The Red Cloud chief., 1892-05-13


BODIES Of NIL the DEVILS Auction Co.
people who were victims of the Phila-
delphia theater fire have been recovered.
A DAsrARDLY attempt was made to
wreck passenger train No 4 on the iii.
nois Central two miles north Of Holly
Springs, Tenn.
In the criminal court at Nashville,
Tenn, Judge Ridley charged the grand
Jury b Investigate the l~ynching Of the
two negroes recently. He said that all
who were present aiding and abetting
were guilty Of murder. He said also that
those who participated In breaking or
attempting to break into the Jail or
sided or abetted In such attempt were
guilty Of felony.
THE nineteenth general conference Of
tAe African M. +. Zion church IL In scs-
sioa 1t Pittsburgh, Pa. and will con-
tinue three weeks. During the confer
ence important changes will be made in
the book Of discipline and four bishops
will be appointed.
Tine senate naval officers committee
vcported an amendment 70 the. naval
appropriation bill appropriating e25O, 900
toward the construction OF a dry dock
at Algiers, La, and purchase Of land
therefor. The secretary Of the navy In
authorized to contract for the con-
struction Of q dock, the cost Of which Ii
mot TO exceed sS4s. OOO.
MILES upon miles of valuable crops
put In upon the Illinois bottoms for
twenty miles on either side Of Ottawa
have been under water, involving n loss
OF ESQ, 900 to farmers. The Kickapoo
and other bridges went and Allen Park,
Ottawa and all of the lower islands were
flooded.
SECRETARY NOBLE has decided the
case of the TOWNSHIP Of Hennessy in the
Kingfsher, Ok, land district. The
case came before the department on an
appeal Of John w. Creech from the de-
cision of the commissioner Of the gen.
cral land Office, c~ancelling his home
stead entry. The secretary ~sustains the
action Of the commissioner and directs
that the TOWNSHIP board be permitted to
perfect title to the land on behalf of the
townsite.
THE chamber Of Of Man
chester, England, has by a vote of 1914
to l56, declared itself in favor Of bimcta-
lism.
THE Yorkshire Post says that IL is re-
ported in clubland that the mysterious
opponent of Harry Vanc Milbank in the
recent duel In Belgium was one of the
best known Of the English dukes.
EVIDENCE Of the commission Of a foul
murder was discovered ut Davenport,
In. The body Of q well dressed man
with the letters 'H. N. H." sewed upon
his clothing was found lodged against
a raft In the Mississippi river. An in
vestigation showed that the man had
been shot through the head, beaten
with some blunt instrument until his
skull was fractured, his neck and nose
broken and then cast into the river.
DR.. j. Is. COTrNER, Joshua Miller and
John Stubbleield, all citizens OF
Wetang, u village twelve miles south OF
Anna, Ill, attempted to cross a swollen
stream in q skiff, when the boat was
overturned and the men were thrown
into the water, StubblcHeld managed
to reach tAehshore but Cottner and
Miller We're unable to swim and were
drowned. Nyy~
Two reports from the judiciary com.
mittee on the Joint resolution proposing
an amendment to the constitution To
provide uniform laws on the subject OF
marriage and divorce have been made
to the house. The majority report i'd
verse to the resolution was made by
Representative Oates and Representative
Ray presented the minority report.
BY the giving way of n bridge on the
Santa Fe, near Revere, Mo, the train
was precipitated into the roaring cur.
rent and seven persons were killed and
~thirty-eight injured.