
ork tine decrease was 2iO.
The badly decomposed body of O. l.
Prescott, prominent democrat and
politician and contractor was found in
his room at the Revere house at Denver
Col lie had been dead for week
The Buena Vista hotel at Denver,
Col, was destroyed by fire. The guests
were saved by the bravery Of Patrick
Mitchell, who first awoke. Two or
three persons We're severely burned.
A SENSATION was caused at Home
stead, Pa, by the arrest of mem
bers of the strikers advisory board on
the charge of treason" against the
commonwealth.
THE Illinois Humane society will not
allow bull fights at the Chicago worlds
fair il il can help it,
THE annual convention of the Ma
tional Sons Of Temperance was in ses-
sion Mt New York. Mr.. l.. S. Dennisou
presided Rev DR. Theodore Cuyler
made an address.
SEVERAL blocks of buildings at Vir-
den, Man, were destroyed by fire
THE olive crop OF Spain IS a failure
this year, but the vintage is in prom
lslng condition.
BY the explosion of boiler at En-
brum, Ont, two men were killed and |
five others seriously injured
TELEGRAPHERs on the Burlington g. |
Cedar Rapids won their strike, the COM
pany agreeing torecognize the brother
hood.
ACCORDING to an official estimate Of
the harvest, the yield of winter rye in
Russia win be only medium.
ANOTHER mill is to be started in Ger
many TO grind Indian corn.
Tony SroRRErrI, an Italian mining
boss, was blown up by exploding dyna-
mite at McLeon, near Pittsburgh, Pa
THE Baptist church at Deadwood. 5.
d., was burned recently. During the
fire a physician and fireman had
fight and the physician got the worst
of it, when he drew a revolver aud shot
the fireman dead.
JAMES CONES and j. A. LOOMS, aero
nauts, fell from their balloon as it
struck a tree and received fatal in
juries.
A FAMINE riot was reported at Morlia,
Mexico. The soldiers fired on the mob
and killed one man.
NEAR Hamburg the steamers Busy
Pee and Daisy collided. The latt~ YES
sci sank and three men lost their lives
A FURIOUS storm in Lavaca bay, Tex,
did great damage to boats.
WALTER WILSON, the correspondent
Of a scurrilous newspaper, who was
making some slanderous reports of the
most highly esteemed ladies of Water
Valley, Miss, was taken out by citizens
and tarred and feathered.
THE British steamer TwiclSen ham lies
lt the breakwater near Lewcs, Del, in
quarantine with the typhus fever
aboard.
AN effort will be made TO organize
great central rate association on the
ruins of the old organizations.
HARRY CAMP, who swindled Detroit
jewellers out Of IS, 600 by means of
washed" diamonds, was arrested while
rying the same game at Chicago.
J. r. WIcKEs, the New York million
lire, who fell from a Detroit house OF
ll-fame and was killed, it is now said
yas murdered for purposes Of robbery.