The Red Cloud chief., 1891-06-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mall
AND POLrrICAI.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PRINCE GusTAvk, duke Of vermelsnd
eldest son Of King Oscar II. of Swedel
and Norway. and heir apparent TO th<
throne, is dangerously Ill with iufu
enxA
The jury in the baccarst scandal q
London returned . verdict adverse t<
Sir william Gordon Cumming.
GEN. JOHN MCNEIL died suddenly d
St Louis recently. He will be remem'
bered ss ordering the so-cslled maass'
ere Of confederstes ct Palmyra. No,
during the war.
IT Il reported that Minister PorteI
has been instructed TO quietly leave
Italy.
JOHN d. ROCxEFELLER h 1t home u
Cleveland, O., suffering from nervous
prostration
The Portuguese senate ratified the
African convention with England and
the king 1t once signed it.
SIR WILLIAM GORDON CUNNING, the
hero of the baccarat scandal, was mar
ried the day after the trial to Florence
Garner. daughter Of Commodore Will
liam Garner. of New York City.
IT IL now admitted in all quarters
that Senator Abbott Is TO be the future
premier Of Canada.
JAMES II. CANFIELD, late professor OF
history in the University of Kansas, has
been elected chancellor of tho Univer-
sity of Nebraska
w. j. PENROsE, editor Of the Mining
Journal and member of the Legislature,
has been assassinated at Butte. Mont
The president has appointed the court
to adjudicate land claims. Joseph r.
Reed. of Council Bluffs, Ia, is the chief
justice.
BANK EXAMINER DREW. of Philadel-
phia, has been suspended by Secretary
Foster. His dismissal will doubtless
follow. This step is due to his careless
ness in allowing the Keystone bank TO
conceal its real position.
Much excitement has been aroused
In Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, by
the news that the French have seized q
part Of the Liberisn coast near Cape
Palmas- An appeal will be made to
the United States
w. II. PRESCOTT, OF Toronto, Ont.
has been elected president of the Inter-
national Typographical union.
ACCORDING to q special from Wash.
ington, it is reported that Presi-
dent Harrison has decided to send ex-
Governor and ex-senator G. A. Pierce,
Of North Dakota, as representative to
China
EX-SENATOR BLAIR may get the Japan
mission. The salary is the same-sl2,-
900 ayear.
SrANwooD DODGE, q brother of Gail
Hamilton" died at Beverly. Mass,
aged 65 years He was engaged in the
smoked fish business all his life.
Col JOHN ALBERT MOORE, q veteran
of the civil war. died at Providence, r.
l., of hemOrrhage, caused by cancer in
the Jaw. He commanded the artillery
camp of instruction at Washington.
JUST before final adjournment the
Illinois house passed the senate bill
giving women the right to vote in
school elections
j. w. HARRIS, superintendent OF the
soldiers orphans home at Knights.
town, Ind, committed suicide in New
Orleans
JOSEPH C. SExrRO, of Cincinnati, has
been elected president and Henry
Rikoff, of Cincinnati, secretary and
treasurer of the National Furniture
Makers association.
JACOB SCHAEfER the champion bill
HARDEST, and Miss Lillian Kammerer,
with whom the champion has been &C
q~uainted for fifteen years have beer
married.
INDIGNATION in middle class English
circles is reported increasing in volume
over the gambling scandals affecting
the prince of Wales Radicals demand
that the prince and his cronies be Off
cially reproved.
SAMOAN advices say that there is con
siderable agitation among the natives
with a view to unseating Malietoa and
putting Mataafa on the throne,