The Red Cloud chief., 1886-04-02

The Mikado Of japan has dos.ased $500
20 the Grant monument fund

The Mikado Of japan has debated $500
% the Grant monument fund.
There are at present If0 O.. A z posts ia
Dakota, and tie raeinbership Is growing
rapidly.
An effort is being made tn Sc ur- the en-
campm.nt Of :he Dakota Sadisrs and sail-
orr at Mitchell next fall.
The Lsdie~' Relief Corrs Of salina- Kan.
recently concluded q very successful ART
losn fair. which Melted them nearly slnl
Hon f. s.. Slower. formerly L-utensn.
Govervor 81 Kansas but for the past ten
years or more a resilient Of New Mexico,
was recently elected Commandcr o. the q.
A X, department Of New Mexico.
3 GeneralJ X TUschin. the former Colonel
Of the Nineteenth Illinois Infantry. as
written ahistory OF that regimen, from tie
ordered out-April u. lSl-til the re.i-
ment was mustered out in iss.
j. ". Squire, o. Wyandstte, Kan, has
Just had a bullet taken from his liver which
lodged there November - l-SI, during the
battle Of SPr inghill. Tenn lie was a MEM
Der OF Company r., ons Hundred and
Twenty ninth Indiana regiment, under
General honns Has health is now COM
pleteiy shattered.
Miss Abigail Bates iied ~recently at Scit-
unte, Mass. aged eighty nine years. She was
one of two h~eroines who during the war Of
1912 DRIVE the British forces from that har-
Dor by roncealing themselves in the bushes
and paying vigorously on a fife and drum,
thereby leading the enemy To believe .
largo force was ready To receive them. ~
Wa then about sixteen years of age.
1here was an interesting relic OH exhibi-
tioE at the recent g. \. k. fair at Perry,
Iowa. in the shape of n testament and an
other small book, the two being pinned to-
sether by n minnie ball. The relic was
sent by John Bish, az Rippey, who was in
Company Ii Of the Tenth Iowa volunteers.
The ball was received " lille on dutr in line
of battle at Champion Hill, May ID 1853.
Correspondents nave lately written 10
She effect that it might popular:ze the
Woman's Relief Corps by changing the
name 10 Ladies' Relief Corps" hut such
n proposition will meet with little favor by
the noble mothers, sisters and sweethear:s
who with womaniy tears bu; Spartan hero
ism sent their loved ones to the front at
the call OF their country. Such were none
the less ladies for being the highest type
Of American women.
General Hawley, u Connecticut. has the
heartfelt sympathy of all the soldiers of
the late war In the great affection he SUI.
fers from the death IL his wife. Mrs. Haw-
iey's war record was as good as that Of her
husband, the General; and, though she
wore no shoulder straps, the red cross of
mercy might well hxve been woven ON her
raiment. Veterans yet live whom the
nuIsed at Beaufort, F%ernandina, Hilton
Head and Wilmington.
Following are the officers Of the Womnn,s
Relief Corps, Department of Illinois: Pres.
ident. Mrs. Cora Harral, Aurora; Senior
ce-President- Mrs. Mary Hoffman. Pom
tiac; Junior President. Mrs. Fleta
Stahl, bloomington; Secretary. Miss Lizzie
Hubbard, Aurora; Treasurer. Mrs. Sue
Sanders, Deavan: Chaplain, Miss Joseph.
inc Cleveland, S%pringfeld; Department,
Councillor, Mrs. Julia ID. Sine, Rockford:
Inspector, Mrs. Margaret Sands, Chicago.