The Red Cloud chief., 1891-04-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph; and Mail
PERSONAL AND poLIrYCar.

hEN VIII BSnhS
CHARLES f. CnIcKERiSG, the we'll
known piano manufacturer, died at
New York on the I'D.
BRIG.-GEN. JAMES A. EAKIy. of the
United States army, was reported dying
at Louisville, Ky, of diseases incident
to old age. lie was in charge of the
government depot at Jacksonville
many years previous To his retirement
One of the last acts of Queen Victoria
before leaving for the continent was 10
respond 10 an appeal for help from the
Lcper hospital on Robin island, of the
Cape Of Good Hope. by ordering that
two photographs of herself, with her
signature attached. should be forward
cd to the institution.
A FIGHT has been reported between
British ~colonists of Guiana and Venez-
uclans on the frontier.
THE remains Of Gen. Johnston were
laid to rest by the side of his wife in
Green Mount cemetery, baltimore, Md
The returns from h elections for
poor Law guardians in Ireland show
that the Parncllitcs are almost every
where in a small minority.
The relations between Portugal and
England are again strained over the
state Of siege declared by Portugal in
Manicaland, Africa.
THE finance committee of the Arkan-
sas senate has reported adversely To the
appropriation of $50, 600 for the worlds
fair.
Prominent democrats ratified the
| election of Gen. Palmer TO the United
States senate at Springfield, Ill, on the
18th.
A BERLIN dispatch says hat consider
able numbers of Germans have gone to
take service with the Chinese and
Japanese. China has ordered special
war vessels from Germany and Japan
has bought a number of torpedoes from
Germany.
LORD SALISBURY has notified Prcsi-
dent Harrison through Mr.. Blaine that
a royal commission will be appointed
to assist British merchants in exhibit
ing the products of British industry at
the fair.
A SPECIAL from Washington says eff
forts are being made TO secure the re-
mission of the unexpired term of the
sentence of Commander McCalla, who
was sentenced to three years u
pension. The first year of the sentence
does not expire until May Is.
GEN. COUNT GEORGE FREDERIC Al
FRED VON FABHICE, president of the
council Of the ministry Of Saxony, is
dead.
THE Spanish government has notified
the department of state that it will
participate at the worlds Columbian
exposition at Chicago.
AT Sligo Father Kearney, q priest,
made a speech violently attacking Far
nell. His address melted his hearers
To violence and at its conclusion the
speaker had the greatest difficulty in
preventing his flock from attacking the
Parnellites.
THE Bocrsen Zeitung says that the
German emperor will initiate an inquiry
Ia the Guelph fund scandal. The Ma
tional Zeitung, in an article supposed to
be inspired, declares that Prince Bis
marck spent 80, 900. 900 marks and that
the accounts were burned.
PRESIDENT CARyoT has telegraphed
to Queen Victoria at Grasse, placing
himself and the French officials ut her
service during her residence at that
place.
IT is learned at the state department
that there have been no negotiations
with Switzerland for several years di-
rcctly upon the subject of an arbitration
treaty between that country and the
United States.
GEN. JAMES A. EAKIN, of the United
States army, died at Louisville, Ky, on
the 10Th. Gen. Eakin was born at
Pittsburgh in 1919. He was n men,
Der of the commission which tried Mrs.
Surratt and bore n prominent part in
the funeral of Lincoln.
A sEMI-oFFICIAL dispatch from Chill
says that President Balmaceda has for
hidden foreign steamers, chiefly British
and German, 70 touch ut ports on the
coast between Chanaral and africa.
The life size portrait of jefferson
Davis, which the clerk of the Arkansas
house was authorized during the early |
been placed over the speakers desk. II
took the place Of the portrait OF George
Washington that has been hanging in
the hall the past twenty years.
SECRETARY PROCTOR does not intend
to resign. lie characterized reports as
pure gossip.
CHARLES ARBUCKLE, the senior MEM
Der of the New York coffee firm, is
dead. aged IS.
PRESIDENT LYMAN j. GAGE and his
fellow-dircctors. who have guided the
worlds fair from the incipicncy. have
the term of Office for which
they were elected. Mr.. Gage some time
ago declined a reelection as president,
but he will probably continue a MEN,
Der of the directory.
ALDERMAN CoILEy. the anti Parnell-
tie candidate in North Sligo. AYERS that
the Parncllitcs are distributing E5
notes among the rowdies of Sligo.
COUNT ARTHUR EEssETusTAD and
Countess Anne Fries were caught in q
storm in a pleasure boat off Albasa,
Austria, and were drowned. The youth
full Count Fries was saved. /