The Red Cloud chief., 1892-05-06

AFTER having considered the question
of the constitutionality for long time
the house Judiciary committee has de-
cided to report a resolution directing an
investigation to be made into the Pink
ertOn system.
THERE has been posted in the press
gallery of the house request to the
standing committee of the press CORES
pondents asking them to inquire into
the circumstances and causes for the
dismissal of James r. Young, late chief
executive clerk of the senate.
PERSONS interested in the sealing in
dustry are considering plan for evad-
ing the agreement between the United
States and Great Britain for the re-
striction of sealing in Behring sea.
AT a meeting of the Chicago freight
committee of the Central Traffic associ-
alton it was voted TO meet the rate on
wool made by the Grand Trunk and its
western connections from the Missis-
sippi river to the seaboard and apply it
by way of the Niagara frontier. The
Chicago & Grand Trunk was not repre-
sented at the meeting.
A PARTY of cattlemen from Wyoming,
hunting cattle thieves in johnson hole,
Idaho, the alleged rendezvous for all
horse and cattle thieves for hundreds of
miles, came upon the habitation of two
parties known as Burnett and Spencer
and in their efforts to arrest them, both
Burnett and Spencer were killed and it
was found that they were in possession
OF over fifty stolen horses.
SHEPPARD BUsBY was hanged at Fort
Smith, Ark. the other day, for murder.
INDIANS from Lower California who
arrived at Yuma, A. T., report that vol
canoes near Lake Sullulee, close to the
Gulf of California, are in active opera
ton. They say that recently an earth
quake shock was felt, and almost inn
mediately the volcanoes became quite
active. =
THE Central theater at Philadelphia
burned the other day and fifty-two peo-
pie We're injured. The Times building
was also destroyed. Col. A. h. Nc
Clure lost his valuable library. The
loss approximates one million dollars.
The project of NJ. Brinet, manager Of
Vignaux's academy at Paris, for an in
ternational contest between Schaefer,
Ives and Slosson and the most promi-
nent French professional billiardists
has fallen through.
THERE has been great excitement in
Paris over the verdict in the case Of
Ravachol, the anarchist.
FORTY families We're rendered home
less in the village of Hudson, o., by
| fire recently.
By a naptha explosion IN New York
fiat two women lost their lives. DR..
Patrick Briggs and Mrs. Catherine
Moore, aged -, were badly burned.
THE Melbourne, Australia, Standard
says that Deening has confessed to his
| lawyer and the doctors who examined
him that he committed the majority of
'Jack the Dipper" crimes in the White
chapel district of London.
EVERY lumber mill in the Lacrosse,
| Wis, district has closed down to re-
main 50 until the labor troubles are set
tied. Two thousand men are out Of en-
ployment in consequence.
| INDIANS at the Crow Creek agency re-
fuse government money because they
distrust their agent.
w. L. SHARNAN. the only witness in
an important murder case at Denison,
Tex, was shot to death by an unknown
assassin while in bed. The case in
which he was witness grew out of an
old feud and he is the twentieth victim.
He had received number of warnings
| that his life was in danger.
| BRENDoN and Burlington, H., have
been excited over several mysterious
disappearances.
By the burning of the Central theatcr
at Philadelphia six actors lost their
lives