The Red Cloud chief., 1891-03-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERsONAL AND POLITICAL.

on h Bchring ca question WIS pull
lishcd on the 10th. The offer OF arb
tration was renewed.
CONGRESSMAN HgECKISBIDGE, of Ken
lucky, il reported quite sick at Pensa
| cola, Fla
THE California senate has passed tn
bill drawn mp by the encouragement
excluding the Chinese.
CAPT. \. e. MASON, Of Troop e
Fourth cavalry, died at Vancouver
Wash, recently Of Bright's disease.
SECRETARY BLAINE has received
cable message from Toxic, Japan, an
nouncing the death of United States
Minister John +. Swift.
BRAZILIAN newspapers have been re
ceived at the state department contain
ing a decree by the Brazilian presidenI
declaring the ports of that country free
and open to the imports from tho
United States that were included in tho
recent reciprocity agreement
THE Paris Temps says that the ncgo
tiations between France and England
on the Newfoundland question have re
suited in an agreement, which will be
submitted To the French and English
parliaments.
The prolonged contest oyer the
United States s,natorship in the Hi
nois legislature ended on the 18th in
the election Of Gen. John NJ. Palmer,
the democratic candidate, COckrell and
Moore finally deciding To east their
votes for him. The election was esti.
mated to have cost the state 800, 900.
WHITELAw REID, United States min.
lister To France. has written an intro
duction Ia an English edition Of Talley.
raDd's memoirs.
CHIEF JUSTICE DUFFEE, Of the Rhode
Island supreme court, has resigned.
THE German rcichstag has rejected
liberal professions.
THE anti PinkertOn bill has passed
the lower houss, of the New York as.
sembly by a vote of ~ tO II.
A WASHINGTON special says that the
III Of ex-COngrcssman Morrow and
ex-senator Ingalls, are mentioned in
connection with "a cess to Minister
Swift. who died at his post IN Japan.
A PRIVATE telegram received i'm Ham
burg from Chilli announced the assas-
siDation of President Balmaceda.
The Wisconsin assembly session WAS
recently taken up with the civil rights
bill, which puts the black man on an
equality with white men. An amend
ment restricting the provisions of the
bill 10 lend and water traffic accOmmO-
dations. proposed by the democrats Of
the judiciary committee, was agreed To.
GEN. JOHN w. FULLER died recently
at Toledo. O. He distinguished him
self by defeating Forrest in Tennessee
in 1862 and again at the battle Of Cor
NTH.
IT Is denied that the junkcting ron
gressmen attending Senator liearst's
remains tn California acted unbccom-
ingIy.
PARNELL went on another of his mys-
~terious disappcarances- lie was sup
posed tai bc with Mrs. O'Shea. His
friends were greatly disconnected.
LYMAN IL. Corr has declined the re-
publican nomination for lieutenant
governor Of Rhode Island.
PRESIDENT HARRISON and party re-
Ia Washington ON the 18th. No
ducks were killed during the day.
Miss MAMIE BAYARD, youngest
daughter of e~x-Sccrctary Bayard, is en-
gagged Ia Count Lowcnhaupt, of Sweden.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A COMPANY headed by w. J. Murphy.
of Grand Forks, n. d., has purchased
the Minneapolis Tribune from Alden j.
Blethcn for $500. 900. II is stated that
ex-senator Pierce. of North Dakota,
will take the editorial management
HENRY C.. LAMAR and Miss Louise
King Connolly. were drowned while
rowing i'm the canal, two miles above
Augusta. Ga Lamar was "a graduate
of Princeton college of the class If 1885
and a well known athlete. Miss Con-
nelly WAS the daughterof the late John
l.. King. ex-Unitcd States senator from
Georgia. and a niece Of the marchioncss
of Anglcscy.
DUDLEY HALL X Co, for years lead
ing tea importers of Boston. have as
signed with $500. 900 liabilities and
ample assets. The senior partner had
Endorsed too much paper for personal
friends.
.IoHN GLOVER and his wife were
killed 10y a railroad train near Holly
Oak. Del, the other night
The starch house and sugar refinery
Of the Peoria Ull.) Grape Sugar Co.
burned the other night The loss WIS
500, OOO, fully insured. One employe
fatally burned.
Ar Kilgore. nea Catlcttsburg, Ky,
six men were shot ut a merry making.
and four will probably die. There had
been much drinking, and the fight arose
from a quarrel over the selection of
partners for n dance.
THE steamship Venezuela, which has
arrived ut New York from Curacao, re-
ports that Charles Leblanc, of New Or
leans, ex-United States consul ut Porto
Cabcllo. died at Curacao on March 8
and was buried there.
The coroner's inquest on the body of
Nicholas L. Eaton resulted i'm a verdict
Of suicide. Eaton was found shot
through the brain a few miles south of
Kansas City. Mo-, and it was doubtful
whether he had been attacked by high
waymcn or had committed suicide.
The wrapping paper manufacturers
of the west at a meeting in Chicago de-
cided Ia shut down the mills for n week.
SOME 800 Chinese pirates and robbers
were bchcaded in kwantung province
during the last few days Of the old
Chinese year.
The British ship Bay of Panama has
been wrecked off Falmouth. England.
and the captain, his wife and twelve Of
the crew have been drowned
ACTIVE war has been wagcd against
the Chinese at Marshfield. Ore. An or
ganizcd body of forty citizens has driv-
every Chinaman from the town. The
people called II q round up" and set a
day for the evictionS
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the other night
an explosion Of gas caused the destruc-
ton by IRE of the Weldon block. the
hoard Of trade and other buildings
The loss amounted to $500. co.
FIRE destroyed the buildings los 10
i0' West Fulton street Chicago. ON the
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