The Red Cloud chief., 1889-12-13
THE WEST.

CYRUS FILLMORE, brother of eI
President Fillmore. died at Lagrange
Ind, recently of typhoid fever, aged
eighty-seven years. He was well known
throughout the State and a prominent
Democrat. His wife, who is eighty-five
years old, is dangerously sick. They
had been married Over 81 years.
THE Western sash and door factory,
Nineteenth and Wyoming streets,
Kansas City, Mo-, burned recently. The
loss was about $50, 200.
By the breaking of the rope of cage
in a coal mine near Steubenville, O..
two boys were precipitated seventy. five
feet and killed.
FIRE in Shell Lake, Wis.,. the other
night destroyed One-half the business
section of the town, causing $751; coo
loss.
In Macon, Illiopolis, Clinton and
other Central Illinois towns diphtheria
is raging, and there are many deaths.
The disease is not as a rule, however,
of the worst form.
SECRETARY LESUEUR. of Missouri,
has decided that social clubs must pay
taxes. They al not he exempted
under the church clause of the Con-
stitutiOn.
IT is reported in Chicago that a secret
meeting of brass manufacturers from
all parts of the country is being held
there for the purposeO of forming a trust.
HE Cherokee Legislature has agreed
to a resolution for the appointment of
a Commission to meet the United States
Commission to consider the sale of the
Cherokee Strip.
j. p. WILLIS, a deputy United States
marshal, and City Marshal Morgan
were both killed in a pistol encounter
recently at Holden, Mo.
w. O. MARQUIS has filed the neces-
sary papers cO~ntesting the Office of
Lieutenant-G Governor of Ohio upon
E. L. LampsOn, who had a slim ma
jOrity.
GEORGE W. LININGER, Republican
candidate for mayor of Omaha, was
defeated by Richard C. Gushing, Dem
Ocrat, by a majority of between LOO
and 1900.
SQUIRE F. TAYLOR, son-in-law of
Hon. Alex Caldwell, ex-United States
Senator, committed suicide at Leaven-
worth, Kan. recently by shooting him
self through the right temple. He had
been Respondent lately, but nothing
was known sufficient to account for his
suicide.
SIX of the men arrested at ArdmOre,
L. T., charged with the train robbery
near Berwyn, have been released by
United States Commissioner Hooker,
at Purcell, having satisfactorily proven
an alibi.
THE cOrOner's jury wasof the opinion
that the many telegraph wires had
much to do with preventing the rescue
of the unfortunate persons who lost
their lives in the burning of the Mime
apOlis Tribune building.
The Miner House at East Tawas,
Mich, took fire recently. Two charred
bodies were found in the ruins.
GOVERNOR MILLETT, of South Da-
kota, says there are 600 families in
Minor County who are starving to
death. The Governor was soliciting
aid for the destitute.
MRS. SADIE MCCONKEY, of Du-
buque, Iowa, has been awarded 1896
judgment against the Travellers Acct
dent Insurance Company on policies of
her husband, who, while treasurer of
White Pine County, Nevada, was shot
and killed beside his safe.
AT Durango, four miles north of
Dubuque, Iowa, a rear end collision
occurred between two Kansas
City trains. Conductor Berry, of
the forward train, and Simon Hickey,
of Dubuque, were killed. One engine
and seven loaded cars were wrecked.
The accident was caused by a switch
being thrown p~rematurely.
NEAR ROlfe, Iowa. recently G. w.
Marquette, a hardware man of that
place, and William Kennedy were work
ing a pump when the ground caved and
Marquette fell into the well head fore
most. His head struck against a jut-
ting rock as he descended, scattering
his brains over Kennedy. Kennedy was
severely injured.
THE SOUTH.
THE executor of Frank NJ. Taylor,
who died near Boonville, Ark, has un-