The Red Cloud chief., 1891-01-23

The RED o CHIEF.
G. 1o0ooDGo, pwbeoeoe.
RED CLOUD NEBRASKA
CURRENT coMMeMT.
TEE natural gas supply 1t Columbas,
O., he's been cut on. the supply being
BRIsroL win have . new coaling dock
built It Avonmouth large enough 70 -
commodste ocean steamer.
THE epidemic Of 10 grippe In Ioais&
ans, which has been prevalent sfnee
November Il. has about ended.
The military reservation 1t Fort Glib
ron. ]. T., has been transferred 70 the
Interior Department for settlement.
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NJ. FsoQUEr has been reelected Presi-
dent of the French Chamber Of Depu-
S1CSs ICCCbvS G18 S00 OOt Va dOO wv S0OS~
reported that the Washburn-Noen
Barbed Wire Company proposes to erect
ut Wsukegan, Ill, shops for four thoa-
s&nd men.
A xUeGEr Of pure gold the size Of .
bean was found In the craw of . chicken
near Burlington, Ia, and considerable
gold fever has arisen.
ERAsTUs WIMAXs wants To drive .
railway tunnel under New York hay
from Staten to Long Island, and make
brooklyn q terminal point.
ArrORxEY-GExERAL MILLER has de-
cided that the sugar bounties provided
in the Mckinley bill will not be legal
on sugars produced prior to July I next.
The President has nominated Henry
II. Swan rs United States Judge for the
Eastern district Of MICHIGAN. to succeed
Judge Brown, now on the Supreme
Bench.
THE Duke of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
has officially denied that he offered
Prince Bismarck the Premiership Of his
The Indiana House passed a resolu-
ton criticising the census returns as
grossly inaccurate, and representatives
in Congress are instructed to take steps
toward correcting such returns.
GEORGE G.. BAKER. clerk in the United
States appraisers Office ut Philadelphia,
has been arrested for completely in
frauds against the Government, In
which Spreckles' sugar refinery was in
tcrcsted.
RECENTLY an interested crowd in New
York watched ex-MayOr Grace destroy
by fire 81, 000, 900 worth Of South Amer
ican railroad bonds, wA1sb had to be
put out Of the way to Rotect . big stOck
transfer.
FRANK r. DEMAREsr, member Of the
New York Legislature, was arrested At
Nyack, n. Y, recently, charged with
Incorporating money and forging in
dorscments on checks. He refunded the
money secured.
THE Irish Registrar-General in his re-
port ON the potato crop in Ireland an
n that 7e0. sol acres Of potatoes
were planted in 1890, rs against 7s7, 234
acres in the preceding year, and that the
yield had decreased l,OS7, 1873 tons.
THE German Reichstag has rejected
Herr Aur's proposal that the abolition
If the tariff on cereals should be re-
fcrred to a committee. Herr Richter's
motion to abolish the tariff on cereals
and cattle was also defeated by Q vote
of II to 10.
LIEUTENANT WILSON. of the Second
artillery, has written q letter { his
father, State Senator Wilson, of Ohio,
in which he denOunces in the severest
terms the Government Indian agents.
These agents" he writes, ARE . set of
s~cOundrels. and the Indian Bureau Is
rotten from top to bottom" |,
COMMISSIONERS HAY. of Wyoming. tele-
graphs Secretary Dickinson, of the !
Worlds Fair at Chicago, that the Gov !
crnor has signed the bill appropriating :
$50. 900 for WyOming's exhibit 1T the Ex. :
position of 1898. The Legislature Of
the young State of Wyoming is the first
in the Union to make ap appropriation
for this purpose. |.
FRENCH physicians criticise Prof.
Koch's report upon the Ingredients Of [
his famous lymph. They say that the !
report is incomplete and does not indi.
cate the quantity of the dose or the sub
stances composing the liquid. They add {.
that the rem edy is shrouded in mystery
and the necessity of caution is una
hated. They also say that the efficacy J
has not been shown and no patient
treated according to the Koch system In '
France has been cured.
PRESIDENT BAKER, in his address TO
the members Of the Chicago Board of
Trade at the annual meeting. charged
the Western Union Telegraph Company
with fostering bucketshops and said ]
that he believed the time was ripe for
the members Of the several exchanges I
whose relations were intimate and inn
portant to establish their own tele-
graph lines. 4 committee Of five was
appointed at the meeting to formulate
such . plan rs suggested BY President
Baker.
Miss LILLIAN OwEN. Of Sol Smith
Russelrs company. who was journeying
eastwards from San Francisco to wed
Charles Kent, Of Stuart Robson's COM
pany. died at Chicago recently after .
short illness. Like Miss Emma Abbott, /
she was taken i'll with pneumouia It {,
Salt Lake. Utah, but had temporarily
better fortune than the famous opera
singer, begged 70 continue to travel UNI
til reaching Chicago. She had consid-
ershle reputation rs q bright little Sou /,
brette. She was - years old.
SECRETARY PROCTOR has received
letter from General Ruger. dated St
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