The Red Cloud chief., 1892-12-16
MryCELLANEUUs.


L. AND -. WiLcgiNsKI, Grcenville,
Miss, have failed for nearly half a mill.
lion.
n CApr. MoLEs explains the typhoid
fever epidemic at St. Louis by saying
that the winds blew thd germs up the
sewers and into the houses.
THE annual report Of the Atchison,
Topeka Il Santa Fe system for the
year ended June 30, 1892, shows its
gross earnings 70 he SAT ,347, 225: net
earnings, $40, III ,455.
TELEGRAPH operators on the Rock
Island struck more or less unanimously
on the sth. The comrany claimed that
Il was getting along all right, which
the operators denied.
The cattle barons who are making a
desperate fight against the opening of
the Cherokee strip are hoping 10 kill
the measure by insisting that the in
truders should be paid for their i'm
provements.
THE prize fight mt Concy Island was
won by Joe Goddard, OF Australia, who
knocked out Peter Maher, Of ireland,
In three rounds. The fight, though
short. was savage and bloody.
NEAR Kirkwood, Ill, Miss Florence
Curran was killed by a train. She was
walking on the track with q girl friend
and plenty of time TO get ont Of danger,
bnt fear p~aralyzcd her.
LAKE SHORE engineers and firemen
have had their wages advanced. They
have promised L have nothing to do
with the projected switchmen's brake
mems and conductors strike during the
worlds fair.
THERE was n severe wind storm ut
Paragould, Ark. Several residences
were destroyed, twcnty-six in all being
damaged.
JupGE GRESHAM has rendered n decis-
ion in the Illinois Steel Co. Is cases which
practically makes the Interstate COM
merce law of no effect.
MARTIN BURKE died in the prison at
Joliet, Ill. He was in for life for the
murder Of DIR. Cronin at Chicago. He
made public nothing whatever concern
ing the crime.
CLEARING house returns for the week
endel December . showed an average
increase Of IS 3 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the increase was 1872.
FoUR mcn-two white and two col
orcd-were hanged together ut Louis
Vile, KY, for separate wilful murders.
Towns in Nevada are said to have
been ~depopulated, the low price of sill
yer making mining Improbable.
IT is said that a vote has been taken
or the first charge against Prof. Smith
and that he was acquitted on IL.
AT Wenatchee, Wash. railroad grad.
ers and Italians tonight over n woman,
and blood flowed freely in the pitched
battle.
THE railroad men who have been
working in Chicago have made a new
agreement, to take the place of the
Transmissouri. and the headquarters
will be retained at Kansas City.
EASTERN silversniths have inco,
porated 10 the amount of s12, 900, 600.
Il. A.. X. VETERANS object to Mexican
war dates being put on the soldiers
monument Mt indianapolis. and threaten
to sue for the s2l, 600 they gave.
INFLUENZA has again broken ont IL
Berlin.
TIE faculty of Harvard has forbidden
public concerts and theatricals by stu
dents.
OLD DADDY GRAY, an aged rcsiden'
of Henderson county, H., wandered
away in the storm and was frozen Il
death.
The New York Stock exchange viii
be closed December "a.
EMPLOYEES at Ellis Island, New York
will be discharged by the immigration
commissioners. Because of the quaran
tine no head money is coming in to pay
salaries.